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?

@silkyfilament
Im Scottish and we don’t go about shouting and behaving like that, disgusting comment

Telling my adult son about this thread last night, because it’s been such an eye opener to me.

He then told me he parked (legally) outside a one stop shop several weeks ago and a woman walked up as he left the vehicle and shouted, “You’ve just parked like a paedo!” He assumed this woman was clearly on something, so ignored her, but she continued the accusation when he came out, so he politely pointed out that if these perverts parked a specific way, wouldn’t it be a lot easier for the police just to patrol car parks to identify suspects?

Very peculiar.

Paranoid psychosis with auditory hallucinations?

Possibly, it just seemed an odd thing to be paranoid about as there was nothing in his appearance that might result in his being the genuine victim of this particular disgusting insult.

I would have been able to make more sense of it if there had been, as I could well understand someone who was a victim of racism being constantly fearful of hearing it - although there was nothing in my banal and mundane remark about crossing the road that rhymed with it, or had similar consonants, and I'm not exaggerating when I say I went over it hundreds of times afterwards.

He was obviously an imposter-if the was really Lord so and so he probably wouldn’t have introduced himself like that….

We googled him when we got home , it was him .

Audrey tree hallucinationsaren’t related to mishearing things that other people have said, they are produced by the person’s own brain but experienced as coming from outside their own mind.

They may not always make sense.

Auditory hallucinations obviously!

Aa an identical twin, we’ve had tonnes of comments over the years.

After yet another “What’s it like being a twin? It must be so strange” we started replying with “Normal! What’s it like NOT having a twin? It must be so strange!”
See also: “why do you have a phone each? If you spend a lot of time together surely you only need one?”
However the worst, when we were teenagers, was “Have you ever shared a boyfriend?”

Sometimes at school a random kid would came up to us and ask the usual “Are you two twins?” we sometimes looked at our friend who looked nothing like us and one of us would go “What? Me and him? No! What made you think that?”

I would have been fuming too. What a nasty comment. That stupid woman needed a taste of her own medicine. And I read that in a Scottish accent, it's quite funny. Get a sense of humour.

A man once came up to me at work and told me my eyes were beautiful like sheep’s eyes. He proceeded to pull up a picture of sheep’s eyes on his phone …. Which are not beautiful 😆

Years ago I was a nanny, I took the children swimming and a lady swam right up to me and said please, please tell me they are not your children.
I explained who I was and she shrieked across the pool to her friend ‘don’t worry it’s not a young, single mum, just a nanny!’

Then when I was expecting my own, I worked in a school and every time we had a staff meeting (regularly) the head would say oh move up everyone Rainbow’s going to need at least 2 chairs today.
She then commented in front of the students how hilarious it was that I’m almost as wide as I am tall (I’m short!)

it was a very toxic place to work!!

I worked in a higher-end supermarket for a while during my studies and most of the customers were arseholes. Really snobby and horrible. My favourite comment was from a woman who I was serving at the checkout as she was chatting to her friend next to her about remortgaging her house. For some reason she paused what she was saying and turned to me and said “I guess you’ll never have to worry about being able to afford a mortgage.” Then carried on her conversation. I’m usually quick to respond but I was so shocked I had no comeback. Funnily enough I actually did have a mortgage.

In a supermarket my children who were about 3 and six accidentally bumped a lady with the trolley. I apologised, my kids said sorry. She looked at me and said your children should have been drowned at birth!

It's the one with inbuilt karma though.

I was at the gym standing on the weighing scales and an older man walked past and said "don't break them!"

Out with my twins and older child a male shopper suggested my husband and I get a TV 😂

How do you know ?

I would have been so tempted to reply (although untrue) "You're quite right, I own my house outright!"

Took my friend’s greyhound for a walk. Elderly chap passes and says “bet you wish you were as thin as her”
🤣🤣🤣

Wearing a long regency style green and white floral summer dress and some random ‘wit’ called out of car window, “Lost your sheep?”

Whether true or not that gave me my first laugh of today. 😁

As I said , we googled him and saw an image , also because fairly local , we've seen him in local newspapers .
The old chap is dead now but it was Muncaster Castle in Cumbria .

Ones that spring to mind for me…I was at a train station having just got off a train and waiting for my next one. I had bought myself a filled baguette type thing for lunch, and sat down to eat it. A couple of bites in some random man comes up to me pointing his finger and said quite aggressively, “You’ll get fat if you eat that!” and walked off!

In terms of funniest (in hindsight!)….my first pregnancy was unplanned. I was on the pill so it was very unexpected and in the days after finding out I was in a bit of a state and very confused. I recall getting a bit emotional about it at the doctors and let’s just say the doctor had a ‘way with words’. Two corkers he came out with during that appointment were: “Well, you chose to ride the pony!” and “It’s easy for a man…they just have to whip it in, whip it out and wipe it!”

And the OP’s story does remind me of a very similar situation for me.

My DD (now 13) was a real cryer as a baby…I found it Incredibly difficult, especially as I also had toddler DS in tow, and felt quite stressed out a lot of the time.

I was waiting at a bus stop to go home with DD in the pram and toddler DS. DD starts crying (surprise surprise!) and after trying to rock the pram to sooth her, a woman flippantly said to me, “your baby is hungry - you should feed her”.

Feeling a little stressed at the situation, I replied, “Please tell me more about my baby and her feeding habits. For instance, when exactly did she last feed, what did she have and how much?” Woman looks at me blankly. I continue… “You don’t know, but I do know EXACTLY and I can tell you she is not hungry so please don’t presume to know more about what my baby needs than me. You have no clue.”

I feel quite mortified about it looking back as typically I am the most unconfrontational person but she hit the nerve of a stressed out new Mum and it just poured out of me!