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

Think in my case it's the other person with the WTF moment...... I answered the door to some random when I was newly married. Only thing he said was "is your mum in?" I just stumbled ...errr, no..... and closed the door on him. Seriously, it seems light years ago.

Oh well apparently I was weird for not laughing off my DH's uncle slapping and groping my backside- I am such a kill joy! 🙄
I gave him the most disgusted Paddington stare in existence and in a voice dripping with distain told him never to lay a hand on me again.
The rest of the family (except DH!) thought I was overreacting, as he's always done it to females of all ages (🤢) in the family and doesn't mean anything by it!
Spoiler alert, reader he has never dared touch me again and hasn't laid a finger on any one else since!

I was walking my dog in a park with a river one side and trees the other. My dog did a poo, I got a poo bag out, she came over and said very firmly to leave it as “the slugs love it!” I did, of course pick it up in the face of her protestations. But I was baffled.

A woman once argued with me and my DS correcting us that he was in fact a girl not a boy... that was pretty batshit.

Imagine thinking I don't know my DS sex and even more so that HE doesn't know it.

Another one I was at a work conference and at lunch time there was a van outside selling sweet treat stuff. Many of us bought stuff and this girl that I had only met that morning but super friendly and we hit it off really well asked if she could try some of mine.

I'm not really a share food type (especially as it required sharing a spoon) but have friends that have the 'waste not want not' mindset and will eat anything and I was actually full so I said 'you can just have the rest of it if you want' and gave it to her. She had a few bites, said thanks and tried to hand it back and I said 'you can just finish it if you want, I've had plenty'. She said thanks and then offered it to the rest of the group (basically 'would anyone like some before I finish it' once again not something I would even think to do but I guess shes a share food type) so far all has been fine.

Then one girl (new to the group who had barely spoke to any of us all day) announced loudly 'I WOULD have had some except SHE has touched it' and then glared at me. She spent the rest of the day with a face like a smacked arse staring at me from across the room with a death glare.

I 'touched' it? (what the spoon?)... it was MY food, that I went out and bought and paid for with my money, was I meant to give this random woman MY food first. So bizarre.

Actually I just read that 'taking an interest in his employees'.
He didn't ask for names etc.
Not sure why anyone was dying of laughter.

NB I use a walking stick sometimes.

Not me but my mum.
Mum goes for a run every morning. On her run she often passes a man out for his run but going the other way. One morning he stopped her, “I keep meaning to ask but how old are you?”
“73”, says my mum
“I thought you were” he says, and carries on.

Most people would follow up her age with some comment and well done for still running at that age or how she doesn’t look it or something like that.

I was once at my gym’s swimming pool, about to get in to swim some laps. A woman approached me and asked if I could watch her 7 year old son in the pool, because she didn’t have her swimming costume and the lifeguard wouldn’t let him swim without an adult in the pool with him. I replied that I was at the pool to swim laps and couldn’t swim with her son.

It was so weird that she thought I may agree to this. I had my goggles in hand and obviously was getting in to exercise, and I would never take responsibility for watching a random stranger’s son swim!

This happened a couple of weeks ago. Sat in lane 2 of McDonald's drive thru slightly before the intercom waiting to order, singing along to TLC No Scrubs. Man in lane 1 completes his order starts driving forward then aggressively reverses back towards me to ask if I called him a 'ginger c*nt'?? Quite angry about it too. I was so taken aback lol. Have replayed the song numerous times to try and find the part that even remotely sounds like what he accused me of saying and I can't hear nothing remotely similar 😂😂

I gasped when I read that to comment, imagine saying that to someone. She sounds vile

I was walking my two dogs and they stopped to have a sniff as dogs do. A man somewhere in his fifties possibly early sixties was walking towards me and I could tell that he was itching to catch my eye so that he could talk. As he got closer, I turned towards the dogs so that I wouldn’t have to speak as I wasn’t feeling very sociable. As he passed by he said, “what a lovely pair of cuties you have there”. So it could have been innocent but he had a smile on his face that came across as leering plus the tone he used. I didn’t like it so ignored. This, also in a village and I’ve never seen him before 😂

YES!

Our house is currently for sale.
We had one woman come round 3 times (she didn’t make an offer but that’s another story). First time she came on her own, second time with hubby, last time with daughter.
We have a walk in cupboard in the bedroom. Just big enough to keep stuff in, not a dressing room or big enough to make into an en-suite or anything.
First viewing, she opened the door and said ‘oh it’s a glory hole! I love a glory hole!’. I thought I might have misheard but DH confirmed.
Second viewing, she showed her husband the ‘glory hole’ and they both agreed they loved a glory hole!
Third viewing, glory hole discussion with daughter and they also described the loft as a glory hole!
😂😂

I’d been visiting my DD and had parked the car in DDs space outside her flat. When I left it was a glorious day, so I put the roof of the car down. Her neighbour came flying out screeching like a banshee about how dare I put the car roof down, I didn’t even live there, who did I think I was, she was going to call the police, get DD evicted etc. I asked her WTF her problem was and she went off on another screeching rant about the car roof going down right outside her flat and I didn’t live there so had no right to do that.

Still not worked it out to this day.

That reminds me of a lady who offered to drive me home from church recently and then added, “That is, if you don’t mind lady drivers?” 😂

"Bubble juice" aka "soap".

Not sure if you saw the update, but it was a live fish and they were possibly being brought up on animal cruelty charges!

Do you also find the female colleague asking the poster which side of the fish she wants to shove into her fanny creepy?

That first “ugly baby/ugly husband” comment is WILD! No wonder you were stunned into silence. The rudeness (and weirdness!) of some people seriously astounds me.

This person would probably become my new work bestie! I love randomers 😂

If it takes all sorts of creepy apologists like you to make the world go round, I think I'll get off.

I recently spent a long period in hospital. The cleaner on the ward was a shy man whose English wasn’t very good and who never interacted with the patients. One day he stood at the end of my bed and said “Can I pray for you?” Surprised that he was talking to me after eight weeks of silence I agreed. So he said a prayer for me. I was quite touched actually but why me? I never saw him praying for anyone else. Still find it puzzling.

A woman approached me recently when I was walking quickly in the pouring rain. I wasn’t sure if she was going to ask for directions or money (city living) but either way stopping in the heavy rain was annoying. She said “Excuse me, do you know what would take a head off a pigeon?”

To be fair, 10 metres further down the road I saw a pigeon with its head missing (😱🤮). But it was a slightly surprising and confusing interaction 😂

I’m with you Mookie, ‘My best friend is black’ is usually an indication that the encounter didn’t happen.