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

We were in a beach bar in Broadstairs recently. Had just finished lunch. A lady came over, pointed to our picnic blanket which was folded up on the table and said" I need to borrow that to cover my table as it's too sunny" ???

We politely said "No sorry, we are just leaving and need it for the beach"'and she stormed off shouting very sarcastically " thank you SO MUCH for your help" Totally bonkers!

I also once caught a man surreptitiously pretending to be a horse in an alleyway behind some shops which made my day at the time but looking back I think it may have been mental health related.

I was around 14 or 15 and was on a bus. A woman, who was sitting at the back, got up to make her way to the front of the bus, dragging a teddy dog behind her on a leash. As she was waiting for the bus to pull in at the next stop, she turned around, looked directly at me and said “Woof, woof”.

Looking back, it was most likely mental health related, but at the time I was like, what the fuck was that!?!

Thank you @ludocris As I said, I'm not responding any more to these (few) posters. They are looking for a reaction, and they're getting no more from me.

The OP asked for examples of weird shit people say, and I gave my example. I have no idea why my post was singled out - and why what happened was minimised and mocked. Very odd!

And I am so sorry about your experience at the airport in India. How rude of them.

Similar happened to me but the silly cow was running over shouting “He can’t eat chicken bones it could choke him” I was like “erm your dog ran over here on to out picnic mat (not welcomed at all just appeared as it wasn’t on a lead) and started putting its beak in to everything” luckily we were finished!

Either have lessons in better recall training or keep it in its lead. If something happens to your dog, that’s on you. I’m not wrestling a strange dog and pulling stuff out if it’s mouth that it shouldn’t be eating in the first place. How dare you blame us.

I had my baby and my toddler in tow who were both shrieking (toddler was scared of dogs) as this random dog devouring our left overs happy as Larry, with the owner having the audacity to tell us what her pampered pooch can and can’t eat!!

It was off Kings Road and I still get the rage when I think of her entitled attitude - as if it was our bludy fault - silly bitch 😂

I used to own a gift shop years ago. I just opened up, the shop was quiet and a tall man with a long, heavy black coat walked in and started browsing. I didn't like the manic energy coming off him and he was clearly not really interested in the things in my shop. I could tell he had an agenda. He did! He abruptly marched up to me, produced a dog-eared bookmark with a prayer printed on it and told me earnestly that I should consider Christianity!
Massive presumption on his part! I could have already been a Christian, or jew, or devil-worshipper! None of his business, really

My friend once told me she had seen a lady wearing a veil (not covering her whole face, just hair) talking to her son in a bus in Cardiff. Some man yelled at her ‘speak English or go home why don’t you’. She looked at him and said ‘oh, aren’t I allowed to speak Welsh? I thought Cardiff was the capital of Wales.

So funny 🤣🤣🤣

I was sat in a coffee area in a shopping centre thoroughfare breastfeeding my new baby, a woman saw me and came over with her teenage son. They chatted asked how old the baby was etc I was slightly uncomfortable but my choice to feed publicly I just didn't fancy an involved conversation with strangers while doing it, especially a late teens boy. They stood for ages and she eventually said, are you going to show us the baby's face to which I had to politely say sorry but she was latched on and I didn't want to stop her yet. I found it so awkward and odd but I guess people love babies

Such weird responses on here to the story about pissing in the street. @HeySummerWhereAreYou found it rude, you may not have. So what? She didn't start a hate campaign against him over it! Why do people have to nitpick so much on MN?

I was in India once at an airport, and group of Indian people started talking to me/sharing their snacks with me. They asked how old I was and when I told them 26, they had a quick discussion in their own language before informing me that they thought I was older because I was [universal gesture for fat]. So that was nice.

Hahahaha your poor uncle must have been mortified. Haha either you looked older than 14 or she thought you were a mum at 11!!!

During lockdown I was regularly visiting my terminally ill mother at her flat on the centre of town. I'm a vintage Goth and generally wear all black, so along with my signature wide brimmed hat, long swishy coat etc, I had a black face mask, and as it was early days regarding how the virus was spread, and it was thought all mucous membranes were vulnerable I was also wearing cat eye shades - Muvva was shielding and I figured I couldn't be too careful.

Anyway I was walking down the hill to the chemist for yet another prescription and a lady slightly older than myself wearing a smart beige ensemble was coming up towards me. As we passed she hissed at me with absolute venom "Witch!!!!". I was so taken aback I turned round - she had done the same and followed up this pronouncement with "For God's sake" and a disgusted shake of the head. I threw out a cheery blessed be, and went on my way, chuckling.

