Crazy and/or deluded OPs we have loved

[Secretlifeofme]

I thought it might be fun to start a reminiscences thread about the craziest or least self-aware OPs from past threads. My favourite one of all was the supersoaker mum who was absolutely ADAMANT that her darling offspring should be allowed to take his supersoaker to another child's party in the park, even though it was a bit chilly, the party mum hadn't been keen and about a billion posters united to tell her she was BU! (I think it's in classics if anyone fancies a laugh )

What have your favourites been?

I'll always remember mitmoo or 'shitmoo' as someone else called her.

She said I was heartless . I was really cut up....

I still remember one from yonks and yonks ago with a woman who was furious with her husband because he ate some cake she made that she considered not good enough and was going to throw out. The fact that he ate and seemingly enjoyed the below par cake was apparently some sort of unforgivable insult to her baking skills.

This was years ago but I still think about her when I make cakes and wish I could bake well enough to be bothered by such as event.

There was one where on day 1 the op was by a man who was a bus driver and having an affair with a neighbour and day 2 the op was by his DW. I was really looking forward to the day 3 op from the point of view of the OW but I presume the troll poster got banned.

There was a poster (may still be around, I don't know) who started thread after thread about her deadbeat DP who kept coming up with every excuse under the sun for not divorcing his estranged wife so they could get married. She'd change a few details but the underlying frustration would always surface eventually. It was a complete mystery to everyone but her why he wouldn't he was a knob

I remember my first 'omg is she serious?!' thread. It was a lady whos kid went to scouts or something. one of the other muns was a professional photographer and took pics for the group, she used to give free pics to parents but started charging a small fee as it was getting quite popular. Op was outraged and had declared to buy a camera to take her own pics to then undercut her even no photography or editing experience. It was an eye opener lol.

Anyone else concern that they can remember these thread going back years, except they can't remember what they did a week ago last Tuesday. Or is that just me .

I never "got" Sharon, the wasp and the wine. I kept thinking I was missing some in joke or a pop culture reference

The Maui honeymoon thread was wonderful, but yes, I think it was pulled "to protect the OP's privacy"

I think everyone reading the necklace one was double-checking their calculations, because the OP was so adamant that she was right and everyone else was wrong

The baby name thread were the OP said something like "We want to give him a normal but not too boring name, like Peter, Andrew, Joshua or Balonz"

Was niteandfog the poster who kept starting threads about her affair with a guy from her 'hobby'? I just remember it for being a bit pathetic.

If I remember rightly, Laqueen posted on a thread which was something along the lines of “one thing you’ve got away with” saying something like her husband’s thesis wasn’t his own work. It completely changed the tone of the thread and other posters told her she could have ruined his career, as I think some knew where he worked. She deleted her posts and vanished.

That thread was an absolute minefield though if it's the same one where someone admitted to :

Finding the home phone number of a hotel cleaner and persistently making nuisance calls to her for weeks at night because she woke her up hoovering aka doing her job

The guy who hated his neighbours and their dog so much that he kidnapped their dog and dumped it miles away never to be seen again.

The creative writing thread that got over 200 replies last week (this from a small section where the average number of posts on a thread is about 5 to 10).

I’ve just read that thread about the listed building and passageway
I remember Fabbychic from years ago. She used to be quite brutal but used to make me laugh.

Years ago a husband posted a thread in AIBU about his U wife and her hostility to his new 2 seater sports car. Everyone was sympathetic and then the wife came on to post that a) he kept wasting their, not his money on random expensive boy toys and b) they had a small DD who sat in the passenger seat, thereby excluding the wife from ever sitting in a car which she had paid 50% towards.

I really, really need to know if TinyToes ever got her Listed Building planning permission, her extended galley kitchen, or her law degree.

There was one ages ago

A woman and her best friend had had a cataclysmic row several years previously and hadn't spoken since.

About 4 months before she posted they had semi patched it up after meeting at a mutual friends gathering but were only casually texting as yet and everything was a bit raw.

She had then found out her friend was getting married, not in the UK, very small ceremony and she wasn't invited.

She was near hysteria about this and had actually gone to her friends parents house to beg that they invite her or ask her friend to invite her because she didn't want to ask the friend. Her mother gave her short shrift and refused outright

It was at this point she turned to AIBU to ask would she be U to fly to the country, and sit outside the church "just to see her dress"

I have never seen a MN thread so united with

DEAR GOD PLEASE DON'T DO THIS

One delightfully batshit thread currently running is the one on Limerance in Relationships.

It seems basically to be a coven of loons who've had affairs and are now stalking their OM.

One of the first threads I read the op hated that their neighbour had painted their (the neighbours) side of the fence a colour I think or brown. Op wasn’t happy had recently moved back in to the property due to flooding thought they had the right to paint both sides of the fence a colour of their choosing. She didn’t like having to look at the different colour for the 2 seconds when driving passed.

I remember those threads. The poster was called HiddenHomes or something like that. Her fence was green but the neighbors didn't like it and I think one had painted her side red, even though it was the OP's fence. I sort of felt sorry for her in the end. She was a bit bonkers but I think she'd been through a really hard time of things with the flood and everything.

So many great ones here! I think I've been on MN too long because I can remember most of them

Does anyone remember Westminster School 'mom' from a few years ago?

I think a lot of those mentioned above were creative writers, but a particular favourite of mine was Ryanair dad who had shut his daughter's finger in the loo door on a flight and a) wanted to sue them for it and b) was apoplectic that they refused to call for an ambulance to be waiting on the tarmac.

Who remembers the one where the OP asked a question about a pushchair and nobody replied and then a year or so later the OP responded to their own question with the answer?

In fact, can someone link me to that thread please? I could do with a laugh

I linked to the pushchair thread way uthread - there is the word 'stroller' in the title.