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The rudest people you have ever known

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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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goodfornothinggnome · 04/08/2019 21:20

The only one I can think of is the old man who saw us years ago when we had a day off in the summer to go to the beach.
We went to a beach that DH went to many times as a child, there was an old antique shop just up the road.
He was looking at some old tools, old man walks past, throws his head around and says "you'll need a job to buy that!" Was only fairly cheap, and no at the time we didnt have much money at all, but we were trying to enjoy a day out.
It still sometimes crosses my mind.

Masketti · 04/08/2019 21:21

My MIL. Unintentionally rude but rude nonetheless. Has no whisper mode like DH and is breathtakingly superior to service staff. Her hand gestures are so dismissive even if I gagged her she'd offend!

mollpop · 04/08/2019 21:23

I was in a supermarket the other day and the man in front of me had bought a bottle of champagne. The cashier commented "Oh that's lovely champagne, I bought a bottle last week". The man very rudely said "How can you afford that, working in a shop?". She smiled sweetly, and told him that she gets a staff discount and that positions were available he'd like to apply. I thought it was a great comeback.

Dogdogcat · 04/08/2019 21:28

I used to work with a guy who had no filter. One of our colleagues was getting married and he said to her, " Your fiancé is a f*ing loser and Dog thinks so too!" I was mortified, the fiancé was certainly questionable, but he was her pick. Neither one of us was invited to the wedding. If he thought it, he said it and didn't understand that some things were hurtful or inappropriate. I was seeing someone at the time and he told me, " Your life would be better without him in it!" You just got to the point where you would laugh and say that's how he is.

SirJamesTalbot · 04/08/2019 21:29

I have recently realised that I don't actually like my aunt (married to my blood uncle) as she's rude to lots of people but when called out on it, throws a tantrum so most people give in. It's a bit embarrassing in a woman approaching 70.

SemperIdem · 04/08/2019 21:34

I have worked in retail so the list is so long I could max out the thread. The general public are often absolutely foul. The worst for rude behaviour are without a doubt the 65+ demographic.

I was discussing this with my 81 year old grandmother recently, she agreed and told me about a time a customer ahead of her (older but not as old as my grandmother) was so rude to a cashier it left her so embarrassed so felt compelled to say “we’re not all like that love, don’t let her ruin your day”.

HubbabubbaT · 04/08/2019 22:15

My SIL. Calls all children 'little sh1ts' including her own DS and my DD... Is constantly disparaging about anyone who has different things views to her on anything (literally).. has slapped my husband across the face ... Constantly makes comments about other people's children, and made a really rude remark to me about how quickly we conceived my daughter. Which in the circumstances (I can't get pregnant again and would love another one - she knows this) was awful. Sometimes I tear my hair out over her

Tidypidy · 04/08/2019 22:15

People in next tent to us who've had the radio on for the last 7 hours!!!!!!!

Sunandrainallconfusedhere · 04/08/2019 22:20

Morrison's cashier who questioned whether I wanted a hessian bag as they were a quid....

HappyLoneParentDay · 04/08/2019 22:20

That would have to be when I parked in Disabled at Sainsbury's! I got my then-6 month old DD our and started looking for a trolley when the old man parked next to me whacks my car with his walking stick and declares loudly "These spaces are meant for Disabled people you know!!!"
I said "I think you'll find that's a Blue Badge in my window not a sodding birthday card!"
His wife then appeared and said in a VERY accusatory tone "And is it yours?!"

Oh wait no, the worst was in Lidl. Lovely checkout lady offered to help me get my bags into my trolley and I politely declined and said "Single mother strength takes over, thanks anyway!" (I know, I know but it's just my jokey way) then suddenly the old lady next to me in the line DEMANDS loudly "AND WHERE's THE FATHER?!?!?!?!" in the most disgusting tone ever.

Forgive me for this. But I said "Stonefall Cemetery love" and walked off. I know it was wrong but a) he did a runner once she turned 1 and hasn't bothered since; and 2) He very well could've passed away!! Thousands of fathers have, leaving bloody brilliant mothers to do it alone. How dare she? I don't suffer fools. I was furious.

SemperIdem · 04/08/2019 22:28

@Sunandrainallconfusedhere they probably didn’t mean to come across as rude, just very used to people losing all ability to be rational over bags costing 20p never mind a whole £1!

