Well we got a flat tire (nail) and took the car in this morning admittedly I was looking rough... uncombed hair/no mak-eup, ratty shirt and jeans and some flip flops. when I go to pay $15 for the tire repair I hand the guy a $50 and he hands me back $5 I say to him "I gave you a fifty" without as much as a second glance he says...

"Sorry you don't look the part of someone who would carry a fifty"

Feel free to share the WORST thing anyone has said to you so that I can feel better...o.k. so maybe I shouldn't be so self centered but it's that kind of a day...:D

the good news is Larry called the guy who said it and told him off (nicely)----
MY HERO:)

That's great customer service!! Was it some schmo employee or was it a small shop where he was the owner? I can't imagine he runs a very successful business with that kind of attitude.

Nat,

Sorry to hear. :( Did you at least get your money back?

People don't say many bad things to me, but a guy that didn't like me ran me off the expressway, jumped on my hood and put his fist through my windshield.

I'm sorry this happened to you, but glad you're hubby set him straight! It wasn't a good start to your day.

Well, I've had a not-so-great of a day yesterday & today. One of my friends was fired from her job yesterday after 9 years. When she started as administrator of a school for disturbed children, it was going down the tubes. She brought it to the point where they now get over a million dollars a year from the government to run the school. The reputation is now impeccable. And her boss said "it's over." The reason is politcal. Her boss feels pressured as some CEO wants someone else for the position. :confused:

"You're fired" wasn't said to me, but I feel it very deeply. And I'm a BIG GROUCH today! :p

Love ya Nat........

Liz

"Sorry you don't look the part of someone who would carry a fifty"

"Mmmm, maybe, but all I have to do is shower to look human..."

Megan

"Sorry you don't look the part of someone who would carry a fifty"


Think of it this way, now you have a great story to tell.

I'm usually pretty clean cut, but I recently went thru a long hair stage. One of my coworkers saw me from behind and asked another coworker "Who's the new tall girl".
I won't live that one down for awhile!

Hmmm... I actually had a couple of brothers arguing over how old they thought I was. I was 30 at the time, and the one brother thought I was closer to 40! Now THAT's depressing!

Sorry to hear Nat, hope your day gets better!

Yikes - that's not a good way to start the day!

I've got one like Kristin's - a few years ago, a co-worker asked me about some paperwork, which just happened to be filled out on my 30th birthday. I said "yeah, I remember that day pretty well!". She said "Oh, was that the day you turned 40?". She hasn't heard the end of that one, it's fun because she blushes everytime I bring it up! But not so funny that day...

that would be the owner
you had that one pegged right! :)

doing up that far north ;) I'm teasing Paul (ya know I love ya man)

what made him THAT angry??? He must have been from Massachusetts (home of Road rage)

that must have been wicked scary...thanks for sharing

doing up that far north ;) I'm teasing Paul (ya know I love ya man)

what made him THAT angry??? He must have been from Massachusetts (home of Road rage)

that must have been wicked scary...thanks for sharing

Nah, he just didn't like the appearance of my middle finger. I don't get it, it always looked fine to me.

That Sucks!
I hope you got the rest of your change back!
We love you Nat! No matter what you are wearing! :rolleyes: :D ;)
Brian

"I do." - That was the start of 5 years worth of daily misery and abuse... LOL.. Man am I glad that's over!

Great topic Nata. Thanks for posting it!
~Brian

PS. Regardless of how scary you look, we all still love you. ;)
~B

He broke his hand doing that! I'd have been terrified. :(

Spike

Nat,

Sorry to hear. :( Did you at least get your money back?

People don't say many bad things to me, but a guy that didn't like me ran me off the expressway, jumped on my hood and put his fist through my windshield.

being called an "F**ing bitch" is pretty high on my list of worst things people have ever said to me. I don't know why I let something a stranger yells at me get under my skin, but for some reason that hurts my feelings. I need thicker skin.

I hope you gave the repair guy a look that could kill, at the very least.

