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Anonymous wrote:My DH and I were sitting in a restaurant one night and these two drunk losers were sitting at the table next to us. Midway through the meal one guy leaned over and tapped me on the shoulder and said, "you're about, what, 135?" And then they both laughed hysterically. I was a size 8-10 at the time, which I thought was just fine, but this really gutted me. So humiliating.

what jerks.

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Anonymous wrote:My thoughts on skimming through this thread: (1) some people have had some really awful things said to them and (2) some people read waaay too much into things and are terribly easily offended. Anyway, this made me think of a situation when I accidentally said something offensive. Really drunk, standing in the bathroom line at my 5-year high school reunion, I struck up a conversation with a girl from my class (not a friend but a small school so everyone knew everyone). She showed me a picture of her new son. At 23, the thought of motherhood was totally foreign to me (I had my first child at 36) but I was genuinely happy for her. So, I meant to rhetorically say, “Wow, do you just love being a mom?!” Instead, it came out as “Do you love him?” Ugh. She was totally offended and I was too drunk to explain myself. My parents don’t live where I went to high school any more so it is unlikely that I will ever see her again and, if I did, I don’t know how I would bring up such an ancient conversation without it sounding really weird. But I do feel bad about it.

Who has a 5 year HS reunion? But I digress..

Oh, I know! It wasn't long enough that anyone had even really changed much. Funny thing is that it is the only one I ever went to.

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Anonymous wrote:My thoughts on skimming through this thread: (1) some people have had some really awful things said to them and (2) some people read waaay too much into things and are terribly easily offended. Anyway, this made me think of a situation when I accidentally said something offensive. Really drunk, standing in the bathroom line at my 5-year high school reunion, I struck up a conversation with a girl from my class (not a friend but a small school so everyone knew everyone). She showed me a picture of her new son. At 23, the thought of motherhood was totally foreign to me (I had my first child at 36) but I was genuinely happy for her. So, I meant to rhetorically say, “Wow, do you just love being a mom?!” Instead, it came out as “Do you love him?” Ugh. She was totally offended and I was too drunk to explain myself. My parents don’t live where I went to high school any more so it is unlikely that I will ever see her again and, if I did, I don’t know how I would bring up such an ancient conversation without it sounding really weird. But I do feel bad about it.

Who has a 5 year HS reunion? But I digress..

Anonymous wrote:"Wow, your bottom doesn't look like a rhinocerous like the last time I saw you!"

Said by my grandmother when I was home from college for a visit. I guess that was a compliment though? It was such a ridiculous statement (I was maybe down 5 pounds, but had never been seriously overweight) and so typical of my grandmother that even at the time I could laugh about it, though I remember it to this day!

Anonymous wrote:My thoughts on skimming through this thread: (1) some people have had some really awful things said to them and (2) some people read waaay too much into things and are terribly easily offended. Anyway, this made me think of a situation when I accidentally said something offensive. Really drunk, standing in the bathroom line at my 5-year high school reunion, I struck up a conversation with a girl from my class (not a friend but a small school so everyone knew everyone). She showed me a picture of her new son. At 23, the thought of motherhood was totally foreign to me (I had my first child at 36) but I was genuinely happy for her. So, I meant to rhetorically say, “Wow, do you just love being a mom?!” Instead, it came out as “Do you love him?” Ugh. She was totally offended and I was too drunk to explain myself. My parents don’t live where I went to high school any more so it is unlikely that I will ever see her again and, if I did, I don’t know how I would bring up such an ancient conversation without it sounding really weird. But I do feel bad about it.

Anonymous wrote:My thoughts on skimming through this thread: (1) some people have had some really awful things said to them and (2) some people read waaay too much into things and are terribly easily offended. Anyway, this made me think of a situation when I accidentally said something offensive. Really drunk, standing in the bathroom line at my 5-year high school reunion, I struck up a conversation with a girl from my class (not a friend but a small school so everyone knew everyone). She showed me a picture of her new son. At 23, the thought of motherhood was totally foreign to me (I had my first child at 36) but I was genuinely happy for her. So, I meant to rhetorically say, “Wow, do you just love being a mom?!” Instead, it came out as “Do you love him?” Ugh. She was totally offended and I was too drunk to explain myself. My parents don’t live where I went to high school any more so it is unlikely that I will ever see her again and, if I did, I don’t know how I would bring up such an ancient conversation without it sounding really weird. But I do feel bad about it.

Anonymous wrote:I was adopted from another country and someone once said, "Go back to your own country...but wait, your real parents didn't want you."

Anonymous wrote:My mom battled depression her entire adult life and unfortunately when I was 15 committed suicide. My dad was REALLY shocked and thrown into severe grief that he was not equipped to handle. One night we were arguing and he said "This is why you mom killed herself, you are so hard to deal with." Hearing that really was the worst moment of my life. I was 90 percent sure it was his grief talking but it was still a very intense and awful moment. I told my aunt the next days whos extreme dismay reinforced to me that it wasn't true and she showed me the love I needed to feel. In hindsight it was a true blessing because my aunt and uncle demanded my dad get into therapy or we (the kids) would be taken to live with them. It snapped my Dad out of it and he did get therapy and things did get significantly better from that point on. But man, I remember that argument so vividly and the feeling in my stomach when he said those words!