Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

I woke up one night at 3am-ish. needed to pee.
opened my eyes and saw 2 figures in the dark standing right by the bed in silence, staring at me.
I screamed so loud DH woke up.
it was our two youngest about to wake me coz they needed help.

Not quite on the same scale as the pigeon stories...

A guy I've worked with for a few years, professional role, seemed quiet but completely normal.

He was getting married and celebrating a big birthday within a few weeks of each other so we got a cake in and some balloons etc as a bit of a send off.

Normal supermarket round birthday cake...he cut a square out of the middle of it! I laughed thinking it was a joke on cutting the cake at his wedding or something but nope, turns out he genuinely had no idea you do triangle slices! Apparently he's never cut a cake before.

Similar to another post that has just reminded me.

The Financial Director and i had a face to face meeting with a customer who was heavily in debt to us. We sat with the owner and his son (who claimed to be a solicitor), we were sat making small talk whilst waiting for the sales manager to print some documents off when we got chatting about the weather.

The son said that vapour trails were not from planes but chemicals used to mind alter us, it started in the Vietnam war where the Americans used the trails as mind control over Vietnam (cant have done much good as they lost the war).

His also said something else very odd which for the life of me i cant remember. We were all sat round in stunned silence whilst the dad sat looking like he had heard it before. I wanted to break the tin foil hats out.

It was so surreal, a proper business meeting and he came out with that. And he totally believed it.

*unisex

ffs, I can't seem to add a post without typos

Occachocca I feel the same. Someone upthread as described my DH's friend as a complete creep, but that's totally untrue. He has always behaved impeccably toward me and never once made me feel uncomfortable. Well apart from when he told me he had always been in love with me. But even that felt more sad and poignant, rather than embarrassing or awkward.

Placemarking!

I lost a barely worn, expensive unise red hoodie at school.
I asked the janitor (responsible for lost and found) if he had seen it, through tears I explained that it took me ages to save up money so if he finds it please please let me know. he was very sympathetic, reassured me it would be ok.
but nothing. it was gone. he said he was sorry he couldn't help.

a few weeks later I saw his son at school wearing my hoodie. I recognised it from a tiny stain near left pocket. there was nothing I could do

[quote Confusedandshaken]@StayAGhost

My DH attended the same barbers for over 40 years. The barber constantly called him Pete even though that isn't DH's name but his much older brothers who emigrated when DH was very young so hadn't set foot in the barbers for decades. When he was young DH had been too shy to correct him and so it continued.

Eventually a school mum acquaintance of ours started working in the barbers. She was there one day when the barber called DH Pete. She commented on this saying ' I thought your name was Alex'. DH confessed that his name was Alex but the barber had called him Pete since he was 10 and he'd never corrected him. The barber thought this was hilarious. He couldn't stop laughing and said to another customer "Did you hear that Jimmy, I've been calling this fella Pete for his entire life and he never put me right.' There was a bit of an awkward silence and the customer said 'I never wanted to say it, but actually my names not Jimmy!'[/quote]
Hahahaha this is brilliant

We were invited to two weddings at the same venue, on the same day- by either side of mine/DH families.

The brides and grooms did not know each other. We had to stay overnight as it was quite far from home. It was the first time my mother and my DH mother had met each other!!

We attended both weddings (ate the main at one, buffet at the other) and some of my family were a little cheeky trying to cadge free drinks from the open bar at the other wedding. The groom brought it up with me a few months later- I was so mortified it brought on a migraine

Just thought of two more. Bringing my newborn daughter home from hospital and taxi driver starts texting whilst driving. My partner said mate do you mind stopping that and watching the road. Driver seemed quite surprised. Then seemed to remember we had a newborn baby and said oh yeah sorry mate I'll put it away. Then did it again.
Out for dinner with my partner for first time since baby was born. Man walks past the window completely naked. I was like wtf 😂

@HooverPhobic

sorry if I wasn't clear.
what I meant was that they had no knowledge of each other before pond swimming.
I never mentioned one to the other or vica versa, like how you might say something about one friend to another so when they meet they'd be like "oh yeah, you are xyz that Zing mentioned to me".
I was the only person they both knew despite the fact they must have been crossing paths living in the same town, kids being in same school etc.
it wasn't like "gosh you are familiar, where could we have met?"

