What's the worst thing anyone said to you in public?

[LisaM]

I was just sharing some old memories with a coworker. Here are some terrible things guys said to me out of the blue:

At the Indy 500:

"Spiked heels give you a hard on"!

In downtown Lansing:

"If my face was a bicycle, would you ride it?"

At a concert in downtown Detroit:

"Hey! Do you want to f***?" (At which point my friend Martha yelled, "no she doesn't!" and pushed me into a bathroom).

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. i am going to split you open and eat you like a clam

yelled very loudly in the nyc subway system: UNPLEASANT

[SteppingRazor]

2. And none of those lines worked?

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell ya. :eyes:

[plcdude]

3. What's so

bad about those? :evilgrin:

[guitar man]

34. I know, damn

they be dissin' some of my favorite material here :hide:

[malta blue]

4. While walking down Bourbon Street in NoLa

"Holy Tits Batman"

While walking through Washington Square Park in NYC "Hey vanilla pu$$y - wanna take a lick off my chocolate d**k"

Okay - I will probably get the thread locked now...

[LisaM]

6. LOL!

That's terrible!

[malta blue]

18. The NYC one was when I was 14 - I was completely

mortified. I was past 30 in NOLA, I laughed even though I was quite shocked at first.

[LisaM]

20. I would never go around in public talking like that

I wonder why people think it's ok?

[malta blue]

26. I don't get it either...I mean I wouldn't talk like that someone

I knew - much less a stranger...:shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Said in a Wendy's restaurant in the late 80s:

Creepy customer sitting at a table as I passed by with my to-go order: "Damn, I wanna tear your shit up!" :puke:

[DS1]

31. Maybe he was a forensic archaeologist

:hide:











:rofl:

[NewWaveChick1981]

51. Yeah, that's the ticket...

:rofl: :P

[kwassa]

7. I guess I can't use those lines anymore.

:-( :shrug: :cry:

[LisaM]

12. Sorry!

Guess you'll have to go back to the book.

[kwassa]

24. I noticed your avatar .....

are you a ... wingnut?

[LisaM]

27. I am, and proud of it!

I have a dog named Gordie, after Number 9.

[Connonym]

8. "Shut the fuck up"

shouted by my ex, in a furniture store, in front of the salesperson

[AllegroRondo]

14. a good reason for him to be your ex

that alone would have been enough for me.

[querelle]

9. Faggot!

By a group of teenaged boys while I was walking with my (ex) partner through a department store. We were holding hands.

Q

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. crap i totally forgot about homophobic shit yelled at me. i was focussed on the sexist stuff

but very recently someone yelled "stop doing immoral things"

and peopel have told me i am going to hell etc

[LisaM]

15. What, did they think you were a Republican?

Shocking!

[querelle]

21. I Brush It Off

Most of the people I know are very accepting and these are the people who matter most to me. I could care less about a bunch of immature cretins who are probably insecure about their own sexuality and feel the need to lash out at others.

Q

[Debi]

54. Well, that's true no matter what your sexual orientation is

:evilgrin: Have you READ some of your posts here??? :rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

92. --

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

56. People like that make me ashamed to be Christian.

:hug:
I for one, love you.

[Autobot77]

79. Some idiots yelled that at me in college,

Even though I'm not gay and there is nothing about me to make people think that I was.

[LisaM]

10. I remember someone here used to be a Mormon missionary

and he said that he knocked on a door and someone said, "Stay right there while I go get my gun so I can shoot you".

[Rambis]

13. "White trash if I ever see you in LA I'm gonna kill ya"

I was at the grateful dead in Milwaukee just minding my own business and this biker didn't like me I guess.

[LisaM]

17. Have you steered clear of LA ever since?

I see that you are still with us, luckily.

[Rambis]

22. Never been never going

I have no interest in going so I think I am safe too:) I have no idea what I did either because I was 6' 165 lbs and had really long ringlet curly hair down to my arse and looked like a deadhead. Those were the two years I was part of the beautiful people;)

[LisaM]

23. That's so unusual

He's probably still there waiting for you, too.

