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Strangest things you've ever seen people do?!

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youcanonlydraftthefuture · 27/11/2019 13:31

I can name a few.

I have my own, I clean my entire bathroom everyday and apparently that's odd, but I didn't realise. Ditto the kitchen, bathroom, etc.

As for other people, I've recently seen someone shouting at me for taking up a parent and child space (DC was in the shops already and I'd be taking him back with me).

Even if I saw someone very clearly getting back in and still no DC, I just wouldn't say anything Confused They could have a hidden disability. They could just be cheeky, but it's not my business.

The biggest shocker was a woman in the changing areas at DC's Puddle Ducks class. She showered naked, which is all fine, I couldn't care less and think we should all be more accepting of it as a society. Then she went on to shave her pits! As if it was all normal and fine in that area and her DC was in their baby car seat on the floor Grin I've never seen anything like it

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AdoptedBumpkin · 28/11/2019 14:31

Elderflower, mad Mary sounds a hoot. Grin

ladybee28 · 28/11/2019 14:34

Is he Dutch?

No @sashh, he's Spanish – but now I'm intrigued... is this a Dutch thing?! Are they also oven pan-smugglers?

The number of times I've turned the oven on to pre-heat and smelled melting plastic panhandle... Grin

AdoptedBumpkin · 28/11/2019 14:37

LeahDownTheLane I'd be speechless.Confused

Elderflower14 · 28/11/2019 14:39

Mad Mary used to come into the hotel where I worked. She would mutter "Pot of tea" at me and then sit for two hours having a conversation with herself!!

AdoptedBumpkin · 28/11/2019 14:44

Elderflower - I shouldn't laugh, but that made me giggle. Sad when that happens to someone.

haverhill · 28/11/2019 14:44

I saw the legendary 'Less Protein Man' in Oxford Street when I was about 10. I just assumed that all Londoners were a touch bonkers.

Like a PP, I ate books as a child. I tore big strips of the pages and chewed them.

Patroclus · 28/11/2019 14:46

He was probably a local pilot oneday, they guide boats through local water.

Passthecherrycoke · 28/11/2019 14:49

I ate books too

Patroclus · 28/11/2019 15:02

oh sorry i managed to miss a whole chunk somehow.

An old bloke near me used to take his dog for midnight walks naked until the police stopped him.

ladybee28 · 28/11/2019 15:04

@Tighnabruaich

On the balcony next door a woman was lying on her back sunbathing nude. No big deal. But - she had her knees up and 'flopped' to the sides, exposing everything. Poor old husband had turned round to see the view from the other direction, and was faced with the sunbathing lady's nether regions

Oddly, this popped up on my Facebook feed recently... (see attached image). Maybe she was a yonibathing enthusiast?

cjt110 · 28/11/2019 15:10

Going through a town I used to live in.... Saw a peacock wandering down the pavement.

A fella round here used to drive round with a bathtub and other random shit on top of his car including a father christmas I think

Another man round here has died his hair postbox red. Its frizzy abnd sticks out. He then wears all red clothes and a cap.

I grew up in a village where League of Gentlemen was filmed. Walking down to the main road of the village and seeing a tank parked on the street was a sight to behold.

cjt110 · 28/11/2019 15:13

Oh and beetlejuice driving a volvo estate across a roundabout

Tighnabruaich · 28/11/2019 15:20

Ladybee28 she must have been an early adopter - this was around 2015, but funnily enough I saw that thing about sunning your arse today too!

AdoptedBumpkin · 28/11/2019 15:30

This has just come back to me. On a visit to someone who lived in the sticks, saw a farmer directing sheep across the road with a lollipop.

MargotB7 · 28/11/2019 15:42

*QuietlyFuming

Years ago I was at a friend’s bbq when a very drunk stranger wandered into her garden, headed straight for the table where all the food was laid out, picked up a bottle of balsamic vinegar and DOWNED it.*

He may have had hiccups but the whole bottle. Grin

TheSmallClangerWhistlesAgain · 28/11/2019 16:09

A largish cheerful man riding along the pavement on a chariot-like contraption made from bicycles and a Rollator, drawn by a pair of big bull-breed dogs.

OffTheShelfElf · 28/11/2019 16:30

On top of a mountain in crappy weather conditions: a man who was naked apart from his walking boots.

MotherofPearl · 28/11/2019 16:33

There used to be a man on buses in South Manchester who always travelled with an enormous rabbit on his lap. Not in a cage! Like the teddy bear man mentioned upthread he kept up a running commentary on the journey's progress for the rabbit.

AdoptedBumpkin · 28/11/2019 16:40

@OffTheShelfElf ConfusedEnvy

ALongHardWinter · 28/11/2019 16:52

OMG Mamabear144 Grin I laughed out loud at that!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 28/11/2019 17:00

A man touching most of the food at a hotel buffet before selecting what he wanted.Grim.

At a very nice respectable family holiday resort in Menorca and the father of a family of 5 overdosed on Methadone and ambulances and police had to come

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 28/11/2019 17:01

@TiddlerontheRoof I used to eat books too Blush It was interesting explaining the missing corners when I came to sell said books...

Have seen a man with a ferret on a lead sat outside at a pub. He was quite miffed dogs were allowed in but not ferrets.

Also a policeman, the hulk, and a man in a grass skirt carrying a canoe down the main road... tbh it's fairly normal where I live. I love it Grin

PrincessHoneysuckle · 28/11/2019 17:01

A teenager throwing a coffee table through the reception window at a family hotel in Spain

PrincessHoneysuckle · 28/11/2019 17:02

@TheSmallClangerWhistlesAgain I would have loved to see that!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 28/11/2019 17:03

A man merrily travelling down the street in a childs battery operated car

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