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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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Idiotathome79 · 27/05/2021 04:01

@PammieDooveOrangeJoof I have a thousand question 😂

PandemicAtTheDisco · 27/05/2021 03:58

Sweet old lady who told me once about how she enjoyed abusing her bedridden husband after years of DA. I thought she was joking about him even if it was a bit too dark humour. She told me she got her revenge. I don't know how she meant it.

SnoopsCaliforniaRoll · 27/05/2021 03:54

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

When my dad all of a sudden started hounding my mum, outbof the blue trying to terrorise her out of her own home, and they both ended up being arrested, and my mum lived with us for 6 months from that day, and now lives in a council house. We were a pretty uneventful (for want of a better word) family until that point. It all happened so suddenly, and was a complete whirlwind that turned everyone's lives upside down.
Oh this is so sad. Did your family ever get to the bottom of why your Dad turned like this? Did things ever resolve themselves?
PandemicAtTheDisco · 27/05/2021 03:42

@SteveArnottsCodeine

My husband had a barber for a couple of years who seemed normal but then one day just lost his shit at a group of kids outside hanging around. He came back in and said he hated kids and if he had his way would have them assessed aged 12 to see if they needed to be sterilised to avoid teenage pregnancies. My husband just laughed nervously and then found a new barber for his next haircut Grin DH is a teacher too so after dropping his sterilisation bombshell the barber then started saying he didn’t know how DH did the job as kids are awful etc. Sounded totally mad.
This reminds me of my racist hairdresser. She was really good at cutting my hair but had worked in several hairdressers across town despite being young. She was telling me about her evening out and a person tried to dance with her but she hadn't noticed at first that he wasn't white. She glassed him when she realised then ran off.

She then started talking about how excited she was about her pregnant sister and the new baby as if glassing non-white people was completely normal. The hairdressers got rid of her that week.

SakuraEdenSwan1 · 27/05/2021 03:25

[quote mathanxiety]@Hawkins001, the logical, intelligent partner you described is an abusive twat. Of course his behaviour doesn't help the relationship. It's not meant to. It's designed to make himself feel superior and to denigrate the woman.[/quote]
Eh?

Mintsmints · 27/05/2021 03:20

I used to work behind a bar when i was in my early 20s. Was used to being chatted up but once this creepy man who made my skin crawl has been in a few times I would guess in his late 60s. He came in and gave me a photo of his new puppies and said his address was on the back and I could come over any time and the puppies need a mother. I was like WTF, lucky the landlord overheard and told him to stop this kind of behaviour or he would be kicked out.
Anyway about a month later I was admitted to hospital and guess who the Porter was who came to take me to x ray. I said I needed the toilet and quickly went and found a nurse who send one of the male student nurses with me. The Porter never said a word

mathanxiety · 27/05/2021 02:46

@Hawkins001, the logical, intelligent partner you described is an abusive twat. Of course his behaviour doesn't help the relationship. It's not meant to. It's designed to make himself feel superior and to denigrate the woman.

SakuraEdenSwan1 · 27/05/2021 02:42

@roundtable well it's better off than being dead!

I have not really had many WTF moments tbh, only one I chuckled about was a very dainty sweet little old granny who when i was doing a ECG on, had do not resuscitate tattooed across her breasts! She clocked my face and smirked!

SakuraEdenSwan1 · 27/05/2021 02:30

@sashh

SailingBuddy

The USSR used to. sort of, do this for the May day parade.

Basically you take a plane up and throw out some powder, similar to fine sand, this makes the clouds 'heavier' so they rained in the suburbs but not on the parade.

I am sat in bed and seriously spat my coffee out laughing at this ! Ha ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣
timeisnotaline · 27/05/2021 02:16

@Velvian

I was having coffee with a friend at her house, she was complaining about turning 40. I told her she had no need to worry that she looked about 10 years younger.

She replied, "No. I thought it would have happened by now." I asked, "what would have happened" - The answer was that we would be living in paradise (like after the day of judgement type paradise)

That was a conversation killer. I had nothing but a goldfish impression Grin

ShockShock. I... can’t!
RedactedTaeFeck · 27/05/2021 01:53

My best friend in primary school used to wank off her dog because he liked it... We drifted apart in high school so no idea what became of her.

