What's the rudest thing to happen to you?

[Stardust1901]

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?

When I was 19 I worked in a department store for Clinique. I hadn't been there long and was painfully shy so didn't talk to many people. Iwent up to the toilet one day and was in the cubicle and I heard 2 other women from the perfumary dept come in. I heard one say to the other 'So what do you think of that new girl on Clinique? She isn't very pretty is she?' And the other replied 'Well that's probably why they employed her, to show how great their products can make you look'

Utterly mortified. I stayed in the loo til they'd gone, held it together for the rest of the day and got home and promptly burst into tears. I know it's daft, but it made me paranoid and self conscious for years, Now I can't say it would bother me. But I hate people thatsay stuff like that, they never know how it can affect them.

One of them still works there and she looks like Pete Burns (RIP) so I guess maybe there is such a thing as karma.

Parents in law gave me a lift to England just under thirty years ago. While on the ferry my father in law turned to me and said "what are you doing here, I booked you on the Herald of Free Entreprise".

Not sure I'd that would be considered rude or just plain nasty.

My dad died suddenly when I was 24, and I developed awful acne out of the blue. One day I was on the bus going to visit my mum, and this drunk older man got on and started calling me "miss pitty", saying how ugly I was and how no man would ever fancy me because my skin was so disgusting. The bus was packed, standing room only, and not one person said anything while I stood there with tears streaming down my face.in retrospect I should have got off and waited for the next bus, but it was the middle of winter and a 30 minute service, so I just took it for the full 45 minute journey.

Working as cabin crew I had a spot one day that I concealed as best I could (one of those horrible sore ones) and a passenger said I shouldn't be flying with that and I should go to my GP and get myself sorted...I was on antibiotics and a cream from my GP at the time.

ILikeBeansWithKetchup
I had a job interview rude woman problem too - I was interviewed by a panel of 3 men and a woman, and she asked me a few questions on a fairly technical topic, then made a statement telling me I had got something wrong, which was untrue - the sort of thing that someone without knowledge of the area might guess, but verifiably wrong.

I very politely said that it might seem that way intuitively, but gave some example of how it worked, and named some specific named methods (similar to known proofs in maths). The other panel members were nodding, but she would not have it - got more and more annoyed, and repeated that I was wrong.
I ended up saying that there wasn't more I could say, but I'd be happy to find her some references on the subject afterwards (and made noises about it being very tricky to try to placate her). She still wouldn't drop it, and in the end the other interviewers told her to drop it, and finished the interview with her glowering at me - totally unprofessional!
I got the job, but made sure I wasn't going to be in her department before I accepted!

I'll just add one from a woman, to even things out a bit!

MIL told me earnestly 'your French is really bad you know, you make lots and lots of errors, all the time'

British stiff upper lip meant I didn't say 'and you're decrepid, naive and fucking stupid'

Oh yeah I have a rude female one too. I was coming out of New Look with my mum. We passed this portly female and she pointed to me and said without a hint of discretion "I'm not that fat am I?" My mum went "Good God. No you're not. You're a good 5 stone fatter!" :o

I should've said she was with her mother too.

I was at work a few weeks ago chatting to a nice older lady with a baby in a pushchair, she was commenting how her husband loved pushing his dgd around in the pushchair and when the man showed up I pleasantly commented, " I hear you're taking this lovely one out for a walk in town, she's so sweet" and he replied to me (via a babyish voice to his dgd) " yes we are and if you don't stick in at school you'll end up working in a bank like this girl" and he walked off as soon as he said it, so I didn't respond but I was so pissed off in my mind my response went something like this: "how lovely of you, you arsey old shit, I imagine you are a brain surgeon or something then? And for your information grandad, I've got a degree and my job role is highly complex and I doubt you could do it with a calculator in one hand and a dictionary in the other".

Obviously me and my brain had a right old argument about it when he left and I outwardly smiled and carried on discussing mortgages with another customer. Bastard.

