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It’s been a very strange day, describe your strangest day?

34 replies

crosser62 · 10/04/2019 15:53

I found a lump, about 3 months ago. It has grown.
I went to the Drs and have opted to go fast track to have it diagnosed and then go from there.

Life must go on yes, so I’ve yet to receive a final bill from my gas and electric after changing supplier so I rang them and was told that I’m more than £1200 in credit....

How’s that for strange?

😲
Now you, ever had a strange day where bonkers stuff happened?

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OhioOhioOhio · 10/04/2019 16:04

The day I saw a police car heading towards my house and realised that I hoped they were coming to tell me my husband was dead. That was a strange day.

lordofthefries · 10/04/2019 16:05

The strangest thing that ever happened to me was when I was about 16, I was walking to college the way I walked everyday and I noticed that the view was completely different. I’d never noticed the buildings and hills there before, looking back now I probably just hadn’t bothered to look but it scared me at the time.

cantfindname · 10/04/2019 17:37

OhioOhioOhio as someone who, 11 months ago today, had this happen for real I find your comment less than amusing. I adored my OH.

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PinkysEars · 10/04/2019 17:47

I'm very sorry for your loss can't I can't imagine what you've been through.

However, I'm not sure Ohio was going for amusing. I can think of multiple, very far from funny, reasons why that realisation might take place. I don't think she was intending to be glib and actually it's a pretty bleak statement.

WifOfBif · 10/04/2019 17:47

Not everyone has a happy marriage cantfindme,and not everyone in an unhappy or abusive relationship is able to simply leave.

I’m so very sorry for your loss but I have a close friend who wished her husband dead. It was the only way she knew she’d be free of his abuse.

cantfindname · 10/04/2019 18:04

Sorry people. Bad day. I can't begin to describe the utter horror of those Transport Police blue lighting it to my house and somehow knowing deep inside what had happened.

I think maybe it would be a good plan to keep off forums on anniversaries.

I understand abusive marriages, I had one when I was much younger, but today that thought never entered my mind.

Apologies again.

bsc · 10/04/2019 18:07

I've had a distinctly odd, bad day. Not ready to talk about it yet though.

PinkysEars · 10/04/2019 18:07

I'm so sorry that you have to pass through this awful time can't. I hope you have good support in RL.

I know what you mean about anniversaries though - bloody strange days themselves.

or Whichever works for you. Or take both.

Palominoo · 10/04/2019 18:13

Guessing the passwords of my then partners email, eBay and Facebook and finding a whole world of lies, cheating and deceit with other women and one woman in particular whom he was in a long standing affair with.

I then went out to dinner with him and had to act normally as I wanted to build a portfolio of evidence. He sat there declaring undying love to me as usual and making plans for our future together, upcoming holiday etc.

It was surreal as inside I felt sick to my stomach.

WifOfBif · 10/04/2019 18:13

Please don’t apologise, I can’t imagine how hard today, or any day since, has been for you.

I lost my little brother in a road accident, nothing can prepare you for the shock of your whole world changing in an instant.

Wishing you peace and sending love x

frazzledasarock · 10/04/2019 18:14

Crosser62 hope your days get better.

I remember being in the fog of a horrendous divorce leaving a very abusive man and on a day when I was feeling incredibly fragile and barely functioning everyone I came across was just super kind and helpful to me.

Really think I would have fallen apart had anyone been mean to me that day but everyone was just lovely to me to the extent a woman stoped me in the streets asked me if my dc were my siblings and when I told her no they were my dc she told me i was an amazing mum!

Was a very surreal day. But in a nice way.

So glad those items are well behind now.

Apoiads · 10/04/2019 18:18

My life is one big confusing day.

ShahOfSplosh · 10/04/2019 18:29

All the best, crosser.

New years eve was strange for me. Got dna results back and I am not who I thought I was. I am an inadvertent fraud.

foxyfemke · 10/04/2019 19:29

Just over 2 weeks ago. It was my son's first settling in session at primary school and after I took him in, I went to the hospice where my mum was in a sedated sleep, 24 hours before she died. I sat in her room for a few hours and picked up my son and then bought him an ice cream with my mum's bank card, as she'd told me to buy him an ice cream paid for by her for being a big boy. That evening I went back to the hospice and sat by her side some more.

