Dumbest comment you ever heard

I remember when my oldest was a toddler (and still the only child) I took her out to play in the courtyard of our apartment building. I brought a basketball to play with, and the stroller to bring her back up in in the hopes she would nap.

So we were walking down, basketball in the stroller, and a lady comes over:
"Aww, she's so cute"--Peeks in the stroller--"They're BOTH so cute!"

That's a basketball, lady!

I know she meant well, but it cracked me up for days.

Senior Member Joined: May 13 2010 Age: 24 Posts: 128

a group of family members were talking about a certain baby formula. I happened to mention that I use another formula. someone heres this and says "oh your preg" (stated not asked tone). when the room went silent that person said '"he said" (he meaning my dh he never did ). I was but only found out a week ago and did not even have a est. due date . and I was nursing but supplementing for the longest time. and this person knew my baby took bottles (first I pumped but switched to formula when baby needed a bottle.)

I will add a few more... very typical Israeli comments from people standing in line at the supermarket behind me commenting on my groceries.

"That cheese has 32% fat. Did you see that? That's a lot"
"I don't like that kind of lettuce, it's so bitter"
"Why? You have hands" ... and making an action with his hands like he was cutting vegetables (because I was buying a pre-chopped salad bag)
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Gold Member Joined: Feb 12 2008 Posts: 2402

Is that your daughter? You know she doesn't look anything like you.

I get that from random people all the time who will walk up to me just to tell me that (like in Penn Station) because it is so important to tell me that I don't look biologically related to my kid, which I really don't. I don't care but in many situations that could be a very sensitive topic and it isn't something that needs to be said.
What's funny is that people used to tell my mother all the time how much she looks like my sister and how my sister got her gigantic eyes when in reality they aren't biologically related at all.

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I've got two....

A: "You have such an interesting name. Where is your family from?"
B: "We're Iranian."
A: "Oh how interesting! I've never met anyone from Irania before!"

A: "I am really upset, I got a B on this paper I worked so hard on."
B: "Well, at least you care about your schoolwork, I am totally content with mediocracy!"

Gold Member Joined: Apr 27 2010 Posts: 2006

I visited my friend one day and met her neighbor.
The woman asked me if I'm (my friend's) sister, I said no, just friends!

She said we look so alike. Well, what can I tell ya folks? My friend and I Cannot look more different. So I laughed.

So that neighbor tells me, no joke, but I used to be in a group of 3 friends, and we were do close that after a while we started looking alike. Not listening

Silver Member Joined: Jul 28 2005 Posts: 753

Oh Gosh I cant pick! I have way to many to choose from

Here are a couple
1) in the grocery store with my b/g twins (I think they were around 1) Lady comes up to me
L: Oh are they twins?
Me: yep
L: Really?
M: Yep
L: but they have different color hair!!
M: Um yeah and this one's a girl and this ones a boy
L: Oh I can tell that but I just did not realize twins could have different color hair.
Me trying not to laugh!!!!
(DD has red hair and blue eyes DS has brown hair brown eyes)

Another story:
DH was on the phone with sprint about a bill that was wrong they had charged us to much. The person on the other line said she would refund the total minus the tax's. DH asked why she would not give the tax's back and she said "you have to call the IRS for that I cant give you the tax's back" DH said WHAT???? She said we already paid the government the tax's so you have to get them to refund it to you. DH tried explaining to her that that was not how it works but she was adamant so he asked to speak with her supervisor. while on hold he told me what was going on and we were in stitches laughing so hard when the supervisor got on the phone and DH said to her "your never going to belive what your sales person told me"....

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I was just newly married (and have blond hair)
and my dh didn't realise I guess, bc he startet making dumb blond jokes at the shabbes table.
lol !! I didn;t care.

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Executive Member Joined: Nov 08 2009 Posts: 376

Not a comment but just plain dumb. My dh just went to get a new drivers lisence because his old one was from a different state. He brought all his paperwork to the DMV- birth certificate, ss card, ect. and when he recieved the lisence in the mail somehow they managed to spell his name wrong!

Gold Member Joined: Dec 06 2007 Posts: 1388

My friend's mother had a baby when she was married already and had a baby of her own.
At the Shalom Zachor someone walked over to her and said something like "mazal tov! so what is this baby to you?"
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Gold Member Joined: Aug 12 2009 Posts: 1732

I love all the twins comments!

My friend with twins was asked in a supermarket if her toddler twins were identical. She replied "No. One's a boy and one's a girl." The person then asked "But will they be identical when they're older?"

Another time she was asked which one is her favourite Shocked

My friend went for her first US when she was pregnant.
The technician started telling her off that she was way to young to have had fertility treatments.

So that's how she found out she was having twins.

(and she hadnt had FT)
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