What's the most ridiculous thing anyone has said to you?

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I occasionally volunteer at a local community centre. It's managed by a woman who tells anyone who cares to listen that she has a medical condition that means she can't eat. She looks well-nourished but I've always been too polite to ask her questions about her condition.

I volunteered at an afternoon event today. I get the seniors to their seats and make pots of tea. Cake was served. The woman who never eats was standing there eating cake.

'Look at you, eating cake! Are you better?' I said. 'Oh,' she said, 'you know me, you know I can't eat because of my medical condition.' 'But you're eating...' She walked off and is apparently really pissed off with me. Apparently I'm rude.

There are some real weirdos around, aren't there?

MIL telling me that DD2 would become a lesbian because I bought her Spider Man pyjamas.

She also told me that she was very worried that my newborn son didn't cry enough. Apparently it was dangerous as he needed to expand his lungs.

It's also OK to have one child out of wedlock and claim benefits along as its just one child. As a "devout" (hypocrite) Catholic this suited her as her youngest son had a baby with his girlfriend while living in her home and they were on benefits.

Not a proper marriage if its not in a Church.

I sincerely hope that this post is just badly worded and you did get @WomanStanleyWoman2's joke .

Yes. But another librarian did ask if I meant Homer Simpson when I asked if there was any Homer.

They probably weren't an actual librarian, just someone who works in a library.

Kbear · Today 07:46

In a nightclub when I was 25, a girl says to me "Sorry, I'm not being funny, but why would you go out wearing glasses? " I explained to her that glasses help me to see the fucking idiots when I'm out

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pinkyredrose ·
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Yes. But another librarian did ask if I meant Homer Simpson when I asked if there was any Homer*

They probably weren't an actual librarian, just someone who works in a library

I know someone who was asked the order of service of the meal at an event

They were asked, Did the starter get served before or after the main course
(The person asking had a degree in hospitality)

Just because someone has passed all the exams to work in a job doesn’t mean they can actually do the job

Huh?

Anyway just because someone is a library assistant doesn't mean they're a qualified librarian.

Years ago I had a GP who told me to go to a singles bar to cure my depression.....

🙄More likely to make it worse!

I was asked by a highly intelligent (honours in pharmacy and medicine) pharmacist who visited me and my newborn daughter ( I worked in the hospital pharmacy) what age babies were when they opened their eyes for the first time . The other visitors just laughed

*We where at a freshers week even that had a bubble machine... one of the freshers was all worked up and yelling at organizers that they can't do that as he is deathly allergic to 'soap and water'.

People kept asking 'how do you wash then?', which he refused to answer.

I know you can be allergic to certain TYPES of soap and cleaning supplies (I am myself) but I have never died from or known anyone to die from the presence of bubbles (or exposure to ANY soap and water)*

I am allergic to all normal off the shelf soaps and body washes and shampoos. My skin looks like crocodile skin and is so itchy.
I use bicarbonate of soda and vinegar for a lot of stuff and have a home made “soap”

You laugh, but DS didn’t open his eyes until about day 3. He was a few weeks premature, and was asleep for quite a lot of the time, but even when he was awake and crying he kept his eyes scrunched up. We took a photo when he finally opened them.

I saw a video once about a woman who is and it was heartbreaking. Think this was her
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-21-allergic-water-left-15020071

It's frustrating when people don't believe it, I've said on here I'm allergic to exercise before and people are ha ha yeah great excuse
I'm not injecting a biologic drug for the fun of it it's utterly debilitating
(It's actually technically heat I am allergic to but exercise is the most common thing that triggers it)

I think it was a trip organised by a village group so everyone would get on the coach within the village.
Still amuses me years later.

Obviously the racist aspect of this is unacceptable but my mum still tells of the time the old family doctor bought my brother's wart for a pound. It actually disappeared!

Once had some veggie friends round for dinner. Hadn't known them very long. He admitted during dessert that he occasionally enjoyed a sausage roll. It was as though he'd suddenly admitted adiltery. They had to go out to the garden for a chat.

Racist?? Gypsies have their own culture, talking about it isn't racist 🤦‍♀️

But their culture doesn't involve magically buying warts. That's the racist part.

And my understanding is that they prefer to be called Travellers or Romany depending on their group.

Years ago - friend, to me, when I was going to get my passport photo taken. "Can you get mine done whilst you're out?"

Rounding up the family to go into town to have passport photos done ahead of a holiday abroad. Teenager: “Do I have to come…..?”

@LylaLee not all gypsies are Roma or Traveller. It's why a lot of boroughs celebrate Gypsy/Roma/Traveller Week, to include all groups.

Those are absolute classics.

I had a GP who told me the best thing would be to get divorced. I took his advice.

That's so funny 😄

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