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The rudest people you have ever known

83 replies

Lovethetimeyouhave · 04/08/2019 20:17

I was once riding with ds who was about 5 at the time, it was about 7:45am, he was on the path, I was on the road.

Ds was nowhere near this man about 60 but fit when he turned round and started shouting and screaming at ds and myself, saying I'm a "fucking idiot and the brat shouldn't be on the path!" He said ds almost rode him over!

I wished him a good morning and carried on riding.

What is the most rudest person you have met?!

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Lovethetimeyouhave · 04/08/2019 20:18

Sorry it was supposed to post into chat

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BloomingHydrangea · 04/08/2019 20:19

Riding what?
By path do you mean pavement?

If you mean a bike on the pavement then that is not allowed on many places.

ZazieTheCat · 04/08/2019 20:20

My MIL is inadvertently rude in a totally oblivious way. She will greet women with ”Oh, you’ve put on weight” for example. She genuinely doesn’t realise.

GeraldineFangedVagine · 04/08/2019 20:22

I’m a theatre nurse and I’ve worked with some epically rude surgeons, terrifyingly rude. I’ve been called a moron, a stupid bitch and asked if I can tie my own shoe laces over the years.

BouleBaker · 04/08/2019 20:24

A friend of a friend (who went to Eton don’t’cha’now). He sat in a restaurant for a shared meal and promptly put ALL of the starters on his plate. For example, a plate of 4 things was put in front of 4 people, he would take all of them. He later offered to show me the correct way to eat prawns as I was obviously not well educated enough to know the correct method. (My prawn eating has never offended anyone else!).

Arsehole.

Lovethetimeyouhave · 04/08/2019 20:26

While it's illegal to ride on the path, I dont think a 5 year old in the road with London buses is a good idea... do you?

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Lovethetimeyouhave · 04/08/2019 20:27

Gosh the prawns is so rude!

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anitagreen · 04/08/2019 20:30

My mum Shock some things she's said over the years, called my children effing animals, called me a fat cunt, calls my sister a fat cunt (she's 5). Honestly think I'll just stop there I could write a book, the woman's awful but by far the rudest person I know Angry

DuggeesGotHisAnnoyingBadge · 04/08/2019 20:32

My mum, constantly and with zero self awareness. It’s so embarrassing. She’s frequently rude about people she perceives to be in lower status jobs than her.

We were in Greggs the other day and the bloke serving us was serving us and we’d asked for quite a few different pastries and a latte, he handed my mum the coffee and said there’s milk and sugar over there. She took the lid off the cup then looked at him really annoyed and said ‘there’s already milk in it’ so I pointed out that she had ask for a latte and she started tutting and saying why did he tell her to put her own milk in? By this point I was hissing at her under my breath that he probably just tells everyone who buys a coffee where the milk and sugar is, and to just shut up and she looked right at the bloke and said to him ‘well I suppose working in here must turn you into a robot’ with a really shitty look on her face. He’d literally done nothing wrong, he was pleasant, he got everything we asked for there was just no need for it.

Sunandrainallconfusedhere · 04/08/2019 20:33

A woman just yesterday at a safari park. 2 lanes to drive through. Her car is left, ours is right lane. My dh sped up a bit and she shouts that we are in her lane! (?).
No actually you are in the left lane, if you aren't sure, should you be driving?!
Bizarre.

anitagreen · 04/08/2019 20:33

@DuggeesGotHisAnnoyingBadge I've got a friend like that it's so annoying if we go to Asda's or something and the people who give you the bags don't come quick enough you get the " can see why they work in here" comments. So fucking rude argh

ComtesseDeSpair · 04/08/2019 20:38

Mine’s a funny one, because I don’t seem to meet many genuinely rude people.

The girlfriend of one of my best friends when I was in my early twenties - we’d be socialising at their flat, small group of good friends, just having a laugh and some drinks, all perfectly pleasant, she’d known us all years. But when she’d had enough of us, she’d just suddenly leave the room and return about 10 minutes later wearing her pyjamas and stand staring at us. That was our signal to fuck off home. No words, no simple “yawn, it’s been a long week, shall we call it a night?” Just the pyjamas and glassy stare 🤣

ChikiTIKI · 04/08/2019 20:50

Once I was working at a small event, on the buffet. There was one plate of prawns and a lady came along one of the first in the queue and took about a quarter of the prawns.

