Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

I worked with a girl called something like Anna who was sometimes friendly and sometimes really standoffish like this. I’d go from thinking we were becoming good friends to next time I saw her she’s hardly acknowledge me. It turned out she was twins but they both had the same name so doubly confusing for me. One was Anna Rose and one was Anna bell and they had a little sister also called Anna Beth (not actually their real names) so everyone called them Anna and they always worked opposite shifts . I did end up being very good friends with the lovely one once I’d figured out who was who.

We were away last week and our newish cleaner came for the first time when we were not in. This week I was making small talk and asked him if he’d enjoyed having the place to himself for once. He said “well, actually no, because I was really worried you might have mice and I’m really scared of mice, once I saw one at home and I jumped up on the kitchen counter with a knife in my hand to defend myself and my flat mate came home but she didn’t have her key but I couldn’t get down to let her in because I was so scared of the mouse”.

I just smiled and backed away slowly…

when I had my first baby clinic appointment with DS1 (he was 8 weeks old I think) I bumped into our local pool's lifeguard.
we started chatting, turned out we picked the same names for our boys.

at some point I just shook my head and said "it's so strange that I'd seen you around, never knew you were pregnant"
she replied: " nor did I".
😱

she thought she had appendicitis and was rushed to hospital only to be told she was in active labour. that's when she found out that she was pregnant!

Probably about 15 years ago me and Dh were in a town centre pub on a busy weekend. There was no where to sit so we were stood at one if those high tables where you can have a tall bar stool. I looked around to see if anything was coming free and I noticed a bloke and woman sat down. She was staring straight in front if her expressionless and he was sucking on her breast. As the place was packed and mist people were stood up I don't think many, if anyone else noticed. I posted on here about it and someone suggested that she may have been a prostitute and he was fulfilling a fantasy. I thought it may have been a partner that was been controlled ( when I reflected in it later.
Either way it shook me up and I feel bad that I didn't intervene.

I have a friend who is a bit kooky. Believes in several conspiracy theories. Nothing super crazy, just things that would make me roll my eyes from time to time. Then one day he told me that Sandy Hook was faked. That it never happened. No children were killed. It was all crisis actors. I was so stunned for a moment I just stood there probably with my mouth hanging open. Then I became so angry. I yelled at him "20 little children were murdered in their school, how can you believe something like that" and I just walked away. I just could not deal with it anymore. Later he did tell me that he now believes it really happened (I still wonder if he just says that because he knows thats what I want to hear). Since then he has only carried on with silly eye roll conspiracies.

Walking through a crowded shopping centre I failed to get out of the way of a fast approaching mobility scooter because I have a bad hip and couldn’t side step. The woman just rammed into me and I ended up lying across her shouting Stop! as she continued to motor along until I fell off her.

[quote SunshineCake]@Cowbells wear bed socks ?.[/quote]
I do!

That curly pigeon made me feel sick

Once met someone who’d been to the same school as me and knew my sister in the Himalayas, 10 days walk from the nearest road. That was quite a surprise.

I used to work with someone who was in his 20s. A group of us were talking about something that had been on tv and how unrealistic it was and he said something like how impossible it was that anyone lived so far from a shop that they needed to cycle to get some milk. After a bit of gentle questioning it turned out that his parents had moved to London from a Bangladeshi city (I think Dhaka, but it might have been another one) before he was born. In his entire life he had only ever been to London and Dhaka and he had no concept at all of people living outside of cities.

Offensive Language Alert

Our neighbours came to the door to tell us they were putting their house on the market.

But don't worry, the woman said in a kindly voice, we won't sell it to any Pakis.

DH slammed the door in their faces and we never spoke to them again!

I was once out drinking with my then boyfriend (now DH) and we were in a Brewdog. I had my cocker spaniel with me and was walking him back to our seats when this really thin, almost crippled man came over and mumbled something about a beautiful dog. He went down to pet DDog for about a second before he then started touching my ankles and rolled the top of my sock down and was just fondling my ankles saying "they're so soft... such a nice dog... very lovely ankles".

I was honestly paralysed with total confusion and spent at least 30 seconds just staring at my dog sat there waiting for more pets and this creepy man on his knees playing with my socks and stroking my ankles.

DH eventually walked over and said "uhh.. you coming over?". The man got up, said thanks, and walked out the bar!!!!

14 years old and went back to my form class because I had forgotten something. The firm tutor was still in the classroom. But with his blazer on his head. He offered me one of his sweets but I said no thank you. He was completely normal and boring and I still have no idea what that was about.

Love this thread!

Not a personal anecdote but these are reminding me of that woman on the news who was walking down the street and randomly threw the cat in the wheelie bin!

News that my parent’s village was being terrorised by a flock of about 40 5ft tall ostrich-like birds (rheas). The police couldn’t locate an owner so have decided they must be wild - that well known British native species…

I particularly enjoyed the account of one bird who apparently walked into the local town centre and ‘knocked on doors with its beak’.

One Halloween when I was about 8 or 9 we were trick or treating (only people we knew), we knocked on one door and the woman, a friend of my mum’s, took our buckets, rummaged through them and took a sweet out of each then gave us a new sweet out of her packet, my mum asked her what she was doing and apparently she thought that’s what everyone did. We didn’t knock on her door after that.

Sat in my usual seat on the bus to work one day. Me and a few others would get on at the bus station and stay on till the final destination. Long journey. Someone was sat in front of me. Seat behind me was empty.

Somebody got on the bus part way into the journey and sat in the empty seat behind me. She reached up and opened the fan light style window next to us. The person in front of me reached up and slammed it shut. Person behind, opened it. One in front closed it. And so it continued for 45 flippin' minutes!! Neither of them said anything!

My grandad, in his eighties and fit and healthy suddenly started having chest pains. He was admitted but all tests showed nothing.finally he mentioned to my uncle that it might be after he'd realised some stacked up wood had fallen in front of the garage door (on the inside) and so had to "shimmy in" through the small garage window to sort it.
My uncle diagnosed him with a pulled muscle in his chest , called him a fool and got him discharged.

I remember getting onto the tube when I was about 11/12 with DM and DSis, it was absolutely packed except in one part of the train. We realised why when getting on there was a woman in her 40's sitting with her lags crossed but widely (her ankle on her knee) wearing a pink fluffy jumper to her waist and absolutely nothing else. She was smiling just like she'd had a nice day out and wasn't causing any issues. We had to go to the next stop where 2 police officers got on and she calmly walked off with them, not a care in the world smiling the whole time.