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.. To have wanted to tell this man to f#&k off?

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Messtermind · 18/01/2015 01:14

Today at work, I was on my break and eating my dinner. A regular customer who comes in every day walked past, stopped in front of my table and said 'always eating when I see you, I swear your getting fatter by the minute!'

Now, yes he's a regular and knows my name, but apart from that he doesn't know me from Eve, I am very overweight definitely.. But I do not need an elderly man to point this out to me and pass judgement on my eating habits! I guess it's a good job I'm relatively thick skinned, that being said to someone more sensitive could have caused a multitude of problems Hmm

Thinking back there's many many things I could have said, what I actually did was just fake a laugh and turn back to eating my dinner. I was actually a little shocked that people say things like this to people they don't know..!

TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 18/01/2015 15:07

Now, you know me, all about the peace and love, so I wouldn't advise you to tell anyone to jeff off, OP. but yy I would go with the Winston Churchill line if I was you.
We can also see that nothing
BUT may we also remind you that sooty's only doing what we asked her to with regards to ageist posts-

HTH and again, Peace and love
Thanks MNHQ

YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 19/01/2015 11:15

Hi all. Just to confirm that ilovesooty doesn't work for MNHQ, but that we do rely on all of you to keep things naice on here, which sometimes does include pointing out disablist, sexist, ageist, homophobic etc comments to each other. Whether or not everyone will agree as to what constitutes those -isms is part of the discussion, and always interesting we think you will agree. (Even if as MNers we agree on little else).
Regarding the chap in question, don't forget 'did you mean to sound so rude?' It's pretty perfect in most of these situations. And at him always seeing you eating because, well, he always walks past at lunchtime.

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