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?

Many years ago I got “chatted up” with the line ‘are you an only child?’ I replied no, why? He said ‘because you look spoilt’.

unsurprisingly it didn’t work.

This is a great thread but tbh, that poster’s reaction was bad enough without her reference to Scottish people.

Does she think we all have red hair, are violent and call people “cunts”?

I was going home after having just received news of a death in the family.

Random man in street "Cheer up love, might never happen".

No! It did teach me to try not to judge on first appearances though.

“Go on a diet you fat bitch”

Lost in Manchester, driven up from London...at traffic lights asked girl in next car where xyz was....." No i dont, but look at the size of my huge tits.."
she lifted up sweatshirt and showed us the huge tits and drove off....bizarre !!

The oddest was when I was standing at a bus stop with ds1 in a sling and a woman got really worked up telling me I shouldn't have my baby in a carrier because "what if you fell and impaled him on a fence???".

There were no fences around, not that I think accidental impalement is a common risk factor when considering sling use.

How is calling one individual anything a generalization?

This one old individual was clearly unpleasant. That does not mean that all old individuals are unpleasant, does it. Nor that the person describing her thinks all old individuals are unpleasant; just that this one was.

I have a short first name and short second name, think Pip Lane (not real name)

I have had at least three people say, oh I thought you'd be Asian. After having spoken to me on the phone (....in broad Lancashire)

Dd1 had a stork birthmark on her forehead. First midwife told us that its common and would likely fade with age. Dd2 had it too and the midwife commented to me 5x that it was more common in white infants. We are Asian and like all ethnicities we come in all shades. I had already said my dd1 had it but it faded by time she was 4 so I wasn't surprised. On the 5th time I told her that dd2 was definitely her dad's and I'm fully Asian not mixed like she suspected. By this time I was in pain and irritable. I'm not really sure what she wanted me to say.

No, it definitely wasn't that. She just decided we had no knickers on.
That expression is still in regular use where I live, I hear it a lot.

That reminds me of something that happened to me a few weeks ago. I visit a friend who lives in a flat and the visitors' car park gets used by parents taking and collecting children from Brownies. I arrived at dropping off time and it was very busy, but I saw a space and drove in quickly before someone else took it. A woman in the next car started waving at me. I was thinking I must know her and opened my window and she said in a snooty way "Go out of the car park and come back and reverse in this time". I asked why and she said "Because you'll struggle to get out". I told her to mind her own business and I've probably been driving longer than she's been alive.

Ignore her, she's famous on here and other platforms for starting stupid arguments.

Jesus. Opinionated mare. Nobody’s business but your own - as with most of the stories on this thread.

Once on a first date had a (drunk) woman come over to us and tell us that we were the most beautiful couple she'd ever seen (him I'd agree with, me not so much) and that we would make the most beautiful babies. Smile and nod, until she sits down and starts quizzing us about our plans for the future - despite telling her it was our first date

Never had a second date (not because of that) he did go on to make a beautiful baby with someone else and I'm still alone and now without my uterus so I guess we'll never know 😂

I had the same but told the perpetrators (this was early 80s, building site, wolf whistles scenario) exactly why I looked so sad. They soon shut up. It gave me a huge sense of satisfaction.

I was called a carrot fucker once at work (barmaid at the time)because my husband is ginger. I HOWLED after the prick had left

If your first name is Leigh, Lynn or Sue and your second name is Park, Lee or Young, I can understand that.

We were in a stately home once in Cumbria and the gardener smiled at us and said something like " Nice day " . My dh loves to chat so we stopped and dh said the gardens are a credit to you and everyone who works in them as they are nice and well kept . They chatted about the weather and usual chit chat and dh then asked him how long he'd worked there and the old chap said I don't work here I'm Lord so and so .

I was on holiday with a friend. After I'd showered and got ready to go out, I found her sitting out on the balcony, still in her pyjamas. Luckily, she stood up, picked up her bag and said, 'Ready?' before I had the chance to tell her to go and get changed. The 'pyjamas' were the short trousers sort (and not actual pyjamas. I still think they looked like pyjamas though!)

What a horrible thing for her to say. Really. Wtf was she thinking?

You sound insane. You totally overreacted. Violence in response to a comment? The woman would have been a volunteer; it wasn’t her shop, so you were hurting the charity.

and wtf with the Scottish response? Dear God. 🙄🙄

I had a bright green car for a while, and I was just getting into it in a supermarket car park when a man who was walking past said “did you actually choose that colour?” and walked off laughing and shaking his head. Unfortunately it was before I become aware of the phrase “did you mean to be so rude?”.

No idea. I used to read these kind of threads and think 'no one can seriously be that rude/mean in real life'.. was a shock to me to discover they in fact can.

Oh and the tinkly laugh. The tinkly laugh exists!