What's the most uncomfortable topic a stranger/aquaintance has discussed with you...

[cherish44]

for me...his stool softener. Yeah I was stuck on in a car with my uncle and an aquaintance of his and by gosh he enlightened us on his views on various stool softeners he's used for for a good 20 minutes.

[LeftyMom]

1. "That is one big baby! Did you need an episiotomy? I bet you did!"

-Some idiot who apparently thought inquiring about a stranger's vaginal elasticity was an appropriate conversation starter.

[Orrex]

12. Next time say, 'Nah, my vagina can handle anything.'

Feel free to substitute a less polite term for your womanparts.

[NNadir]

2. I've sat next to so many Republicans on planes it all seems like a blur.

Basically everything they had to say about anything qualified under your heading.

[MrScorpio]

3. My fingernails indicated that I suffered from some previously unheard of illness

I shit you not

I never spoke to the fool again

[htuttle]

4. Probably, "whether I was Satan or not..."

...which progressed into "whether I was his spirit guide or not."

It was a VERY long cross country bus trip...

:crazy:

[cherish44]

6. That reminds me of some freak my roommate in college dated

He was dead dog serious in saying he thought he was a "dormant vampire" because he craved the taste of blood. And went on about how vampires "implode" when they die. Let's just say I started making excuses to leave the apartment anytime he came over. (Maybe that was part his evil plan).

[Chan790]

8. How curious...

I had a college roommate, Alex, who was casually into vamp-play and considered himself a "dormant".

His gf, Sylvia, was a more-active vampiricist but they felt they had to hide that fact from her roommate because they'd mentioned that Alex was a "dormant" in passing and Sylvia's roommate freaked out.

Edit: Your roommate's name wasn't Sylvia, was it?? I feel my world getting smaller.

[cherish44]

11. no, her name wasn't Sylvia

That's a funny parallel though...I do remember he stopped coming over after my other roommate told him he was a "fucking headcase". We just assumed he imploded after that. :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

7. A guy at a party once told me the whole FEMA camp conspiracy thing

but then went a step further and explained that there are also underground camps operated by the government that they "disappear" people to, in order to feed the vampires that are in league with them.

"Like Dick Cheney?" I asked, thinking he was pulling my leg.

"Probably," he replied. "Have you ever seen him in full sunlight?"

Frighteningly enough, he was serious. I checked with a friend, apparently he goes on about stuff like that sober too. He's one of those stealth nutters who seem totally rational until they get to talking for a few minutes and then :crazy:

[Chan790]

5. When people used to discover that my at-that-time girlfriend was a pro-domme...

they used to feel it was kosher to discuss their sex lives with me. Strangers, friends, work colleagues, supervisors; gay, straight, pansexual, asexual; top, bottom, switch, vanilla. Also, to inquire about our sex-life. Occasionally, the presumptions that I was also a professional sex-worker or a submissive...except that was at-least amusing.

I got over being the sort of person who blushes easily very very quickly.

Edit: She had no shame about her career. She would mention it in all company; she even introduced herself to my mother with her professional nom-de-employ.

[jeff30997]

13. "professional nom-de-employ"

Was it Mistress Sylvia the Vamp ? :)

[Chan790]

15. No...

Also, vampire-play is not my bag. I'm haemophobic with vasovagal syncope. Passing out and vomiting at the sight of blood is not a good mood-setter.

She's a very nice girl who no longer works in that field and it'd be really awkward for me if a DUer (or some lurking Freep) knew her or sought her out. Hence, no name.

[jeff30997]

20. I was just kidding Chan790 and I'm

sure that she's a very nice girl.Whether or not she is/was working in that field or not is irrelevant

for me.As long as a person is not cruel or selfish I can be friend with him or her.

I know a bit about haemophobia (I can't stand the sight of other peoples blood but strangely if I'm

bleeding myself it's not as bad) but what is vasovagal syncope ?

[Chan790]

21. Fainting spells, basically.

Vasovagal syncope occurs when exposure to an unpleasant stimuli causes a trigger of the vagus nerve (which controls your circulatory system among other things) and impedes the sympathetic nervous system causing a mild but immediate vascular system event, either immediate dilation of the major blood vessels of the torso causing a drop in blood pressure or slowing of heart rate causing a drop in pulse. In either case, the end result is the same...oxygenated blood stops pumping into your head and to conserve O2, your brain shuts off consciousness. As soon as that occurs, because the stimuli has been removed, blood begins to pump normally and consciousness is restored. For this reason, it is common for sufferers to having cluster events where they faint, regain consciousness, are immediately re-exposed to the stimuli, faint again, regain, faint, regain, faint, regain...as they are not capable of removing themselves from the triggering stimuli. Typically, syncope is not life-threatening, merely alarming to bystanders and sufferers who don't know what is happening.

(I'm the opposite of you, my trigger is my own blood.)

And I wasn't so much concerned with you or anyone else from the Lounge really...we have lurkers and malfeasants here who are not such nice people sometimes. Bad things sometimes happen in her former line of work because people are loose with personal information so I don't give it out. Her clients don't know anything about her outside of work-life and for the most part, vice-versa.

[jeff30997]

22. "lurkers and malfeasants here who are not such nice people sometimes"

Yeah,I keep learning that the hard way,mostly in GD.Vasovagal syncope

seems funny as hell.:( I know how ordinary fainting is err let's say "unpleasant" for having

experienced it a couple of times in recent years so I hope these syncopes don't happen to you

frequently.

