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

I know. Phew! But then again weigh that up against getting three babies out of their seats and somehow carrying them into the till area or running out of petrol on the motorway with three babies in the car it seems the only sensible thing to do really. Any way it was a long time ago before kids regularly got burned alive in petrol stations and hysteria levels were lower. 🙂

I think I'd have laughed too. It may not be the most polite thing to say but I don't think it's creepy.

Glad to have made your day...😀

I do write for a living, but not what you may expect. Financial reports for private companies. Somewhere in me there is a J K Rowling trying to escape, or so I am told. Except, the chances of me successfully penning the next best seller is remote.

Approaching 70, I just do not have enough Thyme.

Its a cyanide toxin they use to ward off predictors from eating them, several other harmless insects like millipedes have the same its just a defense mechanism... its far to week to poison a human though.

One unwise Google search later...OMG 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

What a charmer 🙄

A bloke tried to correct the way I was filling my car up at a petrol station. I had been driving for about 20 years at that point and I’ve never been told I was filling up incorrectly.

He just walked over from his car and insisted that he needed to show me how to do it properly. I said ‘no I’m fine thanks’ and he walked past and called me a fat Chinese cunt. I’m not of Chinese origin, so I don’t know where that came from.

I had my own ladybird WTF moment.

I was about 20 and waiting for a bus to go shopping with my boyfriend when a big (big for ladybird anyway) one landed on my hand. It was crawling up and down my fingers and across my hand. I said to DH, "aw, sweet". Then the little fucker bit me. Right on the web between thumb and index finger. Then to add insult to injury, it pissed, shat or puked some green stuff onto the bite for good measure. It actually hurt more than you would think. By the time we got back from shopping, I'd developed a weird blotchy little itchy rash around the bite mark. It took weeks to go away completely.

It was a WTF because I never knew they could bite through human skin.

Now, I'm wondering if I got da ladybird herpes.

@Thurien Ha ha ha ha!!!! You should write for a living if you don't do so already....your post has made my day. I can picture him now. What a character. I love people like that....they truly are the stuff of life. The Lion King cub locked in the fridge. I almost died of laughter reading that. Ha ha 😂

Imagine a Donald Sinden lookalike walking past, upright, slow stroll in the sunlight, moving slowly, languidly, yet deliberately.

A powerful looking, leonine beast. Then a curl upwards of the right cheek and the mouth uttering a 'roar' with the same strength and intensity that the pharmacist might use to ask you if you have taken the migraine tablets before. Like the Lion King cub might sound, when locked in the fridge.

Haha. It was clearly like a hot wood smell and the actual sauna, not me. I think he was possibly trying to be funny but it is definitely the weirdest thing a stranger has ever said to me.

lol the geordie comments are making me think of an encounter I had a couple of weeks ago in a bar. It was late and we were all leathered.. this young woman comes to our group and screeches ‘Do I sound like a geordie?!’ I said, ‘yeah, you do a bit’. She said ‘Well I’m from Durham!’. “It’s all the same to us love, I replied’. Thought she was going to go for me but she wandered off lol.

What makes you think they'd be any safer in any of those situations if they were out of the car?

Anyone who has worked at a petrol station will tell you, children are safer left in the car, than out of it.

Omg she left them on the forecourt. But there could have been a fire/terrorist attack/petrol explosion, etc, etc, etc ...

You post was absoloutly fine and perfectly in line with the thread, it was the people who go out of their way to be enraged that grasped at some pretty wild straws to turn it into their agenda.

I mean a woman dressed in somewhat unisex clothing used a womans toilet and someone pointed out 'this is the women toilet' so of course on MN that translates to 'a bearded intact man is putting on dress to invade women's bathrooms'.

I mean its literally the EXACT opposite of what you said happened to you.

@PotterHead1985 I go on FWR for that debate there is a thread there at the moment. lol

must have been horrid for you

Understandable. I most definitely didn't post it to start an argument of trans people in women's spaces. I wish the thread hadn't derailed with that. It was just a weird interaction that had happened to me. I know the debate is a divisive issue so, much like politics and religion, I tend to try and avoid it.

@PotterHead1985 apologies, I did not much like the responses your OP attracted from a certain section of MN.

I think people who mistake a female for a male must have some limited perception, since I have never had that problem.

Also I doubt very much I would challenge someone at the loo even if I thought they were a man. No matter how much i disagree with men using women's toilets.

Just wish that the issue had not come up on this thread, as it gets heated.

