The most polite insult you've recieved? redone

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  • brittshea9
    brittshea9 Posts: 18 Member
    I worked in cosmetics for about 8 years and I used to get "You just have the prettiest face" all the time. I took that as somewhat of a backhanded compliment because to me, they were basically saying my face was pretty but my body wasn't.
  • somemansdream
    somemansdream Posts: 88
    LMAO...people are just crazy sometimes.

    Get this. I go to this little convience store all the time. I have had many conversations with the guy at the counter. Now, I know I go around in shorts and t-shirts, hair brushed but not fixed up, no makeup--very laid back. One night my hubby who worked out of town was coming home. I decided to get dressed up with fixed hair, makeup, very flattering shirt and good fitting jeans. I ran to this little store after getting dressed to buy a 12 pack of beer. This same guy I see all the time and talks to started flirting with me. He's young and checking me out and took my id and read my name and address and was like "Your from here???" OMG. lol.

    I guess a little makeup and effort made a huge transformation from my day look!!! lol
  • ELENA_Z
    ELENA_Z Posts: 78 Member
    bump
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    I have 2!! Check this...

    1. So I sang at my grandmother's funeral. Afterwards, the minister came up to me and said "wow, you have a beautiful voice! You were like Susan Boyle, I just didn't expect that voice out of you."
    ---um, thanks?
    2. My SIL after I'd lost 60lbs...you're doing good, but you'll really be able to tell once you hit 100.
    ---seriously...that REALLy hurt my feelings! I felt so good about my weight loss and then someone rips the carpet from under your feet.

    Ugh!!!
  • gkwatra
    gkwatra Posts: 431 Member
    and, even if a guy is trying to be polite, this happened last week at work. "Excuse me Ma'am." Do I look like I am old enough to be called Ma'am?!

    In some places any adult, even one who's in late teens will be addressed by strangers as ma'am or sir. It is polite.

    Even in my early 20's I got called "maam." And I have always looked young for my age.
  • susiepet
    susiepet Posts: 68
    Oooh - the time my ex-boss said - if you lost five stone I'd take you on a date (on two separate occasions)
    me - the second time, when I'd had a chance to think of a reply - OK I'll diet - why don't you try to improve your IQ to half mine while I do that?
    Him - very insulted.

    Forward five years - when I bumped into him at a conference and coincidentally was much lighter...

    Him - well I see you lost the weight so how about dinner?
    Me - darling, I really don't think so - you've obviously not kept your half of the bargain

    Fortunately not a man who could still influence my career!
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
    Just last month, I ran into one of my wife's coworkers who hadn't seen me in six months. I'd lost almost 60 lbs since she'd seen me last, and she said:

    "There's something really different about you, but I can't put my finger on it... Did you take a shower?"
  • Cali_Chica
    Cali_Chica Posts: 895 Member
    "Well bless your heart"....I'm dont have rosetta stone but i think that's southern for something really mean
  • TheSwollMinister
    TheSwollMinister Posts: 246 Member
    "You kiss like my future ex-boyfriend."

    I had to think about that one for a minute....
  • Cali_Chica
    Cali_Chica Posts: 895 Member
    "You kiss like my future ex-boyfriend."

    I had to think about that one for a minute....

    Haha! That's hilarious!
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    My favorite has always been "But you have such a pretty face." The implication being that the rest of you is god-awful. Well gee, thank you.
  • leslisa
    leslisa Posts: 1,350 Member
    "You'd be so attractive if you were a man."

    I'd like to say it was a stranger but it was family...
  • fattofit84
    fattofit84 Posts: 141
    Wow uve lost weight ur only a lttle fat now! -wow thanx ?
  • jlapey
    jlapey Posts: 1,850 Member
    My mother never really SAYS anything, but she doesn't think twice about laughing and grabbing hold to a fat roll (even a small one) to indicate that she noticed it which in turn brings it to the attention of every one else.

    ETA: oops, I guess this doesn't count here as it really isn't "polite" AT ALL. Though she once told me when I was younger and actually thin, "if your top would match your bottom, you'd have it made".
  • ConnieM20
    ConnieM20 Posts: 493 Member
    I was getting out of my car and walking towards the gym a year or so ago and a guy in the parking lot started talking to me trying to flirt, then he said "what are you doing at the gym? you look great the way you are. BBW is sexy."

    :explode:
  • FatHuMan1
    FatHuMan1 Posts: 1,028 Member
    "You'd be so attractive if you were a man."

    I'd like to say it was a stranger but it was family...


