People Share Why They Will Never Forget A Stranger Who Probably Doesn't Even Remember Them

My parents took me and my best friend to New Orleans for a college graduation trip. It was so much fun, but by the end we were all sunburned and exhausted. We live in Texas so it's about a 10 hour drive and we decided to break it up into two days and stay in Galveston. My mom did one of the blind deals for a hotel and we ended up at a very fancy hotel. We are not fancy people. We rolled in looking rough and went straight upstairs to put our luggage up so we could go to dinner. As the elevator door opened, my mom said "I think our room is this way" and a very well dressed man who was waiting for the elevator overheard and incredulously said "you're all staying in one room?" And then chuckled in the most cartoonishly snooty voice as we walked past him. My friend turned and loudly mocked his laugh as I dragged her away. To this day, over 10 years later, we all still say "you're all (insert uncouth action here)?" in our snooty voice.

After several chemo sessions, I became increasingly tired. I was at the store checking out with the cashier. It was taking me slightly longer than usual to pay and generally organize myself. A woman behind me started to sigh out loud and angrily said "let's hurry things along". I looked at her and said "I'm sorry but I can't move as quickly for you as you'd like but I just had a chemo session". She retorted, "we're all going through something". I just continued along at my own pace. I didn't know what to say. I was too tired. It's true everyone is going through something. Yet she could have shown some empathy for my situation, I thought. Still can't forget her words and look on her face during such a hard time in my life.

I was at a hotel buffet, which was extremely rare because I go to buffets maybe a couple times a decade. At one point, I was eying something else that I wanted, and finally decided to get up and go get some. Right as I walked up to the feeding trough, this fat little butterball of a child darts in front of me, scoops up the remainder of what I wanted to try, farts, and runs off. I was *aghast*. I can't even remember what food I wanted to try, but I still remember that child, who left me in a cloud of stink after stealing my lunch.

The teacher who ruined my perfect spelling test record by saying I'd misspelled "airplane".

Stranger to me: Rahm Emmanuel. I was leaving my hotel in Chicago for work and he must have been there for a meeting or something but his security detail physically and aggressively blocked me as I was walking out of the hotel and rushed him to a waiting car. I wasn't even looking in his general direction and couldn't care less. I had to be delayed because a Very Important Person thought more people cared about him than they did.

I went to a free concert at a park in a small town one summer after work. I walked there and most people brought their own chairs, sat in the grass, or sat on public benches. I sat down at one of the benches available, there weren’t many, and I remember intentionally scooting over to the end in case anyone wanted to sit next to me. Suddenly an elderly woman who would have been sitting farther away from me with her back toward me gets,out of her chair and walks over to me. Mind you, I’m smiling at her as she approaches, as she gets to me she leans over and points her finger at me and says, “if you can’t see I’m glad” and walked away and sat back down. It was so out of nowhere I just laughed. I wish to this day I had gone up to her and said, “Excuse me? What?” But I was speechless. I stayed a bit longer and enjoyed the show. She never even looked at me after. It was so weird. I think about it sometimes to this day but have assumed she maybe had dementia. If she didn’t though…that was just cold lol.

A teenage girl at the Farmer’s Market crepe stand many years ago put brown avocado in my crepe. When I pointed it out to her, she became defensive and said snippily, “Just because they’re brown doesn’t mean they’re bad.” I didn’t have a come back for that at the moment and accepted the crepe from her. I should have said yes, but it means it’s not fresh. Her snotty attitude still haunts me.

At a gig in 2000 I bought a bottle of water from the bar and when I looked down at my wallet the guy sitting near where I was standing stole it. I told the bartender (who must have seen it happen) and he said he didn't care. Still angry.

I once was stuck on a 5 hour bus trip with a woman sitting behind me who smelled like she bathed in perfume. 


I spent the entire trip with a headache and swearing to somehow get revenge on her. 


It has been 10 years and I've not gotten my revenge, nor do i remember what she looks like, but I'm still holding a grudge against her for it. .

10 years ago now I went to study in Beijing for a couple of months with other students from my program. We lived on the university campus and there were two streets on campus that had a bunch of little stores.

One time, two classmates and I were looking for shoes on the west side of the campus. While I was in the advanced class and could communicate decently in mandarin chinese, one of the two girls I was with could barely get out a sentence. So we stop by a shoe stand and the girl attempts as best as she can to explain her shoe size. She looks around for a few minutes, uncertain, and the shop owner starts telling his co-worker in mandarin that "Foreigners are so stupid. They come here and don't speak a lick of chinese." Obviously, he wasn't expecting another white girl to understand him. Which, fair.

I stopped and looked at him, and he was smiling stupidly at me. I took a breath and replied to him in mandarin "What about you, can you speak any english? Any french?" His face dropped.

We didn't buy shoes from him. And I still think about it.

The teacher who asked us to google recycling and non-recycling residues and I wrote thousand of them, and she didn't even check homework and forgot about it, lol.

I wrote down the descriptions of each one and draw them, I'd never put too much effort on a homework like that before. I think I drew up to 20.

I saw a physical therapist for foot pain when I was 9 years old and she said "you're a bit chubby like your dad" which gave me long term body image issues. If she's still alive I sincerely hope she's hated by her family too. .

I had a really full-on shopkeeper ask me a ton of questions (he owned a men’s fashion store and I was checking it out with my boyfriend).

The dude was so in my face and asked if I wanted to go into the back room and look at some vintage magazines and I started giggling nervously, which is something I do when I don’t know what else to do.

He called me incorrigible and then further grilled me and asked me if there were any famous women I looked up to (obvious answer for me is Dana Scully/Gillian Anderson), but I couldn’t think on the spot and he huffed and we left.

Left super baffled, ruminated on it and seriously considered throwing a brick through his stupid shopfront window lol

Very active female cyclist here, but I’m not stick skinny like a lot of cyclists can be, and at the time I wasn’t even close to overweight, I’m tall and not petite. Guy I used to work with said to me one day, “it’s so weird how you bike SO much but aren’t skinny.”

The audacity lol.

Visited California with my family as a kid, I'm East Asian.

One day we're crossing the road after a trip to the mall and I'm with grandma, the rest of the family has reached the other side but we're lagging behind. Grandma decides to hurry it up instead of waiting for the next light but we're slow so we're only halfway across the road when the light turns red.

This stupid soccer mom lady rolls down the window of her family car and does her best "teaching the savages" impression, slow chiding voice and everything. "No, *uh-huh*, we don't do that in this country.".

I let a friend of a friend borrow my copy of Vice City like 20 years ago. Never saw it again.

IN 2018 I was at the Trevi fountain and stopped some pickpocketers from getting the tourists next to me. The tourists just said - NBD. I didnt have anything in my pockets anyway.

YOU'RE WELCOME!

The woman on the seat in front of me on a budget airline flight from London to Paris about 25 years ago who insisted on draping her nasty, over-bleached hair over the back of the seat so I spent the entire time staring at her split ends.
I asked her to move it, she refused.
I *might* have implemented a diabolical revenge (strange how easy it is for nasty hair to get tangled in the clips holding up the tray table) but I still haven't forgiven her.

Guy mumbled something at me. I said "Beg your pardon?" And he looked at me as if I was illiterate or something. Had to spell it out for him "I didn't catch you the first time can you please tell me what you're saying". Moron.

Elijah Wood bumped into me at the 2001 Comic-Con, almost knocking me down with his messenger bag. He didn’t stop or apologize. HE IS MY MORTAL ENEMY.