AIBU to think this lady was nuts? Share your WTF interactions with strangers here

That's awful 😢 I hope you are in a better place now, even though she isn't. I think you're spot on with the abused puppy anology and completely right not to engage with your aunts and uncles in any way x

What did you expect her to do to help? She could hardly have grabbed your child's hand to stop her from falling or did you think she should have helped your child to get up?

I think you overreacted. I’d have laughed at that and said something like, “no not today”.

Many moons ago my then boyfriend and I needed some directions when we were driving in a new city. It was way back before everyone used Google maps. We saw an elderly gentleman and thought we’d ask him how to get there. So instead of telling us, he just got in the back of our car and proceeded to tell my boyfriend where to go. For 10 minutes or so we weren’t entirely sure whether he would try to strangle us or take us where we were going. Once we got to our destination he just jumped out at the traffic lights without saying goodbye

This one was many years ago but still makes me think - WTF? My friend and I were leaving the supermarket. The entrance/exit was one of those enormous revolving doors which just moves at a slow, constant pace. We exited and started to walk to my car with the shopping.

A man run up behind me, pushed me in the back and accused me of trying to kill his mother in the revolving door! I was pissed off having stumbled and nearly fallen when he pushed me and answered that I was not the God of revolving doors and he should back the fuck off. He stormed off saying he was going to call the police and speak to "management". Good luck with that. Bonkers.

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The advice to not feed bread is pretty outdated and has caused a lot of bird deaths.

Unfortunately the ducks in parks are basically semi domesticated and over populated they do not find enough food themselves.

They also rarely eat the other food thrown which sinks and goes off, our local bird park is a mess with uneaten foods thrown for the ducks and swans who only ever go for the bread to the point non bread items are causing a far bigger issue.

You can lead a duck to sweetcorn but you cannot make it eat it.

Nothing wrong with glory hole. It’s just another name for a storage space. (As well as a place some men like to put their willies).

I haven't managed to read all 487 posts - but most don't seem to be WTF moments - more funny or attempted h
funny or eye roll worthy

We had a customer arrive very early for an appointment. My colleague pointed out that we were closed for lunch to which this woman screamed at her to fuck off. My colleague in a state let her in. The woman was in a motorised wheelchair. She then proceeded to go forwards and backwards constantly allowing the wheelchair to bleep continuously.
I put my headphones on and ignored her.
She then started making hand gestures whilst staring at me. Imagine if you were pointing your extended hand at somewhere and twisting your arm around, king of like trying to hypnotise someone. I then pulled up my computer screen to block her line if vision.
After seeing another colleague for her appointment, my colleague said she refused to sit a polite distance from her, instead moving her wheelchair as close as physically possible and staring at her the entire time.
She told my colleague she was a white witch and could perform satanic rituals.

Sitting in a bar in Cape Town reading a book on Africa - The State of Africa by Martin Meredith (great read!) - and a woman runs up and tells me off for reading a book about Africa in Africa. Called it disrespectful!

I was at a Tescos petrol station and was doing pay at pump. So credit card in, payment accepted and started filling up.

Then a woman pulled up as closely to the back of my car as she could got out and picked up the diesel pump from mine and started to drag it to her car. I was a bit stunned but asked her what she was doing. She replied ‘filling up’ and I said not on my credit card and I don’t think two of us can use it at the same time.

She just looked at me like I was being a massive bitch and put it back, then drive off. It was one of those utterly bizarre moments you wonder if you were in the wrong she did it with such confidence.

Thought of another one.

When DD was born we went out to buy an outfit for a newborn photoshoot week booked, the photoshoot was when she was 10 days old so I must have been about a week post birth at the time.

I found this adorable newborn dress, it was glittery type material with a tutu but really soft and it was absoloutly tiny (as was my 5lb daughter) like a dolls dress.

I lined up in the queue to pay and the older lady in front of me chatting to the cashier (not even buying anything just stood making small talk), turned and looked at the dress, looked at me and said 'I wouldn't bother love, that wont even fit on one of your legs' then burst out laughing.

Neither me nor the cashier joined in her laughing and just looked at each other confused, then she looked embarrassed and scurried off.