Flatwhite101 · 04/08/2019 22:29

@HappyLoneParentDay Awesome

icedgem85 · 04/08/2019 22:49

That man was horribly rude, no excuse, but it is illegal to ride a bike on the pavement. Take the kid to a park or a bike track! (I live in London too and wouldn’t have a little one on the road either). Rudest people I’ve ever met was a group of ‘women’ in Bracknell. I was on my way to the train station, dressed in a suit, mid twenties, and this group of women - at least my age - blocked me and tried to make me walk on the road. I said excuse me and they ignored me and one kissed her teeth at me (which made me laugh because she couldn’t even do it properly) but they still didn’t move. I just bashed through them and the ringleader tried to square up to me asking if I knew who she was and that it was her manor. She looked so ridiculous, like an overgrown teenager with an ill fitting tracksuit and a bad dye job, talking to me like I had invaded her territory by going to work. I couldn’t stop laughing! Her friends told her to hit me but she said I wasn’t worth it 🤣

Jojobears · 04/08/2019 22:50

Standing waiting for a colleague at the bottom of a hill to go for lunch. An older woman (60+) came over to me and told me I would lose weight if I started walking up and down the hill. She looked so smug and pleased with herself that I couldn’t stop laughing at her

Summergarden · 04/08/2019 22:54

The day DH and I moved into our first home together, we walked down to the closest fish and chip shop for an easy dinner.

It was just before 5.00pm, the door was wide open and a staff member was standing at the fryers.

I can’t remember if it was DH or I who started to say to her: “Hi there, please can we have...” but she loudly interrupted us in an arsey tone with: “you can have whatever you bloody well want once we’re open”.

We looked over at the door and the sign admittedly did indicate that we had arrived two minutes before opening time. She was so rude in the way that she spoke that we hurriedly left to find the next nearest takeaway joint!

Letseatgrandma · 04/08/2019 22:56

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

Did you overstay your welcome a bit?! Are you still friends?

littlebird88 · 04/08/2019 23:06

A work colleague who when as a grpup we were getting assembled fpr a grpup photo said " oh i need to stand next to little bird as i feel so gorgeous next to her"

ComtesseDeSpair · 04/08/2019 23:06

@Letseatgrandma - No! That was the thing. It would be relatively early (as in, before midnight) and she knew us all perfectly well enough that it wouldn’t be a problem for her to say she was tired and wanted to go to bed and excuse herself and say if was fine if we stayed up but quietly; or just say that we should all call it a night and ought go home. It was the completely wordless pyjama presentation that was both mystifying and so amusingly rude.

Dippypippy1980 · 04/08/2019 23:10

Today - free party in local park. Kids queuing for ages for a ride which took about 16 children. Dad allowed/encouraged his two children to stay on for three rides, despite much younger children crying because they didn’t get a go before it closed.

when the Man operating the ride tried to get him to take his boys off he pretended not to understand.

Twat.

Havalina · 04/08/2019 23:32

The matron of a postnatal ward I worked on was very strange. She was so blunt and matter of fact, I would expect that of a midwife of many years experience. She was very odd though, she would just chuck in provocative statements, also quite personally offensive.

Also on that ward a nursery nurse who seemed very rough with the babies, also a support worker who always stunk of booze aghh. Nobody ever said anything so I didn't either .

Tillygetsit · 04/08/2019 23:45

My MIL. On a visit, peered into the pot I was stirring and said "Only a little for me. Looks like it will give me diarrhoea." She also invited half of her relatives to stay I'm my house without telling me. They'd turn up at random times day or night. Thank god she lives in Australia!

WantingMoreFromLife · 04/08/2019 23:59

One of the rudest people I have ever met, was a very well known Australian tv journalist. I had the displeasure of sitting next to him at his tv station's Christmas dinner one year (I was dating one of the camera crew). His behaviour was disgusting! It was a french restaurant and I ordered calamari - at 16 that was about the only thing I knew on the menu. He made a point of changing my dinner selection to something 'healthier' because he told me that I was already carrying extra weight and didn't need more. My new meal was carpaccio and typical 16 year olds don't usually relish the idea of eating raw beef. He deliberately asked personal questions all night and belittled me on almost every answer. I have never in my life met someone so horrible. That was 32 years ago and I've never forgotten how this man made me feel. Come to think of it, his wife got in on the action too so she wasn't much better.

ChesterDrawsDoesntExist · 05/08/2019 00:38

My DS's class bully's mother (and her DSis) for sure.
When all our kids were toddlers attending the same playgroup she physically lifted another child off a ride on toy car and plonked him on the floor because Bully wanted it. There was another car just like it but he wanted THAT one. The poor kid taken off was too upset and scared to go to the other one and wanted to go home with his now furious mum.
Like another PP's rude person example, Bully's Auntie once kept her two kids on a ride at a village fete for as long as they wanted despite there being a huge queue of other kids wanting a go.
Bully's Aunt also let (and even encouraged) her DS punch a boy at playgroup in the stomach because he wouldn't give him his own toy from home when he tried to snatch it.

Lolyora17 · 05/08/2019 03:00

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username302020 · 05/08/2019 06:51

@ZazieTheCat Do we have the same MIL?

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