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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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Devereux1 · 27/11/2019 15:16

Walking backwards - it is apparently a good exercise, it works your leg and bum muscles harder/differently than walking forwards.

I'm a bit Blush that I know that TBH.

Tighnabruaich · 27/11/2019 15:17

I didn't see this, but saw my husband's reaction when he saw it.
We were in a holiday apartment on Mallorca. Each apartment had a balcony separated from 'next door' by a wall just below 6'. On our first day I was putting my stuff away and he was out taking in the view.

He came back in, ashen-faced, whispering hoarsely 'Her minge! I've just seen her minge?'

I couldn't figure out what he meant and came out to the balcony. Of course 5' 2" me couldn't see over the wall, but he could.

On the balcony next door a woman was lying on her back sunbathing nude. No big deal. But - she had her knees up and 'flopped' to the sides, exposing everything. Poor old husband had turned round to see the view from the other direction, and was faced with the sunbathing lady's nether regions.

But we were on the ground floor, and folk walked along the path in front of our apartments to get to the pool - one sideways glance would have seen her.

I often wondered why she wanted a tan on that particular area.

I'll never forget his face though.

prampushingdownthehighst · 27/11/2019 15:22

As the estate agent walked up our path, they had a good old scratch down the front of their trousers, witnessed from.our kitchen window.
I feigned a coughing fit as they held out their hand when I answered the door!

Parsley65 · 27/11/2019 15:37

On holiday many years ago I saw young Asian student helping himself to breakfast buffet in a budget hotel.

He put in cereal, milk and a hard boiled egg (minus the shell - obviously) 🙄

He then sat down at the table opposite me and ate the lot, with a perfectly straight face.

I've never forgotten it.

amusedbush · 27/11/2019 15:50

My mum's neighbour used to hoover her dog. She was fucking crackers very houseproud and couldn't stand the shedding so she'd give him a once over with the dustbuster every morning.

SamBeckett · 27/11/2019 16:00

@puds11

That may of been me you saw walking me ferrets .

SamBeckett · 27/11/2019 16:06

@amusedbush
I had a very hairy x alsatian , i vac'd her every now and then she loved it. Smile

Venger · 27/11/2019 16:07

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

You witnessed a sweatless miracle...

Woman walking a ferret.

That's a fairly common sight where I live, there seem to be quite a few people keep them as pets.

putastrawunderbaby · 27/11/2019 16:11

Someone near me walks a goat

amusedbush · 27/11/2019 16:13

@SamBeckett

At least she was a she so less chance of a mishap... the neighbour once traumatised her dog by hoovering his winkle Blush

LEBW · 27/11/2019 16:14

Sankeys in Manchester a good few years ago at a rave. Saw a girl who was clearly off her rocker shit herself (she was in a very short skirt, and I also assume no knickers) and her male friend/boyfriend just took his t-shirt off and wiped her clean, middle of the dancefloor.

Haunted me for years, glad to share some of the burden on mumsnet.

viccat · 27/11/2019 16:18

I saw a guy eating a kiwi fruit with the hairy skin still on, on the tube.

Sockwomble · 27/11/2019 16:18

I've seen women having a pee in the middle of the pavement whilst on an evening out, several times. Just carrying on chatting to their mates whilst they doing it and not even that late in the evening. Grim.

Aquamarine1029 · 27/11/2019 16:18

Many years ago when I was single and walked to work, I would, nearly every day, pass the same woman walking in opposite direction who was brushing her teeth as she went. I never saw her when she wasn't brushing her teeth. It was so weird.

Sockwomble · 27/11/2019 16:23

I have seen a donkey trotting down the street followed a minute later by a group of men in a car shouting have you seen a donkey and which way did it go.

RipleysCat · 27/11/2019 16:24

A woman who lives a few streets up ‘walks’ her dog, but in a full on carriage type buggy. Apparently the dog likes fresh air but doesn’t like to walk outside Confused. Also, the dog will only eat food from her hand.
Not me, but a friend. When she was on a gap year, she went to China, and was regularly confronted with men masturbating in full view on busy streets. With no one other than her taking a blind bit of notice.

MamaWeasel · 27/11/2019 16:24

I have been known to walk my ferrets too Smile

LEBW · 27/11/2019 16:26

Also once driving along and saw a man dressed as a bumblebee being pushed down the road in a wheelbarrow by a man dressed as Jesus. DH swears I was hallucinating but I know I saw it.

mm40 · 27/11/2019 16:26

Some (pissed up) traveller who pulled his trousers down and was about to shit on the ankles of my sleeping gf in Manchester airport - I shouted at him and she woke up to cop an eyeful of his arse cock and balls..... he then wandered/wobbled off and shat on the floor in Greggs and a group of pissed up boys went to have a group photo with him as the centrepiece. Our boys 9 and 11 thought it was quite humorous.... There are bound to be more but that one sticks in our mind!

Dementedmagpie · 27/11/2019 16:27

I saw a grown woman crouch down and do a wee in a children's playground. Admittedly there wasn't any toilets in that park but there was plenty of trees around (away from the play area) for a bit of privacy.

supercalifragilistic123 · 27/11/2019 16:28

Aquamarine1029 oh god I used to do this. I was always running late and risking missing my train Blush

Dementedmagpie · 27/11/2019 16:29

I also saw a lady out with a pram (at a local market) and in the pram were vegetables (like turnips etc) with babies bonnets on! That was quite strange

AdoptedBumpkin · 27/11/2019 16:30

Also once driving along and saw a man dressed as a bumblebee being pushed down the road in a wheelbarrow by a man dressed as Jesus. DH swears I was hallucinating but I know I saw it.

Fancy dress? Confused

TiddlerontheRoof · 27/11/2019 16:33

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DontCallMeShitley · 27/11/2019 16:38

A man wearing a ferret round his neck at the garden centre. Only noticed because of the ferret smell, or maybe the man smelling of ferret.

Saw the man with the horse's head crossing the road, or a copycat of him, when it was in the news a while back. 'Man with horses head on Google maps' started a trend.

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