Have you ever overheard people talking about you?

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It was a previous houseshare. We'd all gone out to a bar and I was wearing open toed heels, another girl accidentally stamped on my foot with her stiletto and wow, that was painful.
She was really apologetic, then I said to my housemate, 'Someone's just stood on me with their heel ' as it was bleeding and so I ran off to the toilets.
The next night I was in my room and I overheard the flatmate of mine talking to her friends. She said 'She came and told me someone stamped on her foot, and I was thinking, well what do you want me to do about it?!"

I don't know, help me maybe? 🤔

On another occasion I dyed my hair quite a bright burgundy colour. I heard her and a male housemate saying 'Why the hell has she dyed her hair red?!". I didn't get it everywhere or anything.

Anyway, never nice to overhear people slagging you off!

Agreed. Unfortunately I find most workplace colleagues to be like this. You seem lovely, never change.

You saying this (and an earlier PP something similar) has reminded me that my father did the same. Usually at dinnertime, he would refer to "the child" and talk about me in the third person (right up until I left home at 18), and I'd remind him that I did have a name and was sitting at the table with him, but it made no difference. Not much fun at the time and, in retrospect, very weird!

I had a daft one at school, sort of the opposite of this thread. I joined some pals in the canteen queue at lunchtime and overheard them saying how good I was at French (the lesson that had just ended; it was my best/favourite subject). I joined them and acted all bashful, saying it was just because we'd been camping there over the summer so I'd picked up quite a bit. They looked really embarrassed and said "Er, we weren't actually talking about you." The fact that I remember this literally half a century later just shows how much my toes must have curled.

@IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece I'm so sorry your "friend" was such a despicable shit. I hope you have friends you deserve now

Another mum accidentally put a message about me and my parenting skills in a group chat for a sports club our kids go to. She deleted it, but not before I spotted it and made a joke that now I knew there was a secret sub group as she’d obviously meant to put it there instead.

I probably made it worse as then this drew attention to the deleted message notification which would have been otherwise ignored. I didn’t really care but I was surprised as the mum who did it always makes a big show of not being into gossip, making out she doesn’t know things that are going in etc, so it did make me see her differently.

Not something I'm proud of but when I was in a houseshare at uni, I read my flatmate's diary. She'd written one Friday, " thank god Arschgeige is going home for the weekend". Serves me right for betraying her trust but the comment cut me. I'd always thought I'd been a good housemate and not a person someone was glad to see the back of for a few days. I'd never do something like that again so I guess something good came out of it but it still hurts when I think of it

Bless you, I wouldn't take it personally. We all need our own space, and houseshares can be testing even with the best of people! I can really enjoy someone's company and still be glad when they've gone.

I was in the loo at work. Had only been there for a month or so. Anyway, three women from the office came in and started talking about me. About how my short hair obviously meant I was a lesbian, that I was 'clearly bulimic' and 'I'd like to know how she can afford her own house'. At which point, I came out of the cubicle and advised them that my Dad had left me money. Their faces! After that, I went in for a lot of 'competitive eating' in the office (I'm a scrawny, lanky fucker, they were of the 'I can't, I'm trying to be good' ilk and it was one of those places where cakes and croissants were brought in daily) and made sure to describe just how delicious it all was! 'I just love your wife's apple pie, her pastry is always so buttery and crisp!'.

While I’m sorry for anyone who gets bitched about behind their back (it’s just happened to me hence me searching for this old thread), I am loving all the stories about bitches getting confronted with their bitchitude.