Can this friend come to work with me (where I’ve just returned after 7.5 months of medical leave) and remind people that it’s not appropriate or appreciated to compliment someone on their weight loss, esp. when it’s because I WAS REALLY FUCKING UNWELL ?

What answer are they expecting? I left it on top of the car and drove off? Got too enthusiastic with my nail file? One of my pet velociraptors got snappy?

My brother had a mole removed from his back and kept telling people it was a bullet wound. My mom also loves to come up with bizarre stories about all her scars from her surgeries and gets really pissed if I don't go along with them. Just like she does with all of her other stories she makes up. She's actually really…

“That’s where I hide things I need to smuggle past border checkpoints....”

I have a large scar on my wrist which I make no effort to hide but I need to steal some of your answers.

It’s like, “the rest of my h... OH MY GOD WHERE DID I LEAVE IT THIS TIME?”

I’ve had wrist surgery twice in the last couple years and got a lot of weird looks during the recovery when I had huge bandages over the wound. I’m sure more than one person assumed I had a suicide attempt. I was fond of responding to those looks with a dead-eye stare and if they dared ask questions I would just say…

I have a scar from skydiving and a tree. Thank you for being so insensitive.

LOL I have fibromyalgia and bad arthritis in my hips and knees. Ocasionally someone will ask why “someone as young as you needs a cane” I then reply that most of my thigh muscle was eaten by African Soldier Ants when I was staked out in their path as a sacrifice in my youth. Or I was bitten by a shark. Or the leg…

broke my right leg in such a way that I have a foot-long scar across my knee to show for it.

I know it’s not manners, but it by Gawd works. True story: If you ever have a cyst or nodular acne issue the size of a nickel on your face, and someone asks you in the checkout line “What happened to your face?”, a great response is “I was born with this face. What happened to yours?”

Shark attack is my go to when people what happened to my hand. (I’m missing a finger and a big chunk of my hand) I have also looked at my hand and acted totally shocked that everything wasn’t there.

Aw! Someone else who refers to their scar as their harry potter scar! I remember trying to explain that the flesh of my scar was still painful years later, “it hurts like harry potter’s scar.” And women who were literally like 20 years old in a livejournal community lost it because, Didn’t I know that Harry Potter was…

“The last person who asked me about this scar doesn’t do much asking about anything...any more”

“Slashed my knee while burning a nosy idiot to death at a sauna in Tijuana”

“throw a hot coal at her”

I probably wouldn’t be good at giving people manners advice, because if someone rudely asked me how I got the big scar on my leg, I’d probably respond, “from hunting down and killing people who ask me impertinent questions.”

If you’re not totally comfortable just telling her to cram it, you can always sarcastically say it was an attempted axe murder or something equally absurd. That usually shuts them up.

what’s cruel is allowing cheddar to either be euthanized by strangers or adopted out to attack others.

I’m sorry for your experience with your dog. I have a friend who fosters Great Danes who just recently had a similar experience - he had found his forever home, but she was watching him over a weekend while his new family was out of town, and at the very end of his stay with her he attacked and almost killed another…