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Ice-cream and eyes

28 replies

buttfacedmiscreant · 20/06/2017 23:17

I was having a really annoying day, nothing really horrid, just one minorly annoying thing after another... friend canceling on me, kid forgot bag that required an hour of driving... that sort of thing. So after everything was done I stopped off at a local ice cream place for a scoop of something. It was quiet when I got there but got busier with kids and families etc. The tables around me were filled with a large ??family?? group, looked like college aged kids, parents maybe an aunt. They were quite rowdy so I started ready emails and trying to ignore them.

I overheard something about eye injury and then one of them loudly (and I mean like they were telling a tall tale in a pub kind of voice, something really hard to ignore) started talking about going to a sporting event and how someone's eye came out of its socket and the person was holding it in their hand.

At this point there was no way I was eating anymore icecream as the story was kind of gory and descriptive and I felt kind of sick. I'm not usually squeamish but eye injuries squick me out.

WIBU to give them a filthy look, especially one of the older adults and dump my ice cream and walk out? What about when that caused laughter from all of them and I turned round and gave them the "mother is not impressed" look. They stopped laughing then. I guess I could have said something but by then I felt sick and it was done and I wanted to leave pronto.

WWYD? Is it unreasonable to expect conversation to be more geared towards the fact people are eating?

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MrsOverTheRoad · 20/06/2017 23:22

It was thoughtless of them but you shouldn't give it any more thought.

A woman at a dinner party once explained graphically how her dog had killed her chicken...I was eating chicken!

I actually didn't even think about it but my husband later said that it was thoughtless...I think some people don't think but they're not malicious.

pinkdelight · 20/06/2017 23:27

WWId? I've eaten the ice cream regardless but I struggle to think of any words that could overwhelm my enjoyment of ice cream. If you're more sensitive fair enough. But fair enough that they laughed too. It was probably quite surreal and they mightn't have known why you stormed out.

FeckinCrutches · 20/06/2017 23:32

It's takes me about 3 minutes to eat a scoop of ice cream why didn't you say something to them?

Ellisandra · 20/06/2017 23:35

How bizarre.
You couldn't eat an ice cream because they were talking about an eye injury? Confused
I think you are massively over sensitive and that was just a normal conversation.
I'd have sympathy for you over the volume - not the subject.
I don't think they can be expected to realise allow for you being squeamish.

WorraLiberty · 20/06/2017 23:36

I'm not sure your "mother is not impressed look" is going to stop anyone from laughing, I mean why would it? Confused

They'd probably just naturally finished.

Gross story though, not surprised it made you feel a bit squeamish.

Me and DH sat on the next table to a couple of women in a cafe last year, who loudly discussed every single aspect of her gastric band...from insertion to how different her shits were after a couple of weeks Confused

Put me right off my full English, but I managed to force it down Grin

minipie · 20/06/2017 23:41

I think you're being a bit precious unusually sensitive.

Guavaf1sh · 20/06/2017 23:44

I thought this was going to be about an ice cream related eye injury. Perhaps a wafer based abrasion

user1471545174 · 20/06/2017 23:46

You have them what they wanted. You should have moved away from them with your ice cream! Don't give people the satisfaction of seeing they've got to you,

Eragonsegg · 20/06/2017 23:46

I was hoping for an ice cream incident too...Strawberry sauce squirted in eye kindda thing

Eragonsegg · 20/06/2017 23:47

An eye scream injury almost!

3catsandcounting · 20/06/2017 23:51

Missing the point here, but it's a common myth that your eye can be removed from its socket. It really can't.

WorraLiberty · 20/06/2017 23:54

An eye scream injury almost! Grin Grin

buttfacedmiscreant · 21/06/2017 02:36

Yes, may be unusually squeamish about gory eye things.

eye scream hahha

moving away meant leaving and by then was put off icecream anyway and cross.

Just think people should be a little more considerate about topics of conversation. I know I'm not the only one who would be put off with such a subject... surely.

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Iwasjustabouttosaythat · 21/06/2017 02:45

I see where you're coming from but you probably came across as totally unhinged. It was probably an uncomfortable laugh because some weird woman was scowling at then and they didn't know why. The mother isn't pleased look? They probably thought you were going to attack them.

buttfacedmiscreant · 21/06/2017 05:30

Iwas, I had just left the shop at that point and heard them as I walked away.

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insancerre · 21/06/2017 06:10

How weird
Maybe stop inside where you want have to come into contact with other people

Phephenson · 21/06/2017 06:16

How on earth did you make an ice cream last so long? Come on op, own up - this was not one scoop but a massive fuck off knickerbockerglory wasn't it hmmm?

DonaldStott · 21/06/2017 06:44

'Mother is not impressed look'. No wonder they laughed.

You sound very over sensitive.

pasturesgreen · 21/06/2017 07:21

YANBU, OP.

Going on about injuries or illnesses on company is tiresome, and when people are eating it's just crass.

Clalpolly · 21/06/2017 07:27

I'd chalk it up to the icing on the cake of a bad day.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 21/06/2017 07:29

Yuk. I would have felt the same. YANBU.

VintagePerfumista · 21/06/2017 07:30

So had you just left when you heard them, or did you hear them and was so overcome you had to get up and leave? Confused

Your posts are unclear.

People take pleasure in telling the goriest stories, always have, always will. "and then his leg DROPPED OFF into his dinner and the DOG ATE IT!" sort of thing.

I think if you really did give them the evils they probably thought you were unhinged. The fact they stopped probably meant they were thinking "wtaf"

AufderAutobahn · 21/06/2017 08:08

YANBU. I never understand why people think it's ok to loudly discuss gory stuff when they know perfectly well other people are trying to eat. It's so inconsiderate.

Emily7708 · 21/06/2017 08:12

The story wouldn't have bothered me - to be honest I'm a greedy sod so I'd still have finished my ice cream even if the actual eyeball holding incident was happening live in the ice cream parlour.

FavouriteWasteofSlime · 21/06/2017 08:17

I think you're being precious.