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What's the most wildly inappropriate thing to ever happen to you?

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badassbaby · 09/11/2022 13:48

I'll start...
When I was 19 I was working as a waitress in a holiday hotel.
I was having a wild, incredibly exciting relationship with the hotel manager, who was a good 15 years older than me.
Guests would fill out feedback forms on the hotel.
One day my boss (Restaurant manager) called me into his office. He showed me a feedback form that stated the guests weren't able to get a proper nights sleep, due to incredibly load love making all night long from the room above them.
The restaurant manager then pointed out that the room in question was the hotel managers room (his boss)
I can't remember what I responded, but when I think about it now, what the hell was he thinking of?!? And why question me about it and not the hotel manager?
I had the arrogance of youth so of course carried on exactly as before 😂
So what's yours?

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ELL2478 · 10/11/2022 11:54

Sorry that was in reply to @Luredbyapomegranate

BiggyBoggyBuloop · 10/11/2022 11:56

Name changed for these as my mum is on here and she'll know it's me 😅

When I was 18 I went on holiday with my family to Portugal. I was sharing a room with my mum and dad and my siblings were sharing a room next door.

My mum and dad went out for a while and us lot were upstairs in our hotel rooms.

I got a phone call inside the room off a man with a foreign accent asking if I wanted to come and party. I actually thought it was my dad messing around so had laughed at first. Until he carried on speaking and I realised it was the man on reception downstairs.

I was so frightened. My first thought was to find my mum and dad. I tried to ring them but the calls were not going through so I left the room and tried to find my parents ( dont ask me why I didnt go next door to my siblings, I was frightened and wasnt thinking straight )

I got in the elevator and went downstairs where my mum was at reception talking to the man who had just rang me 🤦‍♀️ she saw my worried face and asked what was wrong but I didnt feel I could tell her infront of him

We ended up sat on a table outside where I was telling them and the man came up to the table and asked me infront of my parents If I'd like a fanta or a coke! ( clearly thinking I was younger than 18! ) my mum told him to fuck off away from us and made a massive complaint when she got back inside and the next morning too

Another one...... I'd just been on holiday with my dad and was sat on the plane next to him with a space inbetween us. It was a small plane to Blackpool and there was only us and a group of men on it

A man in his 50's kept trying to flirt with me infront of my dad and even when I'd said I have a boyfriend, this is my dad, he still carried on. He ended up passing me his number on a piece of paper. In still annoyed at my dad for not saying anything. I'm 5'1, have always been petite and looked younger than my actual age so at 18 theres no way that man thought he was talking to an adult

the80sweregreat · 10/11/2022 12:04

I was out clubbing with my sane aged cousin in the mid 80s aged about 19 and we accepted a lift home from two guys we had only just met !
Nothing happened, but I shudder now ! They just dropped us off and we didn't see them again. So wrong on many levels , but I was so naive back then

BiggyBoggyBuloop · 10/11/2022 12:14

Oh gosh I have more now I'm thinking about it

Again when I was 18 I worked in a club as did my friends.

Once a customer had started on me and I was incredibly upset as theyd threatened to get physical. The owner after kicking them out took me into the back room and kissed me! I rememebr pushing him off me and telling him I had a boyfriend and he told me my boyfriend didnt need to know about it! I made my excuses and went back to work 🤦‍♀️

The same man was sleeping with my friend and would make horrible jokes about her walking round with his stuff leaking out of her 🤢

I used to be friends with an Asian man ( his race is relevant in this story ) once, he came and picked me and my friends up and we went to one of his friends restraints after hours. My friends started kissing his friends amongst other things and his friends in their language were slagging off my friends calling them dirty white slags. We were all only 17/18 years old. I remember asking my friend what they were saying and he told me whilst laughing about it

Once at school I had to go into the design and technology office when I was 15 and the school teacher grabbed my bum. I never told anyone

I'm sure their will be more I can think of aswell 🤢

LadyOfTheCanyon · 10/11/2022 12:33

SafeMove · 10/11/2022 10:05

I have read this thread with both a sickening feeling but a lot of familiarity. I don't know any of my friends who wouldn't have a similar experience. I grew up in the 90's and there are so many instances that I thought were 'low level' normal stuff but this thread has made me realise that even though I was raped by a cousin at 11, the sexual harassments and abuse I experienced as a teenage girl and adult woman has contributed to the trauma.