Spike


Well we got a flat tire (nail) and took the car in this morning admittedly I was looking rough... uncombed hair/no mak-eup, ratty shirt and jeans and some flip flops. when I go to pay $15 for the tire repair I hand the guy a $50 and he hands me back $5 I say to him "I gave you a fifty" without as much as a second glance he says...

"Sorry you don't look the part of someone who would carry a fifty"

Feel free to share the WORST thing anyone has said to you so that I can feel better...o.k. so maybe I shouldn't be so self centered but it's that kind of a day...:D

the good news is Larry called the guy who said it and told him off (nicely)----
MY HERO:)

So I'm about 5 months prego with #2, right to the point where I can't button my regular pants, but not so obviously pregnant yet, and we go to Target to get some new pants. I'm not buying anything more than $20 because if I wear it while I'm prego, I associate it with being prego, and will never wear it again.

So I find a great pair on the clearance rack, and am like "great, only $15" Thing is, the small pair was the only one with a price on them. So I take the EXACT pair of pants, in size medium, to the cashier, along with the small, and say "these are the exact same, (they were) how come they didn't ring up on clearance?" She says she has to ring them up as they scan, I say they are exactly the same, she says they are not ringing up like that, so I pay whatever it was they came up as.

While out on this adventure, I was wearing a pair of running pants, the kind with the stripe down the side, and a t-shirt. I'm crabby and huge and uncomfortable, and don't really want to be out at all. And I have just reached the point where I can't button my pants, which any woman will tell you, is enough to cause an emotional breakdown. But seeing as my dh hated the running pants, I went to get a pair of bibs.

On my way out, someone says that I looked like the kind of person who would switch the tags to get the clearance price. HELLO! HUGE PREGNANT LADY!! I got into the car, and cried all the way home, cried all night, cried the next day (homones maybe?).

And then, when I was farther along, and my shirt would slide right up over the watermelon I called my stomach, I had to listen to "don't you have a shirt that fits you?" Well, no, not really. In case you haven't noticed, I'm hugely pregnant you moron!

Feel better?

adina

My three yr old is laying in the floor, singing at the top of her lungs.

BAILEY LOVES MOMMY! BAILEY LOVES MOMMY!

Over and over again.

adina

That's terrible to hear for your friend and for you. good friends carry each others burdens. :(

Hang in there... She should start her own school sounds like she is fully equipped to handle it...

thnaks for sharing Liz

he he ....

here's me at 7 1/2 months when you're fat to start then get pregnant...apparently people's ideas of acceptable and unacceptable comments goes out the door. I have stories...see you were NOT huge I was....

that it such a wrong thing to say to someone... you definitely helped to get some perspective on my feelings...

as far as your positive note...that's cute...

if I have to see Stuart Little 2 again I may pull my hair out :D Thta's what they're watching again and again and again---but they're QUIET!

good one...

all I could manage back was..."I may not look like a fifty right now but your comment has sure helped to make me feel like a 20" he's always like that...what can you do. Thnaks for making me laugh

that's so not nice...thanks for sharing your story:(:)

So that Thanksgiving, while we are all having a good time, my dad whips out his digital camera, and takes some pics. Everyone one of me is a profile. And at that point can't even button the buttons on the sides of the bibs. Luckily, by that point, I didn't care who saw my fat belly and wore a crop top just about every day :)

Let me see if I can dig one up....

adina

the responses have helped...and my hubby calling and sticking up for me...

WAY out of his comfort zone THat's why it was extra special

I did...get the rest of my change and obviously his two cents

Regardless of how scary you look, we all still love you. ;)

I think :confused:;):D

One of the worst things said to me was one of the best things that ever happened to me. When I was in seminary I wrote an article for our school's paper and turned it in to the editor. As he began to glance it over he belched out a huge laugh. Naturally I was upset. So I asked him what was so funny, and he said it wasn't the content of my article that made him laugh but my grammar. In fact, he said it was "absolutely atrocious!" From that point on I was determined never to be laughed at again for my grammar, so I took an English and composition course (the latter twice!) and, behold, I'm now a decent writer. And that's what you've got to in situtations like this. Never let yourselves become intimidated or inhibited by criticism--even when it's harsh or uncalled for--but rather use it to your advantage to better yourself. I can't remember who originated this saying, but it goes like this: "Are you a victim or a victor?" The answer to that question will determine not just your outlook on life but how well you succeed through life as well.

