What’s the most hurtful thing anyone’s said to you?

Well, there was this woman I kind of thought I liked. Part of a group of people from work. Our whole group played ball in the summer, went on ski trips in the winter, and generally hung out. One Friday a bunch of us went for drinks after work and she was complaining loudly that, since her breakup a few months back, she had absolutely NOTHING to do for the weekend. Later on in the evening we found ourselves sitting together, a bit apart from the group. We shared a few laughs, I paid for her drink and asked her if she would like to go for supper on Saturday.

She looked at me with a look that I could only think of as an entomologist examining some new and fairly repulsive species of bug as she said "No. Tens don't date threes." In truth, it was probably more honest than hurtful, but still...