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?

Got asked in a supermarket to recommend a gin as “you look like someone who knows about gin”

my dad owns a pub so.. she did pick the right person

,😆😂

Was in our local supermarket and kept on going past the same person up and down the aisles as you sometimes do. He stared at me a few times.

when I left the store he was waiting for me and told me I’m looking very miserable today, and that it’s his NY resolution to tell people when they think they look sad 😲

id just found out my Dad’s cancer had progressed to stage 4 and there were other things happening in my life.

I wish I’d said something smart back to him , creep

I was walking home one summer evening at about 9pm (so still daylight) and passed a group of four young blokes who appeared to be on a night out. One of them said to me, "what the fuck are you looking at, you need to grow about another 6 feet or whatever". And he and his mates laughed. I wished I'd said something along the lines that no woman has ever been 11 feet tall, but as I was on my own and there were four of them, it was probably safer not to.

For a while afterwards, it annoyed me that I just had to take it, really.

I had the opposite experience. I was carrying my 10 month old son because it was too snowy to push a buggy in. A lady told me I should put him down and let him walk!

A stranger at a table next to me once recognised me from my at the time quite public-facing job & started telling the person he was with what he thought of my work, at length, in detail and loud enough for me to clearly hear, without acknowledging me at any point. The content wasn't particularly insulting, but it was extremely uncomfortable and bizarre.

I remember circa 2006/7, I was about 24/25 and out on a night out in London with two mates. We were stood outside in the smoking area while one of my friends had a ciggy (me and my other friend weren’t smokers but it was some grotty Garage/R&B club in the arse end of Vauxhall so we weren’t leaving her to go outside alone).

I was minding my own business when a few lads sidled over asking for a light and then started just generally chitchatting about the night, the music etc. A few noticed my accent (I’m originally from Liverpool, and whilst I don’t consider myself broad, to most Southerners I could be a regular on Brookside!), so there was a bit of the usual back and forth banter. All fine and dandy. Then out of nowhere, one of the lads who until this point hadn’t said anything, looked me dead in the eye and said “You’ve got big lips….Blowjob lips. I bet you give the best fucking blowjobs. Ones your Mum would be proud of.”

My reply was “You’re right; my blowjobs are amazing. But actually it’s my Dad you need to thank for my big lips. I’ll let him know you’re a fan of his work.”

As he stood there in shocked silence, I added “Anyway you don’t need to waste time thinking about my mouth…your dick won’t ever get to be inside it.”

To the soundtrack of all of his mates taking the piss out of him getting owned, he scuttled back inside the club without another word! One of the group even high-fived me and apologised for his “tit of a mate”.

Later that night, high-five lad bought me a drink, we ended up swapping numbers and eventually went on a few dates. It never became anything serious, but we stayed in sporadic touch through facebook for a couple of years afterwards and he loved telling me how the group would still remind the lad about that night and take the piss out of him.

You don’t half have a good memory @gillefc82

Do you actually think anyone believes that you remember verbatim these incredible speeches that you regularly orate at people who insult you?

@Revoltingpheasants
I believe her. Some people are good at remembering conversations. I remember pretty much word for word conversations from years ago. I have clear memories from when I was really young. Not every one has a memory of a goldfish.

Well you might regularly have strange men making unsolicited, sexualised comments about your body parts, but I can assure you I don’t. When it happened, the details stuck!

I’ll will happily take your compliment on my oratory skills though.

I have a friend who for some reason often gets mistaken for random famous people.

One night a very drunk woman approached him in the street, shouting "Hey! I know you! You're Jason from Pornhub!"

We looked at her in surprise and she continued "You know! Double dicks in the arse!"

That was odd.

I was in the bus with my 3 young children when a woman started having a go at me for all the benefits I must be claiming. I've never claimed anything in my life and even if I had it was nothing to do with her and such a random comment.

But memories are very unreliable. This has been proved in various experiments. We think our memories are accurate but they really aren't.

Has it been proved beyond all doubt though? So are you saying it’s impossible for someone to recall a conversation from decades ago?

Not impossible but unlikely. We unknowingly adjust our memories all the time. There has been research done into eye witness statements and they were found to be notoriously unreliable, even when given shortly after the events. We all like to think what we remember is right but it usually isn't.

Then there’s probably no need for this thread or many others then if we’ve all remembered incorrectly

I don't think it matters if we haven't got things exactly right here. We remember the gist and the stories are still interesting.

So many baby related stories on here. I have another. I was in Aldi with my baby ds and the guy behind the till asked how old he was. "4 months", I said. He replied: "and a other one on the way!", pointing at my stomach.

Nope, just left over from my first one, thanks. 🤨

That's an image you don't need, ever.

We went to an open garden at a posh home counties type house with our precious first born. The hooray henry type who owned the house asked our baby's name. he then said 'That's a dog's name' (it's a perfectly normal biblical name).

I've wondered a lot if it was privilege or simply being a dick head that made him think that was a reasonable thing to say

My husband was out with my youngest (who was about 2 at the time) and someone stopped and said ‘she’s beautiful…’ then looked at him, paused, and said quizzically ‘is she yours?’ We still laugh about it.