What's the worst thing a stranger said to you personally?

[It was not a pretzel]

Mine was a few years ago at the Oktoberfest. I was singing and dancing with my girlfriend, her brother and a few workmates on our table.

My "brother-in-law" tapped me on the elbow, he said " that guy down there wnats to talk to you". I got down off the bench and said to him "Hi".

He answered " Are you English?". Noticing his Scottish accent I said said " yeh, how you doing mate?". He said "You English should all be gassed!"

It took me 10 minutes to realise what he'd said and to go looking for him, luckily for both of us I never did find him.

[bluestateguy]

1. How about this?

I saw a trailer park trash woman in a Best Buy with a swastika tatoo on her arm, though we did not exchange words.

[Alenne]

2. Can I have your bra?

Frat boys.

[It was not a pretzel]

3. never had that problem in UK schools

although I did I have a girl walk past and grab my dick " to see if it was as big as it looked". She told me it wasn't.

[dani]

9. I've got a few of those types

and a few times I've gotten some pretty disturbing sexual comments from men that really creeped me out. The sad thing is they have no clue how disgusting they are.

[Kat45]

4. A guy passing by walking down the street said, "Nice tits."

It threw me and I probably didn't get a chance to make a comment before he was well past me. But I suppose that wasn't as bad as the time when I was in high school, when I was walking down the street with a friend at night and a (probably high-school/college-aged) guy grabbed one of my breasts on his way by.

:shrug:

[Skittles]

22. that's happened to me a couple times

I kicked one of them so hard I broke my toe.

[rainydaywoman]

5. That must be jelly cuz jam don't shake like that!

This from a guy walking behind me in the mall! I turned around w/a puzzled look on my face and he winks while sucking thru his teeth. He actually thought that was a "nice" thing to say and tries to start up a conversation!

[MuseRider]

6. I went to a bar not too long ago

to watch my son's band play. It was a college crowd and I was clearly out of my age group. This guy standing next to me looked down at me, elbowed me and I looked up. He looked confused for a moment and just said, "WOOF!" Now I didn't expect to be picking up a date or anything but that one hurt. I was too stunned to say anything. I seem to remember older folks at the bars when I was in school. Jackass!

[HEyHEY]

15. I doubt he meant it like that

That's the kind of thing I would do if engaged in an akward moment at a bar!

[MuseRider]

18. Thank you!

Hey, it hurt at the time but it is amazing how quickly you get over shit like that. I am almost 50, it was probably just strange for him to see me there. I am kinda different but by no means bark worthy. Thanks, if I had been still smarting over it your response would have helped a lot.

[HEyHEY]

19. One time

I had a guy in the washroom come up to me..I clenched my fist cause he looked a bit dodgey. He walked past me and said "Wokka Wokka WOkka" Liek fonzie bear..people do wierd shit

[Habibi]

28. My BF says "woof"

when he's impressed!

[Breezy du Nord]

7. This one lady shushed me in a movie theater once!

To that woman:

I will hunt you down and FIND YOU!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[JohnKleeb]

16. lol what if she was at DU today lol

ummmmm for me I dont know man gee
Some of the stuff I was told last night was insulting but Ive known those guys for about 6-8 years so :shrug:. Oh I know, that girl who pulled my hair when I was 3 when I was going on the waterslide. yeah thats it.

[Skittles]

25. WELL IT WASN'T ME

I don't SHUSH people in movie theaters - I SCREAM SHUT THE F*** UP. Usually they LEAVE because of the applause.

Sorry, but you get what you deserve if you're that annoying in a g.d. theater.

[lpbk2713]

8. "I'm going to make you're life a living HELL!!"

First day of Boot Camp. Never had met the gentleman with the stripes on his arm previously.

[gristy]

11. Wow.

:) You made me smile, lpbk2713. I'm glad you survived!

[NightTrain]

10. "Fuckin' faggot."

I was parked on the street and had dropped my car keys on the asphalt. As I bent over to pick them up, I heard a loud, obnixious car horn blare behind me. I became annoyed and flipped the driver off.