QueenPaw · 27/05/2021 01:50

Two elderly ladies dressed in sumo suits, walking along chatting and carrying handbags. No idea

A man running in nothing but a pair of trainers and a reindeer thong. In December of course

Not WTF as such but a funny one. Washing up with the window open and see a man, child and dog
Man to child "what do we do before we cross the road?"
Child (very pleased with herself) "SIT!" And plonks herself on the pavement, just as the dog does a perfect sit next to her
Man "oh for the love of god"
I was howling and it makes me laugh remembering it

Becca19962014 · 27/05/2021 01:12

(Our "friendship" ended years ago so there was no need for her to come anywhere near me, though living in a small place of course we see each other).

Becca19962014 · 27/05/2021 01:11

After posting on here Saturday about a "friend" who every now and then bitches about me on here, made up stuff and had a massive go at me justifying doing so because of her replies - she printed her thread off and gave it to me as proof of what a dreadful person I am.

Then on Sunday, after about two years, I saw her!!! Couldn't believe it! She came over to me smiling away for a chat asking what she could do to help me... I blanked her and moved away.

I couldn't believe it!

2018SoFarSoGreat · 27/05/2021 00:44

I've told this before on here, I think, but oh well.

(IN AMERICA, for context) When they announced the first official Martin Luther King Jr Holiday, it was not widely celebrated, and I had to work. I was crossing the main road to my office - loads of other people about, a crowd waiting for the walk signal. A little old lady - I mean old and quite literally little! - took one look at me from the other side of the street, glared, then rushed across straight in front of traffic. Right at me. From about 4 feet away she raised her entire leg and did a... roundhouse? kick at my face. Her foot came within inches of my chin. All the while, she was hurtling the most racially horrible statements at me, complete with all of the worst words. It was astonishing and upsetting and quite physically impressive all at once.

I am a pale white person. There were people all around me, of all colors, shapes and sizes, but she picked me. Guess my crazy magnet was on full blast that day.

WFT!

CrazyCatsAndKittens · 27/05/2021 00:36

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!

rach2713 · 27/05/2021 00:35

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 Hmm

shreddednips · 27/05/2021 00:31

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!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 00:02

@thinkingaboutLangCleg

I laughed an said "so when's your next appointment with your parole officer?"
🤣

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 00:00
  • I meant I went back to look for it but it was gone
thinkingaboutLangCleg · 26/05/2021 23:59

when I met one of my kids's friends' dad for the first time (as in we were being introduced) I said "nice to finally meet you, I don't think I've seen you on the school run". He said "yeah, I've not been long out of prison"

Zing, I can just imagine your face, or mine in the same situation. A big, mad smile as you desperately try to think of what to say, eg "How nice that we've been having good weather since you came out"...

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 26/05/2021 23:59

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.

About an hour later I needed something from the boot, realised I left pushchair, but it was gone.
the next day I went to see a friend for coffee. halfway through our chat I mentioned about the pushchair incident.
he went:"when was this?
me: "yesterday afternoon"
him: "where and what time?"
me : "just after 3pm on xyz road, near the corner. why?"
him: "because I was walking past that spot around 3.45pm and saw two police officers checking it and putting it in their car!"

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!😱

muffindays · 26/05/2021 23:57

friend's mum was a mad scientist and did tests on friend as a child involving magnetic type machines that made her ill. WTF.

Grizalda · 26/05/2021 23:55

Two policemen trying to corner a large and pretty pissed off swan to get him off the main road.

Was it for The Greater Good the greater good. ?

WithLargeTableMouse · 26/05/2021 23:55

@StayAGhost

There was a mum on the school run that I used to chat with. Sometimes really friendly and chatty Other times a bit standoff-ish

Fair enough

One day I was chatting with her, walking down the path....then I saw her waiting with the other mums!

Yes, they were TWO separate people.

My previous post was meant to quote this one Hmm