TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot ·
20/07/2024 21:24
I don't know why I suddenly remembered this or why I'm feeling so upset about it.
When I was about 12 I called for my friend on the way to school as usual. She wasn't ready yet so her mum told me to come inside, so I just went in and waited by the front door.
I heard her younger brother call from upstairs, "Mum, [friend's name] keeps calling me pig bum."
I looked up and her mum was in the hallway, she glared at me and said, "I'll be calling you pig bum in a minute, always poking your nose in where it's not wanted."
It just seemed so odd at the time, that my friend's mum seemed to be randomly insulting me, that I didn't even quite process that it had happened.
She couldn't have misheard and thought that I was the one calling the brother pig bum because I hadn't been anywhere near him that morning, and he definitely said my friend's name, not mine and we had two very different sounding names.
And sticking my nose in where it wasn't wanted? I couldn't help overhearing him say that, and siblings insulting eachother is hardly some shocking family secret anyway. I can't think of any way I'd ever tried to poke my nose into their business, I really wasn't interested.
I was a very shy and anxious child and looking back it just seems hurtful that an adult would be mean enough to try and make me feel even worse about myself than I already did.
I know this is a total non-incident but I'm a bit emotional in general at the moment, and typing this out on mumsnet has made me feel a bit better.
Anyone else have any minor hurts from the past they want to get off their chest?