To NOT particularly want to be told I have bad breath?

[welliesinthespring]

I just had a brief conversation with a lady in a shop as we both leaned over to get something and she sniffed and then said (loudly!) 'ooh you've been eating chilli, or garlic haven't you?'

I was and said 'no, I haven't!' (which I haven't!)

Obviously, that's just another way of telling me I stink and it's made me really paranoid and cross. I brush thoroughly twice a day and floss. Also, I teach in a secondary school and am fairly certain if there was a particularly offensive smell a child would have blurted something out!

But AIBU to think that this is just incredibly ignorant and rude? I was really embarrassed and since when is it acceptable to comment randomly on smells secreting from others??

Ah you're being lovely but she was NOT being kind!

It was a really thoughtless thing to say and perhaps it was one of her foot in mouth utterances which shouldn't have been made but she was smelling something, tho her guess at what it was was way out.

Yes it could be ketosis or any number of other things. When I did geriatric nursing, for instance, one of the v. First signs there was a 'blockage' in their gut was the smell on their breath.

Whatever, take on board the message, don't shoot the messenger, she's actually done you a favour.

Oh yeah, an old case of ketosis death breath