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

Agreed.

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.

Head.

Sounds like the same kind of weirdo who would say to a woman they never met before 'Looks like you were about to squat for a piss' when she was just lifting the back of her coat up to get her phone out. 🙄

Some men are just weird perverts aren't they?!

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Many years ago we ran a picture and framing shop. In the window we displayed the new print by Beryl Cook, Dancing on the Bar. A lady, who we had never seen before, stormed into the shop and lambasted DH for displaying such filth in a high street shopping centre. The shop next door was a newsagents selling fags that killed people and had a top shelf full of porn. I think she got the wrong shop.by the way, the smuttierr the picture by Beryl Cook, the better they sold.

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Which did you choose?

Went with my two young sons to feed the ducks at a nearby reservoir. Had some stale brown bread and bird seed. Random woman comes up and started having a go that we were poisoning the birds. Explained that it was brown bread (🤣) and ended up showing her the contents of our bird feed!!!! She went off to have a go at another family 🤣 appreciate that birds do become ill if fed a lot of bread however isn't it better to feed them something???

Wow! She was RUDE!

At a bar, buying a Crabbies alcoholic ginger beer. Random man looks at me suspiciously and says “I hope YOU don’t have any crabbies” 🥴 Proceeded to look at me sideways while I attempted to enjoy my drink.

OMG I am so sorry this happened! How horrible for you.

Like @Nuggetnuggety and @Itsabitweirdinhereinnit I wouldn’t have thought it was creepy, just a silly comment and probably would have laughed as well.

Wow! She's in the wrong job for sure.

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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.

Mine was in the hairdressers, many, many years ago. I was aged about 13 and I was a very shy kid. My hair was naturally dark brown and although the fine hairs on my arms were slightly visible on my pale skin, by no means was I hirsute. Two young hairdressers were working together on my hair and one said quite clearly to the other "hasn't she got hairy arms". Not even a whisper. I was mortified and had a hang up about my arms for years. I remember I even tried shaving them.

I can totally imagine myself as the person saying chlamydia and then spent the next week wondering why on earth I'd said that to a total stranger and how they must think I'm totally insane and worried that I'd bump into them again in the park.

Once had a woman come to my door, banging it in rage and shouting that she knew Toby was in there, “come on Toby come out!” Etc. I opened the door and she asked me where he was hiding. My young DC were watching CBeebies and wondered what the hell was going on. I replied with my husband’s name and she looked confused but then the neighbour appeared and it was her man. Needless to say I quickly closed the door! The bins were upended and I did feel sorry for her tbh.

I got a book from the charity shop and it was priced at 25p. Took it to the counter and the lady behind there look at it, and started having a rant about it being 25p, how this was a charity and its absolutely ridiculous that I had the brass neck to pay 25p for a book worth at least £10. She carried on ranting and when I paid, she said that she hoped I slept well at night after effectively stealing from a charity.

I was that shocked, I didn't even think to point out that the shop set the price not me 😂

Hehehe, I enjoying taking about ladybird chlamydia whenever the occasion arises (about once a year). I give full context though, and not in front of young kids!

A random lady tried to advise me on some plants I was buying in B&Q. Except I knew exactly what & why I was buying them. And I myself occasionally give random plant advice to other customers at B&Q... So the lady and I had a bit of a giggle about being Those Annoying Gardeners 😁

It's possible OP that she wasn't weird but just knew well versed about ladybirds and knows Chlamydia is popular female ladybird name. With Gonorrhea in as the top male ladybird name.

For all we know Ladybird STIs are named things like Peter, Jane, Niamh and Pol.

I was out with my, at the time, baby girl who had red hair. An elderly woman came up and said to me ‘he has lovely hair, but he will hate it when he’s older’ and walked off.

Welcomed a new coworker, five mins into the conversation she asked me if I were to put a fish in my foof, whether I'd pick head first or tail first.

I was sitting outside a cafe with a friend during my lunch break, and was dressed for a corporate job in an office. A well dressed older lady was walking past complaining about young people today when she suddenly stopped, looked at me, and loudly proclaimed “Skirts up to their knickers!!” and walked off.

The hem of my skirt was most definitely on my knee, but I guess I was nearest woman to direct that particular thought at when it came into her head!

WHAAA? 😆

My daughter once asked someone if she could pet their dog. Literally just said what a lovely dog - woukd it be ok if I pet him? They said “No because you should have asked first” ?? What?? We were very confused.