To find these "jokes" pathetic?

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Lost in the hospital trying to find a ward so i asked a man who worked there

me - excuse me do you know which way ward 40 is?

him - you've got the wrong hospital that's not here

me - ..... erm

him - HA! i'm only joking! this way..

Another example on my first day at a new job in a shop. Window cleaner comes in and asks to be paid.
I ask how much?
£25.
I go to ask manager and get another big laugh at how funny a joke he made and it's really £2

Wtf? It's only ever men that have done this to me and I really can't imagine them doing it to another man. Is it a power thing? It drives me mad!

I had a pretty humiliating experience at a supermarket a few years ago...buying a bottle of wine and the (much younger than me) woman at the checkout asked me for ID (I was mid-30s at the time). I kind of laughed, but she persisted and insisted that she needed to see ID, so I became a bit flummoxed and said, "Oh, errr, okay", started reaching embarrassedly into my purse for my driver's licence, at which point she burst out laughing and called out, "Oh my god! Did you REALLY think you needed ID?!!!" Needless to say, it was a crawl under a rock moment. I think I managed to say something along the lines of, "I guess you need to get your laughs somehow," before I scuttled away. Just awful, but she was pissing herself.

There was a man at my local railway station who would always multiply the ticket price by 1000 or more.

I asked for a ticket to Somewhereton, normal price £5.

"£500,000 please".

I proffered a 5p coin.

He laughed. I laughed. I bought my ticket and caught my train.

Just a harmless bit of fun. I'd hate for that to stop because some think they ought to be offended by it.

I don’t consent to being ‘teased’ and would not have anyone’s in my life who gets pleasure from ‘teasing’ anyone. They can fuckmall the way off with their misogynistic, basic, sub-intellect behaviour. If it’s some male who expects me to fucking pay him for his work on fixing my car or whatever, he can ponder his pathetic life while waiting on his disciplinary meeting.

*FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF

Some of these stories made me feel stressed! I agree a stranger saying this stuff is out of order, how bloody dare they!? I hate repetitive crap as well. One Indian restaurant we go to, the waiter has the same joke. We order one poppadom each. He says “ten poppadoms each, ok” Every. Single. Time. But only if we are a group of women.
I admit though, I answer the obvious stuff sarcastically. For example, DH saying as we get in the car “have you got the theatre tickets?” And I reply “no, I thought I would leave them on the table”. But that’s a joke between us and I would never do it to anyone else.

@Toadinthehole That's price is obviously not right though. If he said it was £7 very seriously then laughed at you trying to pay that amount or being confused at the price is what upsets people.

@Toadinthehole it's not about thinking I 'ought to be offended'. I wouldn't have a clue how to respond in the situation you gave an example of, this would make me anxious and then I'd probably be accused of having no sense of humour. As evidenced by this thread lots of people, ASC/anxiety or not, find this kind of thing unfunny, uncomfortable and intimidating.

i have to admit that once my 5 year old asked "mummy are you donwstairs" and I shouted up "no, I've already left"

And the poor thing freaked out, so I won't do it ever again!

This happened to me working as a shop assistant aged 17. A few men in their early 20s also worked in my department. They were generally sexist and derogatory about women (rating them etc) which I used to just ignore. One to one they were actually more pleasant and normal to work with but the problem was in their pack they seemed to want to out-macho each other.

Anyway one day three of them were talking and I heard one of them mention a delivery. I said “oh is there a delivery in” and one of them said “yes down in the stock room”. So I went the 4 floors down to the stock room to start working the delivery, but no delivery cagw was there. So I came all back up to the shop floor and they all laughed and said “did you really think there was a delivery!” As if that was really funny. Em yes I did as I assumed you wouldn’t lie to me for no reason . Definitely a power thing.

kikis I've had very similar happen, it's bloody irritating.

Slightly different, I get asked where I'm from and without fail, every time, when I tell them, the response (from males only ) is 'oh that's a long way'.... (I'm from Tipperary).
It's not funny when you've heard it a thousand times. I'm only exaggerating in that it wasn't every time. Twice it didn't happen. In 15 years. It's like a Pavlovian response.

Some also love saying 'top of the morning' in a thick accent every fucking morning.

Also 'to be sure to be sure'. They just walk up to me in the corridor and say it. Like it's literally the only thing you need to say to an irish female.

Winds me the fuck up.

It's like this little autopilot in their heads that they can't stop, your not worthy of original thought.

But i pretty much have to accuse them of racism to get them to stop.

A friend who is a midwife told me once that when couples attend the booking in appointment together and she goes through the health questionnaire and gets to the question 'do you suffer from any hearing loss?' the man will nearly always pipe up 'sorry? What did you say?' and then fall about laughing. She says she fixes them with a death stare, and of course the poor woman always sits there looking ashamed, even though it's not her who said it. She's even had to ask men to leave in the past because they are so insistent on 'having a laugh' when she's got some pretty serious work to do.

"I agree with previous posters that one of the wonders of being over 40 is that men often don’t bother with this shit any more and when they do they get a death stare"

The second to last situation was last year, at 49. I'd been housebound with ill health. I'd gone to the hospital in a taxi, but decided to get a bus home. I was quite disoriented. I had to get a bus into town, to get a bus home. A simple question to the bus driver, started off the type of shit experienced on here. It took another passenger to intervene before the bus driver would just give me the information that I needed. I was struggling to even stand, my mobility was poor so I couldn't risk getting on the wrong bus.

Toadinthehole, that would leave me flummoxed. It took six months before I could deal with anything. Likewise someone with LD's/Autism etc would feel very uncomfortable and it could upset their day. Which it did to mine. It put me off trying to travel about until I was a lot better. Some illnesses, treatments can lower your cognitive functioning.

When you are dealing with the public, its never OK.

Had an incident in a sports shop last year, DS(8) had been given money to buy his favourite football strip for being brave. Stood looking and couldn't see his size. Member of staff walks over has a look, grabs one claiming he'd found one. Had one Very excited DS for the Man to announce " not really! Only joking!!"

Very upset DS

Thank you for starting this thread. It’s been a real lightbulb moment for me x

I have a work colleague like this. I have pointed out to him that when he makes one of “jokes” and he is the only one laughing, then it is NOT FUNNY.

Birds I feel for you

"When you are dealing with the public, its never OK"

Yes. Actually it's never okay unless you are with someone who shares that "humour".

It isn’t okmand ots not about being a snowflake. I get quite anxious when I have to ask for help and this kind of thing makes me wrong footed and upset. So I stand there while they laugh AT me with a lump in my throat blinking back tears and trying to ask the question again. Sorry if it means I can’t take a joke!