It was probably more surreal than the next day, when she died.

WifOfBif · 10/04/2019 20:00

foxy

EastMidsGPs · 10/04/2019 20:57

New Years Eve 2016

DM in hospital, during visiting time she had a fit of sorts and deteriorated before our eyes. We were told she wouldn't last the night and so I stayed with her.
It was quite surreal to sit through 2016 and into 2017 just watching her. Fireworks went off across the city at midnight, people could be heard cheering and laughing and all the while I just sat there, anticipating the worst. Against all odds she recovered.

However, the really surreal bit to it all was, it was expected to be a routine visit and so DH and I were intending to go onto a New Year's Eve party. A 60s themed party. So I sat in a black and white check mini skirt, white tights and boots. Hair teased into a beehive. Pale blue glittery eyeshadow and pale pink lipstick completed the look!
The odd thing was not one member if staff commented on my 'look' ...... well not to my face 😂

MirandaWest · 10/04/2019 21:15

The day I stopped being a teacher was an odd day. Was a Monday in September in my second year teaching. I hated it so much.
Was the afternoon and I was teaching science. Suddenly realised I couldn’t keep doing it anymore. Got a child to go and get a teaching assistant and went into the school library. Left that day and never came back.
Was definitely the right decision.

Jellyonawonkyplate · 10/04/2019 22:39

foxy that brought tears to my eyes.

SnowsInWater · 11/04/2019 01:56

I woke up on 12th March this year with a tender, sore breast and felt unwell. No earlier symptoms other than feeling a bit tired. Went to Pilates but struggled to keep up, went to work and spent two hours with a client telling me how her husband of 30 years had just left her and set up house with a 25yo man and was trying to screw her financially. Made a GP appointment as I was felling increasingly unwell and by 7pm that evening I was in hospital talking to a breast cancer surgeon - my most surreal day ever. My breast cancer was confirmed after tests a few days later and I am now on Chemo. Still don't know what the hell just happened to my life.....

BurrSir · 11/04/2019 07:16

to PP
My strangest day ever was when I had just started teaching. 13 days before actually. I had been very sick with nerves and anxiety and left work early at half past two for an appointment to look for cysts on my ovary. As soon as the scan started I spotted tiny 11 wk DD floating around. She was very unexpected and the timing couldn’t have been worse (Me and DP still lived with our parents, I had been working for years and years to be a teacher). Then I went home and very calmly watched friends for hours while drinking endless cups of tea waiting for DP to finish work and shit to hit the fan.

dotcotan · 11/04/2019 07:31

I woke up in the morning to a sunny, relaxed day, feeling like I had not a care in the world and by the time I went to bed that night I was looking at a future of being divorced and alone. Strange.

quaterafter1 · 11/04/2019 07:36

The day I discovered I was pregnant with my dtwins. Every day since has been surreal and they're 2 years old now

DinosApple · 11/04/2019 08:07

The Christmas Eve MIL had a massive stroke.

She was 83 but had been playing with the DC the day before, tug of war, catching the DC from her chair went they went too close (then 2&3) etc. They'd all had a whale of a time and were giggling and laughing. The next day DH and BIL were authorising a DNR after she had a massive stroke in the night. We were all functioning for the children in the haze of unforseen events.

MIL pulled through, she's paralyzed down one side and can't speak, but she still loves seeing her granddaughters. We visit lots.

OhioOhioOhio · 11/04/2019 08:14

cantfind

I'm sorry you found my post upsetting. I can see why. I hadn't at all intended to offend you. And I'm very sorry for your loss.

My stbxh worked hard to intimidate, undermine and sabotage every nuance of my being. My experience was a measure of the living hell my life had become.

TopEndChops · 11/04/2019 08:22

Holding my partners hand, waiting for him to die, surrounded by his family, some of whom I'd only met the day before ( he was very low contact).
There has been many strange days since.

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