[fizzgig]

9. i was a cops reporter for five years

i had to discuss all manner of uncomfortable things with strangers.

[Orrex]

10. I thought that stool softeners took longer than 20 minutes to work?

Honestly, the most uncomfortable species of topic for me is religion or spirituality when I'm in among an unknown or potentially awkward crowd. Since I'm not a believer, when the topic drifts around to serious ruminations about past lives or God's grace, I find myself having to bite my tongue lest I say something that either offends someone important to me or else brands me simply as some kind of atheist asshole.

[hatredisnotavalue]

14. I was browsing the make up counter at Rite Aid when this woman

slowly inched her way along the aisle towards me. We both were looking at lipstick and she said to me in a slow whisper, "I can't get my diaphragm out." No lie.

[KittyWampus]

17. OMG!

:O

[MrCoffee]

27. You win

That's too bizarre, even for me.

[backtoblue]

32. So i HAVE to know your response!!!!

:wow:

[Zavulon]

16. A former boss told me in detail how a priest molested him - over and over and over.

Just so I know, how the fuck was I supposed to react to that? I've never wanted to leave a room so much in my entire life. :puke:

[nomorenomore08]

18. Some drunk/drugged-up dude in the middle of West Oakland started ranting and crying about

his ex-girlfriend who'd "killed" his unborn child (i.e. by having an abortion). He showed me a tattoo on his upper arm that, if I remember correctly, somehow involved a fetus and an ornate cross.

:crazy:

[Withywindle]

19. Colon cleansing.

What is WITH people who are evangelists for that? I can't imagine it ever being a topic to discuss with anyone who isn't a doctor. (I mean, unless you're into that, I guess, but keep it to other people who are into it please.)

Actually, most things to do with medical procedures are really inappropriate if unsolicited. No, I don't want to see your scar. No, I don't want to hear about your birthing experience in graphic detail. I'm actually really squeamish about stuff like that, and I start getting lightheaded and queasy if it gets too vivid.

[quakerboy]

23. I don't discomfort easily

My mother and sister started trying to use talk about monthly functions to make privacy for girl chat. That didn't work.

Then there was when my MIL broke out the family photo album(back before she was MIL, and was more in the acquaintance category). The one with nekid baby pictures of my wife and her little sis. The one with birthing pictures of my wife and her little sis.

Or when my FIL broke out the giant turd he created. That was the second time I met him. Apparently he took all sorts of psilosiben(sp), far more than anyone would recommend for "cleansing" and instead of flowing through, it solidified in the colon. several feet of it. And then his naturopath convinced him it had been siting inside of him for years.

Or when I picked up a hitch hiker and he told me all about how he stays awake on long trips. Lots of coffee and grease. Apparently it is "impossible to fall asleep" if you have to pee and have mega diarrhea trying to find its way to freedom.

[jeff30997]

24. The only word that I know that sounds like psilosiben is

Psilocybin AKA "shrooms" or magic mushrooms.It's a powerful hallucinogenic similar to LSD.

If your FIL was taking that stuff for "cleansing" then he must have seen pretty colors while

sitting on the can. :)

[quakerboy]

29. Psyllium. My bad and thanks for the correction

Ive been told that coke and LSD were more his speed and he regrets it terribly now, which may be why the naturopath was able convince him that the end result had been inhabiting his body for years, rather than just being an uncomfortable byproduct of delving into natural cures with no clue what he was doing.

[annonymous]

25. Someone told me what he used to do before he was born again.

It was on a crowded MTA bus and I couldn't move to another seat to get away from him. He told me the weird shit he would do when he was drinking and drugging. This was years ago and I have forgotten most of what he told me.

[Deep13]

26. Jesus nt

[demmiblue]

28. A hairstylist (that I had never been to before) and I were discussing hair coloring...

this led into the discussion of hiding those stray gray hairs. She busts out with the fact that she recently found them 'down there', and decided that a complete shaving was how she decided to deal with the issue. It really didn't make me uncomfortable, per say, but I was a little taken aback by a complete stranger discussing her grooming techniques with me. Lol!

Although, I have to agree with Deep13 as far as uncomfortable goes.

[graywarrior]

30. I volunteer to drive people to the hospital

Man...I tell ya, I've heard it all.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

31. A customer once grabbed her boobs and asked me if my nipples were pierced

[jeff30997]

34. And your answer was... ?

:P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

35. "No"

At that point, I decided it was best to get off the floor and go work on my paperwork in the office until the coast was clear.

[IntravenousDemilo]

33. His impending death. n/m

[1gobluedem]

36. "Is there a spot on my skirt?"

There wasn't when the woman asked but there was an instant later as I looked, unfortunately, she had violent diarreha. I will never forget it.

[Blue_Tires]

37. I was on a 6-hour drive with a friend of a friend

he was in his 60s, and was transsexual (not sure of the proper designation -- he went by a female name, had female mannerisms, and preferred sex with men)...So in the midst of fighting New York traffic, he decides to go into his entire sexual/drug use history, at least the stuff he remembers -- sex parties, coke, crack, fetishes, you name it, including the ups, downs and associated highs with each drug. (I had some idea about the sexual history, but the drug use was a shock to me, even though he was clean for years)...All I could do was concentrate on the road and put up the strongest mental blocks I could create...

[Lil Missy]

38. I wouldn't call it uncomfortable. But one time a stranger blew through town,

and was looking for a fuck-buddy. I told her I was not interested, and she told me to re-think whether I'm gay or not. LOL!

What fucking nerve! :eyes:

She was from Texas, BTW.