Smile love, it may never happen

[Julie89uk]

I was in the queue at Aldi earlier and the bloke in front of me turned around looked at my face and said "smile love it may never happen"..

what does this mean?

This is twattish behaviour to a stranger.. For the record my face was neutral

I had this happen in Morrisons the other week. For context I am not a girl, or even a young woman. This shit is usually aimed at younger women, yet I am 50-ish, and it happened to me.

I was just standing in the queue at the checkout waiting to be served, and there was a man aged 60-ish in front of me. One of these 'I'm so funny, joke a minute, LOL-LOL-LOL' fuckers who thinks he is HILARIOUS. He was telling the checkout assistant (who looked bored with him,) 40 year old 'jokes' - and I just stood there poker-faced. Not arsey or rude but just no response to him.

He nudged me and said 'COME ON SMILE MISERY GUTS.' I could have fucking punched him. I'm not violent or aggressive much but this made my bloody blood boil. I just sighed and looked away, and he bleated 'ooh.. oh dear... time of the month love?!'

NGL I just left the queue and joined another queue. Utter UTTER cunt. Who the fuck does he think he is to TELL me to SMILE, and then say it must be my 'time of the month' because I didn't flash a simpering girly smile at him. Cunt. Misogynistic twatty fucking sexist patronising cunt. I thought 'I hope he shits broken glass next time he goes to the loo.'

I may have been irrationally angry about it. Time of the month I expect!

That is awful.

That happened to me on a bus in Liverpool 40 years ago. My mother had just died that morning. I took great delight telling him that in front of a crowded bus

Really?

YANBU, well annoying when people say that.
I'm not smiling on demand for randomers, I'm not a fucking performing seal 😂
Don't like my face, don't look at it lol

My responses have always been either

"Fuck off"

Or "sorry, what did you say" and they never repeat it

Perfect response!👍

Happened to me once at work.
I was lugging crates of bottled drinks to restock the fridge, a man standing in the queue at the counter being served by a colleague stopped me and told me to “cheer up! Whatever happened to service with a smile?”
With the greatest joy in the world I was able to point out “but I’m not actually serving you am I love? I’m sure my colleague *Dave here would happily oblige and maybe even give you a cheeky wink if you ask him nicely”

Trouble was my retail/hospitality instinct of going too far kicked in and I was extra nice to him immediately after! 😆

*not real name.

My preferred response to “cheer up love it might not happen” is “it just did” in the most arsey deadpan tone I can possibly manage…

"I never smile before I kill a man." usually works a treat.

It's a phrase as old as. Same as 'cheer up'. Annoying but can't get worked up about it.

A guy did this to me once when I'd just got off holiday and been told that my best friend had died the day before.

I can't remember what I responded with, I was in shock but apparently it wasn't nice

Fucking hate it when people say things like this!!!! I have a resting bitch face so it happens often! It's offensive and why the fuck am I going to be walking around smiling to myself all day?! It would hurt my cheeks!

@KalvinPhillipsBoots Oh do fuck off with your minimising nonsense.

I would say, it's too late..I've just shit myself. 😒