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

I had a women turn round in the co op in order to tell me my son was the ugliest baby she had ever seen. When I said nothing I was in shock she said “you are ok you must have an ugly husband”
She then walked off!!!

I once had a man when I was heavy pregnant say to me in a pub he was willing to step in and raise my baby with me. Never seen him before in my life and I had my wedding ring on. I was in the pub with my mum and dad so he must have assumed because I was with them I didn’t have a partner!!!

WOW. Some men are such utter c*nts aren't they? Who the fuck did he think he was?!

When my eldest were aged about 1 and 2, I was going into the local post office. One in a pushchair, one in a sling on my back, both asleep, neither bothering anyone. I held the door open for a man who was coming out as I was going in and he looked me straight in the eye and said "Don't have any more children". Such an odd thing to say to a stranger - it wasn't like I had hoards of kids running rings around me and causing mayhem.

Sounds like you were better off leaving. Sounds like a complete weirdo. There's plenty of men around like that, as I've experienced myself - and so have many other women.

Same. The bloke was just speaking his mind without a second thought. Uncooth maybe but not insulting or pervy.

Oh FFS!

Yeah YOU don't!

I think my use of the word “I” was clear…

It depends on how hyperbolic you want to be I suppose

Quite

Maybe he was. Maybe trying to be funny. It has absolutely baffled me for years.
There was like a hot wood smell, but it was obviously the sauna and not me!

It depends on how hyperbolic you want to be I suppose. I’m pretty sure it was a man just going about his business, saw something he got the wrong end of the stick about, and made a joke out loud that he probably shouldn’t have. I imagined he was laughing when he said it, and I’d probably have laughed too. It takes all kinds to make the world go round, doesn’t it?

Thank you @KreedKafer It is completely inappropriate and weird and I can't believe any WOMAN would laugh it off and think it's OK.

Yeah YOU don't!

Several years ago, I was probably about 13, I met a guy in the local library who finished every sentence with the word "death!"
"What are you up to!? DEATH!"
"What book is that? DEATH!"
"What are you doing? Death!"
I realise now that he probably had Tourettes or similar, but I had no idea what to make of it at the time.

FYI I wouldn’t have found it incredibly creepy or rude but I don’t associate squatting or pissing with anything remotely sexual.

This was years and years ago. I was 14, and had gone with my gran to a service at the city Cathedral. After it, one of the priests came over and said 'are you the one enquiring about a wedding'. I mean, I was tall for my age but no way did I look old enough to be enquiring about a wedding haha I still had braces and was obviously a teenager.

It’s incredibly rude and quite creepy for a man to start talking to a random woman he’s never met about ‘squatting for a piss’ in the bloody street. It’s not in any way OK for a man to tell a woman he’s never met that he’s thinking about her ‘squatting for a piss’ in front of him. Just FYI.

Cheeky bastard! Sounds like he was trying to get rid of you. What a c*nt.

This one still bugs me.

I was out with DS at a busy city centre café - lucky to get a two-seater pavement table. Our drinks were delivered to the table. I left the table for literally ten seconds to take my son's drink to him (he was watching the ducks on the canal a few feet away), leaving my own fresh drink and my hat on the table. So the table was very clearly occupied, you get my drift.

I returned to find a lady sitting in my son's seat. She looked surprised when I sat down opposite her. "Oh", she said, "My husband was about to sit there".

I politely replied "Ah, that's a shame, I was already sitting here - I was just taking a drink to my son. I don't mind you sitting in his seat though, he doesn't need it", gave a big smile, and remained in my seat, sipping my drink.

Her husband showed up and looked sad. They had a fake whispered conversation about my horrific rudeness, and he pinched a chair from somewhere else and sat on the other side of her.

At this point I assumed they were waiting for their order to be delivered from inside the café, as mine had been, but as time went on and nothing appeared...I realised they'd ordered nothing. They genuinely expected to be able to turf paying customers out of the café's seats because they fancied a sit down.

So bizarre. I think they may have thought that because I was a good twenty years younger than them, I should show them appropriate deference and surrender my seats. I might even have done that, had they asked nicely. But as it was...no.

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.

Hahaha! If she’s completely insane and lives in Manchester, very possibly.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the first person was my mum. Tighted fisted bat and judgmental too 😂

I think the piss posture is quite funny, not sure why it’s pervy. There is a man at my work who bends down in a squat position, for a fleeting second I always think he’s going to the toilet 😆😆

Not something like that, no.

No not like that! Saying to a strange random woman you don't know 'I thought you were about to squat for a piss!' (When she was just walking along, lifting the back of her raincoat up to get her phone out of her pocket?!) I

That's not a normal thing for a man to say to a strange woman FFS! 😆

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That was a bit of a disappointing essay tbh. I was expecting more than a daft comment