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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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Babybel90 · 28/11/2019 20:57

A naked man riding a bike down the street in Barcelona, must have been a bit uncomfortable!

Member984815 · 28/11/2019 21:28

I saw a woman taking a shit on the side of a very busy road she was using the handle of the car to steady herself . There was a Tesco close by with public toilets and a garage with toilets less than a minute away she had to pass by it to get to this spot.

Member984815 · 28/11/2019 21:31

Oh forgot the time 2 mountain goats appeared outside my house , no idea where they came from but they were spotted all over town then disappeared again

lumpy76 · 28/11/2019 21:41

A few weeks ago whilst in Bangkok airport (we were in transit form Auckland) DH went to the toilets and was witness to a man washing his penis in the sink. 😲I'm just grateful he didn't have the 3yr old with him as he would definitely have asked very loud questions!! 🤣

giggly · 28/11/2019 21:41

Man at the table next to me and dh in a restaurant in Kos years ago lift his shirt up and breastfeed his toddler son. Confused He was German if that helps.

Zoejj77 · 28/11/2019 21:42

I work 40-50 hours a week and have toddler and a husband who shits for England- I wish I had the energy to clean the bathroom that much Id practically be a fully time toilet attendant

MilkLady02 · 28/11/2019 21:42

Where I used to live there was a man who would frequently rollerblade topless around the city, holding a white rabbit.

Recently in London saw a relatively elderly man standing on a high street in a bikini, long wig and high heels.

IAmCatBed · 28/11/2019 21:44

A couple of colleagues and I were having coffee and cake in a cafe in Edinburgh before we went off to the office to undertake the fieldwork we were due to do.

An elderly bloke with a walking stick walked past us pulling a shopping trolley. For some reason, the shopping trolley overturned. He then battered the shit out of the overturned shopping trolley with his walking stick, screaming at it and calling it all sorts of names. It went on for ages. And then he suddenly just packed up his trolley, stuck his sick under his arm and walked off.

Bonkers!!

FabulouslyGlamorousReindeer · 28/11/2019 21:56

I was walking my two dogs one day along our normal route in a public footpath that went round a cricket field. Travellers had appeared the day before and set up camp, one woman had unrolled a couple of metres of Astro turf in front of her caravan over the path. A couple with a buggy and a dog who were in front of me walked over it, the woman (traveller) opened the door and screamed 'get off my fucking garden you fat cunts'

I took a different route!

FabulouslyGlamorousReindeer · 28/11/2019 22:01

@giggly I wonder if it was that man who was I the seahorse programme?

Toomuchtrouble4me · 28/11/2019 22:02

In the summer I spend days hunting fruit flies with my hoover nozzle.
My aunt wears two hats so that the outer one doesn’t get sweaty.
The man opposite my flat wanks with his curtains open.
The married woman upstairs is shagging the married man downstairs - not so much odd as risky.

ArthurMorgan · 28/11/2019 22:20

I was walking through a village I used to live in, it's a dead quiet one in the middle of nowhere, I saw about 40 big burley bikers, full leather gear, massive beards etc, riding those mini motos. I have no idea where they came from or where they were going but I bet all their asses were fully numb by the time I saw them as the last village they would have passed was 9 ish miles away...

Patroclus · 28/11/2019 22:49

Thought I had just seen a grown man walkin around dressed as Zippy from Rainbow and was looking forward to updating this but then I got closer and he was just a railway worker.

GabsAlot · 28/11/2019 23:36

I talk to my car it's a boy I say hi when I get in ask him if he's cold then put on the heating . yes I'm sad

egontoste · 28/11/2019 23:54

In the summer I saw a man walking down a country road on very tall stilts and wearing a top hat, a bright pink frock coat & tails with long stripey trousers. He was waving to everyone who passed. Each to his own.

The following day I saw somebody riding a unicycle down the high street.

The day after that I witnessed a couple on a Goodies-style tandem made for three (a tridem?). They were at each end with the spare seat in the centre. She was at the front pedalling like mad, he was at the back and had his feet up, casually resting on the seat in the middle Grin

It was a funny old week, that one.

MissConductUS · 28/11/2019 23:55

Some of the public pooing may be by people who have a GI disease like ulcerative colitis and suffer from loss of bowel control.

There are some great stories on this thread.

MissConductUS · 29/11/2019 00:03

I just remembered one. When working in New York City I used to see a bloke in a purple wizard's outfit riding a purple bicycle from time to time.I think he worked in the neighborhood.

Osquito · 29/11/2019 00:33

@Downunderduchess As someone who grew up with Twisties, this is truly WTF. Wouldn’t they just keep falling off the spoon as well?!

There is/was a man who walks his rabbit, but not even in a leafy suburb or anything... saw him and his huge bunny on the side of a busy road between Salford and Manchester late at night. I’d have been worried a dog would go for it!

I also once casually looked out the bus window to see a few people gathered outside right outside a police station, one of them playing a didgeridoo and the others looking like they were waiting for someone to come out.

Osquito · 29/11/2019 00:35

note: didgeridoo-playing in NW England.

cstaff · 29/11/2019 00:46

Regularly I see a man cycling down my road with his little white terrier standing on his back. I presume that's his idea of taking the dog for a walk Grin

stupidtabloidheadlines · 29/11/2019 01:17

A huge man pushing an equally giant-ass rabbit in a pram.

Aglet · 29/11/2019 07:22

A woman walking in front of me had a little dog. The dog stepped in the gutter to urinate. She produced a cup or container and collected some of the wee as the dog peed, put it in her bag and walked on. Maybe the dog was diabetic?

sueelleker · 29/11/2019 07:38

We had to collect wee when our first dog had kidney trouble. (The vet had to check protein levels) We used to slide a small saucepan under him when he started.

Purplealienpuke · 29/11/2019 07:40

A man walks his skunk in my city.... apparently said skunk is de stinked 😪.
The check out operator clipping his nails while waiting for me to load my shopping on the belt.... 🤢🤢🤢 yes I did complain!!
Man wanking whilst cycling, during the day on a busy thoroughfare.

MuseumOfYou · 29/11/2019 09:15

Years ago, I stayed overnight at the Alexander Thomson Hotel in Glasgow, about a year before I saw this headline...

www.heraldscotland.com/news/12482136.woman-lay-dead-in-crime-ridden-hotel-for-seven-days/

On the way back from breakfast, I passed a woman in beautiful African dress with headdress, on the stairs, holding a child by one hand and a whole roast chicken in the other.

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