Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

@Alcemeg...

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I see what you did there 🤣

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I was having dinner in Chesterfield a few years ago when I saw the X77 Glasgow to Ayr bus pass by the window. Just ever so slightly off course...

I was on a bus once and an old lady got on with a large bunch of bananas. She peeled and started eating one, then started offering a bite of her banana to the people around her, stretching her arm across the aisle shoving the banana being quite lovely but insistent about it (think Mrs Doyle from Father Ted). Strangely, no one took her up on her half eaten banana offer.

Australia performing in Eurovision song contest

The realisation that Scotland are in the Euro 2020 tournament!

@EverythingisBlossom, good grief, poor you. Thank goodness the staff were helpful. Weird people out there unfortunately.

I used to work for a company which had a lot of employee perks, like free membership of a very high-end gym and spa at a nearby luxury hotel. I used to go in the evenings when it was really quiet for a swim as I knew I would likely get the pool and hot tub to myself. One evening, I entered the changing room to find a very well dressed mother and daughter. I assumed they were guests of the hotel and using the facilities for the first time as they seemed confused. They asked me for help because they couldn't figure out how to lock their lockers. There were no keys but members and guests were given watches which were programmed for various functions including locking the locker doors - you just scanned the watch face against a sensor and it locked. I showed them how to do this but they still seemed dubious and worried about leaving their belongings. I went for my swim and didn't think anything of it.

30 minutes later, I returned to the changing room and found the same pair still sitting there. As soon as I arrived they pounced on me, saying that I had stolen the mother's shoes. I obviously denied this and was trying to be helpful, asking what had happened and had they alerted any staff. The daughter started saying that I had stolen the shoes from right under their noses while I was "tampering" with their locker, pretending to help them lock it. I reminded them that the locker had been closed the whole time and I hadn't touched it, only demonstrated the locking mechanism on my own locker. They started getting quite menacing, had me cornered and started pulling away my towel (I had just come from the showers) to "see what you've got under there". I somehow got dressed very quickly despite them both trying to grab my clothes to stop me putting them on, then they demanded that I unpack the contents of my bag to prove that the shoes were not there. I said I would gladly do this at reception in front of a staff member but not on our own, in the changing room with no one else present and no cameras. The daughter grabbed my bag anyway and tried to tip it upside down and I somehow managed to grab armfuls of my stuff and run out the door to reception where I started hysterically explaining the situation to the staff member there, while pursued by the mother and daughter who were yelling at her to call the police because I had stolen designer shoes. I was practically in tears and begged her to look through all my belongings to verify that I had no stolen shoes there (in truth I was utterly bricking it and starting to worry that they had somehow planted the shoes on me). The woman was very kind and just said, that won't be necessary and she was sorry for the trouble I'd encountered. She got another colleague to take me for a coffee to calm me down and then they gave me a voucher for a free massage plus a month pass for me to bring a friend.

They dealt with it so smoothly, as if they knew this pair and understood exactly what was going on, with no need to question me at all BUT if they were well known scammers or similar, why would they have kept up the pretence of demanding that the police were called when faced with a staff member. I have no idea what happened to them as I was led away for coffee. This was almost 18 years ago and still makes me think WTF

Where do I find the thread in classics please?

@PinguTheLion (that's the name of one of my cats - well, Pinguthecat!

No - it's just the one Andrew Flintiff, NN Freddie

I had to google that when the PP posted it to check.

I have so many of these!

1. When DS was born, DH was sent a paternity test kit in the post. We asked all of our friends if they'd sent it as a joke which we wouldn't have found especially funny but would see why some of them may have and nobody admitted it. We weren't angry or anything just needed to know who sent it. Nobody has ever admitted sending it 6 years later!

1. DH's best friend from school and I have a really strangely linked past despite growing up over an hour away from each other.

-My cousin married her cousin when I was 7, she was 10 and we were sat on the kids table and she told me her friend was a boy and I was naturally disgusted because I thought boys were disgusting.

-My best friends mum married her uncle (different side of the family) and I went to the wedding as a 17 year old and she ended up going the bar for me a few times. DH actually came to pick her up later that night!

-I did some temp work for an agency. One job was for 3 weeks while they waited for the new person to start. That happened to her. I was then sent to another company to do a different role again while they waited for the new person to start and I was actually replacing her.

-My sister got engaged to her housemates brother. They broke up because this friend had walked in on the brother in bed with another housemate and she ended up telling my sister.

-She worked for my aunt and we didn't realise until my aunt had an anniversary party and when DH and I arrived we saw her getting out a taxi.

-Her mum worked for the local council supporting nurseries and she came out to the setting I was working at and helped me get it ready for an inspection. It was only when the mum saw a picture of my DH that we realised I knew her daughter.

