Fucking rudeness.
The path to the station near my house is wide enough for two people. Walking up there recently with my husband, we saw two women and a small child approaching: we automatically dropped into single file, and assumed they'd do likewise. Nope. They remained resolutely side-by-side, and the small child veered across the path into us, necessitating an ungainly hop-and-skip to prevent him barging into our knees.

Woman: "'Ere! What the FUCK do you two FUCKING FUCKS think you're doing, you RUDE FUCKS! You just nearly walked into my boy! You're SO FUCKING RUDE!"
Me: "Madam, the path is wide enough for two people. We moved aside as much as we could, perhaps you and your son could do the same".
Her: "You FUCKING RUDE BITCH! How fucking rude can you be? You need to move aside for my boy! I can't believe you were so FUCKING RUDE in front of my son!"
Me: "..."
Her: "BITCH!"
Me: "... and you have the temerity to call *me* rude?"
Her: "..."
Her: "YOU'RE FUCKING RUDE, YOU COW!"

We shrugged and continued on our way, leaving the woman screaming loudly to her friend about the "fucking cow" who was rude in the presence of her child. Whilst said child was standing next to her and learning all sorts of naughty words.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:16, 27 replies)

They're angels. Miracles. Beautiful little innocents.
You really shouldn't have been so rude. Clearly you lack self-awareness.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:19, closed)

You're right.
I'm so ashamed.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:21, closed)

Wow, I've never heard anyone use the word 'temerity' out loud.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:24, closed)

It probably confused her.

(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:25, closed)

I don't know why
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:34, closed)

Indeed.
It hardly requires elucidation of vernacular.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:50, closed)

Cromulent - not a word in my OED
Kindly use big words than mean something. Neologisms don't count.
(justin(e), Mon 3 Dec 2012, 8:01, closed)

You might want to look up it's etymology.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 3 Dec 2012, 10:07, closed)

Your OED
Needs embiggening
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Mon 3 Dec 2012, 15:18, closed)

So what you're saying is
your husband stood by and watched you get verbally abused?
( Kroney, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:43, closed)

What are you expecting him to do?
Knock the woman out?
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:07, closed)

Oh ok, the expected behaviour is to stand and watch
whilst his wife gets bawled out in the middle of the street. How silly of me.
( Kroney, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:11, closed)

I think
he was letting her stand up for herself to be honest. She seemed to do a pretty good job of it.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:14, closed)

Basically, yes.

(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:36, closed)

Why would the husband need to intervene?
Are women not allowed to speak for themselves?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:15, closed)

Only men may drive the Honda Accord of Maximum Justice.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 14:04, closed)

I was standing up for myself
and didn't need his help. Don't worry, if it had got violent I'd have got him to nip home to pick up the honda accord.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:42, closed)

So in conclusion.
Standing up for your wife when she's verbally abused in public is both sexist and hardmanning.

OK, good.
( Kroney, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 14:42, closed)

Sexist? Hardmanning? You're reading too much into this.
My husband didn't join in not because it would have been sexist, but because it just wasn't necessary.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 14:48, closed)

Sounds familiar
Sounds a lot like the fat harridan who repeatedly slammed her car door into mine as she tried to extricate her corpulent carcass from a clapped BMW chav wagon.

After I politely pointed out the damage she was causing she shouted about how ****ing rude I was.

When she walked away from her car I left a message on a Post It note on her windscreen.

That message WAS rude, I nearly shocked myself.
(Barnetboy, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:30, closed)

..
^^ clapped out chav wagon.
(Barnetboy, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:31, closed)

"Shake harder, boy!"

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 14:02, closed)

I like this
The rudest thing anyone can do, IMO, is to publicly point out to anyone over the age of about 16 that you think they're being rude.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 13:38, closed)

Never, ever underestimate the lumpenproletariat's sense of entitlement

(ubergeekian, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 14:38, closed)