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Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

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FuckingFabulous · 25/05/2021 18:14

I want to hear examples from your experiences. Like when someone drops the facade for a second and you see something a bit scary about them, or when someone reasonable comes out with something utterly ludicrous and you've no idea how to react. I want to hear them! Because earlier today, I found out that my neighbours daughter doesn't have identical twins called Ronnie and Jensen, which was my assumption. She has one boy called Jensen, but my neighbour hates the name and will only call him Ronnie. The boy is six. His middle name isn't even Ronnie. His grandma just prefers that name and calls him that. Confused

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RosaLuxemburgwasright · 28/05/2021 21:54

This is not so much a wtf as a "you're an idiot" and related to the suspected identical twins.

I spent a long time thinking that identical twins, Freddie and Andrew Flintoff played for the England cricket team.

Heartofglass12345 · 28/05/2021 21:31

I was in the town in Tenby once, and there was a pigeon on the road. A van came around the bend and ran it over, the pigeon popped. It sounded like someone popping a massive plastic bag or something. Poor thing!

oohyoudevilyou · 28/05/2021 21:27

A middle aged woman was gardening on one of the allotments next to ours. She suddenly bent her legs outwards, pulled up her skirt to knee level and just pissed on the ground. It was a very long wee and noisy too, but she stood there pissing for about 20 seconds, and made no attempt to hide it. Bloody weird.

mrwalkensir · 28/05/2021 21:15

Ormally Springwatch the other night was explaining that swifts prefer white feathers to line their nests...

Lavender2018 · 28/05/2021 21:15

What I’m getting at is that the driver of the van was responsible for the blast!

TimeIhadaNameChange · 28/05/2021 21:14

A friend's son was playing for a country dance evening and I went along to support him. It turned out to be a very small affair with 12 dancers in all, of which 7 were men, all much older than me.

We'd all held hands in a circle for the next dance when the guy to my left turns to me and says "I'm sorry my hand is wet, I just spat in it!" Disgusting! Problem was, if I'd gone to wash my hand there and then everyone would have waited for me to return. I ran as soon as I could and avoided him for the rest of the evening!

Lavender2018 · 28/05/2021 21:10

I was driving on the motorway behind a van when a mini type car joined the carriageway from the slip road. The van accidentally pulled into the inside lane, forcing the mini onto the hard shoulder which was on a high bridge. It was really scary so I decided to take note of the vans reg. number and by luck the number was easy to remember as it was made up of my initials, my sons age and was also the same year as my car.
The following day there was a bomb blast in the city centre just a few miles from where I lived and on the front page of the local newspaper was a photo of the van that was on the motorway the previous day!
It was totally destroyed except for the registration number which was still intact!
I contacted the police but they said I was mistaken and that the van was bought from an area that was a hundred miles from where the motorway was. I also told them the reg of the mini on the motorway so they could check my story,but again they said I was mistaken!
To this day I know what I saw and stand by it.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 28/05/2021 21:07

@Thisgroupneverceasestoamazeme

🤣
talking about funerals youand reminded me of me making riends go wtf

talking about how many kids we might like I said I like the idea of 4.
One of them asked me why and I had this image of the Queen Mother's funeral so I replied: "because I'll need 4 pallbearers to carry my coffin"
😳

Impulse control is not easy for me🤣

HeidiHighLow · 28/05/2021 21:05

I’ve posted about before at the time we were all WTAF but now I’m older I just think it’s so incredibly heartbreaking...
In Skegness on a night out and we see a heavily pregnant girl about same as we were at the time around 18.
She was being loud and lairy obviously drinking. She dancing around and pretty drunk and this was early doors around 7pm. We were a bit 🤔 but went on with our night.
By midnight we ended up in a nightclub with sweaty wall and sticky carpets all kind of grim.
There was a bit of gathering in the middle of the dance floor we went over to have a look and there was the pregnant girl pole dancing. Then she stops grabs the nearest bloke tries to snog him after he declines she starts taking kit off.
At this point bouncer should kick her out.
Now thinking about her and how vulnerable and messed up she was I wish I would have reached out to her. Hope she was ok and the baby was ok.

Colouringaddict · 28/05/2021 20:55

My great nan was in a care home. She was 98 and I had gone in to see her, as I was leaving I said to I'll see you tomorrow nana” “Don’t bother love, my mother is coming tonight, I won’t be here tomorrow, she came yesterday but I had to tell her to go away because you were coming in to see me today”. I just thought she had dreamed it.... she died that night.

RideaCockHorseOfCourse · 28/05/2021 20:50

FindYourPorpoise "Last summer I saw a man sitting on a park bench feeding a heron prawns with chopsticks."

I guess he was just being careful, Find, that's a long beak!! Grin

EthelMerman · 28/05/2021 20:32

Years ago, worked in Merton. The head of the cleaning team was a troubled soul and if I was there if an evening would tell me about her family.

