What is the worst thing someone ever said to you? - Not an insult for the sake of it, something that cut really deep

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I'll get thing started.

Something I never forgot. One day, we were drinking and talking as a family, maybe arguing a bit, but nothing too adversarial either.

Then my dad told me I was just like his dad. And I know how he felt about his dad. He did not even hate him as much as he had contempt for him as person. Probably for good reasons.

Worst part is that it was not even meant as an insult. It was just a thought he blurted out.

 

[lester]

Yeah forgiveness is difficult as is being a hypocrite yourself. That seems to be impossible.

A friend of mine once said "resentment" is the cause all the of the problems in the world.
I don't know...seems to check out

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

"Do you live in Japan, I am considering a lawsuit" - Noushintou Hoshi.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Once apon a time, when I was around 10 or 12 years old, I spent a bunch of free time a blizzardy early winter walking door to door, offering to shovel neighbors driveways. My sales pitch was, "I'll just shovel it all, if you let me. I'll tell you when I'm done if you would like to pay me." It seemed like the cheatcode to get a dollar out of everyone.

I had decided that this year I was going to spend all the money I earned and saved on buying Christmas presents for others. I made a list of people to buy gifts for, based on who had given me gifts last year as a rough gauge of who I should be buying gifts for. I went to a store I liked, and spent over an hour carefully scrutinizing everything in stock, and choosing an assortment of items, one for each person on my list.

At home, I carefully wrapped every item. But, the thing that makes this entire thing memorable for me was my dad opening his gift and looking at me and saying "you aren't very good at giving gifts, are you?". I really have no idea what made him say that, or why it made me continually question the validity of everything I try to do for anyone, ever, to this day. I never said that to my grandmother when she gave me socks, I was raised better than to act that way.

In retrospect, he was human, and often said idle-minded things based off emotion due to the situations he was going through, and I forgive him, though I did not always understand him.

So I now try very hard to practice being very thankful for every gift I get, because it's the thought that counts.

And I can't tell you how much it hurts every time I try to give someone a gift, and they refuse to take it. I can't help but feel some sort of way about it.

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

"I'm sorry but we're going to have to let you go."

 

[A Very Big Fish]

Maybe not the worst, but the first thing I thought of was finding out that I was an accidental pregnancy because one night my Dad drank a bit too much.

It's one of those things that I don't particularly mind, I'm sure its way more common than I think, especially with how liberal most people are about sex these days. But its just a strange thing to know that if my folks had been a bit more "careful" I'd never have existed. I still love them, but its something that every once in a while just haunts the back of my mind.

I had a girl on a date ask me if I was gay, because she saw a photo me and one of my buddies took, where we were acting in an exaggeratedly flamboyant way. That one was actually pretty funny though. We didn't last super long though, if you'd believe it.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Nothing in particular comes to mind and i would like to keep it that way.

 

[dick brain]

My dad told me to never have children. Which was rough but I get it.

It's funny, somebody can say heinous shit to you and you don't even remember it later because you have no reason to care what that particular person thinks of you, but it doesn't take much for someone close to you to hurt you because you love them and respect their views.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Is it in yet?