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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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ZazieTheCat · 05/08/2019 13:27

@username302020 that you Brian? How’s training for the marathon going?

MrsGideon · 05/08/2019 14:36

When I was working in my local coffee shop after university (saving up to go travelling for a bit), my English teacher from primary school, someone I'd always greatly admired, came into the shop. At first he didn't recognise me, but then eventually when I'd spelled out to him who I was, he looked at me with a condescending smirk and said "all that money your parents spent on your education and you've decided to work in a coffee shop".

Safe to say the illusion was well and truly shattered that day!

Basketofkittens · 05/08/2019 14:48

The woman who told her daughter that if she didn’t work hard at school she would end up a waitress in the sky like me, clearing in rubbish for minimum wage.

I took great pleasure in telling her that I had a degree, spoke three languages and got to travel the world for free whilst meeting delightful people.

Seeing as I was earning 30k a year and band 5 qualified healthcare professionals were earning 21k at the time and the minimum wage was around £5.80, I didn’t feel as though my job was bad at all.

People have such strange perceptions.

LadyRannaldini · 05/08/2019 15:29

Oh, I could be here all day, having been a teacher! One of the 'best' was at a Parents' Evening, a couple sat down to discuss their spawn of Satan, my private definition obviously. After a couple of minutes his phone rang, he stood up, walked over to the window and spent 5 minutes on the call. He then expected me to repeat what I'd told his wife and got angry when I said there wasn't time, only 5 minutes slots. He went to complain to the Head about my rudeness, his call had been 'important' but unfortunately I was able to tell him the where, when and with whom of his golf game! His son could have told him about my hearing.

The80sweregreat · 05/08/2019 15:54

My dh's old boss who called me stupid.
Still rankles to this day.
Rude entitled git.

HazelBite · 05/08/2019 16:15

My BIL (youngest sisters husband) he thinks he is intellectually superior to everyone as he has a PHD, I heard him say (he didn't know I was listening) that "Hazel has no brain, she is only fit for producing children".

Dh was furious when he heard, I take the view that as I obviously have nothing intelligent to say to him that there is no point in ever talking to him ever again.

McDougal · 05/08/2019 19:28

The tales of rudeness on this thread are astounding. I don't think mine even comes close to matching any of these but I currently work with the rudest woman I've ever encountered and she absolutely revels in it. She justifies every single rude utterance with gems like, "what? Someone has to say it and it might as well be me"

She's very aware of how she is perceived though and makes sure she is only rude to those equal or below her. That's what rankles the most...she's bloody rude but clever about it and never pushes anyone far enough to justify a grievance (or at least one that would get anywhere). I hate the woman and am so glad I'm leaving at the end of this week!

Waytooearly · 05/08/2019 20:15

Gosh some of these stories remind me of how horrible people are to young women in service jobs.

This one makes me laugh: I had just graduated uni and I was doing some office work in a uni office over the summer. A snooty try-hard professor came in, clocked me, and smirked, "Wow, you get a degree to do filing?"

I was able to say, "Yeah, until my job in Russia starts. I fly out in three weeks."

I hardly knew the guy! Imagine going to the effort of telling someone you think their job sucks.

WantingMoreFromLife · 06/08/2019 10:49

Just thought of two other rude idiots I have encountered.

As a 14 year old working in fruit and veg area of a supermarket owned by Europeans (not that there's anything wrong with that). My boss grabbed me by the arm and took me out the back when I first started my shift. He yelled at me to stop putting unflattened boxes into the crushing machine. I hadn't even been out the back so I tried to explain that it wasn't me when he slapped me hard in the face and screamed 'don't lie to me'. This was in 1984 so despite reporting him to the office, he got off pretty much with no more than a warning.

A couple of years ago, I started a short contract alongside another new contractor. On day 1 she was really helpful and it went downhill from there. She didn't like the way I looked at her. She felt that I was undermining her in the way I looked and she made no secret of coming to my desk and causing a scene most days. If she asked for help, I would assist and then she would tell me that I was belittling her by solving her problem. It turned out she spent years in Uni to do the same role I did by studying at TAFE and she was p$%^d about it. I would be having a meeting at my desk with the boss when she would suddenly interrupt the meeting saying she needed me for a second urgently. She was only one desk away so she would then launch into a full scale attack on my professionalism and ability to do the job. It was embarrassing and she was the worst workplace bully I've ever met. Left work in tears most days.

DirtyDennis · 06/08/2019 10:52

My mum.

Interrupts and speaks over you all the fucking time. Gets all shirty if you call her out on it.

Stares at people in public and makes comments which are most definitely audible.

Gives completely unsolicited advice about things she knows nothing about.

Is incredibly judgmental about everyone and everything.