I was about 14 done really well in ny science tests so got moved up into the 'clever' group. I was buzzing i diddnt now anybody in there they where all the popular kids. Anyways the teacher said hi guys can i see everyones biggest smile.. I grinned as i was so happy! She said ohh 'user123' thats a gorgeous smile a few kids down some lad with braces and a justin bieber cut said who the fuck is 'user123' is she a nerd looked at me and said haha yeah an ugly one too. Then the boy next to me refused too work in pairs with me and i was a minger. And then we were getting measured for a project andthis random little prick says your only taller than me because your fod is huge!... I actually dumbed myself down and went into the lowest group with all my friends and ened up getting shit GCSE'S im only 21 now it still makes me feel sad jist thinking about it

OurKid - tremendously uplifting stuff. Now go sort Trump out please....

Not me, but a friend. Friend had quite literally just given birth. Midwife had cleaned up baby and handed back to her. Then looked her up and down and said "Well, you've got a lot of weight to shift!"
WTF is wrong with people?

Marklah, then they wonder why so many women suffer with pnd and low self esteem.
Really sad to read such comments. I hope your friend could shake off the remarks.

User148. That is so Terrible. No wonder women don't achieve as much as men! Shocking!

I was at a Cambridge "May" ball in my early 30s when my DD was 6 weeks old. This was a long planned trip to return to alma mater with a friend. I felt fat and grumpy anyway which wasn't helped when a gorgeous student looked me up and down and said simply "big!" I wished I had said something in return but didn't.

Also I was about 19 and a size 12 when a bloke in a pub at lunchtime asked me "are all posh people fat"..... cut me to the quick and went on stupid crash diet of course!

I got told by male boss I should wear more makeup ( i was teaching primary school age kids so quite why I needed heavy makeup I dont know also that must be great model for little girls I taught, that as female the only way to do your job and appear proffesional is put on thick makeup) have had other sexist comments from male co workers as well. My dad also used to tell me I looked pregnant and fat as a teenager ( i was average size) and was told however much weight I lost I would always look fat, which is always great for a very shy and insecure teenager. At school I also had one of the boys from older year asking my predicted grades ( we were talking about university) i told him and he acted shocked and told me I didnt look clever ( apparently my naturally blonde hair must eat my brain cells)

I've had a few, but I'm quite proud of my comeback on this one: When I was at Uni I used to work at a jewellry shop over Christmas, just to get some extra cash for clothes, etc. A snotty looking lady and her teenager daughter wanted to look at a few items and I happily helped. At one point rhe mum said to her daughter something like "If you don't study hard you'll end up like this girl". I was but inmediately started to put the jewellry away and coldly said "I'm finishing a 5 years degree and I've been selected for a PHD program, you're very rude and I refuse to help you further, please go'. She looked like if I had slapped on the face and left.
Her daughter came on her own later to apologize. She seemed very sweet. I told her that her mum shouldn't have said that, regardless of the looks/academic achievements of the person behind the desk. Hope she learnt the lesson!

I once had a woman say to me ( unsolicited I just went to see my friend who was just starting a relationship with her friend) "you'd make a very good boyfriend you've got a great personality you know... you just need to lose some weight and then maybe you wouldn't look like such an ugly fucker" it was the first time I had met her and her friend I was shy so didn't speak initially but had loosened up abit and was telling a story about me and my friend on holiday it was so randomly rude

Queueing in a TKMAXX with an elderly friend when a lady (use that description loosely) pushed her buggy into the back of my friends legs, who in response turned round to look what was happening. The buggy owner then started to say out loud " look at them, stuck up lesbians from a council house, living there with their cats"!! I turned to look and off she went again " what you looking at you lesbian you shouldn't be in here". My elderly friend ignored her sorry to say I wasn't as reserved! We are both married, to men??

