To ask what's the rudest thing a stranger has done to you?

[YoungScrappyHungry]

Inspired by the lovely thread about kindest thing strangers have done for you, and also a chance for me to share this horror.

When I was 19, I worked on the tills at a supermarket in my holidays from university.

A woman I was serving was staring at me, trying to get my attention as I scanned her stuff. I looked up at her and smiled. She said, in still the most condescending tone I've ever heard:

'Don't you wish you'd studied now?'

I was so floored and ashamed, I didn't say a thing back and just carried on scanning her things. Fact was I was actually at university, but even if I hadn't been....aghh!....still gets me.

What are yours?

Leaving the delivery ward with my newborn twins in car seats. A woman in the corridor helpfully pointed out I still had a bump and ‘looked really fat’.

I love you :)

Was in the supermarket with my 2 week old. Random old lady admired the baby and then asked if I was breastfeeding, was a bit taken back but answered “yes I am”....”oh good, that will help you lose all that weight” was her response. Was one of those when your mouth actually does shocked face 😮...I didn’t even gain a lot of weight and was about a size 10 still.

We laugh about it now, hormonal me might have had a bit of cry!

Sorry, tried to quote @Ohalrightthen !

@Ffsseriously

All the people saying how customers were rude saying you will end up like this if you dont study. They then gleefully point out they were studying. You really are agreeing with the rude people. You are quick to point out you are more than just bar staff or shop workers, so you are just as rude. Its no come back or challenge to the ingrained snobbish in the remark.

Yes this!!!

FridayNightAtTheBronze What an awful old cow! This sadly reminded me of my Mothers Cousin (He died before I was born sadly) Out for the day (he was in a Wheelchair) A lady came up to him and asked in a horrible scathing tone, "Tell me what good do people like you bring to this world?" Quick as a flash he turned around ,and said very calmly "We were put here to be an example to people like you Madam" Well she couldnt think of an answer to that one!

• autistic DS had a meltdown on a bus and a lady gave me such a filthy look and asked "whats wrong with it?" when I said he was having a rough time and we were getting off at the next stop anyway she told me that "it shouldn't be out in public if it can't cope"*

Thats awful , I would've said yeah well your right some people shouldn't be out in public with a dirty look back or probably just said fuck off . Honestly some people are vile but I can see so many didn't say anything back probably shock that a stranger can be so nasty .

I had a stranger tell me that I was making a rod for my own back rocking my 7 month old in his pram to get him to sleep.

@Snapcat I had the same comment from my brother (who I'm actually close to). He came to visit me in hospital 24 hours after giving birth and commented that I still looked pregnant.

When I was 3 months pregnant with DS, DD was just over a year old. I had just gotten over really appalling morning sickness and DD was a right little madam. She had decided she hated her pushchair and would conduct quite the vocal protest on it.
So I probably looked pale, tired and had a child moaning.

I was in Sainsburys with her one afternoon, she had been at nursery so was tired and to be fair she wasn't as vocal as she could get but still whingy the way they are. I was chatting to her showing her packets and trying my best. It was roasting hot so I felt a bit faint (honestly, rotten pregnancy that ended at 28 weeks).
Next thing I know, this proper Hyacinth Bucket looking woman storms over, and says "can't you shut it up? In my day, children knew to be quiet".
I was pretty gobsmacked, we weren't in her way or anyone elses, she just decided to be a bitch.
So I said, she's a baby, leave her alone! And she said maybe if I got off whatever drugs I was on I would be able to care for my state funded brat. She then stormed off.
So due to the morning sickness related paleness and time of day she had assumed incorrectly so much shit about me.
I actually laughed telling DP but it did sting and I remember wearing a bit more make up next time I went out.

this thread is making me laugh but also feel sad/angry in equal measure! how about another one called "great comebacks"?

A middle aged six foot tall man tried to pick a fight with my two year old DS at a playground.

My little one was playing with a boy a head taller than him. Unwisely they decided to play a game of who can push the other harder, while giggling and laughing and taking turns. This man came over towered over my son and shouted: fuck off little you prick. How fucking dare you push my fucking son! Then a few more family members came along and ganged up/ circled my two year old. I was 8 months pregnant at the time, so I had to waddle/scramble over from the bench. I asked: what’s the matter? The man had to be held back by his gang so he couldn’t punch me or my two year old.
Meanwhile the other little boy kept on shouting: we are just playing daddy! Leave him alone daddy! You are scaring me daddy! But was told to shut up by his mother.
I have never felt more terrified of my son’s safety and utterly, utterly mortified. Still swell up thinking about it.

