What is the most smug thing someone has said to you?

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I can think of a few…

He only has to look at me and I get pregnant.
(I just had an ectopic pregnancy)

We are lucky in my family… we don’t get cancer. ( just after my husband was diagnosed)

“I wouldn’t get out of bed for NHS band 5 salary, but it’s good you’re happy it”

2 years earlier she was earning £23k
i was actually on band 7 but she’d not paid enough attention to my promotion 3 years earlier.

And that was the moment our friendship died. It had been going far longer than it should have.

“You live in a flat? Oh, I never had to live in a flat.”

Lady, there are flats you can buy for hundreds of millions of dollars. Now pipe down.

Not long after my exH left suddenly, I was still reeling and a friend said that her husband would never leave her as he likes her cooking too much.

Fats forward 6 years and her husband has recently left her.

I was massively struggling with a child in Year 3. I knew the Year 2 teacher would simply tell me that they'd been no problem for her - completed all their work, albeit with heavy support, child was in class all the time, no social issues. I would cheerfully have slaughtered the woman...

Only that woman was me!

"Oh, I don't think I could let my husband have MY job," said by a friend when I was (reluctantly, due to circumstances beyond my control) returning to work full time and Dh was going to be a SAHD.

Told me how proud they were that their kids had never brought the police to their door.
Well neither did mine until the police came to tell me my son was dead.
Some people have no filter.

after discussing my fertility problems my ‘friend’ went on to tell me that her life is now all about her mum friends.

I can't decide if this was smug or not. A good friend, her DC go to private school - fine, they're well off, their choice etc. But she goes on and on about the opportunities they have there, as if they have somehow magically appeared out of thin air. I am sure her DC are clever and hard working, but they have also had a massive advantage bought for them, and if that was me I'd be a bit quieter about it in front of friends with DC at state school.

My pregnant sil. While I was trying to calm my 3 year old having a tantrum, she warmly stroked her bump with a smug smile and said “My baby is going to be so well behaved.”

I am one of 3 siblings, exdh is one of two siblings.

Nobody -
ExMIL - I always say you bring up two children, you drag up three...

Just one example of how generally smug and self satisfied the whole family is.

In covid lockdown 2020 my DH got made redundant and I was on Furlough. The world seemed crazy and it was a pretty scary time .
My 'friend' decided tell me that she had bought some items from a particular independent local shop as they just have so much money left over every month.

As it was DH had a job offer and we were ok but friend didn't know that.

Just remember - money shouts wealth whispers.

Oh my God that's awful. Your friend did nothing wrong at all. Even if she were naked, it doesn't give anyone the right to do that.

On hearing my adult children had moved away to different cities for uni, "Oh my children would never do that, we are too close"

"Sometimes I really stress about whether I'm keeping the house clean and tidy enough, but then I come to yours and feel so much better"

(When the washing machine had broken and trying to work out where and how to replace it) "Why don't you simply go to John Lewis and ask them what they recommend?"

I wish it wasn't! I'm one of the regular cub helpers and this woman was an insensitive PITA. She also reported the leaders to the area leaders several times- first because she was told she her DS had to join the waiting list like everyone else, then because she felt there were not enough weekend activities being arranged/activities were arranged for the 'wrong' dates etc. She also took back the snacks she'd brought as their contribution to the cubs Xmas party because they were 'better' than everyone else's and she felt it was unfair for people who had brought Aldi crisps to be able to have a share of her DS Waitrose nibbles. Bonkers

A lady in my nail salon.
Our salon is very dog friendly, so that lady and I had our dogs with us, hers was a puppy, about 3 months old.
Without anyone saying anything, she declared "he knows how tot sit already, he's really well trained"
Weeeeell my dear, you're in it for a surprise, "sit" is literally the easiest command and there's nothing remotely impressive in a 3 month old puppy who knows "sit".

But I would just have found it cute and naive, if that lady wasn't so rude with her nail technician.
I was about to suggest we could sometimes meet in the park for the dogs to play when she snapped at the technician and mocked her for not speaking good english.

Another one, I was introduced to a girl at a party, in her 20s (I'm in my 40s), I said hi and she said "I'm famous in my country you know" which is fantastic but I really couldn't care less. Also, it turned out that she was a candidate on a real TV program and a SM influencer with 100k followers, so hardly Taylor Swift.

Belatedly responding: no I hadn’t asked if they’d paid off their mortgage : I never discuss money details with anyone outside my immediate family. It was showy and rude and said smugly when I simply said I needed to find a new job when my contract ended (but without mentioning my salary or our mortgage payments). The comment was made in the context of her not worrying about her next work assignment. I can’t really think how the comment was helpful or necessary other than to make me feel worse than I already did.

and the comment about boarding school was when I said I was tired from helping with gcse revision - I guess you had to be there but the smugness about all her free time was tangible. She knew we couldn’t afford boarding school, so it’s not like she was trying to sell me on it.

The worst is private school parents who say “well education is important to us”. Oh do fuck off.

“I love being woken in the morning by my teen practising his second instrument”.

My SIL, many years ago, when I was recovering from a breakdown, said ‘I think I’ve never been depressed because I’m a naturally busy person’. She didn’t work, had a cleaner, gardener, handyman, personal shopper to do everything for her, sent the kids to weekly boarding in their school 30 mins away, and was busy doing tennis, yoga and getting beauty treatments. While I until shortly before had been self-employed in a stressful job, managed to buy a flat by myself in London, did a hobby to a very high level, and - obviously - also had MH issues to deal with. I just gaped at her!

Has this come back to haunt her yet? Because it will. A lot of parents blindly believe their kids are going to be angels… and then they become toddlers.

School mum on taking son out of school for 3 weeks in Florida "It'll give the rest of the class a chance to catch up as he's so far ahead of the others"

I was so pleased that my son got 5 As in his highers and hers didn't. I wanted to remind her.

I was once told to go out at a different time if I didn't want to be sexually assaulted

I went out at 8am

Oddly he had no answer to when would it be safe to go out (I was not serious with that question)

One of mine liked fruit and veg better than sweets at one point. Not a family trait. I wonder if she had had some with allergens in that put her off.

Sorry not meant to be smug. More sharing strangeness.

A chap whose opening gambit at a party was, "And what do you do to justify your existence?" (Well I don't entertain twats like you, that's for sure.)

Another one who, when asked his job, loftily stated, "I work in the arts."

Perhaps they are both pretentious rather than smug, but close enough.