We read magazines and watched TV shows that encouraged us to be ladettes, to embrace our sexuality, drink pints and be 'equals', in work and school and parenting. They told us how to keep a man and how to please him sexually in bed. How we should look a certain way, keep our bodies, and hair and skin and clothes a certain way but also be hedonistic and 'free', not uptight or frigid as that wasn't cool. I feel like society knew exactly what it was doing. It wasn't about equality at all, it was about controlling a women's place and attitude whilst ensuring the real power stayed with males. It was the cruellest trick and now we are living with the fall out of men fatally harming women on a regular basis as they see us as 'less'.

Yep, the 90s really did a number on women, and the hallmarks of that era are still with us. Awful decade, put feminism back years.

namechangeforthisthreads · 10/11/2022 12:34

Changed my name .

Posted about this in here before .

Colleague at work (doctor, I was a HCA) ended up needing to be my doctor on gynae ward, he was the only doctor on call and o needed emergency treatment .

He was always a bit weird when I worked with him, you wouldn’t want to be alone with him . Strange bloke . I remember I froze when I realised he was the doctor, didn’t want him near me, but I was desperate for help and in agony, so I let him . He took advantage of the fact I was powerless and in pain .

After he sexually assaulted me he walked out like nothing had happened . I told my mum and she said ‘why did you let him?’ which hurt more than anything . My friend said no one would believe me .

I ended up with PTSD which I’m still being treated for now several years on .

HoppingPavlova · 10/11/2022 12:37

I was at a party at Halloween. There was a man and a woman there. He was very tall and she was very small. He towered over her. She was literally half his size. She was about 5 foot and he was six foot 6. What is to stop him abusing her? She literally came barely above his waist. If he wanted to push her to do anything, he could.

Heh? I’m 5’ and DH is over 6’ but has never used his physical advantage with me. Ever. Why do you think just because someone can they will?

Smallonesaremorejuicy · 10/11/2022 12:44

theresnotimeforus · 10/11/2022 08:55

No, I’ve only ever told one person .

I only figured out the VHS cassette thing fairly recently . Could never figure out why they scared me so much before . I’m not even sure what I’m remembering . I remember seeing her husband naked and being in her house, as opposed to my mum’s house . Definitely remember the throwing things and being locked in the lounge .

I’ve got no proof at all, and I don’t suppose anyone would take my word for it, I was only 3-4 years old . Social work told me they don’t keep records that far back .

Again I’m really sorry what happened to you . Maybe you should have some counselling? I wish you well in your life after living through such an horrendous time 💐

Facecream · 10/11/2022 12:46

I have so many creepy men stories but one wild and inappropriate thing that involved a woman.,,
When I was around 18 in a city centre waiting for my friend so we could get the bus home, a woman slapped me hard across the face, so hard my head was buzzing for hours. She was walking around talking to herself angrily, so I guess she had issues. No idea why she chose to do that to me.

To the pp above who posted about cigarette smoking being the most wildly inappropriate thing … while consultants had sex with other staff and you and other staff slept while they were fucking… eh? Is that a joke post??

The most wildly inappropriate thing that ever happened to me was being assaulted by a consultant, so that’s not that amusing to me. I’m taking the matter to court at the minute so I won’t say too much but my daughter was on my lap and he wrapped himself around me do I couldn’t move and stroked me, put his arm the length of my thigh.. 🤢🤮.
He’d also taken a photo of my face being n another occasion (2 years earlier) but this is where I’d better stop as people tend to think I’m nuts when I say that (it’s proven though).

I had the fiancé of a friend comment on my boobs on my wedding day.