1. I used to see the same girl everywhere when I was in college. After a while it got a bit strange, I'd notice she would have the same bag as me and the same clothes and my friends started to notice she was everywhere. One day she went in to the hairdressers my college friend worked at and ended up telling her as she got her hair washed that her name was my name, she was going out with my boyfriend, she worked where I did and that she was studying the course I was on. That may have been her name and maybe her boyfriend had the same name as mine but she definitely didn't work at the same place and the college course had a small number of students on and we worked with the older students and she definitely was not on that course. I ended up leaving after my first year in college so didn't see her around any more but that was a bit of a moment.

Ooh I've loved reading all these.I have a few...

I once went on a very last minute trip to India. I booked a flight to Goa on the Thursday evening, was at the Indian Embassy on Friday morning to get a visa and on the plane Friday night. I walked out of Goa's airport doors and bumped smack bang into my sister... I had no idea she was there too!

When my son was just about two and a half years old a good work friend - I'll call him Jake - died in really tragic circumstances. At the time we all thought it was suicide. It was incredibly upsetting. After a day of me feeling really miserable my son came over to me and said "Jake is here mummy." I remember just staring at him and he then repeated "Jake is here mummy! Say Hello!" So I said hello and my son then carried on with "he's okay now mummy. He's happy. He's going on a boat to the island so he wants you to know that he's happy now." He then turned away and carried on playing.

A few days later I was at work and speaking to the person sorting out Jake's funeral (he was estranged from his blood relatives - work friends were his family). I told her about my son and she went white - in Jake's will he had asked for his ashes to be taken to a tiny greek island to be scattered and you could only get to it by small boat. Only herself and one other person knew.

@YesPleaseMary

Wow - we must have been at the same uni at around the same time! I wonder if we know each other?!

Was the 'joke' to do with trying to sell said chicken to somebody whose circumstances supposedly necessitated shouting the entreaty to buy?

I'm very glad to hear that your friend turned out relatively normal in the end. I've spent the last 20 or so years worrying that he might have travelled back in time and become this man (Bob)....

A few years back I met an old college friend/acquaintance in Heathrow, we'd totally lost touch, but she looked very much the same (not the same for me sadly!!).

Waiting in T2, we chatted and I walked towards her departure gate area. She then introduced her husband who was nearby. I didn't recognize him, but I knew the name very well. He'd be named in relation to a series of campus rapes (but was not convicted). A classmate of mine was involved and I 100% believe her, without any doubt, and I know a lot of the details. I was totally shocked, and still find it hard to believe they are married.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll It was a friend of mine at uni! It’s the punchline to a joke which I’m afraid is a bit now. He first told it in the middle of a crowded street in Chester... then in the society of which we were all members of... then it sort of became his thing for a bit.
I used to work on the chicken counter in that supermarket (which has since turned into a Morrison’s) and would text all my student friends when it was reduced chicken time... happy days!
My friend is mostly completely normal and sane btw.

I was on holiday in Tunisia back in 2014 and sat next to this woman on the plane, spoke the whole way there. Anyway a year later I was on the plane to Marbella and the exact same woman was sat next to me again. Around a month later I was on the train with family going to Margate. And who gets on the train?

We’ve decided to keep in touch now 😂

He seemed lovely and just said “alright?” I was so shy when I was a teen, I didn’t know what to say and hid in the other room!! He left 5 mins later very smiley and normal said nice to meet you. My friend’s mum acted like nothing had happened. It was all a bit surreal!

What was Boy George like @ginggan?

Can't find the post from last week, but am I the only one still wondering who the famous world renowned actor is with the facial 'thing', whose sister worked with the poster? 🤔😁

Another, less pleasant one.

Years ago I worked at a large corporate, which was quite multicultural and had some staff who worked short-term in London, far from their usual offices in Hong Kong, Germany, America, India, etc.

Waiting for a bus to get the to the station (to get into work) and a woman comes out of one of the nearby houses. She started going on about the bus not being on time. It was, we were 10 minutes ahead of the due time.
Then she started on some sort of rant, "All these bus drivers are foreigners these days. Don't speak hardly a word of English. Like them Chy lot you see at the takeaway. One driving license between them, Mr. Ying Tong Whatever."
I tried to ignore her but she carried on.
"And as for the rest of 'em coming over here. Them muslim lot - all those Ps wanting us to do Islam. And the N-Ns, but you don't see many of those around here thankfully. It's good isn't it?"
Trying not to lose my temper I just said to her, "I'm off to work. My boss is one of those Ps, and for the record, my Brother-In-Law is a N-N*. It's racists I have a problem with."
She gave me evil looks the whole bus journey into town.