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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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OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 28/11/2019 17:04

Also 2 policewomen trying to catch a swan, and a man with a litter-picker and what seemed to be a stocking over his head...

Passthecherrycoke · 28/11/2019 17:07

Oh I saw 2 police officers trying to catch a goat on the M25 once!

ALongHardWinter · 28/11/2019 17:12

A few years ago I was sitting in a pub garden with my friend. A man appeared with 3 goats on leads. I also occasionally see a man in my local high street shops with a parrot on his shoulder. And on a bus quite a few years ago,I saw a man with a backpack. Poking their heads out of the top of the backpack were 2 ferrets.

VictoriaBun · 28/11/2019 17:13

This was a few years ago.
I used to work in an office that was above a warehouse. It had a smaller office at the end which was the accounts dept. This office over looked a double block of council garages and was used as a walk through to some shops.
A (I assume not married to each other ) couple would meet up in the car park and go to this walk through for a very,very pleased to see you Wink get together i.e not quite sex , about twice a week.
A few of us in the office would have a crafty peek at them from the window !

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 28/11/2019 17:23

@exWifebeginsAgainat46 I always dance to The Levellers too! I do look a bit like a man in drag when I've got makeup on, but pretty sure I've not gone out in a ball gown...

Lovebeingmama · 28/11/2019 17:40

I used to read in St James Park, settle myself on the grass with a few nibbles.
A man sat some distance away started showing me his bra strap and when I ignored him he walked past me with a pair of huge white granny pants hooked on his foot!

Shell4429 · 28/11/2019 17:54

I don’t understand people cleaning bathrooms etc every day. There are better things to do. I do mine once a week - sometimes less - and nobody is dead yet.

nellyitsmeagain · 28/11/2019 17:56

I used to live in London and often saw an elderly man with a long white beard - he looked a bit like captain birdseye. - wearing a wedding dress and full veil. He frequented several parks around the stoke newington, Hornsey Wood Green area, sometimes when it was cold he wore a fur coat over the wedding dress.

I now live in a village and we would give our dog a late night walk in a factory car park that's overlooked by terraced houses. One night I glanced up at a light bedroom window to see a couple semi naked - looked away, as you do - then glanced up again to realise that it wasn't just two people but several semi naked people crammed into this little bedroom, doing who knows what. So much for living in sleepy hollow.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 28/11/2019 18:00

OK, outing, but we had a fabulous vehicle come through work recently. A 4x4, with bloody handprints, spare gas can, weapons attached, axe on the side, 'zombie response team' across the windscreen.. .apparently it originally had a crossbow on the roof too.

Presuming it was an ex-movie prop, but wow. I would drive it with pride

youcanonlydraftthefuture · 28/11/2019 18:04

I don’t understand people cleaning bathrooms etc every day. There are better things to do. I do mine once a week - sometimes less - and nobody is dead yet.

Because we like things to look and smelly really fresh?

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ALongHardWinter · 28/11/2019 18:14

nellyitsmeagain Glad to hear that eccentricity is still alive and well in the UK! Grin

PurpleFrames · 28/11/2019 18:15

Saw a man in a public location, once the speaker began talking, he took out a gimp mask put it on himself and tied his wrists together with zip ties he also had a blindfold. He sits like this for up to 2hrs

Wintersleep · 28/11/2019 18:15

In relation to your OP, I used to meet my mum at a supermarket cafe and hand over DD for the day, so at one point she'd be arriving without a child and leaving with one, or arriving with one and leaving without. She got yelled at a few times, one time this woman would not let it go and was having such a go at my mum that she texted me to come out of the supermarket to prove I had DD with me (she was a newborn and we had one of those prams that you clip a car seat into to avoid waking her up). Some people embarrass themselves hugely by not just minding their own business

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 28/11/2019 18:25

@Passthecherrycoke um, was this a small black and white goat, around junction 6?

Boots20 · 28/11/2019 18:28

Theres a lady next door to my MIL who waters both her (very obvious) FAKE hanging basket flowers every day, she is late 40s and absolutley lovely, it always makes me smile though

ALongHardWinter · 28/11/2019 18:31

Time40 Maybe the man with the teddy bear was Mr.Bean? Grin

nellyitsmeagain · 28/11/2019 18:35

@ALongHardWinter Yes, long live eccentricity

A local character in my home town who walked around in big boots soled with car tyres offcuts

Two women fighting and rolling all over a major street in Manchester over another woman

Silene · 28/11/2019 18:49

We had b and b guests with two very small children, aged below three. They gave them boiled eggs every day complete with shells, chopped up.

etcher70 · 28/11/2019 19:02

I once stood opposite the next checkout in our (very local) supermarket and watched a man lick up his own nostrils. I mean a proper furtle around up there. A. I didn't know this was even possible but B. to do it public....?!

PigeonInTheLoft · 28/11/2019 20:06

A former next door neighbour used to fry fish fingers every morning and then put them out on the bird table for the birds.

Fish. Fingers.

And would then complain angrily that my cat was stealing her "bird food" and to please keep him in at all times "for goodness sake!". She claimed my cat stealing fish fingers meant for the birds would cause her previous cancer, from 10 yrs ago, to return.

She didn't take my advice that if she bought actual bird seed and not fish fucking fingers my cat wouldn't be bothered. No, they like their fish fingers she insisted.

The birds never even ate the bloody fish fingers, (even when my cat was in) cos, ya know, sparrows aren't much into Captain Birdseyes finest, ya daft bint!

She was unwittingly feeding all the cats from the local area, but getting pissed off about it.

slavetolife · 28/11/2019 20:07

Saw a man sat at a junction in his car having a wank while I was doing the washing up in my 1st floor flat!

Pamrigby · 28/11/2019 20:09

Quite a few years back on the bus there was the most revolting smell. I peered around the corner to see a family of gypsies sitting around the biggest leg of pork (which looked and smelt half cooked) laid out on a silver platter, across a chair, digging in with knives and forks.

FlossyChick · 28/11/2019 20:31

I once saw a man deliberately stick his head out of the tube train door as it closed- pointing upwards- this was about 30 years ago- when the tubes were old fashioned and wooden inside with lightbulbs- no sensors or anything. We went a whole stop and then the doors opened and he just pulled his head back in. Very weird.

Rainbowbrite11 · 28/11/2019 20:46

I once while walking my dog saw a lady with a dog catch the poo straight into a poo bag,
She was Squat down behind the dog waiting.
It was very Bizzarre.
I always pick up after my dogs but never caught it coming out 😂🤮

Ticklemeelmo · 28/11/2019 20:57

Guy sucking his own dick

20 years ago in Manumission Ibiza, he was one of the acts. He made a reappearance on the first Inbetweeners film.

A bloke on the tube only wearing a thong on his lower half

Sheep travelling on top of a van roof

Woman taking her gimp for a walk in the street in Brighton

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