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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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TheGoldenNotebook · 30/11/2019 21:08

@Peony99

I'm intrigued by your glass of Rose man? I wonder if he or someone he k ew used to live in your house and this is a wee memorial thing he does.

Heaviestdirtyestsoul · 30/11/2019 21:26

I used to work at a nightclub in Scarborough, was a dodgy place- we would hold rock nights upstairs and used to get some wonderful regulars in. One such night a lady came in pvc bondage gear and had a man on a lead with similar pvc outfit- his bottoms were tiny shorts. Towards the end of the night I was asked to 'have a word' with the woman as there was some inappropriate behaviour going on. I approached the lady and realised her leashed partner was on all fours on the floor, and the lady was gently ramming her high heel (still on her foot) up this mans bottom by slipping the spiked heel inside his short shorts. I tried to look like we dealt with these things often and politely requested that she not do that in here and if she persisted we would have them escorted out- to witch she assured me that "its alright love, he's my bitch". Another time there was no male present to check the male toilets so it was up to me, noticed a glass on the floor and went to retrieve it. Upon approaching said glass in middle of wee covered floor I noticed it had something in it. It was a turd. An entire perfectly curved turd, sat at the bottom- it hadnt even smeared on the sides! I noped right out of that one!

Moll45 · 30/11/2019 21:40

I argue with the self service checkout at Tesco. You know when you scan the product and it says place the product in the bagging area and I'm there actually saying it out loud I have placed the product down but it's still not acknowledging it. Or if it doesn't read it when you're scanning it and it says put in the number and I have to find the number which has nearly 20 numbers on it all the while giving I'm giving out to it. I'm waiting for it to answer me back one day and say will you feck off you snappy b...ch

FrangipaniBlue · 30/11/2019 22:08

1 peg to 1 pair of socks @Nicklebox ?!

Or use a soctopus Smile

nellyitsmeagain · 30/11/2019 22:54

This thread is fascinating. I've remembered another one. I used to work with offenders on probation and was sent to see a man at his home in which he lived with his sister. I was told they were a bit strange but it wasn't deemed a safety issue for me. It was in a block of council flats in south London, I found their flat and knocked on the door and no answer, then I noticed a lock and a padlock on the outside of the door, and it was locked! I found out later on that when he went out he padlocked his sister in the flat from the outside.

Peony99 · 30/11/2019 22:56

@TheGoldenNotebook I'd not thought of that, intriguing.

On day I'll grow the balls to say hello to him.

ElleEfarr · 30/11/2019 22:56

I clean my whole house top to bottom every single day.. I work and have kids to juggle it round, but I can’t relax until it’s been done.

@Southmouth what does cleaning the whole house top to bottom entail? (Genuine question, I'm a slattern and looking for tips!)

auditoryhallucinations · 30/11/2019 23:01

At uni someone used to boil eggs in the kettle. Gross

carolina21 · 30/11/2019 23:05

@nellyitsmeagain

I hope you forwarded this to police ?

ConnorRipley · 30/11/2019 23:07

A while ago there was a thread in here about someone’s neighbour who regularly pegged out black bin liners to dry on her washing line. I think the OP plucked up the courage to ask about it during a chat over the garden fence one day and was given very short shrift by the neighbour.

I would love to know what all that was about.

carolina21 · 30/11/2019 23:10

@nellyitsmeagain

I find it very untrue that someone that monitors offenders would say what you just said ? And find it "funny"

daffodilbrain · 30/11/2019 23:12

The motorway was at a standstill a driver got out and wee'd then turned around took down his trousers in full
View of everyone and poo'd! No pride in himself or respect for others - he didn't even bag it up!

nellyitsmeagain · 30/11/2019 23:23

@carolina21 what makes you think I found it funny? Read the title of this thread "the strangest things"
Of course we notified the police, why would you assume?

GoKartMozart · 30/11/2019 23:55

Ooh so many...

I thought I'd seen a ghost once. A woman walking slowly down a poorly lit Street in full Victorian dress. Then DH pointed out there was a working museum down the road.

A couple locally who have a pair of raccoons and walk them on leads.

A group of cowboys outside the local Indian (the irony was not lost on me)

Went to watch a band one Night, crowd was reasonably young. Lad next to me asked if I wanted a hob nob. Concluded this was some new fangled code for drugs until he pulled out a pack of chocolate hob nobs and offered them my way. Bizarre.

Pinkarsedfly · 01/12/2019 03:00

I once saw a woman in a queue of traffic, going the other way. She had a makeup mirror wedged into her steering wheel, and was using eyelash curlers as she drove along (slowly, but still. Ffs).

I was Shock

Nicklebox · 01/12/2019 13:55

I've obviously been wasting my pegs Grin

ISawyouinTescoyesterday · 01/12/2019 15:27

Once on holiday saw someone squeezing their spots in a shop mirror. It was years ago but it's still the most disgusting/weird thing I remember.

alexafindfilms · 06/12/2019 21:52

@sashh a caganer

lalafafa · 06/12/2019 22:00

At a hotel in Amsterdam, group of Chinese people choosing the ingredients for a full English then sprinkling rice crispies on top.
A woman in Golden Square, the west end of London, taking a shit next to a bench, a bloke then wipes her arse with his hand.

lalafafa · 06/12/2019 22:05

When working in a men’s store, a bloke came out of the changing room to ask for a different size of jeans, he had no pants on and his todge was in full view.

Ivebeentohellanditscalledikea · 06/12/2019 22:21

I once saw a man on a motorbike sitting on a very sharp looking saw. The blade was facing forwards so could have been nasty if he stopped suddenly.

Talkallday · 06/12/2019 22:23

A few years ago on the bus I witnessed a man pour some coffee grounds from the jar hed pulled out of his shopping bag, into his mouth then take out a bottle of water and drink that. Literally the strangest thing.

RoseMartha · 06/12/2019 22:27

I saw two women cut their lawn with kitchen scissors.

TwirlyWitch · 06/12/2019 22:48

Several years ago our town had flooding due to days of torrential rain. A man in broad daylight was just casually riding a jet ski down the flooded high street Grin

ChinookPilotsGoVertical · 06/12/2019 23:00

I once saw a woman put a pair of tights on. She was on the platform at Baker Street tube station at the time...

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