They were total strangers essentially.
And even though they were both present at the baptism (which was about 5 years before said holiday) they never actually got acquainted there.
I think it was quite amazing how they could've bumped into each other many times, very conveniently, but it happened on holiday in an unlikely situation.

I hope that makes more sense

I have a couple. When I was about 18 I was working in a restaurant in town and a drunk couple decided to have sex just feet away on a wall from where I was waiting for a taxi and the woman kept saying she's watching us. I was trying not to look. Once a man walked into a pub I was in with a snake around his neck. Also one other time I walked past a young lad who had a real tarantula attached to his t shirt and was walking along with it. Once at a bus stop a woman hitched her skirt up and did a wee in front of everyone in broad daylight. Also saw a girl throw up on a bus. I must attract these people 😂

I was on a train chatting to friends. As the train started slowing down there was a natural lull in the conversation and we all happened to glance out of the window. There were about 10 men in high vis jackets, arms outstretched, circling a large, very stout, very cantankerous-looking pig.

I was once driving home late at night, quiet country road just off a woodland park. AI man dressed in a long cape and white face paint walked in front of my car and turned, eyeballed me and growled then walked off.

On another occasion I was driving to work at 5:30am to see 4 blokes dressed as The Beatles walking along the road. It is a student area so assume they were returning home from a fancy dress party.

@LyndaSnellsSniff did you ever marry?

i was in the smoking area at work many years ago, which was out the back of the building with a bike shed as shelter. there were Rentokil traps around and the man used to come round every so often and check the bait/refill etc.

on this particular occasion the Rentokil man suddenly asked me ‘is there anything heavy around here? or a stick or something?’. i was a bit confused, but pointed out that there was a traffic cone in the bike shed.

marvellous, says the Rentokil man, i’ve found a big one! he then took the traffic cone and proceeded to beat a large rat to death with it.

i’m pretty sure this doesn’t fall under the category of ‘humane’ but i was so taken aback i just finished my cigarette and went back to my desk.

that was a weird day.

The rogue racing pigeon reminded me of school. A white and ginger pigeon with a tag on joined the grey school pigeons. We nicknamed him Ian after a boy my friend fancied who had ginger hair. This would have been first or second year High School. Over our time at School Ian had babies then grandbabies with the grey pigeons.

At Epcot in Florida early one morning. Walking to a before park opening Princess breakfast - so lots of parents, pushchairs and little girls in princess dresses. A bird of prey suddenly swoops down and grabs a squirrel and flies off with it - only me and a Dad noticed it was so fast we were 😳
Another Disney one, early one morning walking on path from Contemporary Hotel to Magic Kingdom park not even open yet and a mother pushing a massive jogging stroller with 2 older kids in (6/7?) rushes past us so I have to grab young DD so she isn’t run over. A bit further on she then tips the stroller off the path so the stroller and kids are upside down. Rather than checking kids she then turns and yells at her husband who was nothing to do with it.

I've posted about this before, but here goes anyway.

I ended a friendship after this incident. Friend and I with our DHs were at the beach, just sitting ing the sun and she suddenly said "That's disgusting"

I looked up and all I could see was a crocodile of schoolchildren (obviously with additional needs) walking along the beach with a few teachers.

I said "What's disgusting?" I thought something had happened and I'd missed it.

She said, "Them. Wouldn't you think they'd keep them off the beach away from normal people."

My heart died a little, then - and she moaned on about them being "disgusting" and "freaks" etc and I'm ashamed that I didn't have the courage to challenge her in the middle of the beach on a day out.

I did say, "Oh - they're just enjoying the beach", but that was all. We made excuses and left early. Driving off, DH said "I didn't think people thought like that. They're only bairns." That was what I told her when we next spoke. It was the last time.