[mitchum]

61. WTF? Called "white trash" by a biker???!!!

that is crazy and disturbing

[petronius]

63. That's kind of a wimpy threat:

'If I happen to run into you 1500 miles from here in an area the size of a middling state, then I'm gonna mess you up.' :wtf:

[AlCzervik]

16. this is kind of funny-

one night a long time ago i went out Christmas shopping with my Dad and after we get done we head over to a Bennigans to eat dinner, so we sit down and there are 2 guys next to us, one of them was full on shit faced and he looks aver at me and yells "Hey you look just like my ex wife, i hate that bitch!" I didn't even realize it was directed at me until my Dad, all 5'6 of him gets up and said something to that drunk guy that prompted drunk guy and his friend to get up and leave. Seeing at little my Dad is i figure it must have involved a firearm, Dad loves him some weapons!

[geardaddy]

37. You should have expected something like that at Bennigan's n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. "Nice to meet you."

[Left Is Write]

25. The condemnation of my child as a bastard.

[LisaM]

28. Sigh. What is wrong with people?

Someone actually said that?

[guitar man]

39. damn that sucks

I have a good friend who is a single mom and I saw that happen to her. Her reaction was priceless. She said "yeah, so what? He's not only that, he's also a son of a bitch, and you're about to find out just how much of a bitch if you don't back up outta my face motherfuckers!!"

The fundies she was adressing turned white as a sheet and beat a hasty retreat. :evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

44. Yes. In church. To my face. While I was about 8 months pregnant.

[BlueIris]

80. How very "spiritual" of that person.

[Mad_Dem_X]

89. OMG!

Nothing like a little religious hypocracy to get your day going. Jeebus...

[AlCzervik]

29. Jesus, WTF?

thats horrible.

[Left Is Write]

45. It still hurts, twenty years later.

[ceile]

30. I think that takes the cake.

WTF was wrong with that person?

[Left Is Write]

43. You mean other than being hypocritical and judgmental?

I don't know.

[LibDemAlways]

96. Years ago I was in a bank opening an account

next to another guy who was trying to do the same. The clerk was asking him a bunch of questions, including the bank favorite: What was your mother's maiden name?

He responded and the clerk said, "No, that's your last name. I need her name before she was married."

The guy responded again with the same name, and the clerk became very agitated and said, "Sir, I need her maiden name. What was her last name before she was married?"

The guy was pissed at that point and yelled, "She was never married. I'm a bastard. Does that make you feel better?"

I felt so bad for that guy. I realize banks need to provide for customer security, but there must be a less potentially offensive way to do it.

And as for the circumstances of one's birth, that's none of anybody's business. If anybody tried to pass a personal comment like that to me, I'd tell them to shove it.

[av8rdave]

32. College history professor called me "a real eight ball" in front of class

He was pontificating about how we should have used the Korean war as an excuse to lob a nuke or two at China, and I disagreed.

The nerve of me to have an opinion!

[LisaM]

33. Well the nerve of him to teach something so idiotic

Not to mention belittling a student.

[av8rdave]

36. Well, it was a military academy...Funny thing is..

They were a lot more responsible than you would expect at the time about teaching things like foreign policy from a pretty balanced point of view, at least in those days.

This particular guy was an Army excange officer, and he was, well, a real eight ball!

[geardaddy]

40. What a dipshit.

Did he not know that China probably had the "bomb" during the Korean War?

[av8rdave]

47. Oh, he knew....you should have heard the logic..

"They had the bomb, but no way to deliver it quickly yet. This was our golden opportunity to eliminate that threat forever."

Of course, more recent history shows us how effective preemption is :sarcasm:

[rhiannon55]

35. "Which one of you has a d*ck?"

Screamed from a car going by as my adolescent daughter and I walked hand-in-hand in Denver.

