Has a stranger commented on your weight?

nah i am pretty fit but my classmates comment on people how pas by when we are in the bus stop i just see it on ther face that it hurts alot i think its a pritty worng thing to do you have to acept everybody the way they are besides it aint your problem if they are skibby fat or etc.

I have once and i was totally annoyed i never went back to where i was... my story goes like this...: One day i was lookin through some rather nice tops on a market stall they were (UK)size 10-12 which is the size i usually wear... the guy came over to me and said... the extra large are over on that rail.... i was totally gobsmacked and humiliated! i asked him what made him think i should be lookin over there and he turned round to me and said if i didnt want people thinking that about me i shouldnt eat so much! i was totally p****d off! From then on i havent been able to see myself as pretty or anything i just see myself as fat... all because of this guy and my boyfriend gets annoyed that i dont see myself as pretty anymore

No that has never happened to me atleast. But how strange for her to point that out. I used to be skinny till seven years back but after child birth I have put on a lot of weight. I would hate if a totla stranger comes up to me tand tell me that I am fat. I think its kind of rude.

Well that was really rude. What would they get out of saying something like that. I would not have explained myself to her. I would have just walked off. Why do some people feel the need to be critical of others?

Never have met any stranger commenting on my weight yet. The most closest one was when went to a party, a friend's friend asked my husband if I was pregnent. He did not say it loud though but whispered to my husband. It was not as rude as your service station lady but still I did not feel comfortable. Therefore I understand how you feel at that moment, especially I am now a bit hypothyroid and keep gaining weight no matter what I do. But I did meet people on-line and off-line making rude comment like that. Whenever it happens, I try to reply with humor. For the comment from the service station in your case, I would reply "Yeah I am always hungry but I never build fat. Thus I am always the admirable one among my friends. Everybody is asking me for the magic -- do you want my magic too?"

My oldest son makes observations like this all the time... Why does someone look ___? I tell him 1. it's rude to make comments on the way people look, and 2. you wouldn't want someone talking about you like that so don't do it to other people. Because he's 4 I have to repeat this often, but I hope that he retains this lesson after he's grown. I expect other people were taught this same lesson by their parents and just haven't grown up to be the decent people their parents raised. I think some people are well meaning, but come off rude, and other people are just rude. In either case it's always better to be the better person and not engage in a negative exchange of words. That's how violence starts.

No fortunately for the other person who may say this to me, I have not yet had the "pleasure" of someone passing such a comment! I sometimes think some people do not think before they speak, my ex. M.I.L was very complimentary like that, and even though she was my M.I.L at the time it still hurt! She would ask me if I was eating at all, or a comment very similar to that! NOW she is probably saying "are you eating TOO much?" But I can only chuckle to myself now as I call it "contentment". lol

That really was rude. When I was younger, I had a bit of a weight problem. I've had people tell me about how pretty I would be if I would lose weight. I mean, I heard about my weight all the time from people I know, but it's none of a stranger's business to say anything.

This never happened to me. If it did I would comment, oh really like you so____________ you look_____________.

Pretty darned rude of anyone to comment on another person's weight .... more so if they are a stranger ... and that is whether the person is overweight, skinny or whatever. I think I would have not been polite ... and certainly my partner would have been extremely rude as only women can be. Only once did someone comment and that was when I was running ... the person just said that I should be careful not to do too much exercise or I would lose too much weight .... my partner was not with me or she would have said something for certain.

I think it's completly unfair to comment like this with the stranger. Few people will like it if you call them thin but the other way is quite dangerous to dare I think. No one will like getting hurt for his obesity. This is totally wrong to comment a stranger.

How rude. Maybe she was jealous. I hate when people think they are entitled to tell you their opinion. I was new in town and went to a nail salon close to my new house. I had to show the lady my i.d. to use my debit card (???) anyway, she saw my picture and said, wow this photo must be an old one, you were really young in this picture. I was like, well it isn't that old and neither am I. I was 34 at the time, and I was insulted. Needless to say I did not go back to get my nails done there. I hated that I had already given her a big $5.00 tip. My bill was only $20.00 and I had to sit through her telling me how she had to have a makeover done on her teeth and it cost her $3000 to have all of her teeth done. She was foreign and lived in a poor country and her teeth were all rotten and brown before she had them fixed. I didn't say anything mean, I did compliment her. I hate it when people are mean to you and you haven't done anything to anyone and you don't even know them. Mean people shouldn't be allowed to work with the public.

I think that's rude. I don't know why this type of people exist in this world. I was an athlete and my weight never exceed 103 pound. But now after quiting sports, my weight is 151 pound.I encounter this type of peoples several time in my life.They are completely stranger to you but yet they dare to comments about your weight.But most of the time i said something back to them.

Hehe, then maybe you really need to get more food. :P Normally, strangers have the courtesy *not* to comment on your weight. But if they are elderly and if you are on the under side, they might comment. If you are overly large, they usually refrain too since it would be more sensitive for this case.

Oh, wow, Pinklilly! That is incredibly rude for that woman to say something like that to a complete stranger. That's very inconsiderate. What if you had a problem with anorexia or were getting over being sick?? You should have told her that the chemo makes you lose your appetite-THAT would teach her to keep her opinions to herself!!! A stranger has never said anything to me about my weight, but I'm not anorexic looking or overweight, so I wouldn't be a target for comments, but if I were either and someone commented I'd get really mad! I don't think it is a stranger's business to involve themselves with other strangers on such sensitive subjects.

I can't say that this has happened to me, but I would find it rude if it did. It's just another case of a total stranger minding someone else's business. I'm sorry this happened to you, Lilly.