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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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tempnamechange98765 · 29/11/2019 20:29

My next door neighbour gardens her front garden in the evening all the time. Her and her husband do all their chores/diy on weekend evenings, even though they seem to be there all day.

awaynboilyurheid · 29/11/2019 20:39

Once on holiday saw two well endowed topless woman wander off the beach and then along the road . They started off window shopping then went in to a couple of shops I was watching them from a cafe across the street thinking where are they going? It was as if two very busty topless ladies were shopping without realising they were topless!
They had walked quite far from the beach, cars were passing and drivers were doing double takes, time I think they forgot they were no longer on the beach but in a town area Bizarre!

Footle · 29/11/2019 21:00

Awesome

Footle · 29/11/2019 21:01

Oops, link fail there. I was trying to link to the amazing Mme Zucchini, who might well be seen pushing a pram full of baby vegetables in bonnets around Sheffield.

Flusteredcustard · 29/11/2019 23:45

A very tall African man wearing an ordinary top, a kilt and pink fluffy slippers walking through the shopping centre. No reason why not but the slippers were an odd touch

dontalltalkatonce · 29/11/2019 23:53

A couple move the car seat out of the back seat into the front, strip off and have sex naked in the back seat. In full lights. In the car park of a children's hospital.

CallingOnAvengingAngels · 29/11/2019 23:58

I was walking home late one night in South London and was saw a guy who's look was channelling 'Eastern European petty gangster' ( long black leather coat, tracksuit, slicked hair, earring, can of Polish lager) briskly rollerblading along with his coat billowing like a cape, and drinking his beer.

Trinkts · 30/11/2019 00:09

I know someone who drives a different route to work every single day. Mix of main roads/back roads/ highways/ random neighbourhoods...

Ok it's me. I just really hate routine and try to throw off any potential stalkers.

ladybee28 · 30/11/2019 08:24

@sashh I worked with a woman who had lived in Holland for a few years, she said ovens were used to store pans and cook books. But Spanish, do you have a nativity scene?

In my oven? Grin

I'm REALLY sorry, I've read your question over and over this morning and I can't understand your question Grin Can you explain (to a very sleepy and hormonal human)?

@Nicklebox I usually try and get at least two socks to a peg - one on either side of the line. 1:1 feels very decadent Smile

DebbieFiderer · 30/11/2019 08:59

I can top the barista tea-making - I watched one put the hot water in to the cup, then add milk, then finally the tea bag! WTF??? This was actually him remaking the tea at my request as the first one was so milky you couldn't tell it was tea. He had also, on a previous visit, given me a cup of black tea, filled right up to the brim. I had to ask him to pour out some water and add milk (this was Costa, so not like Starbucks where you add your own milk). Clearly not a tea drinker!

Buddywoo · 30/11/2019 09:13

On a plane coming back from Australia with a group of Japanese sitting next to us. Breakfast served with a roll, butter and a packet of mints for breath fresheners after a long night. The Japanese buttered their roll and then filled the inside with Polos.

Buddywoo · 30/11/2019 09:20

Posted this before, but when I was an estate agent and showing people round a house we went into the main bedroom and there was a large pig asleep in the bed. The pig charged us. I spoke to the owner afterwards and she said the pig always slept with her and her husband but didn't like men, hence the charging. It also had its own sofa in the sitting room where it used to recline.

sashh · 30/11/2019 09:58

ladybee28

Sorry no not in the oven.

I meant one of those nativity scenes people have as a decoration at Xmas, I seem to remember the Spanish one has Mary, Joseph, Jesus and a man shitting in the corner.

ladybee28 · 30/11/2019 10:04

I meant one of those nativity scenes people have as a decoration at Xmas, I seem to remember the Spanish one has Mary, Joseph, Jesus and a man shitting in the corner.

I just spat my coffee CLEAN across the room! Grin

We don't have a nativity scene and nobody is shitting in the corner these days - but I am TOTALLY examining the next one I see!

TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 30/11/2019 10:14

A long long time ago l was in what was then Lewis’ in Manchester.

The ground floor had like a square in the middle. On each side of this square were steps going down to the next floor.

I was walking down these steps, and a woman as walking down thrones opposite me. I tried to work out what she was wearing. A t shirt and skirt with sort of pink things on the waistband. As l got closer, the ‘pink things’ turned out to be nipples hanging down past the hem of her t shirt. No bra obviously.

I don’t think she realised

thecalmorchid · 30/11/2019 11:41

My neighbourhood cleans the wheels of his Mercedes with a toothbrush. I had to do a double take.

nellyitsmeagain · 30/11/2019 12:24

We were sat in the car at a local beauty spot watching the birds on a seed feeder and I looked over at a car near to us to see that a couple were DTD in it, I turned away saying to my DH oh perhaps they don't realise we're sitting in the car. Then I found out it was the local dogging place and they did want to be seen - the one where a well known footballer was seen (initials SC)

joyfullittlehippo · 30/11/2019 16:11

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Peanutbutteryogurt · 30/11/2019 16:16

Guy I lived with in first year of uni only ate oven food and would cook it to exact packet instructions using the oven timer, but also sit and watch it cook for the entire time. He'd never take it out early, he'd sit and watch it burn until the timer went off.

MissConductUS · 30/11/2019 19:01

I looked over at a car near to us to see that a couple were DTD in it, I turned away saying to my DH oh perhaps they don't realise we're sitting in the car. Then I found out it was the local dogging place and they did want to be seen

I had to ask Mr Google about "dogging" when I first got here. It's not a thing in the US. What a quaint and interesting aspect of British culture. Grin

AdoptedBumpkin · 30/11/2019 19:49

That's one way of putting it Grin

nellyitsmeagain · 30/11/2019 20:26

@MissConductUS There's a v funny Peter Kaye sketch in Carshare around dogging and people's misunderstanding of what it is.

NewElthamMum13 · 30/11/2019 20:45

@sashh
I meant one of those nativity scenes people have as a decoration at Xmas, I seem to remember the Spanish one has Mary, Joseph, Jesus and a man shitting in the corner.

It's a Catalan tradition - kids have to find the pooing man in every nativity scene!

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 30/11/2019 20:48

It's a Catalan tradition - kids have to find the pooing man in every nativity scene!

That explains this figure of Freddie Mercury!!!!

bringbacksideburns · 30/11/2019 20:51

I have a new work colleague who eats whole peppers like an apple.

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