Mum to me after having DD2, had been on/off labour for 2 days and I was bloody knackered too but felt that I looked pretty good considering - "oh my goodness look at you, is there another one in there?"
Mum to me when 4mths pg with DD1, I wore tight pencil skirt suits to work so had bought a maternity skirt to see me through rather than buy a size up - "that's ridiculous buying maternity stuff now, I didn't even show until I was 7 months" (I bet she did but has selective memory - after all she was unmarried at a time when it was looked down on so tried to hide it)
Mum to me age 16 - bought me a toy pig in a tutu to remind me not to eat too much.
She now gives sly digs about other daughters being better as they call or text their mothers each day - sorry, your lack of warmth or empathy means I care for you but I will never have the sort of relationship that people post about on FB, the mum who is a rock and a best friend etc
Friend at a school reunion - seemed shocked that I looked good - said "you look really slim, obviously you'll never be as slim as X but you still look good". Same person when I said my skirt that she had admired was M&S, "oh you are so lucky, I can't wear their stuff as it's all too big for me". As far as I know they have always made size 8 so from looking at her approx size 10/12 frame that had to be bullshit. (And at the time I was a small size 12 so hardly lardy - I wish I could be that size now!)
Intimidating lady in disabled & baby change loos in Waterloo - this was a few years back, ladies loos were down a flight of stairs, ground floor level access to a disabled toilet and a baby change area with a toilet (no door on the toilet). As I was changing DD2's pooey nappy, 11yo DD1 asked if she could have a wee. As the one in the baby change was a bit grim and had no door (embarrassing at that age) I said to nip into the disabled one. Shoot me now but I wasn't going to let a non-streetwise 11yo wander out and down the stairs into the other ones (separate entrance, so not like I could see her go down the stairs and return), also I was being a bit PFB as she'd just been diagnosed with epilepsy so I didn't like her being on her own at the time. Anyway, a lady comes in just as she's finished and opening the door and screams at her that "you shouldn't be here, you're not an old lady". She burst into tears and I said nothing and rushed the girls out. I almost wish I'd shouted "and being old isn't a disability so you don't need it either" but for all I know she might have been disabled as well as old and rude.

I bumped into a a guy I knew from the garage I took my car to years ago one day and he told me that he thought of me as 'half and half'. I queried this and he said it meant 'half decent and half intelligent'.

Well, thanks for that, but given you're 50, still living with your mum and no formal qualifications, I won't take that as a compliment.

Late DF was struggling to get off the sofa so me and my S went to help him. I got there first and as I leant in to pull him up he said "That's right, let the hefty one do it" - I nearly pushed him back down

It still suprises me the lack of a filter some people have. I hate people who say that they just tell it as it is, no its a lack of empathy and a selfish outlook on life where you dont consider how your words effect others. Im ashamed to say examples i gave earlier my reaction was taking them on and self directing hate on myself. I always tell my children that being a good person who is kind to others is far more important than being beautiful or clever (which they are anyway but I think being a good person is underated) I am sorry for all the posters who have had unkind comments which has knocked confidence (im right there with you) I wonder if these people who make these comments ever realise the effects words have. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt me is a load of crap.

Doing my make up in the ladies loo at a train station before heading into central London to meet my sisters and a woman win 2 small girls about 3 and 5 started saying to them drunkenly while pointing at me "look at that slag. All them fucking polish bitches are slags. They come over ere and open their legs for all the blokes load of whores the lot of them" there was so much hate in her voice. I was so angry I replied "I'm not polish I'm a Londoner just like you and I'm not a slag. Why don't you keep your nasty mouth shut if you can't think of anything nice to say?!" She was so shocked she was speechless. I hope she didn't get angry though would hate to think of those poor little girls having to deal with that nasty gobshite. Then I burst into tears when I was on the train. It was a horrible feeling.

Also I don't know why she came to that conclusion about me. I don't know if polish women have a certain "look" but I was wearing skinny jeans, flat shoes a vest top and a jacket I wasn't even dressed up not that its ever ok to make those remarks anyway! Should have reported her really the vile bitch.