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What's the rudest thing to happen to you?

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Stardust1901 · 10/03/2017 15:51

Inspired by another thread.

WIBU to ask what's the rudest/cheekiest thing that's ever happened to you e.g. In a supermarket, in the cinema etc.
How did you respond?

OP posts:
Buddah101 · 11/03/2017 17:56

Walking across a road with one of my friends and had a few stones thrown at us whilst being told I was fat - I was a size 12/14 at the time, same night was out dancing with a few friends - the stupid dancing you do with your mates - I remember it clearly it was robbie williams rock dj. One man who kept looking over at us finally called me over in front of his mates all gathered around, stupidly I went and he whispered in my ear that boots had a half price sale on slim fast and I was the shittest dancer he'd ever seen.

Queue years of eating problems which I still have to this day.

MrsDesireeCarthorse · 11/03/2017 18:08

Oh yeah, my best friend asking me when I was going to get my (big Barbra Streisand) nose sorted out. I'm not. Fuck off.

0urKid · 11/03/2017 18:10

I have two where I saw red and went batshit. I think I've told these before.
I was walking home from work with a friend and he'd bought me a cold drink from Burger King. The traffic had come to a stand still and as we rounded the corner a bloke leaned out of the van (passenger) and went "I hope that's a slimfast love! Hahahaha!" I don't know what came over me but I threw it at him and shouted "It is! Try some!" It hit the window frame and ricocheted neatly over his fat red beefy sunburnt face and beer gut. Never have I felt so satisfied and petrified in the same moment. We got out of there fast. :o

I was heavily pg with dd1 and was waiting to put ds in the car while traffic went by in the Trafford centre car park. Dh was already in the car. A car with 5 lads went by slowly. They started beeping the horn "Alright fatty! Jesus who'd fuck that?! State of it... (these are just a few of the insults I can recall) I stood there holding my 2 year olds hand feeling absolutely mortified and shaken with people staring. Eventually I moved and put ds in his seat. Ds kisses my hand and said don't be sad mummy. Dh is still blissfully unaware and asks what's up? I tell him I'll explain later. Ds again says not to be sad. So we set off and dh takes a wrong turn and ends up in a different car park. I see the car of wankers parking up and screamed at dh to stop the car. He shits himself and slams on the brakes. I jump out of the car and run to the car of wankers. They see me coming and dive back in the car. Seeing this caused me to not only break into hysterical laughter but also angry tears. I start kicking fuck out of the car and hitting the window with my bag of meds from Boots. I have a Gaviscon bottle prescription that explodes over and the windscreen. At this point dh has parked the car up and come over. I'm stood there screaming like a banshee something along the lines of "That's right boys fatty sometimes fights back!" I'm walking round the car pointing to each one telling them that if I could let their sister/mother/grandmother know that they gang up on pregnant women I would. One of them opened the window and said they were shouting at someone else as if that bullshit lie in anyway excused their behaviour. I said my toddler knew they were abusing me. How could you do that in front of my child. He heard and saw it all. They ignored me and called the police. A man who saw everything came over blocked them in and decided to wait with me. When the men tried speaking he shut them up. I sent a livid dh to sit in the car with ds who was upset. When the police turned up they saw id been provoked plus two other people confirmed what happened. One of them an elderly lady told them what s disgrace they were. It backfired on them because drugs were found in the car and the driver was uninsured. The police let me go. It was in the local paper a few weeks later and though I felt ashamed at my outburst I'm glad nature had its way and I exploded. I've had comments since then but now I don't even flinch. I genuinely don't give a flying fuck what some non entity and his side dicks think of my body. I give the middle finger if they're in a car or shout fuck off if in person. Then get in with my life.

Natsku · 11/03/2017 18:13

asking if I was pregnant. To which I happily replied, no just fat

Someone asked me that in the pub recently, answered the same way, but it did take me back a bit, first time I've ever been overweight so not used to getting comments like that.

zaalitje · 11/03/2017 18:14

Another instance:
On holiday was sat on outside a bar with a friend who was talking to the waiter and a guy crossed the road and stupid over me and asked my name. I told him and he replied it was his sister's name too to which I smiled. He then followed that up with "and she's a fat, ugly bitch just like you".
Before I had a chance to reply my mate was out of her chair and toe to toe with him telling him to fuck off which he did whilst laughing that I should be able to take a joke.
Not that it matters but I was a size 12-14 at the time and I'm not unattractive!

Polarbearflavour · 11/03/2017 18:15

Do these people know that they are causing mental health issues by being so nasty?! How would they like it if people were so cruel to them?

