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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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CustardySergeant · 27/05/2021 15:48

@Cindie943811A

A man was disputing paternity and I was briefing the mother for court. I was asking the usual questions re dates etc when she stated very definitely that: He must be the father because I was only a little bit pregnant when I met him. Besides thinking WTF I was just very sad for the child and it’s relationships with “father” and paternal “family”.
Didn't you say "Well if you were already pregnant when you met him, he can't be the father"?
Cindie943811A · 27/05/2021 15:46

My cat refused to use a pet pad that conserves body heat (foil lined and
non electric. So I experimented and found it was ideal for maintaining warm feet.

Cindie943811A · 27/05/2021 15:42

A man was disputing paternity and I was briefing the mother for court.
I was asking the usual questions re dates etc when she stated very definitely that: He must be the father because I was only a little bit pregnant when I met him.
Besides thinking WTF I was just very sad for the child and it’s relationships with “father” and paternal “family”.

HideousKinky · 27/05/2021 15:36

Regarding how hard it is to sleep if your feet are cold, bedsocks, hot water bottles etc:

The very best thing is one of those heated bags - you warm it up in the microwave for 2 minutes then drape it over your feet in bed. Absolutely brilliant.

Cindie943811A · 27/05/2021 15:36

BF was in the garden when suddenly there was a soft thump. She looked down and there was a large blue egg, still intact. We figured it was a pigeon egg— pigeons round here are of much lower IQ than the other birds.
A pair habitually nested in a tree that was used by local magpies to roost, thereby providing the bigger birds with a convenient local takeaway

NorthernTights · 27/05/2021 15:33

In the till queue at a nice clothes shop a few weeks ago, the lady paying at the till and the next in line having a discussion with each other. No shouting or raised voices so I was very surprised to hear the first woman say in a totally normal voice “And fuck you” as she walked past the other woman and out of the shop.
Also one I loved when my kids were small. We were in the park and a nice looking woman dressed in very smart office wear walks into the park, gets on a swing and has a really good swing for about 10 minutes, then gets off and walks away.

LalalalalalaLand123 · 27/05/2021 15:32

That is a crazy story about the pigeon man. Another pigeon story - didn't happen to me, but to a friend - she'd taken her little boy to a city farm, to see all the lovely animals - aww look at the cute goats, the chickens, the ducks etc. Then aww look at the pigs - whereupon one of the pigs attacked a pigeon and ATE IT in front of everyone.

ToffeeNotCoffee · 27/05/2021 15:31

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Cindie943811A · 27/05/2021 15:30

I was having morning tea with a group of workmates at a summer vacation job. The conversation turned to horse racing. One young woman said the last time she’d gone to the races the horse she’d backed had fallen and was shot. I said that was terrible. “Yes,” she replied, “it was winning when it fell”. There was no concern at all for the poor horse.

Talipesmum · 27/05/2021 15:21

My sister did a teacher training placement in a rural primary school in France as part of her Uk teacher training. She was shadowing a teacher out there and helping out with the class.

One day they had show and tell, where all the little kids brought something in to admire and they all passed it around the semi circle of chairs to look at.

One child brought in the gun from the farm at home. They showed it to the class then they all passed it round to look at. Then they passed round the shot. Everyone was acting like it was a totally normal thing to bring in, and my sister was just sitting there in horror thinking “there’s a gun in the classroom! There’s a gun in the classroom!”

RideaCockHorseOfCourse · 27/05/2021 15:15

Hawkins001 is right. Well OK, the William & Kate's wedding weather theory is obviously totally wacky, but look at the Lynmouth flood tragedy of 1952
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everybodysang · 27/05/2021 15:01

@JustJoinedRightNow

In my early 20s, hanging out in Soho opposite a stage door waiting for my friend to come and meet me. Standing there minding my own business and a guy about the same age as me walks up right to me and karate kicks at my face - his foot stopped about one inch from the side of my face - takes his foot back down and saunters off. I was like wtf just happened, looked around and no one else had seen it. That was really weird.
Oh my god. When was this? Because I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me, though walking through Covent Garden to the theatre I worked in. Must have been 2004... it was so, so weird.
babybunny123 · 27/05/2021 15:01

Everyone at the play group where i used to take my daughter were very friendly apart from one of the mums, she preferred to sit on her own and pick her nose behind a book then eat it. I kid you not !!!

Gwenhwyfar · 27/05/2021 14:57

[quote SunshineCake]@Cowbells wear bed socks ?Confused.[/quote]
Bed socks don't stop your feet being cold. They help of course, but may not be enough.
Hot water bottle does, but I was cold in bed the night before last and the last thing I wanted to do was get up to make a hot water bottle.

mam0918 · 27/05/2021 14:54

@shreddednips

When I was a kid, my younger sister used to predict animal deaths.