[mikeytherat]

38. "Yeah, I slept with him - are you happy?"

Me: "Uh, no."

Not surprisingly, the conversation really went downhill after that. Cheating - always a wonderful topic for public consumption.

mikey_the_rat

[ThomCat]

41. A college instructor (Grad student)

"You people (meaning GLBT people) don't deserve any protections. If you're going to be that way you deserve whatever you get."

This was in an undergrad Sociology class. We had to write a paper on any topic involving discrimination and prejudice, but only if the teacher approved your topic. She didn't want to allow any topic related to GLBT people or people with disabilities.

Fortunately, the department apologized and pulled her from teaching duties very quickly.

[LisaM]

42. Good for them!

I once had a communications TA who spoke bad English, but no one ever apologized to me for that. They liked her.

Edit to clarify that her English was ungrammatical, not that she was foreign and didn't know how to speak English.

[LadyAziz]

46. Walking to class freshman yr in high school...

one boy loudly said to his buddies "She so dark" (skin color).

:cry:

People are so mean.

[Deja Q]

48. Does "You're God's joke" qualify?

If not, I've got plenty more, rest assured.

[soleft]

49. Someone once said, "Where's your hamburger?"

And she repeated it. Angrilly, "Where's your hamburger?"

The only thing I can think of is I had just dyed my hair and it had a reddish tint to it. Maybe it reminded her of ketchup?

:shrug:

[Wapsie B]

50. A nurse who was giving a lecture in a pre-natal class

made a reference to being disgusted about fat, overweight males while staring right at me. I had said absolutely nothing before or after she made that remark. Decorum prevents me from repeating all the things going through my mind at the time. But then that was in my very passive phase in life.

Nowadays,don't fuck with me unless you wanna fuck me.

[rug]

52. "Excuse me, do you know your pants are on fire?"

[Debi]

53. Is your Daddy a baker?

Cuz you sure got nice buns! :rofl:

Unfortunately it was in front of my ex-husband who spent the rest of the evening asking me what *I* did to make that guy say it to me :evilfrown:. What a DB!!!

[ceile]

55. Homeless guy drinking beer

by the bus stop at my university, basically just being gross and inappropriate. As I got on the bus he shouts out "Are you a natural red head?" ugh!

[gizmonic]

57. "Gee, 'Gizmonic' you're really fat now."

:wow: :mad: :wtf:

I ran into an old school mate I hadn't seen in about 20 yrs. That was the first thing she said to me.

Yea, asshole, I've gained about 50lbs since jr. high school. Ya think I don't know?! :wtf:

[meegbear]

58. See you next Tuesday ...

LOUD! Hey I was drunk and she was.

[Danger Mouse]

59. My stepfather was often good for a few.

After I had to come back to NY to live with my parents after going through unemployment and depression...he charmingly contributed this very loudly and very publically to someone who asked why I had come back home: "because he screwed up yet again and is a failure."
I had come to get used to such shit over the years, but that one hurt me a lot.
This is par for the course from someone who regularly called me a 'waste of life' at every opportunity.

[fizzgig]

66. ...

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

70. thanks honey...karma got him big time...

but it wasn't satisfying.
it was horrifying.
part of my karma?

[fizzgig]

78. you don't deal out karma

you can't control the universe

[Danger Mouse]

93. i never said i did...

when i said part of my karma
i meant that having to see his suffering, and feeling incredible guilt over it, was the effect of me wishing harm on him for so many years.

[idgiehkt]

97. please don't beat up on yourself

only a truly compassionate person could even come to that conclusion. :hug: :hug: :hug:

I've seen around me lately an abundance of evidence why it is a waste of time to hold resentments or seek revenge on people, because the universe always takes care of things and rights situations without any help from me whatsoever. But I do believe in working through and expressing the legitimate feelings of pain and hurt, they are god-given; I also pray for blessings on people that have wronged me, just because it changes MY state of mind back to a positive one. You seem like a really nice guy. :hug:

[Awsi Dooger]

60. 'Awsi Dooger', you've got fleas in your hair!

