Did anyone ever tell you that you're beautiful?

[chainedbarista]

i wasn't upset; skinny just has a negative feel for some reason...maybe it's from reading too many comic books with the old charles atlas ads in them!

[Ryu]

i wasnt upset just pointing that out in case anyone felt that way

[Dragon_Dreamer]

I'm trying to lose weight, at the moment, actually. I've been underweight most of my life, having hit 100lbs for the first time at age 17. After cutting my activity level way down, I'm actually on the low end of overweight. I should weigh a maximum of 145, I'm currently around 160. (I'm 5'4") Unfortunately, more than a couple pounds are in my chest area. I'm VERY well endowed naturally, which has led to some problems in the past. All this is genetics, btw, actively managing my weight is actually a very new concept for me. ^^;;

When I was about 16/17 (I looked younger, maybe about 14) and my chest had really started to expand (about half the size it is now, but still), I weighed 95lbs or so.

One old bat actually stopped me on the sidewalk in town and verbally flayed me, telling me I was "too young to have had that surgery and dammit, go eat something, you anorexic b****! Don't you know those sluts on TV are going to die alone and unwanted?!"

Her words are seared into my brain. I was FURIOUS, and ready to cry, but I just walked away. I'd already taken to wearing loose clothes to hide my body for other reasons, and my self-esteem, due to unrelated things in my life, was already pretty low.

Nowadays, I'd probably laugh in her face, tell her the damned things are real and that I plan to have them mostly removed as soon as my insurance will pay for it. Then I'd proceed to tell her just where she can shove her jealous opinions. Some people need lives.

Edit: I just realized I have a picture from around the time of the incident. http://sandwich.net/cygnata/photos/prom.jpg

[ladyklack]

I once had a customer with a severe case of foot in mouth syndrome. At the time I was one of two girls working in a store, and I was the larger one. This guy calls up and asks to speak to the girl that was helping him in the store yesterday. I ask him which girl he was speaking to and he said "the fat one."
I laughed and said "I'm the fat one sir, how can I help you?" He was so embarrassed and apologetic that I didn't feel too bad, besides my female co-worker and I looked so much alike except for the weight thing that we were often mistaken for sisters. There was really no other description that he could have given to help me identify who he was talking about.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Edit: I just realized I have a picture from around the time of the incident. http://sandwich.net/cygnata/photos/prom.jpg

wow, you were "anorexic and surgerized" in her eyes? Apart from like you said, looking younger than you are, I don't see the problem. If she dun like young "anorexics that gets surgery", why was she trying to fit you in that cookie cutter mold?

When I think Anorexic and Surgerized, I think Kate Moss with Pamela Anderson's boob job, Not Monica from Wapsi's Square! Petite and Racked is a natural human shape. I KNOW!

Me I had no weight problems, but I had the acne of doom. My name was also butchered. From Sharon, they switched to Charrue (backhoe if I'm no mistaken) and Charogne (carcass). Let's not forget the obligatory pizza-face! They made fun of me for my acne, how I spoke, my brains even my training bra.

Karma works, people.

I just bought a 2007 Caliber and the guy who tortured me for 6 or 7 years worth of school is still driven to work by his parents. I graduated high school, he couldn't get past 8th grade. I got my current, well-paying job in 2003, he got his lousy lil job in 2006. I'm cleared up, he's still stuck with adult acne.

Yet despite the beatings, the namecalling, the humiliation, the worse I wanna do to him is grab his head and give him a noogie.

Because heck, I WON.

To everybody here who got called fat or ugly, if I just base myself on the photo quoted up there, lemme tell you these people are nuts and need glasses cuz you are all beautiful human beings blessed with TREMENDOUS patience.

[Barista_Babe]

I saw a great shirt on a tallish woman: "No, I don't play basketball. Do you play miniature golf?"

I WANT THAT SHIRT!!! You have no idea how many times I get asked that at work, on the street, anywhere. People think it's totally ok to just stroll up to you and ask. Maybe it's just me overreacting but after the 10,000th time it just is annoying and rude.
But yea, I've had customers tell me I'm beautiful as well as those who have said I could "stand to lose a few pounds because you have such a pretty face".
But to the OP--that's completely out of line! If he didn't have anything nice to say he shouldn't have said anything at all...

[ominousoat]

I posted one of these on another post, but it bears repeating. I once had a rather unattractive, smartass old guy walk up to the counter at the gas station I worked at and say "how's it going, ugly?"

ugly, very original. Anyhow, then on the odd side:

At the grocery store I worked at there was an old lady I carried groceries out for, I asked her how she was doing and she said "Thank you, you're very pretty too." Odd, being male I rarely get that...

