I just had to share this. I was just on Pogo.com playing a game I have become addicted to--Golf Solitaire. Like many Pogo games, you are in a chatroom of sorts while you are playing--usually about 20 people.

Person #1 asked me where in VA I lived (my Pogo name still has "inVA" in it) and I explained that I no longer live in VA but am now in DE.

Person #2, upon hearing that I lived in DE, offered me a tip that the slot machines in Dover will rip you off; I told him I'd already been there recently with my mother and that she won big while I lost.

Person #3, who apparently had looked up my profile when attention was paid to me and saw that I was 55 years old, said to me in the public chatroom "Is your mother very elderly or near death?"

I was just stunned. I told her that it was a very rude thing to ask and she didn't say anything else. I left the room to make dinner shortly thereafter (I was already 1 game past the time I said I was going to stop anyway).

SHEESH! The things people will say when they don't have to look you in the face!

Anyone else have experiences with people saying strange things lately?

This wasn't said to me, but to my friend who is 7 pregnant right now. She said "People keep telling me I don't even look pregnant." She said "I hope I look pregnant, otherwise I just look really fat."

My friend has been quite overweight for a long time, but has been doing a great job of losing following weight watchers. I think it makes her feel like all of her hard work was for nothing.

Dawn

Maybe we should make this a permanent column a la "what are we reading" or "what are we watching"

How about "what are they saying - idiots!!"

Before I was married, I was on a Big Brother/Big Sister camping trip. One of the BBs left because his father was having open heart surgery. The father didn't make it. My little sis rode her bike down a hill - something not found in Toledo, Ohio - and got a bad case of road rash to go along with her broken wrist. It seems to me something else happened, but I don't remember. What I do remember is coming back and relating everything to my best friend who said, "You're kidding." I told her I don't kid about broken bones and people dying."

Why do we say that?

Also when I was 38 and pregnant with my first and only child someone who knew dh and just started working where I did was incessant about my having tests (amniocentesis) despite my insisting we were having a baby - not tests.

Linda

Hah! A new one today at work!

"You dress very nice. Are you rich?"

Sheri, I think part of it is that I don't work with Ops or tactical people...I work with...for lack of a better way to put it...the nerds.

People don't seem to think before they talk (or type).

I can't even list all the horrible things that I've been told over the years but I just try to chock it up to ignorance and not maliciousness.

This was NOT recently, in fact it was 27 years ago while I was still pregnant with dd.

When dh was in the hospital (in a coma) I was very, very obviously preggers as I sat in a waiting area near his room. While waiting to catch the doctor on his rounds I was talking to another lady about what had happened to dh. As she was leaving she laid her hand on my arm and very seriously said "I am so glad you have decided to keep the baby." ?!?!?!?! WHAT?! She was gone before I could recover from my shock & make an appropriate reply

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Originally posted by D in St Pete:
I've decided that the military needs to introduce "social acceptance" training. Some people will say ANYTHING

WOW. That is SO not my experience when I worked with the military at the Pentagon--then again, that was a LOT of years ago. I worked for the Navy and came in contact with Marines pretty frequently, but did not have much contact with Army or Air Force folks as they were on other floors.

I give you major props for having stayed there as long as you have. If you had that many rude things said to you within a 2-week period, I don't think I'd be able to tolerate it for long.

Today, while wearing a (not bright) red shirt:
"WOW! Your shirt is red! You should tone it down."
(Understand that in the real world, it's not bright red. In a sea of desert camo, it stands out, but is STILL NOT BRIGHT.)

Earlier in the week, while walking down the hall with the Lean Cuisine I'd just heated up in the break room (I put them back in the box to carry them to my desk):
"Good for you, trying to lose weight!"

Last week, while learning wiki language (sitting quietly at my desk!) for a page I'm designing at work:
"You know, being good at EVERYTHING doesn't make people like you."

I've decided that the military needs to introduce "social acceptance" training. Some people will say ANYTHING...and if they're of a high enough rank when they say it, no one tells them they sound like a jackmuppet. If I think of more, I'll post them.

For about a month our HVAC system at the library was not working correctly. It was about 65 degrees in the building. Every single employee was wearing winter sweaters at least, but it felt like it was about 50 degrees to me, so I was huddled under a blanket, a fleece jacket, and gloves.

Every single person who came in asked "Oh are you cold?". And the worst part is that they think they're being unique, and that I haven't heard that forty times in the last hour.