That was compliments of my normally sweet mom, calling me by name and saying that very loudly, smack in the middle of a long line outside a movie theater, when I was about 18. Immediately it seemed like every person in line was staring at me, and many laughed. I'm almost 6'4" but I felt about 1'2" at that point. I didn't want to yell at my mom in public but my dad chastised her. I think I just flipped my hair a couple of times with my hand and then stayed there and silently begged for the line to move.

Actually, by far the worst one was something I wasn't supposed to hear. I gained weight via daily buffets in the '90s and had gotten sloppy, playing golf but not working out. Three college kids, in fact from my school, were walking on the sidewalk on Flamingo Road near Ballys. I was the only one there, besides them. When I walked past I heard one of the two girls say, "Oh god, if I had that on top of me I'd want to roll over and die." Absolutely true story. I'll never forget that line.

I have great hearing but they had no idea I heard a syllable. I was so stunned and furious that I froze, and then looked back at her. The other girl said, "Oh god, he just looked at you." The guy was cool and kept walking with no expression. But it was all I could do to restrain myself from approaching them with a flurry of insults.

But then I got home and looked at myself. I needed to lose weight and did. My height has always allowed me to get away with nightly buffets and pizzas and sweets without losing the V frame, but at that point I had overdone it. Now I'm in much better shape.

On edit: I just remembered my mom said fleas, not lice

[maveric]

62. I'm a stutterer and was aking directions in a downtown office building...

I asked this woman where the entrance to the North Wing was and I began to have a block(stutter). This woman started talking to me slowly and loudly like I was a 4 year old saying "Are you OK? Does your mother know that you are here? Can I call your mother for you? Did you get lost...?" I was red, frustrated and angry. This man came over and told her that I stuttered and she said "He's retarded cant you see."
I composed myself, told her I stuttered and wasnt retarded and to "Stick it!"

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

68. that's something my mom has to go through

She has stutters whenever she gets nervous or has to answer a question quickly. Whenever I hear someone make a comment about it, I want to kick thier faces in.

[Danger Mouse]

72. Hey! Where have you been lately?

Haven't seen you in the longest time!
:hi:

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

73. I've been around

Usually only come on DU at night and on nights I don't have to work..:hi:

[rockymountaindem]

64. "If you're Jewish, you deserve to die"

Said to me in my high school cafeteria by somebody I'd never seen before and never seen again after he eavesdropped on a religious discussion between me and my friends.

[1gobluedem]

65. "Oh, I thought he'd have a PRETTY girlfriend"

Uttered by a kid who wanted a puck from my hockey playing boyfriend, when I was pointed out as the guy's girlfriend by some guys in my dorm.

[mopinko]

67. people only say bad things about me behind my back.

it's my reward for being a bitch.

[cwydro]

69. "you're under arrest"

Really sucked.

[Danger Mouse]

71. well, yeah, that would suck.

a lot.
:D

[suzbaby]

74. "Bow Wow"

That was made in reference to me by one of my 9th grade boyfriend's friends.

He apparently didn't find me very attractive.

[MorningGlow]

75. "Are you frigid?"

This, from a "friend", in the middle of the cafeteria at college, when I said I wouldn't want to go out with a mutual acquaintance if he asked me. :eyes: I don't know how she made that leap; I didn't want to go out with him because he was...um...what's the word...oh yeah...an ASSHOLE.

[BlueIris]

82. Waaaaaaaaaah? Was she confused about the date?

Did she think it was 1961? 1925? I haven't heard anyone use the term "frigid" to describe a woman since...ever.

