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

Wtaf? Some nutters out there. 😂😂😂

I was a merchandiser of greeting cards at a well known big box store that had a uniform of navy top and khaki pants. Now I didn’t work For big box store, I worked for the greeting card company.

A middle aged guy asked me where something was located in the store. I told him I wasn’t sure, I didn’t work for the store I worked for the greeting card company. He then proceeded to argue with me that I Did indeed work for the store, why didn’t I know where the item was, and ‘besides you’re wearing their uniform’. Now I did have on just by coincidence a navy top and khaki pants (last time I ever did that). After a few minutes of trying to get him to understand I gave up and he walked off in a real huff.

Worst job I ever had!

Traditional cat hiss or some sort of hex is the only acceptable response to being called a witch imo 😂😂

🤣 that's an absolute belter

Me too!!!
that’s so random 😂

Well, you learn something new every day.

Although these glory holes were very tidy tbf!

Well done your Dad!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Why do people think they get to say anything about other people’s families? It’s bizarre. Hugs to your Mum

One of my dad’s friends lectured my mum about me bing an old child. Dad was getting changed in the next room and came charging through.

”Don’t you DARE speak to my wife like that again!”

Mum had had three horrendous miscarriages.

As well as being tactless, that's a huge logic fail on her part!

No, the predatory type like Katie Dolatowski et al embrace their lady dicks.

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!!

I keep thinking of more of these strange strangers scenarios! You are not alone, OP! A few years ago I was in my local Sainsburys with my son who was a toddler at the time. We were mooching along one of the aisles when a man in front of us accidentally knocked something off a shelf and it hit a packet of condoms, causing dozens of packets of condoms to fall to the floor, like condoms dominos. I could see how embarrassed the poor man was so I went over to help him pick them up. He was bright red and clearly very flustered. To try to lighten the mood and make him feel better, I said, "Just don't look at them, ha ha." In reply, he said, "I wouldn't know what to do with any of these...I'm 54, and I'm a virgin." Needless to say there was a strange deathly silence while we picked up the rest of the packets and put them back on the shelf.

No one on earth is cutting off their dick to listen to you fart through a cubical wall.

Years ago, when I was about sixteen, I was on a train going to meet my friend. The train was very quiet; hardly any passengers. The train stopped at a station and a boy of about the same age as me got on. It was one of those carriages they used to have where the only way you could get out was to open the slam door and get out at the next station (no access to a corridor). He told me that he'd just escaped from a children's home and had nicked some fireworks from a shop. Then he proceeded to throw said fireworks out of the train window on to the train tracks and laughed hysterically every time one of them exploded. He asked me if I'd like to have a go. I was absolutely terrified and said no thank you. I was so relieved to escape when it came to my stop but I hope he was all right, looking back.

No, the willingness to allow men to invade womens’ spaces because they think putting on a dress and saying they’re a woman actually makes them a woman is depressing. Not to mention women apologising for them.

@Duparsisoverrated you don't think that, you're just excited to see a pile on.

When my daughter was 3/4 I was in Tesco. I was packing and she moved away from me. I called her back. An elderly woman in the queue said ‘keep her in your sight, she’s a pretty little thing. A paedo would love her’. I just stood there open mouthed whilst she wandered off

I don't think thats remotely true.

I've got some fabulous and close friends who are black.

That does not mean that I might not fuck up and say something racist out of ignorance though, nor does it mean someone can't accuse me of being racist when I wasn't.

There is neither causation nor correlation between these things.

The issue with people saying 'but my best friend is black' is that they think this means they cannot POSSIBLY put their foot in their mouth and say something offensive and of course they can, anyone can (and of course people can claim they have a friend who is black and be lying, or they could and yet still be outright intentionally racist ...).

I told my DH about the random 'fish in foof' question and his response was 'if a new co-worker asks that it seems a clearly and not so subtle hint to say you have 'fishy fanny'.

I never even considered than but now it does seem even ruder.

To be fair, I used to know someone who worked as a security guard and LOTS of well off people carrying 'expensive' looking bags and purses were caught shoplifting!

I was looking at the jewellery in M&S once. A shop assistant came storming up to me and said 'You aren't allowed to try the earrings on!' I said 'OK. I wasn't planning to'. She told me that I had been SEEN on CCTV, trying earrings on.
I told her that it wasn't me, perhaps it was someone else l, but she carried on standing there with her arms folded and following me around the display until I gave up and left the store.

Years ago as a slightly overweight teenager I had run to the bus stop and sat next to an elderly man. He then proceeded to ask me why I had such a sweaty face... I was so embarrassed that I just walked back home and didn't bother going into college that day. It's nearly always the old men isn't it?

A few years ago I was queuing up to pay in a shop. The woman behind me pulled the back of my top out - so she could see my back tattoo!!! WTAF. I was so shocked I just paid for my shopping and left but I have quite an expressive face, so I can only imagine what that was doing.
I've also had men ask me 'Are you tattooed all over?'. Now I am heavily tattooed and I understand they are a talking point, but random strangers don't need to know if my tits and arse are tattooed! (Despite that, I'm happy to state here that they're not!)

Not sure my experience is a representative example, but I found a lot of very senior people in my company (from the CEO to senior directors in the global branch) to have very awkward social skills - some I would say with ASD.
They would start very random conversations like this, at times inappropriate, because they keep being told by their PA or Comms team that they should "show interest in their employees", but they have no clue how to go about it.

One of very senior director in the US, when visiting our UK office, would gather a bunch of employees and ask them 4 questions.
The same 4 questions, to all of them, one by one. Ranging from their key project at work to their favourite place to go on holiday. He would listen to the answer, nod, and then move on to the next one. It was borderline robotic and soooo weird!