[Kilamon]

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

Gotta give it up to the original cocky bastard for putting an SC MP in her place.

[Giggle Goose]

Reading through this thread made me think of my most awful memory from high school. I was never picked on too badly; but when I was a freshman I was still at the tail end of my awkward phase and I guess I looked a bit plain.

I was at a cafeteria table with my friends and these popular guys were at the table next to us. One of the guy's girlfriends had a magazine with this article about a girl that was horribly disfigured after having acid thrown on her face. They were all looking at the picture and going "EEEWWW" and then this one guy (I'll always remember his name; but identities have been concealed to protect the retarded), said: "It's almost as ugly as....HER!!!!!!" and pointed at me. Yeah, he never even bothered to learn my name until I came back the next year 30 pounds lighter with new clothes and started wearing makeup. I was reading through all the "comebacks" to see what I possibly could have said to that, but to this day, I still can't think of the right words...

[Zinjadu]

Rude people make me grrrr!!!

Until a couple of years ago I was always overweight, and in school I was really overweight. I'd get the usual nasty comments, but the worst was this one neighbour kid - he'd follow me home from school, kicking me in the bum and calling me fatass. He also did martial arts and one time he started hitting me with his nunchucks (I think that's what they're called) and calling me fat and ugly. I hated that jerk. My revenge is that I look great now, while he's bald, fat and his wife recently divorced him. Karma, baby!!!


The other worst one was a regular customer. He'd shop every Sunday morning and come thru my till cuz I was the first cashier on. He was also getting weird even before the incidents.

He came thru and made comments about my hair (I had it kinda spiky and wild at the time) and my weight (I'd put on about 30 pounds from depression and going thru a really bad time in my life). I told him he was being rude and I didn't appreciate his comments and he apologized.

Next week he's in again and makes even nastier remarks, this time just about my weight. I again tell him his comments are rude and unwelcome, and he apologizes again. After he left, I turned to D on the next till and told her I'd had enough and the next time he came to my till I was going to refuse to serve him.

The next week comes, and he's lined up at my till. When it's his turn, before he can start to unload his groceries, I tell him that he's no longer welcome at my till because of his previous rude behaviour.
Him: But I apologized.
Me, calmly, but forcefully: I don't care. I'm tired of your rude mouth and abuse. I refuse to serve you ever again. Take your groceries to another till now.
Asshat slinks away while customers stare at him. D happened to be cashing beside me again and said: Good for you. I never would've had the guts to tell him off. After that he'd come in later so he could go thru a different till!

I expected to hear about it from management, and was prepared to defend myself, but they never said anything.

A few months later: I came back from coffee and he was next in the lineup at my till. L had taken me off. I told her to serve him cuz I refused. She said not to be silly, so I told her it was a matter of principle and walked away. I knew if I served him he'd be right back to his old nastiness, so felt completely justified in what I did!

[stormtreader]

Im sorry you got that - ive had many of those kinds of things myself, its horrible and totally unfair.
As Calvins dad would say "it builds character"
May karma give them all premature baldness and morbid cellulite.

[Jewels]

"You know, ugly is a crime. You should be locked up."

Thats when you lean in real close, look him up and down in a creepy manner, put a creepy smile on your face, and say..."And you will be right next to me."


The next time someone insults you by saying that you are fat, ugly, a horrible dresser or whatever, do this:

1.Take a step back.
2. Look them up and down.
3. Look them in the eye.
4. Say, "And your opinion on [fill in with whatever they insulted you about here] should matter to me why? Have you taken a look at yourself?
5. Walk away.

[Jewels]

One old bat actually stopped me on the sidewalk in town and verbally flayed me, telling me I was "too young to have had that surgery and dammit, go eat something, you anorexic b****! Don't you know those sluts on TV are going to die alone and unwanted?!"

Thats when you smile and tell her that you grew them yourself.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This happened in high school, when this really fat, dumb kid was making fun of me for being skinny:

FDK: You're so skinny Irving! You're a twig! Anybody could take care of you!
IPF: And your ass has its own Congressman. "Taking care of me" involves more than sitting on me. I'll take being skinny over being a bedridden lump of flesh and fat on Maury Povich.

He got pretty pissed but didn't do anything about it.

[Thrifty]

I guess I shall share my story

The scene: A very crowded hallway in my high school being that it was between classes.

I'm walking down the hallway and a guy is singing some song about "oh she's so beautiful, she's so hot" things to that effect. Our paths are about to cross, he stops singing, looks directly at me and says "NOT YOU"

And all around people laughed.