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

Someone might have said this already (haven't read the thread beyond here) but do you know The Herbs?!

Ahh I've had exactly the same. On the bus with baby ds, man asked 'do you have any more children' I said no - generally in similar situations people say something nice about the baby/how lovely it is etc. This guy pretty much shouted 'Good - well don't have anymore!' cue me exchanging baffled glances with other people on the bus who had heard this exchange.

It was you wasn’t it? 😂

I was in a sauna and a man came in, sat down and said "It smells a bit fousty in here, is that you?" I just left.

No, you're absolutely right you two; this was a completely every day, totally non-wtf interaction with a stranger. Not remotely relevant to this thread. I don't even know what @HeySummerWhereAreYou was thinking. Clearly she's the weirdo here.

I mean just the other day I was eating a Twirl in the post office and an old lady asked why I was shovelling human faeces into my mouth? I just shrugged it off.

On my first lone outing with DS as a newborn, we sat in a coffeeshop and a woman walked by with her grandson of about 18 months on their way to the toilets. On their way back she stopped at my table and said 'thought you might have offered to help me change him.. sitting with your coffee watching a grandmother struggle'.

I said that I couldn't leave my three week old to go and wipe a random kid's bum. She flapped her hand and said 'don't worry it's done now' and walked off.

Years ago my mum and her friend did a weekend road trip. They (accidentally, or so they tell me) passed through a town where there was an annual matchmaking festival for local farmers. They were in a pub, an elderly man was sitting nearby, and some American women were at the next table.

Out of nowhere, the old man took his walking stick and prodded one of the Americans in the side, saying "and what are you across the scales then?"

i was horrified at this story, but my mum said he genuinely seemed to think that was how to spoke to a woman you liked the look of at a matchmaking festival!

@greektreacle you’ve reminded me of my own bus stop harassment. I was around 14 waiting at the bus stop on my own on my way home from my nanas house. It was summer so I was wearing a singlet (vest) top and a skirt. An old man stumbles up to me and says ooh, “I’d love to suck on those”… I was mortified and I didn’t really understand why he would want to do something like that, I only thought they were to feed babies. It was probably the start of too much unwanted male attention. Really sickening.

Oh my goodness. The weirdest interaction I had was with a man dressed in corporate wear. I was walking in westfields, and there he was sat on a bench in the middle. As I walked past he leapt up and ran towards me to shout “DID YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS IS ON A WEDNESDAY THIS YEAR?! HAVE YOU BEEN GOOD OR BAD?”

Another weird interaction was being accused of shoplifting in Primark. I had a designer tote bag with me, and had put my denim jacket inside but hadn’t zipped the bag up. I was so confused at being followed out of the store by 4 security guards, who demanded to see this jacket which was from Zara!!!!!! 😂😂

Never in my life had I been accused of stealing- I’d been carrying quite an expensive purse so it was even more weird iyswim?

So bizarre and strange, ended up making a big complaint and the manager got a warning.

Yeah YOU don't!

Another time (and this was me being odd) I was walking to work listening to the radio on earphones. It was a very playful interactive show, and there was a phone in competition. A contestant was played "who lives in a pineapple under the sea" and seeing no one around I decided to bellow "SpongeBob SquarePants" loudly.

I then spotted this lady rapidly walking away from me whom I had just shouted at as she'd walked past me. She looked back at me with a terrible look of incomprehension and bemusement. I called "sorry" and pointed at my Ear buds. As she nearly sprinted away I realised she probably couldn't see my ear buds... 😂

So if you were in Castle Park at just after 8am on a Tuesday and this oddball shouted SpongeBob SquarePants as you walked past, that was me. 🤭

Someone might have said this already (haven't read the thread beyond here) but do you know The Herbs?!

In the park with 4 year old DD today and she became fascinated with a ladybird which she found near the path. We were standing by the side of the path as DD let the ladybird crawl over her arms and hands. A lady went past with a little kid of a similar age and was looking over, so I said 'we've got a ladybird!' (Not sure why really but I felt the need to explain.) Upon which this woman sort of sniggered and went 'ah..,Chlamydia!' And then just...went on her way.

Having googled, I see that apparently ladybirds carry all sorts of STIs, which they transmit to other ladybirds and not humans. So I guess that's what she meant. But at the time I was like 'What the actual fuck?' 😂 Who even says that to a stranger?!

Does anyone have any similar stories of batshit interactions with strangers to share?

A well dressed gentleman of about 80 came out of a block of flats in Central London, crossed the road to my side and as he approached me sang:

" I am a very friendly lion called Parsley" then proceeded to deliver two weak roars.

I assume he had seen my youthful-looking rear and was disappointed that my mid-40s haggard face did not match up and his original sexist leer had to be replaced with a more age appropriate rudeness. I am still trying to come up with a witty rejoinder.

What about "I'll be able to outrun creeps like you though", or "next time I want your opinion, I'll give it to you", or "I may be unfit, but your ugly, and at least I can get fitter".

"Why did you not just hit him with your sticks?"

What about "I was looking for his owner to hit them with the sticks for not training him properly", or "he is fine, it's his owners who are the problem", or "because I'm a decent human being".

Seriously, the stuff on this thread is amazing. I've said some stupid things in an unthinking moment, or where my sense of humour hasn't been aligned, but I don't think I'm ever going to worry about it again as I'm nowhere close to some of the fucktards you have all experienced. In the old days, people with mental health issues were often in institutions, possibly too many were. These days, I wonder if it hasn't gone completely the other way with people not getting the care they need anymore.