As I stood up, I noticed he had stopped and was glaring at me. He snarled, "Fuckin' faggot," and drove off.

Probably to watch HANNITY AND colmes.

[Interrobang]

32. I got something similar when I lived in Cambridge, ON!

One time as I was coming home from school, walking away from the bus station, this SUV full of frat boy idiots drove by and yelled "Faggot!" out the window at me. I scanned the street, and sure enough, I was the only person walking... At the time, I was wearing a black t-shirt, baggy camo pants, Doc Martens, and my collar-length "California surfer-boy" bowl-style cut... I'm female... I don't know *what* they thought they saw.

Then there was this other time when I was getting to the bus terminal to go to work in Toronto, and this convict from the weekend-furlough programme caught me between the set of double doors into the terminal, and yelled (really really loudly, in a tiny enclosed space) "HEY!! HOWARYA!!" and then said "Bitch!" when I winced and yelped and glared at him.

Then there was this other time when some old guys saw me getting on the bus in Cambridge and said, "She thinks she's really something."

I used to hate getting the bus in Cambridge! (I was also walking to the bus terminal when the Yuppie ditz driving the minivan -- stopped at a stop sign -- saw me, saw me walk into the intersection, since I had the right-of-way and all that, and then stepped on the gas and drove into me. Cambridge is the only place I ever lived where the people over 25 were ruder than the teenagers...)

I also get damned tired of all the 'concerned citizens' who ask me if I've twisted my ankle or hurt my foot. I have cerebral palsy and I limp slightly, normally (worse when I'm tired). The first 10 000 times it happened, the question didn't bother me, but I'm gradually losing my patience. I know it's not their fault (the same person never asks me twice), but still... That's a whole 'nother kettle of annoyed fish, though.

[amazona]

12. "what's the matter with your face?"

I was born with a skin disease that was never diagnosed and the symptoms did not respond to treatment. Perhaps it was hormonal, as it went away at puberty. However, in the single digit ages, kids could be quite cruel, not meaning to be, just out of morbid curiosity. When people are trying to be cruel, it isn't the same, because you can just blow them off as jerkwads.

[HEyHEY]

13. that'd have to be

"You won't be laughing with a gun up your ass"

On edit - She was probably right

[SiobhanClancy]

14. I was walking down the street...

and a fairly well-dressed middle-aged man told me as he passed,"I'm going to kill President Bush tomorrow". This was about a year ago,so I guess he didn't do it.

[WillParkinson]

23. Well, duh!

That's because there isn't a "President" Bush.

[Kellanved]

17. not actually said

I was spat upon.
I don't even know if it was a right-winger or an extreme left-winger not having to deal with the reality of politics.


(Edit: and not personally: the "wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!" = "Who betrayed us? Social Democrats!" is alive and well. It accuses the Social Democrast of having betrayed Germany by promoting democracy and going against the Kaiser after WW1 )

[Droopy]

20. Just today

I was at work (I'm a trucker) and I was trying to find out about a load I was supposed to be picking up from the shipping foreman. I had gone to a location where they said it would be, but it was not there. So I was trying to get this load and the guy just says, "You're complicating the issue. Go sit down somewhere." I asked where and he said, "I don't care just go." I thought that was pretty rude, especially seeing as how I don't know the guy.

[It was not a pretzel]

21. "boy"

A co-worker of mine from years back told me the boss's mother called him "boy" when she wanted him to do something.

This in in Bavaria and the co-worker was black.

The old evil hag stopped doing it when he told her to.

[FloridaJudy]

33. "Boy"

True story.

This was back in the seventies. I had just gotten off of a plane from Europe, and was stuck behind a blonde with about fourteen pieces of designer luggage and a South African passport. A black US Customs agent politely asked her if she had anything to declare; she curled her lip and snarled "What do you mean, Boy?"

What happened next is one of my fondest memories!

BTW, the rest of us stuck behind this bitch gave the guy a hearty "thumbs up" as he waved us through.

[jburton]

24. "Give me your money"

This was just before jumping me.

I was carrying maybe 8 bucks.

