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

Of course it was dear..

Judging by the post thanks I got, seems I'm far from the only one who got fed up of seeing her make sly digs at those that disagreed with her that it was bad, across multiple pages of the thread, using other peoples (unrelated) posts to do so. Ridiculous behaviour.

First child, absolutely skint but allowed myself one treat every now and then. I'd bought a Starbucks iced coffee thing and put it down carefully on the pavement to fiddle with toddler's pram seat (it could be forward or backwards facing so DC had to be taken out of the pram and asked nicely to hold the pram frame for safety while I quickly swapped it).

Despite being careful, somewhere in this action my full drink spilled everywhere all over the pavement. I felt crestfallen. Definitely couldn't buy another. Was exhausted and really wanted this coffee.

A woman walked past and spoke - I thought she was going to express sympathy so I looked up at her - she says "oh I bet that cost a lot as well" with a huge grin. What a bitch.

I don't think many people would find it appropriate but I also don't think a lot of people would find it creepy

Haha yeah I think I usually understand it but I’m from Glasgow tbf lol

Ah I’ve just realised I completely spelt “jordy” wrong 😵‍💫😂 it’s geordie - noted. Think I knew that but just forgot 🤭

I was at the cinema with a friend. There was a woman a couple of rows behind us talking very loudly on her phone, through the adverts, through the trailers and didn't seem to be in any hurry to put the phone down.

My friend got up, turned around and said, "you have talked through all the adverts, then through the trailers do you think you could put the phone away now the film is starting?"

She looked as if he'd asked her to eat a dog turd, but she did put the phone down and my friend turned back to a round of applause.

I can't remember what the film was, it might have been one of the Scream franchise, but in it is a scene where someone is talking on their phone in the cinema and is killed, that got quite a big laugh.

I'm sorry this happened to you. I was at a sandwich shop years ago with my work friend and as he took out orders the man behind the counter asked her, a propos of absolutely nothing, if she was pregnant. It was so irrelevant (it was really busy so we were just quickly ordering, not chatting with him) and also not true. She was wearing a slightly empire-line style dress, but also not looking like she was pregnant. I was just behind her and am shorter and probably around the same size at the same time so if anyone would've looked pregnant it was me.
She was baffled and visibly upset, as most people would be. I wish I'd thought to ask him why on earth he thought that was an okay thing to ask. Years later she looks lovely still but is very thin and I wonder whether this incident contributed to her feeling that her natural body size (not stick thin but definitely not fat) was not okay.

I still remember during COVID, my doctor husband and NHS I working every hour god sends and trying to look after our 3 yo in a flat. I was literally at breaking point. Took the 3 yo out for a walk with some chalk and she drew tiny rainbows outside the (locked) park pavement. Woman had a massive go at us both for "graffiti" and that it would take a day or so for the chalk to go. I was utterly broken.

It is always the old men! Confused about others wanting to hear their opinions…

They’re not cutting off their dicks though.

Transphobic comments on Mumsnet?
Surely not?!

Change the record 🥱

I can, but then I'm from Northumberland. Most of us can understand each other.

Heh. In Wetherspoons back in the day - I know...
I was reading a book. On my own. This bloke comes up. Totally plastered.
Shhh be in kishen. I said
What? I can't understand you.
He repeated it three times
No sorry, can't work out what you're saying mate
He stumbled off
Only after he'd left, i worked out that I should be at home in the kitchen and not in the pub like real men.
Pffft
Bwahahahah

Amazing. Some people somehow manage to be too offensive to cause offence, don't they!

Haha, no idea. I'd take that as a compliment any day! I just have bog standard, generically caucasian blue eyes!

@Toenailz what a weird overreaction on your part.

That is absolutely brilliant. That's proper made me laugh 😂 😂

I was working on a new site chatting with a manager and he noticed my tattoo behind my ear and asked about it. I've got hearing issues and it's a mute symbol. He then asked if they made me get it or if I decided. I asked what he meant. And he said you know when they said you've got hearing problems did they do it. I couldn't stop laughing 'no I wasn't branded' I chose it for myself. I'm still not sure what he was actually trying to say 🤣

Always used to get awkward encounters working in retail too. Near mother's day the tills would automatically generate a discount code for flowers aimed at mother's day. I served a bloke and handed him the coupon. He looked at it and handed it back and said his mum was dead, it was a horrible slow end. I get people struggle with things but in a 30 second interaction it's hard to know how to react. Think I said 'oh sorry, I'll bin it' and took it back.

Popped into Tesco with DM, my DD was a only a few weeks old and a bit colicky, so I carried her in my arms whilst DM shopped. The pharmacist came out from the counter and really tore into me for carrying her in my arms. She even wagged her finger at me angrily.

Maybe not in this theme but I do tend to attract people who seem to feel comfortable sharing their life stories, which I'm happy to be part of.

Lots of funny experiences while travelling but one amongst the most bizarre was a bloke who sat next to me on a 2 hour journey. Just chatting away, he told me about his prison years and how he escaped by putting dynamite up his arse and it's something he's done ever since. He winked at me and said don't worry love, I won't be setting it off as you've been a nice girl.

I was 19 at the time, just laughed and was so relieved to get off that train!

Yeah, I would've just laughed as well and not been that offended. Possibly have replied with yes needs must...

Well it wasn't until you walked in mate!

Can anyone understand the geordie accent?

A geordie man lives next door to me, I often just nod at him cos I cannot understand him.

A few of these have made me chuckle, but for some reason this one properly made me laugh so hard I started coughing 🤣 🤣🤣

Long one but I feel like I want to share it. Had spent six years living in Singapore, came back in 2015 with my then two year old and we were living with my mother, trying to look for a house and acclimatise, very stressful. Severe reverse culture shock. We also were starting to realise something was up with our DD, she wasn’t talking or interacting as she should (turned out to be fairly severe autism) so suffice to say I was a bit of a walking raw nerve and the jet lag was strong. It was like I was shell shocked.
Sitting in a softplay, watching my daughter and wondering why she wasn’t like the other kids, feeding her Ella’s Spag Bol (when she would eat lots of different foods ☹️)and I feel someone’s presence, imposing on us, looming in our space, seemed to go on for ages and then some muttering, then more muttering. It was another mum, packing her daughter into a pram, she kept repeating something… so I end up saying pardon/sorry but not really knowing if it was directed towards me.
Her words - ‘you know they feed dead animals to children here’
Now remember, I’m in a state at this time with everything going on…so my instinct was to push the food away. Then more confusion as I tried to process what she was saying..so I asked her to repeat and she said the same thing again, sort of triumphantly.

The lady sat beside me twigged and confronted her saying that’s not on etc.. and I realised what she was doing was some kind of weird activist thing and promptly burst into tears. She walked away and this lovely woman hugged me and reassured me she was prob just some weird animal rights warrior or whatever. I still remember her smug face as she stood at the door talking to someone, but eyeing me directly. It was such a weird and sort of creepy way that she did it, and I was so upset by that, I don’t care what she thought of my choice to feed my DD meat, it was the way she went about it that really got to me, it wasn’t a hit and run, it was the slow knife.

What I would do to see her again and smear that Spag Bol all over her face, I mean I wouldn’t, but I’d have a few choice words for her. She must have smelt my vulnerability or something, I was already a wreck, judgement on my food choices for my child was something I didn’t need, especially that day.

Are you sure he didn’t have a lisp and was actually saying yes?

Should have added he was in his 60’s