We went to visit some friends and they had a cat- young cat, no health problems so no reason for her to think anything would happen to it. About a week later she was suddenly crying inconsolably saying that she was sad because fudge was dead. Next day, friend rings- fudge hit by a car Sad

Not long after, she came home from school saying her best friend's rabbit had died. My mum saw her mum the next day and said so sorry about your rabbit. The woman was confused and said no, the rabbit is fine. Next day she rings- rabbit eaten by Fox in the night Sad

My sister was probably about 5, stopped doing it soon afterwards and has shown no signs of clairvoyance since!

I could predict accidents up until about 5 too (I mean I would describe an accident 10 minute before it happened even if it was happening somewhere else and I had been given no details of the people or place), freaked my nan out and no one could explain it but then it just randonly stopped too.

I have no clairvoyant powers.

Outofexcuses · 27/05/2021 14:46

Another dead bird one.
Driving up to our house, a pigeon was sitting on something strange-looking. Once I'd parked, I went to look, but as I got closer the pigeon flew off carrying the strange thing with it, then settled about 15 feet away. This happened a couple of times before it finally flew away altogether, leaving the thing behind. It was the headless corpse of another pigeon . . . DH says they mate for life . . . sob . . .

mklanch · 27/05/2021 14:46

@JustPoppingToWaitrose

About 30 years ago, I was walking over a zebra crossing and there was a woman in front of me with two small children walking behind her. They were a boy and girl of about 2 and 3. Absolutely beautiful children. I felt a warm feeling in my heart looking at this family and imagined them as a proud mother duck with her little ducklings.

Until the woman turned round and shouted: “how can I fucking cross the road with you pair of c*nts?”

it wasnt my mum was it!! haha!
RideaCockHorseOfCourse · 27/05/2021 14:40

StayAGhost 🤣🤣

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 27/05/2021 14:34

When I was in my late teens, my mum was driving us back from a concert late at night, and I spotted a person lying down on the pavement. In a rare moment of chivalry, I got her to stop the car, and went to help. The guy woke up, said he felt ok. I asked where he lived, and he looked up, pointed to the house right next to the pavement, found his key, thanked me and headed inside. I’m pretty sure neither he nor I had any idea why he thought he’d take a nap on the pavement!

Had he dropped his key down the drain?!

or was he scaling the north face of the Uxbridge Road

RideaCockHorseOfCourse · 27/05/2021 14:33

Smudge I saw this too! Only thankfully, this bloke didn't kill the pigeon there & then, but he made off around the corner with it. I did think he was going to take it home & eat it.ConfusedAngry

mam0918 · 27/05/2021 14:32

@Locationlocationfan

I had an odd coincidence thing a few years ago. A new staff member and I were chatting in the office and she mentioned that her dad was adopted, but they had discovered his mother came from Scotland (as do I). They had traced her name but not contacted her or tried to. I asked where in Scotland, and it turned out to be a tiny village in the south west, which just happened to be where my mother was born and brought up. I had photos from my mum, and one of them showed this same woman sitting very close to her in a school photo. Really spooky. Sadly mum had dementia so we couldn’t ask her for any details of the mother, as she would definitely have remembered her I’m sure.
why would dementia stop you asking?

Childhood memories are the last to go, dementia is memory failing backwards from the current period of time.

When my nana had severe dementia I use to listen to her tell stories from her teens constantly but she couldnt remember 10 minutes ago or yesterday or even that her children where adults (she would wander round looking for my dad who she though was still only about 5 year old) she knew we where family because we 'looked familier' but had no idea who we where.

anguauberwaldironfoundersson · 27/05/2021 14:29

@CustardySergeant

"once I left my pushchair on the pavement; strapped kids in car, walked on the road side of the car, got in and walked off."

You got in the car and walked off? Had you bought Fred Flintstones old car?

HOWLING
Cookies2523 · 27/05/2021 14:29

These are fab.

ab21 · 27/05/2021 14:18

Another one for thinking two people were one. Lovely week at a small ski hotel in France. Had various conversations at the front desk and during dinner with the owner, thought his lack of any memory of our previous conversations was due to the slight language barrier. On the day of check out, I realised my mistake when two owners appeared to thank me for our stay. Brothers but by no means identical.

Gwenhwyfar · 27/05/2021 14:16

@SailingBuddy

I had a colleague, who seemed completeing rational. Normal chit chat around the office for years. He was an analyst and highly educated. It was the week after the London marathon and the weather had been rubbish in the lead up to the day but the sun had shone on the day of the marathon. I said how lucky it was and he said "well it's not luck, it's worth too much in tourism for it to have been raining". I must have looked as confused as I felt, so he explained how the government made sure that the weather was good for big events so as not to lose out on the tourism money that the events brought in.

I went back to my desk and told another colleague what he had said...and she agreed with his point of view! She said that the govt also made sure there was good weather for William & Catherine's wedding.
I can't understand how two well educated people could think that!

They do it in China apparently - move the clouds away for special events.