I was at a Christmas party last night and a man sitting on the table asked me what I did for a living. I said what my business was and he started asking a lot of prying questions about how I got the money to set it up. My friend could tell straight away I was annoyed and tried to change the subject but the man kept trying to ask more questions.
This isn't the first time this has happened. The truth (which I don't mind telling people I know well, or sharing here is that I got a big payout following life changing injuries which have left me with long term physical disablement and I used this to start my business so I could be ok despite not physically being able to do a normal job like I used to - so on the one hand you could say I've been very lucky, but there's the other aspects which aren't so nice to live with)
I find from time to time I get men, often in the middle age group sort of bracket, interrogating me in what I often find to be a bordering on confrontational kind of way about how I got the funds to start my business. It gets my back up a lot. Sometimes I say something stupid like "bank robbery, "arms dealing," or "a bank transfer from Nigeria."
I think it's very bad manners to ask prying questions about people's health/finances/personal lives, but it doesn't seem to stop people.
I wanted to ask MN if people think it's out of order for people to grill others about where their money comes from and the best way to put someone in their place if they start asking questions like that, or worse, when they start asking me how I got my life changing injuries/how I became disabled (which they can tell from looking at me and is a whole other rant in itself!)