I have had a work colleague I didn’t know tell me I was ugly and made him want to be sick. Later in the conversation he told me it’s because I look like a woman he was in love with who killed herself. Then he talked about his wife masturbating - at which point I left. Next day he sat on my desk and asked me what I had been doing the night before)alluding to masturbation).
I walked out of the office and reported him to HR.

Christ.. I could go on and on

TheLeadbetterLife · 10/11/2022 12:53

This thread has made me desperately sad, angry and sick all at once.

As I said upthread I could add several of my own stories along the same lines.

One of the worst was when I had just started secondary school, this would have been in 1993. I was struggling, seemed to have lost the friendship group I had in primary school (we got separated into different forms and some went to other schools), so I'd spend the break and lunch times wandering around on my own, miserable.

In a crowded corridor between lessons, a sixth form boy came up behind me and simulated anally raping me. His friends all laughed and then he shouted "ugh, she's a dog!". No-one else said anything or did anything, I said nothing and just kept walking. I remember it like it was yesterday, in every detail. I was 11.

I have so many other stories from my teenage years. So many entitled males frightening women.

Germaine Greer was right - we have no idea how much they hate us. And I hate them now. Not on an individual level (though you can never really know what any of them think about women, deep down), but as a sex class they can get in the fucking sea.

VapeVamp12 · 10/11/2022 12:54

Reading all these stories only one came to mind but now I've sat and thought about it, there are so many instances where men have touched me inappropriately, it's made me quite tearful.

Age 6 or 7, climbing trees near our house with my sister and a boy from down the road. He would have been about 13. he kept asking us to climb further up and that he'd help us, but the "help" was his hands right between my legs literally pushing through my underwear. He did it so many times. I even remember the pants I was wearing - Disney ones.

Aged 11 or 12. My dads boss (later convicted for possession of child abuse images) would be so touchy feely with me and my sister. We'd go to work with my Dad some weekends and his boss would always be cuddling us or asking us to sit on his lap whilst stroking my legs.

Aged 13, met my first "boyfriend" who was 26. Lost my virginity to him aged 14. Only now i'm older do I realise how abusive it all was. He was cheating on me most of the time but would gaslight the shit out of me. I remember standing in front him screaming and crying whilst cutting my legs with a stanley knife because I was in so much mental pain. He didn't do anything, he just told me I was fucking mad. He dumped me when I was 18 and passed my driving test.

Writing all of that out has made me realise maybe why I have substance abuse problems but i've never spoken to any one about any of that. The 5 year relationship fucked me up so much. I was a total slag in my 20's. Would sleep with any man that showed even a remote interest in me. God I feel fucking ashamed of myself.

potniatheron · 10/11/2022 12:54

OK this thread brought back some memories lol.

Early 00's, I was working in a very male dominated, aggressive office culture. Rampant sexism was the norm. There was one older guy, overweight, in his 50s, really quite startlingly ugly, who was a top biller and thought he was god's gift. Always making inappropriate comments to the women about their bodies and private lives.

As an example - one woman was leaving work one day and said, "I've got to run". This guy replied across the office, "Ooooh, I'd love to see YOU run" and then mimed bouncing breasts with his hands. That was the kind of guy he was.

So, I'm at my desk, early 00s, the Atkins diet is the fashionable diet to be on. And I'm on it. My lunch therefore is a couple of pepperamis. I'm sat there, typing with my right hand and holding a half peeled, half eaten pepperami in my left hand. Out of nowhere I sense, rather than see, an invation of my person space from my left side,. I turn round and then sit, frozen in horror, whilst this guy very slowly bends his huge red fat face down almost to my desk level, and slowly, all the while not breaking eye contact, takes my half eaten pepperami in his mouth and slowly sucks it out of the wrapping into his mouth.

No smile, no attempt at a joke. Just that. I can still see it. And now I've thrown up a little bit in my mouth.

LanaDooleyx3 · 10/11/2022 13:02

My best friends father was incredibly inappropriate towards me, from the age of about 15 (he had known me since I was about 10). Initially was just a few comments, hugging me for longer than was necessary. It really ramped up once I hit 17/18.

