Getting out of your dad's car when you get home and realising there are a bunch of teenage boys standing in the road nearby staring and laughing at you

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This happened to me earlier today. It was weird. Has this happened to anyone else? Have you been, say, walking down the street only for someone to laugh or mock you for no good reason?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope, there is usually a good reason with me.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to a "gourmet pizza shop" with some friends and the host started laughing as soon as we walked in the door. I think it was because my friend Brian has big crazy hair and was wearing a shirt for this band called Municipal Waste. The pizza made us sick.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

it only happens if the ones laughing believe there is some sort of curious quality to your physical appearance that they find that amusing...this would range from unusual hairstyle to ridiculously bad posture to the combination of large spectacles and bright ginger hair to blatant obesity to mincing as you walk whilst wearing very tight trousers...usually a combination of more than one of such things.

very mean of course, but not much you can do about such things - apart from getting some sort of Sandy from Grease cool makeover job from your friends and then blowing them away with your obvious leather-based coolness

(the sub-text of this post is to not take the immature and boredom-based mocking of one's appearance by teenage towny monkeys too much to heart as its just not important in the long run)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the other possiblity is that they were not actually laughing at you but at a joke among themselves that unfortunately coincided with you getting out of the car...or perhaps you getting out of the car reminded them of something funny (alright, but its possible!) and as a result it was nothing personal

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

A bunch of scallies passed me on the street today and on the way past called me "Bigfeet".

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, they're getting cleverer

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, my shoes are probably a size too big for me. I found it very observant of them.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...and then blowing them away with your obvious leather-based coolness

Or with a sawn off shotgun.

― , Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

was that the DIrectors cut of Grease?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I often get drunk homeless people shouting abuse at me in the street. Stuff like "you fat hippy" - they're not very imaginative. Or observant.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but I've definitely stood around and mocked people for no reason. I'll never get my comeuppance! Never!

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I expect to be laughed at in the street, so examples don;t really stand out.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

A bunch of scallies passed me on the street today and on the way past called me "Bigfeet".

what's a scally?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Walking down the hall in school every day, I think this happens. In fact I'm sure it happens because a month or two ago I started carrying a backpack with wheels (like travel luggage), and it's really dumb-looking (much lighter though). aaah, teenage boys suck.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

there's one kid that lives on my way to the railway station, he always calls me 'barbie.' I know not why.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I sometimes get paranoid and assume that laughter is directed at me. But sometimes people stick their heads out of cars and shout 'NICE TROUSERS HA HA HA' and I know they are.

Also, some kids on a train went 'Scooby Dooby doo' at me a while ago.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

was it d4v1d g3r4ghty sticking his heads out of cars?

you remind people of shaggy.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I've had a few 'what the fuck is she wearing?' comments from teenage girls (always the kind with too tight ponytails and too much gold jewelery). Then I waltz into the off-licence and think 'ha! they'll serve me, I'm going to do something more interesting than smoking and sitting outside Crouch End Budgens!'

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"fat ass girl" 3 times on saturday night. My skirt must be tighter than I thought. Or teenagers in Wanganui do not have enough to do.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I envy Anna for feeling a sense of achievement in simply being over 18 years old.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

was it d4v1d g3r4ghty sticking his heads out of cars?

He has more than one?

[speculates idly]

I don't think I want to go there.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

More in the way like when the woman in Fried Green Tomatos At The Whistlestop Cafe crashes into the car of the two younger women who have stolen her parking space and says:

"Face it girls, I'm older, I have more insurance."

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that all older people have to cling to? Now you're depressing me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

And you are older than me ....

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

ahem.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

And I've got no car, let alone insurance.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Last time something like this happened was someone making a smart ass comment about the fur on my jacket about a year and a half ago as I got off the bus. I said nothing cos I was on my own and completely off my head.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Look, this has turned into a thread where Graham will hate Ronan again.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you forewarn me in future and I'll think of a lame "please can we stop this nonsense" retort

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

You want me to warn you before you post?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

No I want you to do what you did there. (not really)

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna can only take advantage of her age to buy booze if she remembered to take her ID with her.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

when the woman in Fried Green Tomatos At The Whistlestop Cafe crashes

"TUWANDA!!!!!!!"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I once had someone point to me on the El and say "Look at this motherfucker here" and then turn around and continue to talk to his friends. I have no idea what that was about.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Were you fucking his mother at the time?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(hopefully not right at that second)

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan is that the same story as the one with the guy on the bus who told you you were "dressed for the arctic yeah haha"?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes that's the one, I didn't want to tell it cos I had already. : (

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

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Getting out of your dad's car when you get home and realising there are a bunch of teenage boys standing in the road nearby staring and laughing at you - C or D