I mean, I'm used to cocky teenagers yelling "Emo" at me etc, but usually older people just do the studied ignore. I suppose she might have thought Covid was something I'd brewed in my cauldron....

I was enroute to the park with my 18 month old in the stroller when a woman maybe in her 70’s was about to pass us in the opposite direction and she stopped and naturally I just presumed maybe she was going to say hi to my daughter or usual kind of pleasantries or something. She then just looks at me dead in the face and asks “have you been doing your pelvic floor?” And I felt a bit confused and awkwardly laughed and said “err yes” and she replied “oh please do!” and just walked straight off.
To this day I’ve found this interaction to be so odd to have with a complete stranger and wasn’t sure if she was just trying to give (unsolicited) advice or whether because my child is high percentile and I’m quite petite or maybe this is actually normal and I’m odd haha!

I was told ‘Go back to your own country’
(When i was in a ‘nice’ pub that had sofa’s and cushions) in an area where i was born and grew up.
I laughed at her, (We were both white) and asked where she thought i was from.
She didnt answer the question but she threw a cushion at me 😂

'I'm a rather fat feathery owl called...Sage'
Yes, I too am THAT old 😂

There we go.

I read this as roof at first. I wish I hadn't re read it.

I think you win!

Not a massively hilariously story, but this reminded me of something that happened this evening. Me and the children were buying school supplies in the range, when we got to the till there were barcodes missing off 3 of the items 🙄 so eldest ds was sent around the entire shop trying to find the barcodes (should have been the staffs job imo). Anyway while I was stood between the tills with the younger dc’s, one till worker loudly came out to the others with ‘I wonder what they do with severed limbs? Like so they just incinerate them? Or keep them somewhere to bury with them when they die’. And they all started discussing it. We were all stood there a bit bemused thinking what a weird convo to start across the tills at work. It might have been triggered by all the Halloween decs that were just put up in there 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dodged the question, told her I didn't think I could fit a salmon up there.

That's fucking disgusting.

The mental image that has just given me 😂🤣🤣
I'm laid in bed and can't stop laughing 🤣

For many years I was an aide to a senator in the US.
My job was to help people who had problems they couldn’t solve any other way.
This young (late teens) married couple comes in, they’re desperate, have no home, no food, no medical.
I set them up with appointments with housing, food stamps, medical, etc, etc.
The very next day, the guy comes back by himself and threatens to kill me because I “didn’t get them any free money.”
He finally leaves and I call the state police. He’s arrested an hour later at social services dept, in the process of threatening to kill someone there.

Mines not what was said but what was done.

Me and my friend had gone to a premier of a Sean bean movie (we got invited as we were extras in "when Saturday comes" lol).

We left the cinema and got on a bus to go home,, being young we sat at the back of the bus just talking and giggling as young friends would.

During the journey at the opposite end of the seats of the back of the bus another young female was sat there who then proceeded to pull out a large knife and start making (sharpening a knife movements) on the metal neck part of the seat.

Omg me and my friend froze for a few mins but then quickly moved down to the front of the bus near the driver and then pressed the bell for the next stop, which wasn't even our stop.

I never sat at the back seat of a bus again after that. She was so calm when she did it too, it was very eery.

😆

@Vroomfondleswaistcoat

This and some of the other comments by men, like the 'squat to piss' one, remind me of the sort of things my elderly friend comes out with. He thinks he is HILARIOUS. I've pointed out until I'm blue in the face that it's not even slightly amusing and may well upset people, but he just stomps saying that it's people's fault for being too sensitive.
He's a complete dick sometimes, but he doesn't want to be educated.

He sounds repugnant. 😖 I wonder if it's the same man?!!! Except the one I encountered was mid 60s. Depends how you define elderly. Some would say mid 60s, I would define it as 75+.

@KreedKafer

I also worry about the social skills of people who think it’s normal/OK to just blurt out their every thought to random strangers. Comments about pissing aside, surely it’s generally just basic manners not to make personal comments about people to them as they walk past.

Maybe these are the sorts of people who also boast about ‘telling like it is’ and ‘calling a spade a spade’ and ‘having no filter’ as if that’s something to be proud of, when they are, in fact, just really fucking rude.

Yeah exactly... The minimising of my experience by several posters on here is quite disturbing as well tbh. As I said, I doubt any WOMAN would minimise it and say it was OK, and I 'overreacted.' 🙄

Not worth even responding to to be honest. They're looking for a reaction. They're not getting any more from me.

Was with my mum approaching a cashmachine when a woman barged in front. When my mum objected the woman just turned to us and said well I'm in a hurry you've got all day. I was like wtaf was that and what makes her think her time is any more valuable than ours.