Insulted today in the grocery store.

At least he had the balls to tell you to your face rather than all the losers hiding behind their keyboards while insulting people better than them.

you're probably buttugly, please don't have kids

Don't feel so bad...I go through life looking like a real chump 😄. Once at a Xmas party, I was having this conversation with a group of people and I happen to mention to his sophisticated looking chap, who was wearing a pinstriped suit & loafers, that I was a distance runner (I was to trying act like a big shot). He said "please...you're a sad sight for sore eyes...I didn't think they made them so squatty." 😅.

Also one time while doing a long run circuit at an open-space park, a group of high school kids flagged me down and said "accuse me sir...it's painful to watch you run...have you ever thought of taking up cycling?" 😁.

So, remember there's always someone that looks far worse than you.😉

markschultz25 wrote:

It was public but fortunately the store was not that busy and only a few customers heard it. When I told this guy I am a runner, he said "You look like you were just put together. Tall, skinny, big feet..."...And it made me think, am I really that disproportionate? When someone says you look like you were "just put together"..it makes you doubt yourself. It kinda tells me that I'm never going to look like an elite distance runner. The guy didn't even think I'm a runner.

Under what circumstances did you feel the need to tell the guy you are a runner?

markschultz25 wrote:

It was public but fortunately the store was not that busy and only a few customers heard it. When I told this guy I am a runner, he said "You look like you were just put together. Tall, skinny, big feet..."...And it made me think, am I really that disproportionate? When someone says you look like you were "just put together"..it makes you doubt yourself. It kinda tells me that I'm never going to look like an elite distance runner. The guy didn't even think I'm a runner.

Well, Mark, one possibility is that people are so accustomed to obesity now in the midst of what is commonly called an "obesity epidemic" that skinnier people have come to look increasingly uncommon, eliciting such a response.

I'm in my 50s, 6'3" and about 172 pounds - tall, slim and have size 13 feet. I get lots of appreciative stares and an occasional compliment from some very good looking women at the gym or pool (Take a suck-pill, Xfitguy_the_real_one_1). It's great having a ripped body rather than a moose-nose sniffing over the belt-buckle. But I am slightly more of a gym-and-pool creature overprinted a middle-distance- distance-runner's body than I was before I stopped running competitively around age 40.

You're thin-skinned, too.

markschultz25 wrote:

It was public but fortunately the store was not that busy and only a few customers heard it. When I told this guy I am a runner, he said "You look like you were just put together. Tall, skinny, big feet..."...And it made me think, am I really that disproportionate? When someone says you look like you were "just put together"..it makes you doubt yourself. It kinda tells me that I'm never going to look like an elite distance runner. The guy didn't even think I'm a runner.

Your fault for talking to people at the grocery store. Weirdo.

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markschultz25 wrote:

It was public but fortunately the store was not that busy and only a few customers heard it. When I told this guy I am a runner, he said "You look like you were just put together. Tall, skinny, big feet..."...And it made me think, am I really that disproportionate? When someone says you look like you were "just put together"..it makes you doubt yourself. It kinda tells me that I'm never going to look like an elite distance runner. The guy didn't even think I'm a runner.

Your fault for talking to people at the grocery store. Weirdo.

So you don't fit in at Walmart?

Open carry normally prevents such comments.

Mark,

I understand you're in your teenage years, but as you get older you'll encounter many of these types, people who just randomly blurt out offensive things because no one ever called them out on it.

The correct response is to get about 5 inches from their face and tell them to mind their own f*cking business. Or stoop to their level and tell them they're dumb as a mule, and twice as ugly. If they're with kids, feel free to tell them their kids are ugly as well.

markschultz25 wrote:

Tall, skinny, big feet..."...

I've always understood that smaller feet are preferable for a (distance) runner. Not sure what height has to do with being an identifiable trait that makes for a good runner, either.

It doesn't even sound like an insult, actually.

As you get older, you won't care much what complete strangers say anyway. Why not get started on that now?

The main insult was saying "look like you were just put together".... That's pretty insulting. That's literally like saying I'm not a normal human. Like I'm defective and just a mixture of scattered bodyparts. The other stuff didn't bother me. It was the part that suggested I was simply thrown together from junkyard parts.

markschultz25 wrote:

The main insult was saying "look like you were just put together".... That's pretty insulting. That's literally like saying I'm not a normal human. Like I'm defective and just a mixture of scattered bodyparts. The other stuff didn't bother me. It was the part that suggested I was simply thrown together from junkyard parts.

To me it sounds more like they meant you look like you haven't "grown into your body" yet. It sounded like an innocuous, if somewhat dumb, comment to me.

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markschultz25 wrote:

It was public but fortunately the store was not that busy and only a few customers heard it. When I told this guy I am a runner, he said "You look like you were just put together. Tall, skinny, big feet..."...And it made me think, am I really that disproportionate? When someone says you look like you were "just put together"..it makes you doubt yourself. It kinda tells me that I'm never going to look like an elite distance runner. The guy didn't even think I'm a runner.

Your fault for talking to people at the grocery store. Weirdo.

Seriously! I might nod or say excuse me or thank you to someone in a grocery store, but I can not imagine a scenario where someone would feel it's OK to make such a comment. Or maybe Schultz is just so weird, and weird looking, that all social norms have to be tossed out the window.

Watch the whole thing or skip to 1:50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLNlWvUy3o

Wow...getting compliments from "very good looking women" in your 50s. 6-3, 172, and ripped at your age! Double Wow! You da Man! 😎 👍. I bet you would give Cruise, Pitt, Clooney a run for their money.

What's your diet? Are you using TRT? Viagra? Stuff like that?

Please tell me some of your secrets (seriously). I'm in my late 50s, average looking chap,15 mpw running, some weight training...and all I get is compliments from old bags 😅

markschultz25 wrote:

It kinda tells me that I'm never going to look like an elite distance runner. The guy didn't even think I'm a runner.

Like he would know what that is? Jesus you are a fragile snowflake. You better head to your safe space.

BTW, wear the 'elite distance runner' costume right and get some T and asthma meds for weight loss. If you want to be an actual elite international distance runner, get some EPO and a sugar daddy to pay off the federation.

It sounds like a compliment, he was saying you were built for a runner tall skinny big feet as in you were put together to be a runner. A running machine.