you've ever been asked? i've been reading some on another forum and now i'm curious. given that this is an animal lovers site, the question to me was why would you spend so much money on 'just' a dog?
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you've ever been asked? i've been reading some on another forum and now i'm curious. given that this is an animal lovers site, the question to me was why would you spend so much money on 'just' a dog?
In real life, I once had a neighbor ask me "No kids? What's wrong with you?" in a way that I knew he thought was being funny. Suffice to say he will never do that ever again.
This is not pet related at all, but VERY rude. Last year I stopped coloring my hair for about 6 months. I was going through a health food/lifestyle phase and trying not to use many chemicals.
Went to a family party for one of the little ones. My niece's husband looked at me and said...wow Aunt Helen, can't you afford hair color any longer? I couldn't believe it. This is a guy that pretty much will say anything. I laughed it off but just seriously thought to myself...what the heck?!?
"It smells in here. Do you take a bath every day?" from a college roomate. She was a total holier than thou "princess" beeyotch. I ended up swapping rooms with somebody else.... ummmm.... with a darker skin tone just like hers, and she never had any issues at all with them.
I don't know if it's the rudest question we've ever been asked but it is one that I HATE.
"so how much money do you make"
I dont' know I was just always taught that you don't ASK people that... of course this same person spent the whole week talking about money and asking how much this friend makes and how much this person makes and how much is your bonus and blah blah blah. I just can't stand the money obsession
This question was not only rude but uncalled for, "how can you stand living with a cat"? I cannot post here what my answer to that was but I'm sure you all have an idea. :mad:
:mad:The ruddest question I was asked was when I worked as a grocery store cashier.
One of the customers I was checking out asked me 'how long till the bread was out of the oven' (bad way of asking when the baby is due).......
I was not pregnant!:mad:
Just because someone has on a loose flowing top and happens to have a pudgy looking belly, does not make one pregnant!
Hmm, rudest question I've been asked? Probably when it comes to my hearing disability. "Can you hear?" in the wrong situation.
What did you do with the body?:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
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LOL,
The gal I was dating asked me (Remember, I am half Mexican...) "What do you eat on Thanksgiving"?
I kept a straight face and told her, "Tacos, burritos, rice and beans".
She had a stunned look on her face and I laughed like a drunken idiot and told her, "what do YOU think?"
I am still laughing.:):D
I've been asked that question a million times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
I was asked that once too. I was standing in a checkout line and the lady in line in front of me was very obviously pregnant. The cashier asked her when her baby was due and the lady told her. Then the cashier turned to me and asked when my baby was due. I turned bright red as I told her I wasn't pregnant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catlady711
Like you I was wearing a shirt that was loose and I hold my extra weight in my belly.
The rudest question is one I've been asked alot lately.
Why didn't you leave sooner?
Unless you've been emotionally abused you will never understand, I couldn't.
Oooooo! It would take a book to write up what lead up to a Captain asking me this..
"What KIND of relationship do you and "Captain X" have anyway, that he allows that?".. I told him REAL quick that I didn't like how that sounded at ALL! I was highly insulted that someone that had only known me for several days would judge me in any way...
"So when are you and hubby going have have kids of your own?"
I ALWAYS replied: "They're teenagers... the best birth control imaginable."
And when I was single:
"So why are you still single?" If I knew why, I wouldn't have been single, now would I have been? :rolleyes:
I was asked the old "When is your baby due?" question. I replied, "Two months ago." Bummed me out on two levels: one, that I was obviously still fat two months after giving birth and two, that I was too poor to buy new clothes. :(
I also get various versions of "OMG, how can you STAND to have that many dogs in your house?"
When I was in my teens, I was climbing steps from the train to the street, and two handsome, white collar guys (you never know) asked me how long it took me to learn how to get my big fat ass moving up the steps.
Wha? 30+ years later, 30 pounds lighter, I'm still haunted. I can see it as if it was yesterday.
Um the rudest was when I was skinny in highschool don't you ever eat? :rolleyes: I'd like to be asked that now that I am not skinny anymore. :rolleyes:
" "So why are you still single?" If I knew why, I wouldn't have been single, now would I have been? "
I don't even know where to go with that one. I've been asked that many times and I find it rude. I CHOOSE to be single. I don't have to figure out what's wrong with me! I know why. It's a choice for me. I could be married if I wanted to be. It's none of their business. I wouldn't ask a married person when they expected to be divorced! :mad:
The questions I find rude don't involve context, it's more of an issue with of how the question was asked. I will answer any question because subject matter doesn't bother me as long as A. the person wants an HONEST answer and B. they ask tactfully. Any question that can't be asked tactfully is one that should go unanswered in my opnion.
When working as a secretary, about 4 yrs ago I had an office colleague and she always used to ask personal questions...to everyone!
I had a house for sale and when I did sell it she asked me how much money did I sell it. She knew how much I had bought it for, so she wanted to know how much money I made! Since I was waiting for this question I told her:
'Oh! what a pitty did not know you wanted to buy it yourself! Well its too late now!'
Some people don't have any idea where the margin of norm and too personal stands!
Quoted because its true.Quote:
Originally Posted by karyn674
"Are those real?" :mad: I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out to what he was referring. :o
I constantly get asked 'when are you having kids?'. UGH so annoying! First off, I'm childfree and proud! Secondly, if for some reason I wanted kids (*never gonna happen) and couldn't have any, I'd be really upset at people asking that all the time, and third, my reproductive system is none of your business!! I should be asking you- 'why would you have kids??'
