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Rude woman or just me?

182 replies

zodiackelly · 10/03/2016 19:01

Hi all! Need your opinions.

So I just got back from tonight's yoga class and feel a little odd with the encounter that I just had. Well I got chatting to another woman who had just joined, as she was talking I glanced out the window for a moment and noticed the moon and I out of the blue mentioned how pretty it looked & how it affects my behaviour - no I'm not crazy haha, please mention if this happens to you too!

Anyway she proceeded to snicker at what I had just said and found a way to excuse herself as if I had just said the world's craziest thing or killed her cat or something?? Am I wrong for thinking she was really rude to laugh and excuse herself? I don't know if I want to go back to my class anymore which is a real shame because I really enjoyed going until this woman joined.

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itsonlysubterfuge · 10/03/2016 19:57

You sound a bit odd, to me this is great and I would have been interested and asked you more. DH and I always point the moon out and really enjoy when it looks beautiful.

Most people though would look at you like the werewolf you probably are Grin.

LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/03/2016 19:58

I was in a coffee shop last year, quietly reading a book, when a man at the next table decided he wanted to talk to me.

I was about to leave anyway so I was polite and chatted back. He asked what I was reading, we talked books for a few minutes, then he said 'yeah, I'm a writer, but I only write for a few days each month, when I come down here (I live on the South West coast) because I write better when there's a full moon'.

Me: Confused ok, nice talking to you!

Original poster
zodiackelly · 10/03/2016 19:59

pictish - not everyone understands, you don't. That's okay! I respect that, it's all about the vibes.

And yes, perhaps she had never heard of it or hasn't taken time to learn about it before, so she was thrown off and confused or felt a little bit intimidated. I just think her reaction was a little too much.

OP posts:
pictish · 10/03/2016 20:01

Some people want mystical to be true so they just decide it is.

pictish · 10/03/2016 20:01

mystical stuff*

LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/03/2016 20:01

Let me guess, OP, you believe in astrology too...

Sparklingbrook · 10/03/2016 20:01

Why would she take time to learn about it? Or feel intimidated?

You are really overthinking this OP.

pictish · 10/03/2016 20:02

What's to understand?

Katenka · 10/03/2016 20:04

And yes, perhaps she had never heard of it or hasn't taken time to learn about it before, so she was thrown off and confused or felt a little bit intimidated. I just think her reaction was a little too much.

Taken time to learn about it. You do realise because you believe in something that not everyone else does? And not because they haven't taken the time. But because they don't believe in it.

You shared something quite personal and a bit different to mainstream thinking with a stranger, but are upset their reaction wasn't what you hoped for.

Then telling people they are too sensitive about MH.Confused

Strokethefurrywall · 10/03/2016 20:06

I'm definitely one with my thoughts during a full moon, and then sometimes I feel a little more erratic and over the place.

I've read this statement numerous times and I still can't understand what it means under the faux hippy bollocks.

I fucking love mumsnet at the moment, such great value!

ilovesooty · 10/03/2016 20:07

Intimidated? Oh please...

shazzarooney99 · 10/03/2016 20:08

she probably thought u were a weirdo.

Buckinbronco · 10/03/2016 20:10

Hold On a sec. We're talking about the moon. the word lunatic was formed to describe the increase in madness during a full moon. It's not a new, unusual idea. And whilst scientific studies haven't been able to prove a connection between behaviour and the moon, there is a whole host of commonly quoted anacdotal data, from a&e being busier to the brewery I used to work for rota'ing extra bouncers on a full moon because they found. Without fail, they had more trouble.

Some posters are acting like this is the whackiest idea going and I am struggling to believe you haven't heard a million times people claiming the moon affects behaviour.

Sparklingbrook · 10/03/2016 20:13

Anyone else gone outside for a look at the moon? I can't see it.

ilovesooty · 10/03/2016 20:13

You don't usually find that people talk about their moon induced behavioural swings out of the blue to people they've just met.

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zodiackelly · 10/03/2016 20:15

Yes bronco it's very common! Not that I think I'm a lunatic haha - just very under the moon's influence I guess. It can be hard to explain if you aren't that way.

And shazza, I would rather be a weirdo than plain rude. Personally, that's how she was to me. But some others clearly don't see it that way and that's fine! Different strokes and all. Smile

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merrymouse · 10/03/2016 20:15

I think the key point here is that this was 'tonight's' yoga class. She is clearly a vampire.

JassyRadlett · 10/03/2016 20:17

If someone randomly pointed out the moon to me and said it affected their behaviour I would think they were attempting to make a joke, so I would laugh. Then when I realised they were being serious I would feel awkward and excuse myself because I would feel like an idiot for misinterpreting them.

This. I would have assumed you were joking. And on discovering that you weren't I would have felt awkward for assuming it was a joke, and slightly uncertain of the next topic of conversation with someone who (a) was clearly uninterested in what I'd been saying and (b) believes in such claptrap.

But thanks, I did enjoy the irony overload when you suggested others should be less sensitive after you took offence at this woman's behaviour.

HelsBels3000 · 10/03/2016 20:17

IMO you are a weirdo and also plain rude.

mycatsloveeachother · 10/03/2016 20:17

I know someone who roars with laughter even when nothing I have said is funny.

It does make me feel quite uncomfortable so I know what OP means, I think.

Buckinbronco · 10/03/2016 20:19

I agree with that I love sooty Grin

ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 10/03/2016 20:20

Definitely you sorry op. I think I'd feel totally perplexed and awkward if someone I just met came out of that.

Italiangreyhound · 10/03/2016 20:20

zodiackelly

  1. Please do not let anyone deter you from going to a club you enjoy over one comment

  2. I don't think she was rude, I think she was embarrassed, a) that you interrupted her and clearly weren't really listening to what she was saying and b) that you said something she had maybe never thought about and was not sure to respond to.

  3. The moon effects a lot!

www.factmonster.com/dk/encyclopedia/moon.html

If the moon effects the earth why can't it affect you! But really, you had just met her, she was talking, you interrupted her to wax lyrical about the moon, she was not rude.

MymbleMother · 10/03/2016 20:22

"pictish - not everyone understands, you don't. That's okay! I respect that, it's all about the vibes."

Uh huh. Let me guess - one of the Yoga poses, did it involve you putting your head up your own arse? I think it might still be there...

thetroubleis · 10/03/2016 20:22

It's still new moon, Sparkling