Purplealienpuke · 11/03/2017 18:16

Good on you OURKID 🤗

SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 11/03/2017 18:19

My so called best friend was sat next to me at a friends house. She pointed at my legs and said with a gale of laughter "You can barely cross your legs! Look at that cellulite!" I was a size 14. Hmm I'm certainly no slim Jim but I looked her up on fb recently and there she was in all her size 26 glory with a missing tooth and a weird obsession with Tinkerbell. She'd be gutted to know I'm slimmer than her now. It's all she ever had to talk about when we were teens.

ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmmmmmmm · 11/03/2017 18:19

So many rude men .Makes me ashamed for my sex. And such long term effects for many of the recipients. Very depressing.Sad

JonSnowsWhore · 11/03/2017 18:20

Ourkid am I allowed to laugh? Bit worried as I got told off on this thread earlier for it when I thought I was sympathising with someone Confused but anyway, if I am, both stories absolutely cracked me up, just picturing these idiots getting put in their place! & the imagine of your husband not knowing what the hell was going on at first. Bloody hell I love you

SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 11/03/2017 18:22

0urKid I've seen your stories before and love reading them again. I wonder what it was like after you left and you royally fucked up everything for them? :o:o

ChubbyMummy12 · 11/03/2017 18:24

I was walking down the road pushing ds in his pram when he was 5 months old, when 2 blokes drove past in a car and shouted 'slut' at me.. I didn't know them, and I was wearing jeans and a tshirt Confused

0urKid · 11/03/2017 18:29

Jon snow whenever I tell people they love it too as I'm so quiet normally. I do the action of the guy holding the steering wheel and refusing to meet my eye. In fact someone said it reminded them of the bus wankers episode of the Inbetweeners (I'd never seen it so watched it and them sat there rigid with fear while the guy that had abuse shouted at him confronts them is pretty much it except with less Gaviscon stinking the place up) It takes a lot to rile me up but when I go I GO. Did feel guilty about my son but he has no lasting issues from seeing his mum kick ass. :o

JonSnowsWhore · 11/03/2017 18:31

Ourkid nah sometimes they need to see bullies being stood up to :) I've got a chest infection so I was roaring laughing but choking at the same time reading your comment, myOH was also looking at me very strangely Grin

0urKid · 11/03/2017 18:33

Sharon I pondered that too :o I really hope it taught them a lesson but the reality is they probably put on a front about it and laughed but won't have told any female friends/family.

Also your Tinkerbell toothless friend story tickled me.

0urKid · 11/03/2017 18:35

Thanks Purple. 😊

ILikeBeansWithKetchup · 11/03/2017 18:40

I was in a high powered interview for a senior leadership post. The four interviewers were a LA governor, a Catholic priest , an executive principal of a large federation and the headteacher of the respected Catholic school. I started my presentation and the headteacher after one slide started making eyes at the executive principal and giggling. the he started giggling too. She covered her mouth and spluttered into a glass of water. The priest and governor sat in stony silence.

I nearly out on my best teacher voice to say ' I'm sorry, would you like to share it with the rest of the room/@ but didn't. I just lumbered on.

I didn't get the job. It took two days for them to have the decency to tell me (via email) by which time I had already tracked down the successful candidate via Facebook in order to ascertain my fate.

I never got any feedback. Rude.

I repeat. these people were headteachers!

ILikeBeansWithKetchup · 11/03/2017 18:41

Scuse typos - it reflects my still burning fury!

ILikeBeansWithKetchup · 11/03/2017 18:43

And just to make everyone feel better the headteacher was a woman. Not a man. It is always so charming when another woman belittles someone who wants to break the glass ceiling... sigh.

Eveninties · 11/03/2017 18:44

Once while walking down a busy street with armfuls of shopping a man grabbed my boobs- he then shrugged and said sorry he couldn't help it.. Confused

civilfawlty · 11/03/2017 18:45

My neighbour called me a fat bitch, when I very politely asked her to pull her car forward so I could park too. I always use a version of the Churchill (think it's Churchill) line: "I may be fat, but you are a moron. But I could loose weight."

Smile
SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 11/03/2017 18:49

A bloke came up to the bar and told me that he knew it wasn't my fault I was so fat. I looked at him like Hmm and he went on to say that he couldn't see why someone with the most beautiful, angelic, stunning face he'd ever seen let themselves get that fat. He really thought he was complimenting me. I didn't know him from Adam.

DagenhamRoundhouse · 11/03/2017 18:55

It's quite a relief to be an older woman, hearing some of these hateful stories. I tend to be invisible to (most) men and it's very restful! You get nasty people online though. I expect we've all experienced them.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 11/03/2017 18:58

Our kid. You're little boy sounds amazing. God has blessed you with a diamond who'll grow up to be a real gentleman. Unlike those pricks. Picking on a pregnant women.
Good for you, BTW. That's all bullying cunts need is someone to stand up to them. Like I said. They never shout to other men.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 11/03/2017 18:58

Your not you're.

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