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

And one where I'm the recipient.... sitting in the cinema about to watch some latest blockbuster. absolutely packed theatre. From memory, it was something like a star wars or a marvel or something - a sort of franchise style movie that are often enjoyed by kids.

As the movie starts.... she gets out a nail file and starts filing her nails! I asked her to stop and she looked at me like I was completely and totally unreasonable and then rather grudgingly, put it away!

Wasn’t a complete stranger as it was someone I met at an event and he came out with ‘There is nothing more beautiful than a woman crowning’ having asked me if I had children. I was 23 and had just said it wasn’t really something I was even thinking about

I was once the person doing the random WTF thing. Sitting in a nice bar in a suitably nice part of London. Sunny summer day with lots of tables close together in the sort of window/patio area. Random two men sitting next to us, but not with us. He starts biting his nails and I sort of smacked his HAND away from his face!!!! I was absolutely MORTIFIED. Apologised profusely and begged his forgiveness - it was instinct as my sister was trying to stop biting her nails and we'd agreed I could tell her/push her hands away everyt ime.

He was very nice about it but we had to buy him a drink and leave as fast as humanely possible - I couldn't stay another minute.

Fucking hell, get over it will you?! Dog with a bone - let it go.

You found it offensive. Plenty of people get offended. Well done.

The guy mistook what you were doing - and simply said it. Worse crime is he has a case of verbal diarrhoea. Which plenty of people unfortunately do.

Plenty worse has been said, and will be. I've had a man I was serving look me in the eye, make a comment about my hair, then proceed to ask me if the curtains matched the drapes. In front of other customers. And my colleagues. I've also had plenty worse said (and done).

There may well be people reading this who will think its funny (though I doubt it), but I didn't. So what? It doesn't matter...

Get some bubble wrap when you go outside. People are often strange out there.. best to avoid talking to them.

I work in a public library.
I have batshit interactions with strangers weekly if not daily.

Went to McDonald’s when my 2nd ds was a few weeks olds with my OH and my (then) 14yr ds. Some old lady came over and was cooing over ds in his buggy then looked up, looked at ds14yr then looked at OH, turned to me and asked so… who’s the daddy 🤦🏽‍♀️🤣

What’s depressing is women who are misogynists. Assuming you’re a woman?

@WiddlinDiddlin i said i did not believe that particular post. If your butch lesbian sister is stopped at the entry of women's toilets, I know who i would blame. Thick people, and other thick people who think biological males should be allowed in women’s spaces.

In my 30s. Evening. Walking to my fiance's house in the next street.

I was accosted by two teenage boys. There was no one else around.

"Are you a teacher?" asked one.

"That's a strange question. Why do you want to know?"

"Cos I hate all teachers. If you're a teacher, I'm gonnae..."

He then described how he was going to torture me.

i heard my voice saying "Oh, drop dead Shit Face!"

He looked astounded. His friend pointed at him and laughed. I walked to my fiancé's as briskly as I could.

It was the same for me too.. Apparently they'd SEEN me on cameras shoving a denim jacket into my bag! 🤣 it feels awful being accused like that right?

This thread reminds me of the time when I was a teenager..... many, many moons ago... walking through my home town with my then best friend. Coming towards us were two young lads, maybe late teens or early twenties. All of a sudden, one of them dropped to one knee in front of us, stretched out his arms, and announced:
"Whip me, strip me and tell me you're 12".
They then ran off.
Several decades later, I still have no idea what it was about. I suspect a dare or drunken shenanigans. Still, very bizarre and unforgettable .

@WiddlinDiddlin exactly!! No one else does! Or is it double barrelled?

God, I just remembered a security guard one from 20 years ago. I was pregnant with my eldest and my mum and I were looking at baby monitors in Boots. Suddenly, there appears a big security guard at the top of the aisle. Now, it's really hard to describe this properly, but bear with me. He basically made this big show of slowly spinning his body round so he was facing down the aisle, feet planted wide, whilst ever so slowly crossing his arms and glaring at this pregnant woman and her middle aged mum. I think I blinked at him for a second or two before silently putting back the monitor I'd been thinking of buying and leaving the shop.

They are the Pugh twins.

Much more importantly, why does Barney McGrew get his full name?

Twins

I'll let my sister know - she's had the experience (and I have been with her a couple of times when this has happened) of being told firmly 'this IS the LADIES!'... or 'Erm, wrong toilets mate'...

She's a fairly butch lesbian, but you'd really have to be thick to think she is actually a bloke or a transwoman.

She'll be delighted to know that these things never happened.

I thought it was Hugh, Pugh......

Why Pugh twice?

Maybe she was drunk? Or it was a case of mistaken identity? Very weird!

My WTF moment happened on here a toilet story that feels very made up.

Me too!

But the bloke did sound pervy.

Was stood in a cafe today with my 5 year old dd in her wheelchair. A man walked past, looked at her in the wheelchair and sung 'you see me rolling'. First I thought he may be having a joke with my dd or trying to make her laugh but he was completely straight faced and just walked past. I still couldn't say for certain that it was at dd but I'm 99% sure it was.

We were put in groups for some uni thing. Maybe 6 of us and no one knew anyone as new to it and groups allocated randomly. One of the women starts going on about how her friend likes to hold knives as it gives her a buzz and makes her feel powerful. Also went on about how she liked men of a certain race. It was just so weird. Everyone just silent until someone else in the group basically just stated out loud that this was weird and we moved onto to the actual group work. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@ThisNoisyTealLurker

It's nearly always the old men isn't it?

Isn't it just?!

@Spitalfieldrose · Today 20:17

I entirely forgot about the school Mum I didn’t actually know being fucking weird.

So standing at pick up when my daughter was about 4, DD is an only child. It was the summer before they went to Reception, and I was talking to one of the Mum’s I did know about buying their new school uniform. I think I made a comment of it being expensive as I’d been a bit surprised in the school uniform shop at the cost.

School Mum I didn’t know but obviously knew DD was an only, pipes up ‘well you should have had another older child, then you could pass the uniform down. That’s the problem when you have an only child’.

We both looked at her like WTF?. And I muttered something about ‘shame about that miscarriage then’.

She never spoke to me again - RESULT!!

What an incredibly stupid thing for this woman to have said.

So we should all have more than one child then, so we are able to pass the school uniforms on?! Fuck me sideways!

My lovely neighbour (single mum, 1 daughter aged 4,) has just given a bunch of clothes and toddler toys to another young single mum for HER little girl (aged 2) as the 4 y.o. had grown out of all the stuff.

And another lady I know advertised her only child's primary school stuff on the village facebook page... as the child is off to Secondary School in September. (Tops, PE kit, ties, book bags, the works.) Imagine that!!! Parents of ONE CHILD managing to pass stuff onto others.

I mean, according to that daft woman you encountered, you must have more than one child to pass things on! 🙄

I am really sorry about your miscarriages.

When working on checkout in a supermarket, I had a man shout "you have been gonged into positions of Norway". He then left screaming at the opticians "you have my wife's blood on your hands".
He came in the next day like nothing had happened. Bizarre