LaBelleSauvage123 · 06/08/2019 10:56

In a short traffic queue the other day. Looked down briefly to swat a fly off my top. Traffic starts moving and a guy screeches past me bawling ‘get off your fucking phone’ through the window.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 06/08/2019 11:12

Cyclists in London are the most aggressive, confrontational and frankly downright scary people I've ever crossed paths with. Yes, I'm generalizing, but it happens too frequently to be a coincidence. Thankfully all the altercations I've witnessed have been between them and other road users or pedestrians, not me personally. And they instantly become nasty and threatening.

The reputation of surgeons unfortunately precedes them.

Fellow-passengers on trains. There have been a few threads on this topic lately.

It's clear that some people, far from not caring if their rudeness offends other people or even being oblivious to it, actively revel in their rude CF'ery. If they succeed in making someone angry it makes their day brighter and gives their ego a boost. It's usually easy to tell those types, ignore them or cut them dead, and not give them the satisfaction they crave.

The world's full of arseholes [shugs].

boymum9 · 06/08/2019 11:52

My (ex)mil asked me if my older sister (ttc for 4 years, about to go through ivf, which she knew about) had "just got really fat or was she pregnant yet?" In the middle of a family get together with everyone around..!

boymum9 · 06/08/2019 11:53

HappyLoneParentDay · 06/08/2019 20:11

@DirtyDennis My Mum is exactly the same!!! Word for word

judithandholofernes · 06/08/2019 21:32

My mother is the rudest woman I’ve ever met. I hate introducing her to people as she always has a nasty comment to make.
I am overweight, and always have been, but for the last almost 40 years she has mentioned it every time I see her. I don’t rise to her usually & ignore her. But lately I’ve started to insult her back & it feels GOOD

For example my son would fall asleep in my arms but wouldn’t settle in DMs. She was jealous and would say ‘he’s more comfortable in your big arms as mine are far too boney’ she said this maybe 50 times, which I ignored until I finally replied ‘don’t be so hard on yourself at your age everyone’s arms are saggy and have lose skin’. She never said it again.

KimchiLaLa · 06/08/2019 21:42

Another mum at nursery. If you hold the door open for her kids she just sweeps right in with them, doesn't even say thank you. ( I now don't - the kids are also old enough to say thank you too). There are short term parking spaces limited to 15 mins and she will go back to her car after dropping the child and sit there on her phone while other parents have to park further away. The other day I went to park in one of the spaces and couldn't as she was just standing in one, talking to another mum. She is just awful.

Doobigetta · 06/08/2019 21:53

One that I’ve never forgotten was a woman who came into my office to do some work for the day. She was a consultant or programmer or something for a software company and had been sent in to do some development for us. Anyway the boss brought her in and got her settled at a desk, and after a few minutes I got up, told the two of them I’d be with some colleagues in another office working on something for a couple of hours, and picked up my handbag to take with me. The consultant woman made the most enormous fuss and demanded to know whether I thought that she or my boss was going to steal my bag and why didn’t I trust them with it. I don’t know whether it was rude exactly, but I thought it was incredibly strange for a woman not to make the automatic (and correct) assumption that I needed to cart tampons around with me and not draw attention to it. And actually I do think it’s rude for that reason, I think most women try to be fairly discreet about taking tampons to the toilet, especially when they’re young, as I was at the time. And even if you don’t care yourself and have a personal crusade to demystify and de-shame female biology, I think it’s crappy and unfair to “out” other women.

sparklefarts · 06/08/2019 21:55

@anitagreen you're mum calls your five year old sister a fat cunt? She saying this to a five year old girls face? Am I misreading this?

sparklefarts · 06/08/2019 21:56

*your

Hecateh · 06/08/2019 23:30

A fellow trainee on a counselling no less diploma course, said to me "I wish I was more like you. ........................................... and didn't care what I look like"

huh - thanks - I think

(can laugh now)

soapona · 06/08/2019 23:42

The rudest man I know is over 70 and the president of an organisation. His has been very rude to me which at first I thought was personal then I saw this organisation forum and how vile he was to very polite types (far more polite than I have the patience for). I think he may have Aspergers or something as it's a very odd way to be. The funny thing he is rude to others then demands apologies and has his feelings hurt so easily. It's my entertainment reading his organisation's forum and him very extremely rude. I just wish someone would tell him to xxxx off!

Katzia · 06/08/2019 23:48

It is perfectly legal for a child under 14 years to ride on the pavement. You were both riding correctly.

ZazieTheCat · 07/08/2019 02:54

Is his first name (the) Donald @soapona?

PatricksRum · 07/08/2019 03:06

@HappyLoneParentDay
Single mother strength takes over, thanks anyway!
Love this 🥰

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