I dragged my boy away from them while other people at the playground watched on in silence.
I have never been back to that park, ever. I avoid the entire borough like the plague.

Rudest thing ever?
It's hard to say there have been so many, but most to my recollection have been blokes making unwanted comments.

So, I had a hard day's work and got back too late to get and make my 7yo anything to eat so decided rather drag her to the shops and back again for something that would then take time to make I took her to the local Italian so we could share a Pizza.
Bloke walking past our table says "couldn't afford a babysitter?"

Walking minding my own business thinking about things not limited to how my mum died, a bloke shouts from the other side of the road "cheer up love".

Or cycling on the road a bloke shouts out from the window as he drives past, "you'll need to cycle harder than that to lose that arse" my arse isn't abnormally large.....

There are so many of this sort, you get accustomed and forget/block them out in the end.

@Misskittyfantastico85

I was 21 and looking to buy my first house. I walked into an estate agent and asked to view a particular house. The estate agent looked me up and down and asked if I had a mortgage agreed and how much. I told her that yes I did and the amount. She then said 'well this property is alot more than that, I dont like timewasters, you do realise you'd need a significant deposit?'

It wasn't really what she said, it was how she said it. All the while looking down her nose.

I'd have responded along the lines of, 'I can see you don't want me here and I don't need your attitude. I'll contact the vendor, explain what has happened here today and arrange a viewing myself. If I buy the house, YOU will not get your commission. Good day.'

While buying pre-induction day snacks in the supermarket, I was rammed by a lady (use the term loosely) on a mobility scooter. I wasn’t visibly pregnant from the back and had bent over to look at the cake counter. She rear-ended me and I fell over with my centre of balance being all in front.

She didn’t give a fuck. Just stole my place in the queue and placed her order. I was raging. Had to be carried out kicking and shouting by my then partner who didn’t feel like I needed to get in a fight while 39w pregnant. I very much disagreed.

I was walking through London Victoria underground with DS. He was about 4 at the time and was holding my hand when a man nearly walked into him. Man looked at DS and said “for fucks sake” to him.

Oh, some people are so rude, this thread is shocking.
Nobody has ever been really unkind or rude to me, not since I left school anyway.
Really shocked by some of these!

I was working in retail after I had graduated as a stop gap before my graduate development programme started, a woman came in as I was picking up a whole heap of mess from the floor (just before closing) and said to her daughter whilst pointing at me and dropping rubbish (!!!) "This is what happens when you don't work hard at school"

I was so shocked I didn't know what to say.

@Clevs Sad that’s the first thing some people think to say to a new mum isn’t it.

We should all have comebacks at the ready. My favourite (only used it once I think, but it was satisfying), is "Were you born stupid or do you work at it?"

Only last week.

I was really unwell and had gone to A&E. I was struggling to stand but doing my best. I'd just had an ECG and told to go back to the waiting area. I wasn't moving fast enough (probably due to being bent double with pain). The nurse physically pushed me back into the waiting area. I was so embarrassed. I couldn't stay upright when she did it so ended up on my knees.

I went home. I couldn't stand being treated like that by so called professionals.

Oh and I once punched a guy who grabbed my crotch on a train. Not that satisfying as I had never punched anyone before, it was just instinct, and I hit his chest which was like a brick. I decided if it happened again I'd go for the face, preferably with a set of keys to leave marks.

Coming home from work, a skin head, in the passenger seat, threw a egg at me. Fast forward around 5 months, myself and friend went out of town, around 45 minutes away, we were sat down in cafe Nero, ready to leave, saw the same skinhead again, he came inside, as we were just about to get up, threw a stink bomb near me, the whole place smelt of rotten eggs, but his face fell when we got up to leave as we had finished our drink. Racist cunt

I think everybody needs to be armed with short folding umbrellas. When these are rolled up, they constitute a mildly pliable cylinder measuring approximately 10 x 3 inches, the ideal size (and weight) for striking even the most persistent gobshite anywhere on their anatomy one pleases. Sadly, brass knuckles are illegal in the UK.