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?

My right foot is a bit odd, it curves inwards when I walk and I stand with my right foot crossed over my left foot more often than not. Its something I have no control over and I dont realise Im doing it. As a result I have been called 'chicken feet'/'duck feet' by complete strangers and get stared at. It hurts when that happens but I just give them a look.

If people asked I wouldn't mind trying to explain.

'Your thick' from one of dh's nasty bosses.
It still rankles 14 years on! Rude nasty boot faced wanker that he was.

Boy in my class at school when I was 11 stared at me for a while with a grimace "She's so ugly" he said about me to a giggling popular girl next to him.

Age 13 I was skinny but with quite round cheeks and baggy clothes (late 80's)
a boy my friend knew asked her while looking at me "Who's your fat friend?"

At 14 I was crossing to road when a car didn't signal and nearly hit me as it turned into the road "Stupid bitch" the man shouted at me through the window as I stood there shaking.

Hmmm i think the rudest thing ever happened to me was, when the bitch midwife told me if I didn't sit still shed take my pain relief away, during labour! Then that I was making a fuss over nothing!!!!

Ds dad left when I was pregnant so I was a barely coping emotional wreck even at best. I bumped into one of my mums friends in a cafe and we did the polite chit chat, then she patted my bump and said "You mark my words, this little ones life is ruined but you will make the best of it I'm sure" I was horrified, left and sobbed.

I worried about what she said for years, literally up until ds was about 3 (he's only 5 now) I look at my awesome boy now and want to punch that lady!

Well, being assaulted was the rudest thing that has ever happaned to me, I guess.

Or is sexual assault in the horrible and not rude category? I mean, it's also rude, right?

Hm... Walking home with my very skinny and willowy friend. I myself was very athletic but also had more muscles than "normal" for a girl and was altogether a bit stockier, was wearing a huge scarf, bulky jeans etc. Anyhow, there were these two adult men that were looking at us and screaming "So, which one do you want, do you want the skinny or the fat one?!"

Working in a bar when I was about 21 (didn't have the best skin) and went out to clean the smoking area, came back in and this 40 year old guy at the bar said 'you know what's bad for your skin? Fags. If you stopped smoking you'd look much better' I don't even smoke!

Same bar, had an eye infection so was wearing glasses, some guy told all his mates I looked like bubbles from trailer park boys (at the time not seen it) and everyone laughed. For ages. ARGH!

Oh yes - I have always found that quite a few men (no matter how ugly they may look) feel they have the right to critique any female they come across. I honestly don't know what they see when they look in the mirror. This seemed to be commonplace when I was a teenager in the 60s and 70s and I am very sorry to find things don't seem to have improved much (judging by this thread).

Walking home from school in the 60s - a boy from the neighbouring boys' school looked at me and said "Oooh legs deluxe - delux like a camel's!" Not that he was any great shakes in the looks department - as I remember he looked a bit ferrety.

Countless cat calls from building sites and on nights out in my youth - on the Metro and round an about Paris when I spent time there it was dreadful. Now I am old I am invisible to the opposite sex - it's actually very liberating.

it's actually very liberating.

I'm probably going to get blasted for this. But sometimes I envy my orthodox relatives. Or Muslim women, I guess. Or just women that dress in a way that makes it clear that they do not want men to lookat them in such a way.

I mean, I really like my life. But sometimes... Some men (and yes, up to now they've only been men) make me want to flay them alive. Or go hide in a corner... Either would probably work.

Or, as my cousin always says about people that annoy him... Dangle them above a shark tank and dip their legs in.

Uhm, yes. I'm maybe slightly violent today. Don't mind me, back to the topic.

But yes, men giving unwanted advice...

Actually, nope. Not always male.

My female Italian teacher once asked me whether I didn't want to lose weight. I was an athlete, training about 4-5 days a week. And yes, I had broad shoulders which I tried to hide with bulky sweaters (bad idea....) and weirdly chubby cheeks (I was one akward looking teenager wearing the worst clothes imaginable). But seriously?

In Europe with heavily pregnant SIL, Pretzel vendor beckoned at us. When we walked over he laughed said 'Not you! You big. She have baby, you big'........ I was a size Fucking 14.

In a bar waiting to be served. Two guys at the bar looking at me. One says nodding to me "look at her isn't she gorgeous" and his mate replies "yeah pity she's so fat though" I was it was right to my face. They turned away and kept chatting.