    I get that all the time too.
  • heymirth
    heymirth Posts: 448
    Have you been sick????
  • ModernNerd
    ModernNerd Posts: 336 Member
    I was a late bloomer I guess so it wasn't til college that *poof* I got hips and a butt. I don't have any grandparents anymore, but we have a very close family friend who has to be pushing 95. She's the cutest lil thing and I love her dearly, but being Italian she's pretty straight shooting. When I came home from school to see her, the first thing she said was, "Finally, you look like a girl now!"
  • TropicalFlowerz
    TropicalFlowerz Posts: 1,990 Member
    you could be a model!...from the neck up.(g,thanx..i think?)
  • thatonegirlwiththestuff
    thatonegirlwiththestuff Posts: 1,171 Member
    ''Can I see your ID?''
    ''Sure! Thanks for carding me, you totally made my night!''
    *looks at ID*
    ''Oh wow, I thought you were 23, I never would have guessed you were THAT old.''
    Seriously?!?! Since when is 29 old!?!:sad:
  • Razz_Baby
    Razz_Baby Posts: 89 Member
    Several years ago I was at a gym on a bike. The woman next to me said, "Wow, I'm really impressed that you are working out while pregnant!" Um, my daughter was 3 years old at the time....
  • gmhaggie06
    gmhaggie06 Posts: 207
    'You look like Mr.Incredible before he started working out' a kid who came to my door for Halloween (i was dressed as a pirate)
  • MsJulielicious
    MsJulielicious Posts: 708 Member
    You've been working really hard and are looking good!
    Before not so much
    *does elaborate fat shape hand gesture*
    Good job on not being fat anymore!
    Keep working hard!
  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    "Yeah, you've lost a lot of weight - you're starting to look like an AIDS patient, dude!"
  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    Mine actually isn't weight related, but work related ...

    I worked at a law firm that was a "boys' club" (my personality DID NOT fit). I was working with a client defending a $26 million dollar claim, having only worked at this firm for about 7 months and assigned this case about a month into my employment. 6 weeks before trial, the head partner got involved and had a conference call with said client. Apparently, client raved about me because afterwards, I was called into his office so he could tell me "[client] really likes you. I don't know why, but she does."

    I think I got him back - twice. He called me into his office another time to tell me "you just don't get how I like things." A discussion ensued about the lack of "how he likes things" training, and he ended by saying "well, the only person who ever got me is dead." My response "I'm sorry sir. I'm good, but I can't channel the dead."

    A month later I switched sides and went to work for the most feared female attorney in the state - and his arch-enemy :devil: :happy:

    hB7F7B686
  • nathotte
    nathotte Posts: 51 Member
    One of my friends I know she's trying to be supportive but it would sabbotage more than anything if I was to listen to her. Every weekend it's fast food and pizza with her kids. If I don't go since I haven't been doing too well and well 3 days of crap I can't do. Her response is always but look at the work you've done, you look great, who cares if you don't watch it as much anymore. 135? why do you want to go to that small? Why can't you just be happy with where you are now? Why don't you take a break?? I know it's because she thinks I look good and that the work I've done is showing but really???????? And if I dare point out that look I still need to tone the areas where the fat is mostly gone that's a whole other debate.
  • mlrodgers381
    mlrodgers381 Posts: 71 Member
    The cab driver once asked me "How many kids do you have?" Err I'm still single without a child, do I look like I have kids? :grumble:

    I had a similar thing happen (about 20 years ago). I was helping my friend start his new business (it was doing tax returns), but it was a "we'll come to your house" kind of business. So I left several flyers on people's cars and I got one callback for doing the return. I went to the guys house, and just as I'm about to leave he says, "So, when are you due?" I look at him and say, "I'm not pregnant", and instead of saying, sorry or something similar, he blurts out, "Oh...I thought you were". Uhhhh....SHUTUP now...please...geesh!!
  • action_figure
    action_figure Posts: 511 Member
    From my mother-in-law. 1st time I ever met her, she said to my hubby in front of me "when did you go to FL and get the beach whale." I cursed her out!
    A few months ago she said: "Your starting to look like a baby beach whale now, keep it up."

    Old *kitten* germany woman. LOL

    Those are not polite insults.
  • hickorycutie
    hickorycutie Posts: 210 Member
    I always get " You would be alot prettier if u would lose some weight"
  • 1longroad
    1longroad Posts: 642 Member
    Can't even begin to tell you how many times I've been asked, "When is your baby due?" Ummm, I'm not pregnant I;m just fat. Followed with them saying, "You're not THAT fat." Yea, sure.

    One of my most recent comments was, after losing 60 pounds or so, "Well, now that you're skinny, if you do something with your hair, you'll be able to get a boyfriend". Hmmm, I am 56, don't want a boyfriend and I am not skinny. lol

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