He'd be right to call the police, that's assault by beating, shoving someone almost to the ground is a crime, and there's probably CCTV of him doing it.

I rarely watch TV so no idea.
My neighbour calls himself a geordie, he has a thick accent.
My DP is Scottish and when he talks to his siblings or parents I can't understand him either. And if he were to have imbibed a few drinks, I could not understand him then.

And I split my time between UK and Canada and canadians cannot understand me.
And if I go to Quebec, my French is woefully inadequate, and my quebecois is non existent, but in France I'm mostly understood.
What can you do about people not understanding some accents?

@housethatbuiltme I know. I'm from county Durham and often get mistaken for. Geordie. When in Staithes a while back got chatting to some people who were staying there. One woman was hyper excited at my Geordie accent. I said If you hear me next to a real Geordie you'd get a shock at the difference. I did call her pet though to make her even happier 😂
I once heard someone talking in a queue at Disney and couldn't work out which country they were from. They were full on Geordie. Talked very fast though.

At the bus stop with my 14 year old daughter taking our kitten to the vets. I’m from the midlands, ( he was from Acton apparently) a man walks to our stop and sounding exactly like this says ‘hello ladies I’ve just had the best banging time of of my life, went to London got naked and lost all my clothes. Women I fucked years ago told me on Facebook she had her lady garden done for me, so I fucked her good. I did magic mushrooms it was bangingggggg babes. Best night of my life everrrrr. Then proceeded to show us both his magic mushrooms. Got on the bus, when he got off screamed nice to meet ya ladiessss take care then waved

Going NC for this as have told the story IRL. in my oldest DDs class, a new child joined maybe 3rd class. The mammy asked to be added to the class WhatsApp group. It’s generally used for questions like does anyone know if it’s non uniform day tomorrow, what was their maths home work, stuff like that with some general chit chat. Within a few days of joining she asked if anyone had seen her cat. That was it. Literally has anyone seen my cat. One of the other mammies replied asking where she lived and did she have a picture as that may narrow down the search slightly. Days later, she posted a pic of her DDs backside (in knickers) and the backs of her legs saying she had a rash and could anyone advise what it was. She got no responses to that question as tbh don’t think anyone knew how to respond. But I felt that posting a half naked picture of your 9/10 daughter to a group of strangers was bizarre and thought surely there was someone else she could have asked

She also randomly replies with questions or answers that make no sense to the conversation. So say someone will ask, do you know if they have to wear runners tomorrow for sports day. She’ll reply tesco have a great sale on balloons.

But strangest interaction was a few months later. The school runs an afterschool program, stuff like art, cooking, sports etc and I was sitting in the car in the school car park waiting for DD to come out. It was a dreary drizzly November afternoon and this mammy comes into the school grounds, sits down on the wet ground and proceeds to eat a share bag of boosts 🤷🏼‍♀️. Why she couldn’t stand, go into the school reception or even wait outside at the bus stop where it was dry I’m not sure? but her choice was to sit on the wet ground in the rain.

Thing is when you speak to her one on one she comes across quite normal but the messages are always strange

I had similar. In my 20’s travelled into London for a training course. I got a bit lost trying to find the right exit from the tube station to the street I needed. I approached the ticket inspector on the gate to ask him and he immediately smiled at me and opened the gate. When I explained I was lost he laughed and said “what are you talking about Sue!?” and gave me a kind of side to side one armed hug.
when I replied that I wasn’t Sue, he said of course you are! When are we going to have another lunch chat? Then we had an awkward few seconds of going back and forth saying “I’m not” with him replying “yes you are”. Another ticket inspector came up and I thought I was finally going to get some help. The first thing he said to me was Hi Sue!

I just gave up and walked off bewildered.

If you are referring to my story I can assure you it 100% did happen. I still even have the text messages I sent to my mother when it happened expressing my shock. My hair was shorter then (currently growing it out) I was in an oversized hoodie, jeans, baseball cap and trainers - from spending the entire night in the airport. I also have the misfortune of being fat and lumpy, rather than curvy and womanly (unless I am wearing a padded bra - 6 stone weight loss seems to have left my boobs first - and I didn't happen to be that night). I left out one detail - for fear of being piled on that it wasn't relevant or I was racist - about the woman's attire, but the rest was as it happened.

Thankfully it is the first and only time so far it has happened to me, although I had had parents several times refer to me as man/boy to their children. Short hair, fat and don't wear makeup unless on a night out apparently equates to male.