to wonder why people ask such silly questions

[2shoes]

ds and I were out at shops. he was wearing his iron maiden hoodie.(he is nearly 16) and we went into a shop. the bloke asked ds if he like iron maiden........I said no he hates them that is why he is wearing the hoodie.
stupid question or what?

the bloke was only making conversation. TBH, I think you were rude to him

Unecessarily rude of you IMO.

some people just want to make conversation to be polite.

maybe he also likes them and wanted to make conversation...... idle chit chat is fine by me, so YABU i think..... at least bloke didn;t have a go at him for being a hoodie

It wasn't a stupid question really.

And at 16 i'd like to think my son could answer for himself

itis ok he lol so did i. and he then told us how he knew the old drummer and stuff. so don't think i offended him

all;s well that ends well then!

I don't think it's a stupid question at all. I often see kids wearing retro band T-shirts, because they're retro-chic, for bands that they probably know nothing about. And you were lucky, he could have said "Iron Maiden? What an absolute pile of shit."

I think it's nice a starnger spoke to a teenager in a hoodie. Most of us cross the street

ok i was ur. never thought of the retro bit.
still i made a twit of myself. went into a metal shop and asked for a mcr wristband, ds phsl. and the bloke looked at me in a very odd way.......oops

What is a mcr wristband?

my chemical romance a group that is not metal

Hang on, 2shoes is wondering why people ask silly questions?!

i know i felt a right pratt when i realised what i had said. it was bad enough the other week when i went in without ds and asked about blink 182 but they let me off as I was old

I think what you said was very rude and immature. If someone asks a polite question, answer politely. There's nothing wrong with starting a conversation. Also the question wasn't directed at you, but at your son.

what a good idea. post on a thread when the op has already conceded that she has been ur and explained that she wasn't rude and both her and said man lol.