Things people say…

As I left work yesterday, a group of drunks sipping Stella Artois ('reassuringly expensive') on the street shouted at me that I was a 'Polish C••t'. Obviously I'm a little bemused by this - I'm not remotely Polish. I can only assume that my stylish attire marked me out as not being from round here - i.e. I wasn't wearing stained tracksuit bottoms accessorised by amateur facial tattoos.

So I merely laughed and moved on. If I got upset whenever anyone shouted at me on the street, I'd be a nervous, agoraphobic wreck. Though the David Mitchell catchphrases are dying down.

However, mentioning it on Twitter got a lot of responses from the females in my social circle - they seem to endure abuse everywhere they go. From men, obviously:

It's worse in Birmingham though. No one has tried to grab me here yet.

 I regularly get called fat in the street 

one of my first experiences of the city was a drunken man following me shouting expletives when I didn't tell him my name 

 I went for a run 2shouts of SWEATY TITS 

Is this normal? What a horrible country this must be. What's been shouted at you? How do you deal with it?