The worst time was when I was hungover and in my friends bed the following morning after a night out. She popped to the shop to get us some food, her dad got into the bed and spooned me from behind whilst nuzzling into my hair and repeatedly saying my name.

I felt so awkward and I never told my friend - I wasn't sure where to begin, she idolized her dad as was her only parent (mum passed away). Fortunately, she moved out at 20 so I don't have to see him any more.

Cakecakecheese · 10/11/2022 13:04

I was about 17 and would walk to college and back and occasionally cars would pull up beside me with blokes offering me a lift or to ask me out. I would always ignore them but one guy looked really familiar so I asked his name and it turned out he was my primary school headmaster! He drove away when I told him that.

Around that sort of age my dad asked me to buy a couple of leeks from our nearby greengrocers. The greengrocer said he wanted to spank me with the leeks.

ELL2478 · 10/11/2022 13:08

That is awful and you were so young I'm so sorry.

Riverlee · 10/11/2022 13:09

These stories are heartbreaking. I hope the present generation of girls are more aware, and also the laddish culture of the past has passed. So much behaviour, sexism and attitudes that was acceptable in the past, is thankfully no longer acceptable.

Oopsiedaisyy · 10/11/2022 13:10

When i was 18 i did an Open University course, was a science based one and had a one week residency for experiments. I was invited back to one of the guys rooms to study, and as he was a school teacher by trade and in his 40s it didn't occur to me to be wary. He tried it on and when i went to leave it turned out he'd locked the door. I calmly asked him to let me leave. What I found most concerning was he was apparently fostering girls my age and younger

theresnotimeforus · 10/11/2022 13:11

@Smallonesaremorejuicy thank you 🌺 I’m on a waiting list for therapy yes . Had an assessment a few weeks ago where they asked lots and lots of questions about childhood which has brought a lot back . Thanks xx

Thesnowfellfast · 10/11/2022 13:13

I, like many others, have loads unfortunately.

When I was 14 I went to a local theme park for the day with my friends. My 18 year old neighbour was working on one of the stalls and I stopped to say hi. His friend (19) was trying to flirt with me and asked for my number. I felt very flattered and so obliged. A few weeks later I had a text from him asking if we wanted to go to a Halloween party at his house. I wasn't feeling it but my friend was really keen as she wanted to see of he had any fit mates, so we went along.
His mum was there, as was his sister who was also around 14/15. There were other young lads about 18/19/20 as well as some other teenage girls and a few adults.
When we got there we were invited to help ourselves to drinks, of which there were many in the kitchen. Needless to say we both got absolutely shitfaced in a short amount of time. I went and sat in the living room on the arm of the sofa talking to theme park guy. His sisters boyfriend who was 17ish came and sat on the sofa next to me and without saying a word, slid his hand underneath my bum, pulled my knickers to the side and put his finger inside of me. I was so shocked. I jumped up and turned to look at him and he just laughed, as did his gf, the mum and pretty much everyone else in the room. I wanted to leave but my friend was busy snogging some older lad she'd met so I ended up staying but hiding in the driveway for most of the evening absolutely freezing and worrying about the boy coming out and finding me. Wish I'd just called my mum and faced the consequences of being drunk instead of staying in a dangerous situation.

I worked for the police for many years, starting when I was 19. I remember in the early days it was quite common to sit around the briefing table in the morning and the older more seasoned officers would discuss what porn they'd been watching the night before, discuss how their wives were fat and ugly and old and how they'd love a bit of fresh meat. I was the only female on the team.

Another police related one. I was married to another officer, but he cheated on me and we split. When news spread I had loads of officers come out of the woodwork making comments, asking me out on dates, etc. A sergeant who I'd been really friendly with asked me if I'd like to go out for a drive some time and that no one would have to know.