Ray

I was trying to keep Anastasia from crying (she's teething and was sick and miserable) add that to the equation...

Hmm... Interesting thread. I'm not sure what the worst thing ever said to me was. It could be the time my grandmother pointed out that my family loved my brother better because he was the first child.
I have had many random, in my opinion, rather funny things yelled at me. There was the time my friend and I were shopping the day after Thanksgiving and I "stalked" a lady leaving the store in order to get her parking spot, as there was absolutely nowhere to park, and a lady in an SUV came tearing down the parking lot thinking that she was going to get my parking spot. She didn't of course, but was highly upset when I waved to her after getting out of the car, so she yelled at my friend and I that we needed to go to the gym. We both thought it was a rather funny insult, all things considered.

I was insulted by a man, (different time, same friend) in a Lexus SUV. I also own a beat up old truck and unfortunately the back brakes went out right before I was supposed to take Kara to pick up some furniture. We were in horrible traffic and the guy in the Lexus decided he wanted to be in the far left (fast) lane where I was. He just decided to start moving over, despite the fact that I was in the lane. I couldn't get my truck to stop fast enough to make room to let him over, so I didn't. He was within inches of hitting me when I finally blew my horn. He rolled down his window and ask "Aren't you going to let me in?" to which I replied, "NO, not anymore I'm not."
His only comeback to that was, "What would your mother think of you?"
I might be an agressive driver, but at least I don't yell bad insults out the window.
*Smiles*

I think I'm going to win, since mine is from my own mother. Now I know my mother loves me dearly, but the woman just doesn't think sometimes. So here's the sitch:

I think I was 20 or so -- my sister and her family were visiting from Georgia and they had been hoping to dump their kids on my parents and have a nice dinner out by themselves, but my mother had other ideas. So there I am, sitting at the dining room table, when all of a sudden my mother asks me if I think I can handle watching my 9 nieces and nephews that Friday night.

"Why?" I ask. Well, because then she and my father, my two sisters and their husbands, and my brother and his then-wife can all go out to dinner! I just sat there for a minute before responding, "Let me get this straight. You want me to watch everybody else's kids so that you can all go out to dinner.....without me?"

OUCH.

Danielle

Not me, but my dh.

So my dh's mom is Native American/Spanish, and his dad is as white as they come. When my dh was young (around 5ish), his grandmother on his mom's side used to call them ugly in Spanish because they were "mixed".

Ahh, nothing like the love of a grandmother :)

adina

Sheesh Penny! Very sorry to here this -- but you have a family here that loves ya to pieces!

Danielle

The worst thing anyone ever said to me?
HMMM - I know:

"NO" ;)

I had a similar misconception of how people in wheel chairs are treated and had a wake up call when we went to Disney when I was 7 1/2 months pregnant (yeah it was stupid timing) and after two days I had had enough of being elbowed in the belly and ridiculously long lines and humidity in June in FL...so we got a wheelchair so I could have a better time---HA!

some of my favorites "Why does she get a wheelchair --Is she fat or pregnant?"

"Why does she get to go to the front of the line just cause she got knocked up"

Needless to say I realized how discourteous I have been to people in wheelchairs and it helped my charcater out and helped me to appreciate my mobility and stop whining(sometimes)

Sorry about your mom...I don't have one so blatantly rude and mean mine is passive aggresive and throws the zingers and gulit out...

Thnaks for sharing

meaness and nastiness are just unecessary. I'm glad you were able to gain something from that experience. Nad I'm glad you shared a lighter and brighter way to handle these type of situations:)

doing up that far north ;) I'm teasing Paul (ya know I love ya man)

what made him THAT angry??? He must have been from Massachusetts (home of Road rage)

that must have been wicked scary...thanks for sharing

It's not my style to punch a windshield, driver's side windows are easier ;)

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Seacrest OUT

I agree ;) shhhhh mine was by accident------sorta (I was 16 what can I say)