Unsolicited comments from strangers - what’s your rudest/funniest one?

[maria199]

Bit of a funny one really but yesterday I was about to go for a walk near a nature area and I was putting my 4 month old in her pram. She had just been in the car for a little while so when I put her into the pram she started crying (don’t worry - she loves the pram and was fine as soon as we started walking!)

As I was putting her in a woman in her late 60’s/70’s walked past with an elderly man and she says to the man “oh a little crying baby! must be hungry!” She then asked me how old my baby was so I told her 4 months old and she says to me “she sounds hungry!” I said “no she’s just been fed (she had), she just doesn’t like being put down” (in a friendly way) and she says to me “oh you’ve spoilt her then!” and laughed. I was a bit taken aback because how can you spoil a 4 month old baby?? 😂

Anyway, she walked on and it wasn’t exactly a malicious comment but it did make me think why on earth do people always love to comment, especially to people they don’t know!!!

It just made me curious - what are the funniest/rudest/weirdest interactions people have had from strangers when out with their baby?

A drunk goth came up to me and said "antique shops are not what they say they are" and he just swayed away into the darkness.

While I was serving them in a shop and out of nowhere: "You see son, if you don't work hard at school you won't go to university and then you'll just end up serving people in a shop just like this girl"

The joy I took in telling her I was fresh from uni with a first...

Hahah love that

Arg, I hate this type of stuff. I knew a young man studying medicine who was working as an HCA in the same hospital I was. He told me he overheard the whole "if you don't do well at school, you will be like him", and I heard it in person myself about me too.

In a bar late one evening in Greece, a chap leaned across to me and said
”Excuse me, has someone in your family died recently?

Yes, I have resting bitch/misery face.

It was an attempt at a chat up line. I fell off my bar stool laughing.

While heavily pregnant a shop assistant asked me what I was planning to name my baby (now 13). I told her and she asked me why I’d want to give him a “poof’s name”. So that was nice.

Went ahead with the perfectly normal name!

I worked in a 'naice' cafe while at Uni and a very snobby elderly couple who came in often asked my manager if I was 'A bit slow'. To this day I have no idea why.

I was shopping in Tesco years ago (I was mid to late 20s) eyeing up the samosas. I admit I was a bit overweight (a size 16 but I am almost 6ft). A youngish man was next me and said: you don’t want those they are full of fat. He didn’t look at me when he said it and I almost convinced myself that I had imagined it. It really bugged me though.
Someone told me they saw me walking down the street the day before my baby was born and that I looked like the Queen Mary (ship). I think she thought it was a sort of compliment (that I looked somehow regal in my enormity)? However no one wants to be compared to a huge ship. My baby was well over 10lbs at birth…

I used to work in a fabric shop. I once asked a lady if she needed help and she told me if I ever wanted children I had to stop drinking tap water and she could see in my eyes I was full of its toxins - that was a fun day.

Wow, that is weird and random.

I think pregnancy and small babies are a particularly ripe time for people to say stupid, oblivious shite. One coming to mind is when I was heavily pregnant and massive, a male friend just gazing at my bump in fascination/repulsion and said something along the lines of ‘being pregnant just makes you completely vulnerable doesn’t it, like you now, if we were in the jungle and a tiger came at us you’d just get eaten; you’d stand no chance of running anywhere to save yourself’. Yup, thanks pal, clearly you wouldn’t be there trying to save me!!

My sister and I have bright pink/red hair and an old man said his friend thought we looked like matches! As I'm overweight I took it as a compliment and thanked him which totally puzzled the poor thing

My autistic son notices everything and likes to comment loudly (less of a problem since he matured a little). He asked me why a man stood behind us in a queue ‘had a big tummy’. The man said: “it’s from eating little children like you” which we both found hilarious.

Many years ago in my late teens, working in a Council rent office taking 1000's of payments everyday - if I had £1 for every tenant who said, "cheer up might never happen"....🤨. One memorable charmer, BO unbrushed teeth greasy hair type, kindly suggested a vibrator might put a smile on my face....

I was perfectly happy thank you, just had a 'concentrating face' as taking 100's of cash payments everyday and being expected to balance up to £10K to the exact penny wasn't something to be bouncing around giggling about.

(If I didn't balance to the exact penny the bosses used to get in a right kerfuffle).

Funnily enough, I quickly moved on from any public facing employment!

Not my finest moment, but an older woman working in a charity shop told me it was such a pity my baby girl was a red head ‘otherwise she’d be quite pretty’. I rammed the glass cabinet around the pay desk that displayed their ‘costume jewellery’ so hard with my buggy wheel (but it was an accident caused by temper), that it cracked the glass. When she shouted at me I yelled back through tears ‘I dunnah know why ya hate me child, she’s just a wee baby and you’re an auld cunt!
im not Scottish.

A man came up to me in a foreign country. I was with my children, he asked where I was from, said he was Turkish. I said I was British. He said ‘no you can’t be, you have a mongloid face, British people don’t look like you, I have a degree in facial recognition and ethnography and you have a flat face and nose which is only found in certain regions’ he was getting quite irritated/ loud and kept saying ‘it is not a British face’ until I walked away. I am not ethnically British whatever that is, but I found whole thing so odd and upsetting, but also hilarious.

Im dying.to know what they are if they are not antique shops

I think he is probably still out there with his views on antique shops. He had the most fabulous backcombed hair too. I wonder if that is still holding up.

I was sitting on the bus with my friend and an old woman got on and sat opposite, next to my mum. She kept staring at us then said to my mum Those two girls have got no knickers on.
My mum, in her best posh voice, assured her we had. Goodness knows where that came from, totally out of the blue.

I can still remember (as it was years ago now, DDs are grown up!) someone loudly and pointledly about us, saying to her daughter, another mum in the playground, we were the only people/kids in there, how terrible amd shallow it was that mums spend so much money on designer clothes for them and their children. And her daughter trying to get her mum to shut up. DDs were wearing perfectly normal high street shop clothes as was I. I found it funny.

And another time when DD1 was tiny, I went to a café with a couple of mums after an antenatal class and a man at the next table started ranting at us about feckless teenage single mothers and where are the dads, eh? Er, at work as it's 11am? I was 29 and the other two were first time mums at 39, we didn't know whether to be flattered or miffed.

Having young kids was the worst time for people sticking their oar in.

Read Stephen King’s Needful Things to find out what antique shops can be a cover for!

In BHS café in Birmingham in 1994, someone commented that my two children didn't look very alike and asked if they had the same father.

When I was pregnant with my third baby, I bumped into someone in Tesco that I hadn’t seen for a while. Instead of asking when I was due when she noticed my bump, she pointed at it and asked ‘when did that happen?’!

I’m still not sure how I was supposed to answer that question!

I had two that really stuck with me. 1 - 'You should be in that pram'. An elderley lady said to me. I was 26 with my first baby 😂 and the one that riled me 2 - my son was crying on the bus, a few months old, and a woman insisted there were pins in his clothes hurting him, even after me explaining he had reflux.

I often got asked when my boys were little whether they had the same father - one is blonde and one is a red head.
it's so rude to ask that! Incidentally they do have the same father but how rude of someone to ask. No one's business