I try to be polite and kind but wonder if anyone would tell a story about me being rude. Hopefully not! None of us are perfect though :)

ChesterDrawsDoesntExist · 04/08/2019 20:54

I could name quite a number of chefs and restaurant owners I've worked with. Only about 5 out of around 20 haven't been raging, screaming, swearing psychos acting like an angry Gordon Ramsay. I (and all the other innocent staff) have been called all the names under the sun, had things thrown at us and once the boss was jabbing me in the chest repeatedly with his finger forcing me to step backwards towards a staircase. They were always rude to everyone they worked with and the ones that had trained with some of the best chefs in the world? Oh lord they were the worst!

My PIL can be really fucking rude too. A neighbour of theirs was moving out of her house and her adult son was moving in and MIL declared that "Oh he'll be okay I suppose. As long as it's not your XXXX (woman's DD) cos all her kids are a bloody menace and she's so rough!"
Another time she complained cringingly fucking loudly at staff of an arcade that, "THAT FAMILY OF FATTIES JUST BUMPED THE MACHINE AND TOOK ALL THE PRIZES I'D PUT ALL THAT MONEY IN TO GET!"
FIL uses the term Darkies. Ugh,

Ohwelljusttoday · 04/08/2019 20:55

A few days ago, in a major tourist town - I had temporarily left my seat (40 seconds) next to my daughter to give the excellent singers/buskers outside a major tourist attraction some money- when I turned back someone else from same family sat next in one seat next to us had taken my seat - so rude! My daughter didn’t feel able to say anything ☹️ It wasn’t even for someone more needy - was a teen - But I was so cross. It was such a rude thing to do! I should have called them out on it!

WhenISnappedAndFarted · 04/08/2019 20:57

My MIL. She'd say the same. She's very rude to a lot of people (fortunately not me yet!) and she absolutely loves it.

makingmammaries · 04/08/2019 20:58

All of the people who have asked me whether I was pregnant when I wasn’t. Including my stupid colleague two days ago.

tmh88 · 04/08/2019 20:58

My nan is horrendously accidentally rude! We once bumped into my cousin walking down the street who had lost a lot of weight, Nan thinking this was a polite thing to say said “wow how lovely do you look, nearly didn’t recognise you because you use to be so fat you’re like a new woman” i wanted the ground to swallow us up!

Itwouldtakemuchmorethanthis · 04/08/2019 21:04

My sister tells me I am fat, stupid and lazy. Her visits take time to recover from. Her children do the same. I am overweight, but not hugely so, but am neither lazy nor stupid. It’s baffling.

Aquamarine1029 · 04/08/2019 21:08

My aunt. Without question. She was married to my dad's brother who passed away in 1978, and they had two children. She remarried a few years later to a lovely man, and everyone in the family felt very strongly that she should remain a close member of the family. She can have moments of being nice, but then it flips like a switch. Condescending, passive-aggressive, and just plain rude sometimes. She is VERY challenging to love.

Mac47 · 04/08/2019 21:09

Many, many people, the most recent being the ignorant fuckwit who called my profoundly Deaf child a rude twat for not moving when asked.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/08/2019 21:09

@Itwouldtakemuchmorethanthis - you don’t have to put up with that. Don’t force yourself to put up with visits that take time to recover from. Please stop putting yourself through this.

You are worth so much more.

toffeeapple123 · 04/08/2019 21:13

GeraldineFangedVagine Yes I've heard many disgraceful stories about surgeons who think they are God's gift to humanity and can treat people like crap. I'm sorry to hear of your experiences and hope you didn't let them get you too much.

toffeeapple123 · 04/08/2019 21:15

ComtesseDeSpair Goodness, that's not rude, that's creepy as hell!

GandTisgoodforme · 04/08/2019 21:20

Last week an Asda checkout operative kindly broadcasted to the whole queue that I had a packet of pregnancy tests, and then asked me whether ‘it’ was planned or unplanned. When I told her it was none of her business, she then dug herself a deeper hole and loudly asked me whether I was “struggling” because I “look upset” .. safe to say, I won’t ever be going back there. Angry