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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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managedmis · 27/11/2019 14:23

Saw a tramp walk past, eating a raw pork chop. Gross.

Seen folk on the train clipping their nails.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 27/11/2019 14:23

My neighbour uses a spirit level when he cuts his hedge

Bouledeneige · 27/11/2019 14:24

I saw a large black woman in her fifties standing completely naked at a bus stop near Leicester Square at 9pm. I went to find a policeman because I was worried she was vulnerable.

I witnessed an armed robbery in Nottingham.

ArthurMorgan · 27/11/2019 14:24

I was driving a few weeks ago and was stopped waiting behind a queue of cars, to the right of me I saw a smartly dressed woman (you know, hair and make up fully done, smart two piece suit etc) waiting, I was about to let her know she was OK to cross when she reached deep into her trousers and had a good old rummage in there... I'm guessing that she was sorting out what I can only assume was a frontbum wedgie... Hmm

youcanonlydraftthefuture · 27/11/2019 14:24

Lemon I chew flannels/face clothes. Very tempted by freshly washed towels but don't (unless I'm in a hotel and might treat myself). I think it's a really common form of PICA

putas and Mama are definitely my type of people

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Witchofzog · 27/11/2019 14:24

@youcanonlydraftthefuture me too. My car deserves a garage too. I also say goodnight to it out of the window. Ds is about to disown me for this Grin

youcanonlydraftthefuture · 27/11/2019 14:26

Witch You must have a lot of empathy, I'm sure I've read this sort of behaviour indicates that!

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JemIsMyNameNooneElseIsTheSame · 27/11/2019 14:28

A man taking a crap in a public park in Vietnam.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 27/11/2019 14:30

A dinosaur and superman buying cigerettes in the local shop.
A tank with L plates driving through town.
Turning a corner to find a tank coming the other way (bit of a surprise that one, DH still laughs at my expression)

sam221 · 27/11/2019 14:33

I was once at a performance of something and there was group nearby to me. There was a girl in her early 20s in that group, with her own security detail of about 3 bodyguards. One of the guards went off to buy drinks and came back with a canned drink.
The girl upon receiving her, asked one of the other members in group how to open the 'can'.
It was utterly bizarre to me, to watch someone being explained the process of opening a can!
It also made me a little sad to think how sheltered in privilege, this girls life was,that she had never opened a canned drink!

Shoxfordian · 27/11/2019 14:34

I was in H&M and saw a woman using the lipstick testers directly onto her mouth. Ugh

ClientListQueen · 27/11/2019 14:35

Two elderly women dressed in sumo suits, linking arms and carrying their handbags, walking down the road

A man running down the road in nothing but a pair of trainers and a reindeer thong

My neighbour irons on the driveway in summer, ironing board set up out there

A man walking an emu

Passthecherrycoke · 27/11/2019 14:37

Pull down their pants and take a huge shit on the middle of the train platform (northern line)

ladybee28 · 27/11/2019 14:43

Gosh, there's a lot of public pooping on this thread!

I used to work in mental health, substance misuse and homelessness so I've seen my fair share of strange things (think along the lines of coming back from the loo at work to find a man in his 50s singing Travis songs, very gently, to a large kitchen knife that he'd placed inside in a microwave on my office desk), but I suppose given the context, they're less strange!

On the other hand, my DP thinks the frying pan should be kept inside the oven. THAT is beyond all comprehension to me.

Passthecherrycoke · 27/11/2019 14:46

Ok but ironing on the drive and keeping the frying pan in the oven are just really good ideas

Singing to the knife Shock

Heartofglass12345 · 27/11/2019 14:46

I saw a pigeon pop once when I was in Tenby and it got ran over by a van. It popped and made a popping noise and everything. It was gross Sad

Devereux1 · 27/11/2019 14:48

A Liberal Democrat flyer/imitation-designed newspaper which came through my door which didn't even mention Brexit.

Adults getting up for children on public transport.

Some of those 50-attempt parking videos.

Confused
ILikePaperHats · 27/11/2019 14:54

A woman going in a men's changing room at a school swimming pool to wait there on her own while her son is having his lesson, then getting offended that she saw a man's naked arse (see other thread, it's a diamond) 😂

Winterdaysarehere · 27/11/2019 14:58

Maybe someone will post about me and dh
...
Coming out of a changing room in New Look, hair all on end, face all flustered. Dh looking pleased with himself...

He had managed to release me d
from a size 10 dress I was stuck in..
Brain /ego refused to select a size 12..
Grin

User0987613 · 27/11/2019 15:07

At a breakfast buffet once and saw a man (50ish, relatively normal looking but dining alone) inspecting hard boiled eggs. He would pick one up, look at it, then put it down. Then he placed an entire egg into his mouth with the shell on, chewed, and swallowed it all.

Still have no idea what that was about! I even checked online to see if eating eggs with shells is a "thing", maybe obscure diet or something. Would be really grateful if someone had an answer here!

AdoptedBumpkin · 27/11/2019 15:08

I have seen public peeing a couple of times. One was a respectable looking old man in a country park.

puds11 · 27/11/2019 15:08

Man stripped naked and rubbed his junk on my works windowHmm

Woman walking a ferret.

A woman buying 3 pineapples. Wtf was she making??

mintyroller · 27/11/2019 15:09

Saw a guy walking backwards along the street with a lot of toilet paper wrapped around his head.

AdoptedBumpkin · 27/11/2019 15:10

I also saw a posh bloke eat a hot pizza without sweating at all. Think it was at Pizza Express in Woking.

Timeforatincture · 27/11/2019 15:14

I walk through a park on my way to work. A few times now I have seen a bloke in his 60s at a guess, walking backwards very briskly.

Is this a thing?

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