She had fallen out with her daughter, said she’d told her daughter that she wished she’d died when she caught meningitis aged two. I was gobsmacked, with a mother like that, who needs enemies? Confused I don’t recall if their relationship was bad through the daughter’s childhood or if she just came out with this because they’d fallen out.

RideaCockHorseOfCourse · 28/05/2021 20:26

PuddyMuddles4 Omigod, you poor thing, I feel for youSad

loadofcrap10 · 28/05/2021 20:21

A year or so ago I was talking to a patient at work (in the North East of England) and we discovered we had lived on the same street in London at the same time in the mid 90s!!

snoopy2016 · 28/05/2021 20:20

I resigned from a job recently and sighted my wages being incorrect continuously as one of the reasons and I was fed up of chasing money I was owed. Response from HR accepting my resignation was to tell me to ensure my manger sent the correct information so my last pay is correct. My response back was it has never been in my job description to do this and it’s not my responsibility to chase my manager to ensure they are doing their job properly. Who on earth has to stand over their manager to make sure they are putting your hours in correctly?

EthelMerman · 28/05/2021 20:18

@CrazyCatsAndKittens

I know a woman whose cat only eats Dreamies. She said she tried to make him eat other cat food but he bullies her, so every month, she buys a massive box of Dreamies on Amazon and the cat had a pack morning, noon and night. I said it must cost a fortune but she played it down and said it wasn’t that much. I just thought it was utterly bonkers!
Dreamies are like crack for cats. My mum’s cat used to bite her if she didn’t give her her regular “fix” of them. We had to wean her off them.

Similar thing with my torty cat, she would only eat Dreamies until we got wise to her addiction. Being a gentle soul she didn’t bite, just sat by her bowl looking forlorn.

FindYourPorpoise · 28/05/2021 20:11

Last summer I saw a man sitting on a park bench feeding a heron prawns with chopsticks.

ajandjjmum · 28/05/2021 20:09

@ACPC

I read a story about a man and his mother who migrated here from somewhere in Africa and lived on the same park bench for years. It was wtf because they had lots of offers of help but refused.Sad
They're still there - on the bench outside Tooting Library!
YanTanTethera123 · 28/05/2021 20:03

[quote Manzana]@FanFckingTastic, that's funny about your cat, a friends dog used to do the same to their raspberries, friend described it as a very delicate plucking with its doggy lips, and only the ripe ones[/quote]
One of our dogs loved picking and eating blackberries, bless her.

YanTanTethera123 · 28/05/2021 20:00

@Oneeata

Used to work in A&E (receptionist) and a quite well dressed - well to do looking lady came to be booked in and quite openly told me without lowering her voice so quite obviously people queuing would hear too that she had a hi-ball glass stuck inside her vag. She went on to explain she was using it as contraceptive and didn't like the feel of her partner's penis touching her insides. 🤯 God only knows how big his dick must have been to get any friction. 🤣🤣🤨
😂🤣😂 I have just spluttered my red wine absolutely everywhere!

Believe me, we heard just about everything imaginable in A&E, including the most unlikely explanations!

CillianMurphyfanclub · 28/05/2021 19:57

This has literally just happened during the bedtime routine. With no prior instances or anything I can think of that would have inspired it, my DD6 has walked straight past her bed and spit on the carpet in the corner of her room! Twice! The first time I was so WTF I couldn’t say a word.. I went absolutely batshit the second time 😄

TatianaBis · 28/05/2021 19:48

@CallMeCleo just googled the ‘weakest link’ murderer and he killed his wife.

If it’s the same guy he def looks like a murderer to be fair.

Babysharkdododododododododod · 28/05/2021 19:47

At my hen do, my maid of honour told me she was gutted I met my husband before she did.

We no longer speak.

YanTanTethera123 · 28/05/2021 19:46

@viques

A woman was telling me that when her children were born it was customary to be given a dose of castor oil and an enema. I asked her why and she said in all seriousness “ Well the castor oil is to grease the baby’s head to help it out” she was also of the opinion that vitamin supplements were of little value during pregnancy since she had never taken them and had had easy births, whereas her sister, who had taken vitamins through her pregnancy , had a much harder labour.
As a midwife I heard this several times about the castor oil (usually taken mixed in orange juice 🤢). Some of my pregnant mums weren’t the brightest.... including one who I met the first time in the Family Planning clinic after her 5th child. When I carefully asked had she not liked taking the Pill she replied that her husband refused to take them. Ooops!
CallMeCleo · 28/05/2021 19:45

I had a bit of a crush on a colleague. We had lots of long chats over the five years we worked together and as we got to know each other I was most drawn to his fantastic sense of humour. I also loved how laid back he was; nothing ever got him riled or upset. He laughed everything off and I used to wish I were more like him. Things did not go further as I was already dating another colleague and in any case he didn't seem interested in me other than as a friend.

About a year after I resigned I was absolutely gobsmacked to see his face in the paper. He'd started a relationship with another woman at work and had killed her in a jealous rage. He was known as the "Weakest Link" murderer.