They don't need to be fed, they're perfectly capable of finding their own food. And wouldn't you rather let them do that, than feed them stuff that will make their health suffer (nalnutrition, stunted growth, underveloped wings)? If you have to feed them, use sweetcorn or porridge oats instead.

Oh, accents - or rather lack of them.

Years ago ExDH and I buddied up with a single Mum friend for a Centr Parcs holiday in the Netherlands because of some discount deal.

On one of the days her two kids wanted to do climbing, and my DS and ExDH decided to do something else and have "quality" bonding time, so I tagged along with friend to wait for her kids.

We got chatting to a young male instructor who was extremely well travelled, and had a reasonably neutral accent. He looked Scandinavian, so I did the stupid obvious thing of asking where he was from originally, as his English was very good, and then wished the ground could have swallowed me up when he grinned and said "Aberdeen". Fortunately the mortification was all mine and he was absolutely lovely about it. Pretzels. I too have pretzel moments.....

Haha I love your reaction to that nasty bloke!

The one time I got flashed is the ONE TIME I actually had a good response in the moment! I was walking home on a quiet evening when I passed a young man who asked me what street we were on. He was holding his shirt kind of oddly but I didn't look down, just told him the street name and moved on.

Once I'd moved past him he called out "What do you think?" and I realized he was flashing me.

I said, "I think you need to keep working on your six-pack," and turned around and walked off with zero other reaction. And then later when everything had sunk in I was dead proud of myself for coming up with that reply because usually I only figure out good comebacks after a night's sleep!!

The Herbs! That's so delightful, I would have been smiling all week.

Great thread!

I went to take some instructions from a client at court once. He came in, sat down, then told me he could only stay for 5 minutes because he was radioactive and I wasn't safe.

Another client told me he wasn't said client, he was an alien using his body.

Another told me he had a stainless steel skeleton.

I was walking along with small DD running ahead near my house. DD tripped and fell and a woman walking past said 'I could see that was going to happen' and walked on. To be fair to her I think it was a case of speak first think later but I was frazzled and ended up saying 'Thanks for the help' as she walked away. Her shoulders went up as though I'd hurt her, which made me feel bad. I hope it taught her to just say nothing in similar situations.

My husband and I went for a picnic on Hampstead Heath many many years ago and a random dog came rushing over and stole a sandwich from our picnic rug, and ran off. Years later we were on a picnic in Greenwich Park with friends when another random dog ran over and stole a sandwich, at the exact moment we were telling the story.

Ha ha, 😂 it's certainly an ice-breaker! So what happened later on while you were working with her?

I rode to the supermarket a few months ago, was just locking up my bike on one of the hoops provided (the last one left free of the group directly outside the door) when a guy pulls up about 30 seconds after me and tells me, "Sorry, that's my spot".

"No," I said, "they're for everyone."

He glares at me for a moment before saying, "Fine, have it your own way."

Goes to park his bike on one of the other hoops about 10 metres further away. I did have it my way!

18 years old, me and my friend were in town -mid afternoon- when a bloke ran over and flashed us his rather tragic looking penis. We looked at eachother and said "ughhh what's that?!" So he called us "fucking lesbians" and walked off.

When eldest was a baby me and a friend were having breakfast in a cafe with a child each so using two high chairs. A woman came in with her baby just after we were served our food, noticed there were no other high chairs so came over and asked us if we could give her one of ours 😳 we said no we're obviously using them... she tutted, rolled her eyes and walked off!!! Bizarre!

I used to work as a cleaner in a private hospital when I was at uni.
A patient once told me that I 'should make more of myself' and that I would be able to 'marry up if I just wore more make up, pushed up my boobs, wore a short skirt etc'
the irony was that she had just had a nose job and full face lift and had two blood drains either side of her face, and a horrible puffy nose and face. The nurse had even pre warned me that I might be shocked going in and made sure I wasn't sqeamish!!
I really struggled not to laugh

I'd have to ask, "what type of fish", because if it's a piranhas one of those deep sea ugly toothy fuckers, I'd say tail myself. There's also spines to consider with the head of some. Hard to get back out.

What a question though. It's like asking, "if you had to eatva turd, would you fry it or bake it". The real answer is, "fuck off, you psycho".