Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

My first Christmas in London in the very early 80s. I was on the tube going home after a night out with friends and this guy opened his coat and flashed at us. So far so predictable but in honour of the season he had gift wrapped his penis in Christmas paper.

This pigeon

At the pub at uni with one of my female housemates, we were both quite young and impressionable. One of the guys I worked with was a rugby guy and his mates were out. One of them who was quite drunk pulled down his pants in the middle of the pub and right in front of me and my friend and stuck the whole neck of a wine bottle straight up his arse. When he fetched it out, he poured a bit of his pint into the wine bottle and drank from it. I can’t remember the reaction from the rest of the pub but my friend and I (both pretty naive) were equally astounded and horrified!

Re the weather/cloudbusting thing; I saw an interview with Tara Palmer Tomkinson where she said her parents had paid an insane amount for planes to blow the clouds away or something for her 21st. They were anxious as royalty were attending and it was all outdoor.

I met het a few years later and asked her about it. It was true. We actually became pals. She was fabulous.

Slightly wtf:
I have a view out of a large window most of the time that's framed by its frame (able to see the ground from it). Today a fluffy curved white feather, looked like a pigeon feather, came floating quite slowly into view at the top, but within seconds, a little brown bird streaked in from the side of the window square at a rate of knots and caught it in the air in its beak without stopping, then it disappeared 'frame left'. Really wasn't the originator of the feather, but it wasn't missing its opportunity!

During a trip to Moscow I saw a couple casually having sex up against a wall on the underground platform. That was surreal.

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

Being disturbed during a snogging session in a park by a man with a litter-picker and a stocking over his head. He looked at us, said ‘ok then’ and moved on.

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.

When DD was 2 we used to take her for a walk through the local graveyard to see the squirrels which were plentiful. On one occasion she toddled towards a gravestone and appeared to be having a very animated conversation with herself. Nothing unusual in that, given her age. When we really listened to her she was saying, " no cry.....it be ok.....ahhhhhhh no cry......"

We found our squirrel fix elsewhere after that!

We were travelling from an airport with friends and about to go through security checks. Random chatting as you do, and my friend ponders what you do about security scanners if you have a hook for a hand.

We proceed through security, sit down to have a coffee etc and about 20 minutes later someone comes through with a hook for a hand. I mean, seriously, what are the chances...!

A university friend told me about his best friend who insisted his girlfriend wear layers upon layers of skirts when they had sex, like 15 or 20 skirts: he liked to take them off, one by one, to get to ‘the prize’! 😂. Who would ever admit to that, best friend or not?!

Same university friend, was married, they both lived in a bed-sit type flat. They often had some creepy guy peeking through their letterbox late at night, watching ‘what they’re up to!’ Why oh why didn’t my friend do something about it?!!!

When I was at university, I lived in a shared house, we all had our own bedrooms etc. Some guy that I shared the house with (he lived there with his long-term girlfriend) used to come into my bedroom in the early hours after a night on the tiles, and say ‘hi, you’re so beautiful etc’. It used to freak me out so I put a bolt on my door and the door would often rattle early-hours with him trying to get in! He never remembered anything about it the next day, would greet me normally as a housemate etc.

I’m sure I can think of more examples...

On a flight back from Prague a man next to me was dressed all in black and holding a rucksack that he opened and put between his feet. In it was a bag of iceberg lettuce (nothing else) and a book which he took out and read for the whole journey ... the book was illustrated with graphic pictures - the book was Skyjack (tells the story about crew members of a plane being hijacked)
The frequency of his toilet trips were alarming ... He never once looked me in the eye. I have never been so glad to arrive at Stansted !

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On the greyhound bus between LA and Vegas (in my young, less worried about being murdered days) there was a guy got on in a full smart fitted suit, teamed with plastic sliders and really dirty feet.

He kept answering the phone and chatting away, except instead of the phone it was his hand, made into a phone shape - thumb to his ear, pinkie to talk into.

We broke down for a time in the middle of the Nevada desert and knew we were going to be waiting a while for rescue, so many got off to stretch their legs and gaze at the desert that stretched around us to the horizon on all sides. Not a building to be seen. This guy wandered off and came back 10 minutes later with a takeaway McDonalds. Unless he had it concealed on his person all the time I have no idea where he got it from.

Lots of WTF's on that trip. I think about him often.

This is a great thread.

I read a story about a man and his mother who migrated here from somewhere in Africa and lived on the same park bench for years. It was wtf because they had lots of offers of help but refused.

Not my moment but a lovely little boy's moment. Ex dp used to have a wasp controller business and a neighbour asked if he could deal with a wasp nest in his eaves. So dp puts on his wasp suit and off he goes. I left with him the same time to get some shopping just to see an awestruck little boy of about 4 with his mouth wide open in dp's wake, pulling at his mums arm and squealing "Mummy its an ASTRONAUT!! A real ASTRONAUT!!!"

The look of amazement on his face still makes me smile to this day

Quite a few years ago a friend was on holiday in America. He went to a library to look for a certain book.

He searched for quite a while but couldn't find it, then a man appeared holding a book and said 'I think this is the one you're looking for'. It was

If that had happened in a country where firearms were legal, I would be very scared!