I remember being 14ish and going for a walk one evening with a boy I'd been seeing for about 2 months. We ended up in a local park at the kiddy play area and were sitting on the swing chatting. It was dark and no onr was arou d. He got up and stood in front of me, got his penis out and put my hand on it. I pulled my hand away, but he did it again and said "go on, touch it. You know you want to." I did not want to, so got up and walked away. This guy has grown up to manage a home care company for vulnerable/elderly people.

I fear for my DDs future, but hope that I can help her set better boundaries than me and be firmer in saying no and kicking off when inappropriate things happen.

WetLettuce2 · 10/11/2022 13:24

13/14 year old me after babysitting a 7 hour shift for a fiver (also inappropriate!) was being dropped off home by their taxi driver. He made some comment about us school girls being at it like rabbits with all the lanes and woods around here - i nervously laughed it off so he pulled over and drove us off road into a farmers field and was really annoyed that A- I wasn’t up for it and B- his taxi now had muddy wheels 🤢

ELL2478 · 10/11/2022 13:27

RunicWords · 10/11/2022 07:33

@ELL2478 As someone else said, the behaviour in your story wasn’t ‘kind of inappropriate’. It was a terrible sexual assault. Really sorry that happened to you.

These awful stories illustrate how hard it can be for young girls / women to resist the advances of older men or men in authority. Or to report them.

When I was 18, I was working abroad in a hotel. I was really ill one day and couldn’t work. I was lying in bed with just a T-shirt on when my boss knocked on the door and came in. He stood over me and explained he had experience of ‘medical massage’ that would take away my headache. He asked me to take off my T-shirt and when I said no, he took my bare foot and put it in his groin while he ‘massaged’ it. I pretended I didn’t know what was going on as he carried on talking to me. Thank goodness my room mate appeared because I felt paralysed with fear.

When I look back, I feel so sad that I didn’t feel able to call him out, kick him in the groin or report him. I just lay there feeling so ill while he took advantage. He was in a position of authority and I guess I thought no one would believe me and I’d lose my job.

I so hope my daughters will have the self confidence to assert themselves when they get older.

@RunicWords OMG that's awful I am so sorry. That must still effect you...
I do think hotels and holiday resorts are a hot spot for this type of thing as well. That's why I am trying to teach my daughter and son to be assertive and to trust their gut instinct. I do think it's good this stuff is talked about more than in the past. It doesn't mean there's any less creeps in the world though unfortunately.

Cheeseandlobster · 10/11/2022 13:45

Justnosing · 10/11/2022 10:54

What the hell this exact same thing happened to me! Although it was a random guy from a restaurant that asked me. I’m laughing now but actually when I think about it how bizarre 😂 the chaperone is the extra weird part for me 😂

I reckon it was probably to convince themselves that they were still nice guys. Sounds like this was a relatively common scenario sadly

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 10/11/2022 13:47

When I was 17 I went to TITP with my teenage boyfriend, and some of his friends. And his drum teacher, who was about 30 and shagging one of the other girls there. He put on the Erotic Witch Project (🤮) the night before we all drove down. She was the same age as us and thought he was fabulous, looking back he was just an old letch who couldn’t get a woman his own age.

Deemarie11 · 10/11/2022 14:03

HoppingPavlova · 10/11/2022 12:37

I was at a party at Halloween. There was a man and a woman there. He was very tall and she was very small. He towered over her. She was literally half his size. She was about 5 foot and he was six foot 6. What is to stop him abusing her? She literally came barely above his waist. If he wanted to push her to do anything, he could.

Heh? I’m 5’ and DH is over 6’ but has never used his physical advantage with me. Ever. Why do you think just because someone can they will?

Because sadly, I've seen it happen a lot.

mossiejayne · 10/11/2022 14:39

Sorry for all of the previous posts. I hope a lot of this is less likely to happen today, but who knows.

I remember seeing a girl from science class at college openly kissing the teacher. Not in front of the class, but in the empty classroom, class windows in the corridors so you could see in.

As it was the last day of term they'd possibly decided it was safe to come out in the open (there had been rumours whispered amongst us students). She would have been 18 by then and he looked in his late 30s or 40s.