What's the Rudest Thing Anyone's Said to You Lately?

Week of June 13, 2001

Comments (0) By Wm. Stage Wednesday, Jun 13 2001

Bryan Hill
Doorguy, Elsher's
"'What happened to you? Did you fall in a tackle box?' Or 'You catch any fish with those things?' I'm, like, 'Yeah, these're my patented fishing lures. I keep them with me at all times.' Hey, man, I just take it in stride. What other people think doesn't matter."

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Pam Fizer
Mortgage Banker
"Once this man told me he'd wished I'd shaved my legs -- while we were having sex. That's not the time to do it. I mean, what's more important here? I felt like saying, 'Geez, are you spoiled, or what?'"

Richard Hirschfeld
Boulevardier
"She didn't say it. She wrote it in a letter, asked me to leave her beautiful home. I stayed there one night. I couldn't believe there was a note on the kitchen table when I got up in the morning. That was literally a rude awakening. I was embarrassed. I hadn't done anything unseemly. This was someone I really cared about. She called me later and wanted to talk. I didn't want to talk."

Stephanie Bornhop
Bartender, Rosie's Pub
"'Can I shoot you in darts to see who gets to be on top?' That's pretty dang rude."

Bob Case
Musician
"I see and hear rudeness day and night -- on TV. I was sitting in a bar the other day, and on the tube was an entire show of people getting hurt. I just about spit my beer out. Rudeness is a lack of graces and refinement. The media wholesales rudeness, crassness and stupidity. It influences all of us, and it's lowering values. And that's not a wild accusation."

Ann Marie Reedy
Mother's Helper
"Every day I hear it: 'Oh, what a darling little boy!' I'm not a boy. If I were a boy, I'd be wearing blue booties, OK?"