Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

Works Christmas lunch and one of the clinical managers started talking about conspiracy theories - for example saying the Sandy Hook murders were faked and alien abductions are real etc. We tried to debate her views and she just doubled down and went CRAZY spewing all this stuff.

Waiting at traffic lights a few years ago opposite a petrol station. There was a car waiting to come out, so across the pavement - cyclist moving at speed along the pavement obviously didn't see him, hit the back of the car, cartwheeled across with his bike following him. Then proceeded to give the driver an earfull, finishing with a hefty kick at the back end of the car.

DH and I looked at each other, mouths open....'did that just happen?'

@rach2713

I had a WTF moment in home bargain today. Seen on the front page of the newspaper that the top science boff fear everything we know about the universe could be wrong and we are all holograms

There is scientific debate, by genuine scientists, that there is a roughly 50/50 chance that we live in a simulated reality. Now that is a WTF thought!

An early date in a pub with DP, now DH. A guy came up to DP and said "how's the stables going ?" He continued asking about horse racing, form, any good young horses to watch etc. etc. DP was answering all this very amicably, going into detail. When the guy moved on I looked at DH completely baffled and but you told me you were a graphic designer ???? He said I am but that bloke has it in his head that I am a jockey and trainer and I am so sick of correcting him that I just go along with it !!!

He is also an identical twin so plenty of those stories too.

DH had been working in the garage and then gone out. I glanced out of the window to see polystyrene pieces all over the drive. I was cursing him, couldn't believe he'd run over the stuff and just left it. It was everywhere.

Went out with my brush in my hand and found the remains of a pigeon and a Sparrow Hawk glaring at me for disturbing his lunch. I backed away and left him to it. What I thought was polystyrene packaging was feathers.

I rerun the CCTV and watched the hawk take it out mid air. Was a stunning sight.

long story short I called them, yes, it was my pushchair, I picked it up the next day.
they took it as potential evidence, because an abandoned pushchair could've been connected to a child abduction case!

this really made me pause.
Partly because they took it, but then didn't in any way follow up to see if a child had been abducted?....

I had a boyfriend in my twenties who told me that he had upset family friends when he was young. Apparently he had tipped their daughter upside down and filled her up with salt..................wtf?

a friend of mine was telling me about her summer holiday.
They went to stay in a cottage in a remote French village that had a tiny pond nearby, suitable for swimming.
On most days it was just them in the water, not another soul. barely anyone around really.

One day another family was there by the time they arrived. They heard them speak in English so started chatting and pretty soon they discovered they live in the same small town, kids went to same primary and secondary (different times/years) etc.
And that they both knew me. They never knew about each other.

Later I told them that they both attended my DD's baptism service but they never met.

@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!'

One of my DH's best friends admitted he had been in love with me for years! He was stone cold sober and quite matter of fact about it. I'd always known he had a soft spot for me, but never expected this! I've known him for 30 years and think of him like a brother. He's been happily married with children for years, but it's me who he has always been in love with, apparently.

I work for a reasonable company, our bread and butter is in assessing risk and mitigating it.
Just before the first lockdown they decided that the best course of action was to stuff 3 different teams from separate areas into one small office instead of just letting us work from our own separate large offices
The woman who was trying to write the Covid policies was trying to tell them look if one of us gets it and brings it in it means 3 teams are out, was met with well the Director feels it’s safer this way 😂

When I was at uni I had a job on bank for covering shifts in care homes, once day I had to step in and cover a shift at the last minute at the same home my brother worked at.

The staff there didn't twig that I had the same last name as my brother and they were there just casually chatting about how his Fiancée was sleeping with another member of the staff and they wondered if he was ever going to catch them out!

They twigged who I was when my brother arrived to pick me up after my shift finished.

Re. the identical twins one... I had a therapist I saw once a week for four years. I was very upset to receive a text from her phone telling me she had died and details of the funeral. I went to the funeral and it was hosted by what appeared to be her but turned out to be her identical twin! Of course I'd had no idea she had a twin or indeed anything about her life. My lord that was a strange experience.

Driving down the Aston express way in Brum spotted a stationary taxi, drivers door open. Said driver was leaning out urinating onto the carriage way. He didnt even get out of the car but stayed sitting and just leant his crotch out. I can only think he must have been really desperate for a wee.

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?”

Apologies if you've already answered this, because I am literally responding as I read through the thread, but.......did you ever find out wtf was up with your dad??

No, we have a few suspicions like, my mum has a private pension and he doesn't so he's still chasing her for that. He has a friend who is much older than him and very unwell, but is very wealthy and basically my dad will be left everything because he doesn't have anyone else to leave it to. We think maybe he didn't want to share it. He could have just separated from mum, but he tried to ruin her to make people think she was the terrible one. Reported her to try and make her lose her job etc. (Malicious reports, obviously).
He obviously didn't want to be the bad guy again. He had already left her for another woman 5 years previously, and she had taken him back.
We also though he may have had some sort of break down. He's had depression for years but will never do anything about it.

@SaskiaRembrandt

Lol!!

Reminds me of a time when on holiday I saw a little boy react rather strongly to a bird pecking his sandwich with "Fuck off, fucking penguin!"

Many years ago I worked at a well known UK holiday camp place. I worked in the bookings office, so booked people in for their next holiday. One day I was going through the details of a booking with a lady, when she suddenly grabbed hold of my hands and said “you’ll never marry, you know!” Then just carried on discussing her booking.

Really unnerved me.

Last year suring lockdown I was outside exercising when suddenly I heard a big thud. A few metres from me laid the decapitated body of a pigeon! I looked up and saw a Red Kite circling. I concluded either it had dropped it or caught it mid-flight. I briefly went inside and when I came out again the body was gone.