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

My husband and I were shopping in Morrisons. We were buying a block of tofu when an older woman walks over and asks my husband what it tastes like. He begins to explain when she cuts him off, shaking her head, and turns to me and says, ‘Can’t understand a word he’s saying’. So I explain and she nods her head satisfied and walks off. My husband is English and I’m very much ‘foreign’ looking with an accent, so no idea why she couldn’t understand his English but mine was no problem 😄

Years ago i used to travel a lot on the Central line. One day i got on and opposite me there was a nun in full black habit, sitting, knitting.

At the next station her ball of wool fell off her lap and slooooowly rolled right across the floor and plopped out of the door onto the platform! No one was getting on or off and it seemed to happen in slow motion. The few people who could see it just watched it sort of mesmerised.

I looked at the nun, who wasn't going after it, and she looked at me and loudly snapped ''Go and get it then!!'' as if i was a naughty kid and i'd dropped it!

And readers - i did as i was told 😂

Oh dear…

I once managed someone who'd say things like that. My stock response to practically everything she ever said to me in the workplace was 'Let's pretend you didn't say that, shall we?'

This is the worst male behaviour on this thread, horrific.

Man on the bus offering to teach my 1 year old baby to play the flute. He was very insistent. It was a long old journey.

DH stopped outside a house with a For Sale sign and the next door neighbour popped up and told to "keep on walking son. You can't afford it."

Woman in a coffee shop came over to tell me that my 1 year old baby (same non-flute playing baby) was a "right pain in the arse." All we'd been doing was sitting quietly and sharing a toasted tea cake.

In my younger days, a man sidled up to me in a nightclub and pointed at another woman happily dancing nearby. He said, "see her? Her bum is MUCH bigger than yours."

Innocently waiting for a train at Waterloo and a man stood beside me for a moment then asked if I believed in God. I said no and he snarled "wrong answer!" and shimmied off.

Working in Butlins one summer and was booking in a holiday for a woman for the following year. She picked up my hand and said "you'll never marry, you know." Then we carried on booking her holiday.

This made me laugh! 😂

But if it starts trying to swim you want it to swim out not in... or are we talking a dead one? I assumed fresh out the tank goldfish.

budnode

Your acceptance of this is a large part of the problem.

Sorry, but 'hail of duck quacks' is an hilarious sentence.

But that event is really creepy and unsettling.

(Edited because I'm hungover and can't recall is the correct grammar is ' a hilarious ' or 'an hilarious'. )

When my eldest was about 18 months I'd gone on a shopping trip with my Mum. Headed into a big store and someone behind me started making duck quacking noises. I initially decided to completely ignore it as who knows what's going through some peoples heads.
Then we stopped to look at something we wanted to buy. Next thing I know, the duck quacker has pushed in front of us and is shouting at my Mum. Properly yelling that my Mum needed to leave her alone and stop over reacting and calm down. At this point neither of us had said anything to duck quacking woman.
My Mum made the mistake of reacting to her. I can't remember exactly what my Mum said but it was along the lines of "What is your problem?"
Duck quacking woman only got louder. Really yelling at us to "calm down" and how it can all be sorted out if we calm down.
By this point I'm beyond baffled and a little scared. I tried to manoeuvre myself and my son in his buggy out of her way and get passed, but she wasn't having it. I told her she was being very rude. Didn't shout and it was literally the only thing I'd said during the whole encounter and she then went off at me, bellowing at me for "over reacting" and "how dare you, you've got a child!"
I was still trying to get out of the encounter when my Mum spots a bloke Duck lady is with. He's just stood there grinning, like he's getting off on the whole situation.
By this point my Mum has gone from confused to angry. I think grinning man could sense this and started pulling duck lady away. She carries on yelling and making duck noises, threatening to call the police on us, calling us unstable and unfit to be around a baby. Eventually grinning man pulls her out of sight and she is gone in a hail of duck quacks.
I wanted to report her to a member of staff at the shop, but my Mum thought it best we just act like it didn't happen.
I am still baffled by the whole thing years later.
If there's a very tall woman who decided to make random duck noises at two people in Clas Ohlson eleven years ago, could you please tell me why?

@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.

On a bus, one of those small, single deck ones, a few years ago. A very old man of around Eighty stood up and then collapsed in his seat clutching his chest and the bus stopped while the ambulance came. Some woman became near hysterical as she was going to be late for her board meeting. She had one of those authoritative, booming voices and was loudly demanding to the driver that the ill man should be taken immediately off the bus and left on the pavement so the bus could keep moving... When I heard her say, 'He's probably going to die anyway' I was filled with despair at how some people lose sight of humanity. The poor old man looked so frightened and scared...

Coccinella in Italian. You said 'Ladybird'. She instantly translated it into her own language to her own child: 'Coccinella.' You heard 'Chlamidia.'

Ladybirds can bite, OP. I know they're tiny but it's not pleasant.

Just being a disabled woman gives the population at large the impression they are entitled to be invasive and patronising. “What’s wrong with you?”, “have you been abandoned?”, “can I pray for you?” Etc

That cannot be real....can it?????

I mean surely that's something to bring to HR's attention - the type of questioning being made by a new coworker, right???

But the scales would lie head to tail so would be easier to go in. Not so pleasant coming out.
God I need a life!

I was in my local Morrisons choosing some cheese. A youngish guy came up alongside me, looked at me and enthusiastically proclaimed "Lovely bit of cheese, Gromit!" while wiggling his fingers Wallace style. It did make me laugh!

In a local garden centre on Sunday and I was looking at the clothes. I saw top I liked and said to husband 'ooh this is nice', he said along the lines of 'you've got loads like that' and laughed. and this random man nearby said 'let her try it on and tell her she looks fat in it - works for me'. I actually wanted to tell him the 50's wanted him back and do a speech about body positivity or something , but instead just looked at him and said 'I actually don't know what to say' as he had a little laugh to himself.

Oh my God, you sweet summer child.

Dont go looking up sexual kinks involving squatting or golden showers or other things. You dont want that on your search history.

The piss one cracked me up and I'd have laughed. Sorry not sorry.

Walking around Park Lane on a quiet weekday morning with my DF when a car pulled up and the guy tries to sell us random designer stuff. Suits, watches etc probably stolen.
we politely declined, which set him off into a rant of expletives. Drove round the roundabout by Hyde Park and came back again to continue swearing at us about how we had no style.
This was my poor dad's first day in London.

This did not happen to me, but I witnessed it.

Standing at a cafe waiting to order and there was a man with a pram in front of me. he ordered, got his coffee and turned left to leave. A woman behind me started screaming at him; 'YOU DON;T TURN LEFT, YOU TURN RIGHT TO LEAVE A LINE YOU TURN RIGHT'. She completely lost it and was screaming. he told her he would turn in any direction he chose and walked off. She started talking at me saying 'You try and explain things to someone and they don't listen'.

Anyway- if anyone reading is this man on Sandown beach, Isle of Wight- you were very restrained.

Love this thread but I now have tunes from the herbs stuck as an earworms, rotating between "I'm a very friendly Lion called Parsley" and "I'm Dill the dog, I'm a dog called Dill". 😁
Amazing how our memories work and how a simple reminder can fire up a long forgotten time from our childhood.

A friend lives in a block of flats, one of his neighbours has become known as 'Shouty man'.

Now he probably has mental health issues but some of the stuff he shouts from his balcony is, er, curious.

Apparently, "Everyone wanted to call me father, even Zeus, wanted to call me father, father of Rome"

He also, "Can't do anything about those Catholic women"