Well the rudest was when on a night out aged nineteen and was wearing a short skirt like many of the girls that were out, walking up stairs only for an uninvited hand to go between my legs, under my pants and assault me. I turned round slapped his face and gave him hell only for him to say 'come on love, you wore the short skirt, you were asking for it!'. Luckily my friends brother got a bouncer and the creep was thrown out. I was absolutely shaking and never wore short skirts again.

My son who was around 6 at the time wanted to go on one of those arcade machines where you have to bash down things which pop up. His dad normally went on with him to help him so it requires quite a lot of room.

There was a woman sitting on the seat of the machine so I politely asked her if she could move so he could have his go (she was just sitting not using the machine as she was facing the other way and was young and fit). She said no. I asked again and she refused.

I was pissed off and pregnant at this point so told him just to go ahead and he put the money in the machine. I more rudely told her to move and she replied no I'm enjoying closely watching your child, it's you who is in the way. I found this so creepy and weird that I went off on one with her and said I would have her thrown out.

I went off to find a member of staff and she had gone by time we got back.

I was once rushing through an airport and came across one of those groups who have made it their life's work to block the entire available width of whatever space they are currently walking along.

After several attempts and polite "excuse me please" that even the people ahead of them heard and turned round for, I had to make my way through, with yet more "excuse me, thank you!" as I went.

I then heard several comments to the effect of "yeah you should run more, fatty" and "rude fat slag" etc etc

In M&S today my double buggy was in the way of another lady with a pushchair (I was putting my purse away). She stood looking at me, and when I realised I apologised and shifted my buggy out of the way.

Another woman said to her "you need a bell" and the woman with the buggy replied, as she walked away, "nah, I'll just run her over". Nice.

Pile of teenage boys hassling me on a bus. I took photos of them and said id send it to the head.

I did as well.

Got an email back saying they'd been dealt with.

Several times I have had men stop me in the street (even cross over the road once!) to tell me how ugly I am.

When I went into labour and met my midwife for the first time the first thing she said to me was "You look like you can't cope well with pain". Wtf?

mummyto2monkeys I was reading that! And for that pig to make you dress differently!

Got chatting to a (quite handsome) guy at a party.

Having an interesting chat about politics. After ten minutes, he says " I normally date really hot girls but you are quite smart and funny so maybe we could have a drink sometime"

And then looked surprised when I declined.

I was walking my dd1 and dd2 to school with their new sister 3 weeks old in the Pram.
On the way home an old lady stopped me to look at my new baby and said how lovely she was. We chatted for a bit and I said I'd just walked her sisters to school, as she walked off she looked back and said "well done, you will soon get all that fat off" what a rude old bag! I wanted to say "yes I will and you will be dead soon" but I'm not as cruel as she was.

Mine was bizarre I was about 18 & had just got my first full time job I was shopping in town & wearing a camouflage print jacket, i was just wandering round a clothes shop looking at the rails & a women a bit older than me pushing a newborn in a pram walks past she was with her partner. He held up this camouflage print tshirt & she said 'urgh no I hate camouflage, it's awful, makes everyone look dreadful' and kept looking at me & smirking then kept walking round where I was tittering. I felt like utter shit at the time but I can still picture her image exactly now 15 years on. So if she reads this FUCK YOU!!!!

I haven't read every post but I wanted to say, for all of you who say that these rude comments have left you damaged/depressed/self conscious, please, please don't allow some idiot to make you feel like that, you are effectively letting them 'win'. I can assure you that bullies will say anything to make someone feel small, it's what makes them feel powerful.

As a nurse a patient handed me a slimming world leaflet and told me "I could benefit from it so I could find a husband."

I have a husband. I don't need two.

First time I got my hair cut short I had a van full of blokes shouting "lesbian!" at me. Why they thought that would be offensive, I do not know.

Didn't happen to me, but last year I popped in Tesco about an hour before closing on the day before Mothers' Day. It was full of men buying last minute gifts. I was in the yoghurt aisle and two blokes were wandering up and down, holding cards and flowers, clearly looking for something. One says, "I really need a trifle, me mam loves trifle!" A worker stacking the shelves overhears and tells him they're on the next aisle. "Mind your own fucking business!" was the reply.