[MorningGlow]

86. I haven't either--before or since (it was 1986 BTW)

Meh--she was nuts. One of those people who hide behind the statement "I'm always totally honest with my friends" in order to give themselves free reign to be rude, crude, cruel, and totally obnoxious. I suspect she dredged up the archaic word to avoid a harsher one, thinking she was softening the blow or something. I just laughed, because she sounded totally ridiculous and I knew nothing was further from the truth (not like I was going to tell her, though).

[LaraMN]

76. "I'd give my left testicle to get in your pants,"

followed by a sequence of incredibly invasive questions (directed to my boyfriend) about what it was like to fuck me. And this was not an intoxicated person.


:eyes:

[snailly]

77. None of what you said was bad

Try being an Irish girl innocently walking down the street when you hear, "Hey, Casper! Get a tan!".
That could give you a complex, believe you me.

[SeattleGirl]

81. Said to me by a male co-worker:

"As long as I have a face, you have a place to sit."

He said it in front of everyone else I worked with (I was the only female in the department), and they all laughed. This was in the 1970's, in Texas, a time and place where sexual harassment claims would be met with "She was asking for it."

:grr:

[BlueIris]

83. "Get a life!"

Screamed at me out the window of a large SUV while I was registering some 18-year-old first time voters outside of one of our city's alternative high schools in '04.

[Downtown Hound]

84. I don't know about "said"

But one time I was in a park sitting on a bench, when this guy walked about 10 feet past me on the walkway, stopped, unzipped his fly, and took a piss right there. Then he casually zipped his fly back up and continued walking like nothing had happened.

When you gotta go, you gotta go I guess.

:shrug:

[S n o w b a l l]

85. Oh, the worst thing that I will never forget...

when I was a teenager I had terrible acne...despite regular trips to the dermotologist, there was no effective treatment back then. It was the worst thing a teenager could suffer through. To this day, I vividely remember sitting on the bleachers at a football game and having a boy call me pizza face. I've never ever told anyone how much that affected me. And to this very day, I distrust men because of it.

It's terrible how things like that can plague you throughout your entire life. :(

[otherlander]

87. In art class a few years back

there was this Hispanic kid who's also bi. And my school has a GSA, but those are the nicer/smarter people. Outside of that, there's a good deal of racism and intolerance. So there were these assholes who kept saying stupid shit about him in art class, and I said to them, "shut the fuck up," "that's bullshit", etc. I was pretty much the only person in class who stood up to them.

So one day I walk into class, the teacher's not there yet, everyone's just sitting around talking. I start humming some song, and the kid just turns around, and says, "What's wrong with you, you freak?" Yeah. To me, the only person who says anything when the racist idiots are talking bullshit about him.

So I punched him in the face and got suspended.

[Mad_Dem_X]

88. In the parking lot of Target, a guy called me a b****

Turns out he was an employee. I followed him into the store and snapped on him (which I NEVER do). Told management what happened, wrote a letter to corporate when I got home. I was PISSED. I've been back there a few times; he's still working there. I'm not planning on shopping there again.

[fudge stripe cookays]

91. ??!

Any idea WHY he called you a bitch? Tourette's? I mean, what the hell?

[fudge stripe cookays]

90. "THE BACKS OF YOUR ARMS ARE BLACK AND BLUE!!"

By a completely clueless and white trash co-worker IN THE LUNCH ROOM at my present job.

It was hot, and I was tired of wearing long sleeves to cover up the injection site reaction from my Betaseron shots.

"Thank you Theresa, I have MS. Is there anything else you'd like to point out to everyone? I don't think they heard you in Bali," is how I respnded.

[LibDemAlways]

94. The occasional stupid comment from a stranger never

bothered me, but I've been devastated a couple of times when people I thought were my friends turned on me for no reason. Example: When my daugter was in third grade she had a spat with another kid on the playground. I considered that kid's mom a friend and called her to patch things over. Out of the blue she hit me with, "My daughter is done with your daughter and I'm finished with you." Felt like I had been hit with a brick.

[Dora]

95. "We don't want you to play with us any more."

Girls can be so mean.