[mitchum]

26. "Please remove your hand from my wife's breast"

[Generic Other]

27. "My parents don't think you are white enough for me"

said my first love when we broke up.

[Ohio Dem]

31. Were you really tan or something?

"Not white enough." Enough? Are you of "mixed blood?" If so, that's downright racism.

Maybe your first love simply meant "not white," which is downright racism.

"Not white enough" doesn't make any damn sense to me.

What a shitty reason, in any event.

[Generic Other]

36. Part Asian

His father was a cop.

[BiggJawn]

29. "When is it due?" (pats my gut)

This old biddy in the elevator last week pats my gut and asks me when was it "due"...I told her "About the same time as yours, bee-yoch!"

She had a world-class beer gut on her,Dunlop's tucked down the stretch pants and the whole works...

[REP]

39. My Answer Is Always

"I'm not pregnant - just fat, thank god!"

I have an intestinal disease that sometimes causes extreme abdominal extension, and once in a great while I get asked when I'm due. It seems to be well-meant, and women who ask think my answer is great.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. "Get the fuck out of here before I call the cops" from the 7-11 incident.

That and "Fucking Whelper". BTW, I am still fighting with 7-11 over this. I want his job gone.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. A fundy once told me he was going to pray that something terrible

would happen to my infant son so that I'd be "jolted back to Jesus" when I was walking one afternoon.

What a Christian!

[VOX]

38. Good god! Whatever happened to "suffer not the little children?"

I'm the last one to start quoting scripture, but I just had to look up this verse from Matthew (King James Version), quoting Jesus:

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

That fundie knew NOTHING. People who use religion as a weapon make me want to spew!!!

I'm so very sorry, GOG...

[last_texas_dem]

35. Tough choice

When I had long hair I once had a smartass good ol' boy rent-a-cop at my high school call me "ma'm" when he knew damn well what I was. (Not too many women with Elvis-length sideburns...)

Also in high school, I had this little jerkoff who started off acting all friendly to me and then starts saying racial jokes about my (now ex-)girlfriend, who was Asian. Initially I just told him to f*ck off and that he was full of shit or something like that, but then about a week later he goes up to her and starts asking her if she likes rice or something like that, I lunged at him, and it was the only time I've ever physically attacked someone with intent to injure that I can think of. (I'm generally very nonviolent...) But the little bastard ran away as fast as he could and I never saw him again.

ON EDIT: Also, when I was a junior in high school, a snotty prep girl I didn't know who sat in front of me in one of my classes, turned around and told me I was "going to Hell" whenever I was discussing my (lack of) religious beliefs in a private conversation with one of my friends. First thing she ever said to me. She was flat-out matter-of-fact totally serious, too. I muttered something about her not being qualified to judge that, but that meant nothing to her.

All I can think of at the moment, but I tend to be a grudge-holder w/ a long memory so maybe I'll think of something later... :evilgrin:

[Piperay]

37. Lots of sexual crap....

Once I was walking with my boyfriend on a windy day and having trouble holding my skirt down. As we were passing this jerk he said "I hope your skirt blows up over your head", he's says this right in front of my boyfriend!! :eyes: My BF and I were both so shocked at first we didn't say anything. Then my BF hollered "you asshole, come back here and try saying that again", the jerk took off and ran away. :argh:

Another time it wasn't what was said but done. I was in the library and this guy kept "accidently" (NOT) rubbing up against me while "looking" through the bookstacks. I kept moving away but he just kept following. I was just a student at the time and didn't want to create a scene so I just left. That was about 25 years ago and to this day I am so sorry I didn't report him.

[zanana]

40. Last week at Kmart.

A woman was at the entrance, handing out leaflets. She looked at me and said "Are you a grandmother"? Needless to say, I didn't take a leaflet.

[Art_from_Ark]

41. San Francisco Airport

I had just arrived from Japan, and my eyes hurt really bad, so I was looking for the eye doctor that was supposed to be in the airport lobby area. Anyway, I was passing by some teenage or twenty-something guy who was sitting in a chair and he blurted out at me "You f@&%ing @$$hole".

F@&%ing jerk.