The garden gnomes by your front door?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
I walk weird, really weird. I don't really know why, but its apparently very noticable. People never really say anything but sometimes I'll get 'what is wrong with your legs?'. It's really annoying, REALLY annoying. :rolleyes:
I've only gottent this once so far since I've had Mikey and since I have over 60 pictures of him on FB but someone asked me why I was so obsessed with my dog in a joking manner but it still gets on my nerves. :rolleyes:
Similar situation. A friend of my college roommate asked her if I was pregnant because of the way I was dressed. I was floored.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catlady711
Strangely enough, the rudest question asked was right here on PT.
I was so shocked, I passed it off with a funny answer, but I've never
forgotten it. No one, absolutely no one, called the person on it.
Ugh I've been asked this too and then usually followed up with "can I touch em"... and usually the worst offenders are other WOMEN :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
and I'm surprised no one has asked me when I am due yet because I could definitely pass myself off as a pregnant woman lol
And I'll bet it's not the obvious!Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
I say fingernails.....:D
I know what you're thinking Mary - but I couldn't resist!
Since I've never been married it's probably the "why are you still single?" question. I usually say that I just haven't found the right person and leave it at that. People also always assume that you have children and when I say that I don't they seemed shocked to hear this too.
The perfect answer for that "why are you still single?"
WHY get married and make only one man happy.........?
I'd rather be single and make them ALL happy!
(that was my answer when I was young and out in the singles scene and it shut them up fast!)
It's got to be "Why are you so upset? It's just a dog" when Angus died.
This was well over 20 years ago and I remember it as if it was yesterday...
My husband and I were going through infertility procedures and there were times certain things were happening and I had to get to the doctor's office at THAT MOMENT. My instructions were to just call and tell them I was on the way. EVERY TIME I called, the nurse/receptionist asked, "ARE YOU PREGNANT?" To which I did NOT reply, although I wanted to, "NO, STUPID, THAT'S THE PROBLEM!":mad:
I've been asked the same question twice by this jerk in the mall here. It's one of those center kiosk (sp) things and the sales people are trying to sell their product. In this case it was these neck warmer wrap things. Anyway, I'm walking becide Quinn, and, not to toot my own horn or anything, but she's a stunning child. He looks at her, then looks at me, and then at her and gasps and says, "Oh my goodness, is she YOURS?" When I reply, "yes", he says (after looking at me then back at her, "WOW, she's gorgeous!". Yes I am aware she's a gorgeous child but Mister, I'm not a total hag. It's really insulting. That same man has said that same thing to me twice. I avoid that whole kiosk now. She is a pretty child, and I know I'm not a supermodel or anything, but I'm not a total hag and I am capable of producing a pretty child. GRRRR. It's so insulting. They way he says it, he's obviously surprised that such a pretty child is the product of me. I can't tell exactlly where he's from, but he has a strong accent (maybe Italian), so maybe in the country he's from, it's OK to be so rude.
Karen I'm so angry at the miserable monsters that said that to you. Shame on them, those miserable jerks. :( When I was a young girl, I was about 12, I was in Santa Barbara, CA at my aunts house and she and a few of her friends were taking my family and I to a big ritzy party. I was (and still am) really sensetive, and this one perticular friend of my aunt was a horrible man. I was waiting for my brother and my dinner to be done in the microwave (we were having those frozen fried chicken pieces and were waiting on the chicken to finish cooking in the microwave) and this friend of my aunts said, "come on Leslie, you don't need to eat, you're fat enough". It took a few seconds to comprehend what he said (no grown-up had ever used those ugly words with me before) and then I ran out of the house crying. I'm still traumatized by that. How could anyone be so ugly, especially to a sweet child?Quote:
Originally Posted by K9karen
The thing that immediately comes to mind is (and I've received several versions of this question) Do you have all those birds to make up for the fact that you never had children?
Excuse me. . .I never wanted children. I did, however, want every single bird that I share my home with.
:p
I can't think of any rude questions, but the annoying one has to do with Bruce and I not being married. It comes in many forms - Don't you want to get married? Doesn't he want to get married? Do you think you'll ever get married? Do you (does he) want kids?
We've been together for almost 7 years, why get married? It's working just fine as it is. Besides, why is it anyone else's business if I'm married or not? I don't understand!!! If I weren't happy and insisted on being married I guess I would have left him years ago, right?
Laura, I love your response to the "why are you still single?" question. That's hilarious!!! I was asked that a lot back when I was single too. I wish I had that answer for them. :D
This is at the crux of so many rude questions. The simple answer is, it's NOT anyone else's business. Period.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taz_Zoee
I've always thought that Quinn looks a lot like you..... he obviously has no idea what he is talking about....Quote:
Originally Posted by AdoreMyDogs
Me?Quote:
Originally Posted by Catherinedana
I would have given them the 'bird'.
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All you gals out there aren't alone.
My mom would ask me all the time, "when are you going to get married?"
Like most of us, we realized at one point in life that we weren't destined for that road in life.
My answer to them was, "I can't find anyone follish enough to marry me."
Parenthood is a huge responsibility and I think that most of us realized that we are not up to the challenge.
I mean, do they ask people "Don't you have enough kids?" to the people who have a baseball team in tow?:rolleyes::eek: