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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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FrangipaniBlue · 27/11/2019 20:20

I hoover my dog and keep my frying pan in the oven and also walk my tortoise on his own special lead up and down our street Confused

I have a neighbour who cuts her grass with scissors and hangs her socks out using a 1:1 sock:peg ratio.

Once saw a woman walking through the middle of Leeds with a laundry basket on her head like an upturned boat and a bag of shopping in each hand.

Patroclus · 27/11/2019 20:23

ha how in the name of the lord is that outing?

JustOneLastThing · 27/11/2019 20:24

@Patroclus they are infamous in my very boring town

FrangipaniBlue · 27/11/2019 20:26

@GlamGiraffe

If it wasn't for the 5.30am part this could be my DH - he cleans his wheels with a toothbrush and paints his tyres Confused

dawnc27 · 27/11/2019 20:27

@JustOneLastThing was it a staffy by any chance? as i saw the same thing walking round carboots at skeggy...

limpingparrot · 27/11/2019 20:31

Listening nicely in a group at a National Trust property tour, older American gentleman in a tourist shop kilt, legs akimbo... it was a chilly blustery sort of day and being first thing in the morning somehow made it worse. Plus he asked loads of stupid questions.

Bezalelle · 27/11/2019 20:34

In a branch of Starbucks in Shanghai, I saw a woman take a clear plastic bag full of cat litter out of her pocket, hold it up in front of her toddler son, and allowed him to piss into it. She then tied up the bag and left it on the table.

user78912 · 27/11/2019 20:35

I once saw a woman walking through the town centre wearing giant clown shoes. Dressed completely normally otherwise.

Booksandwine80 · 27/11/2019 20:37

@FrangipaniBlue
As in one peg to one sock? How are you supposed to peg out socks? Blush

MidnightCircus · 27/11/2019 20:38

A Morris dancing convention. Just a sea of colours and bells.

A muntjac deer running through town at 2am being chased by a man on a go-cart.

The man who decided to go for a piss right in the middle of in the (very public) car park at my work in broad daylight and shouted at a man in a van who beeped at him to move.

A man who bought a gutter pipe and hopper to go under the bath. That still astounds me.

JustOneLastThing · 27/11/2019 20:39

@dawnc27 yes! They must've been on a day trip to skegvegas

WhoisitnowRalph · 27/11/2019 20:53

A man walking down Great Portland Street carrying a whole, unwrapped salmon in his arms like a baby.

In the dead of night, driving through dark countryside, a pig standing in the middle of the road.

FrangipaniBlue · 27/11/2019 20:54

As in one peg to one sock? How are you supposed to peg out socks?

@Booksandwine80

I do 1 peg to a pair of socks - oh god am I the oddball??!! Lol

Dylanpickle · 27/11/2019 20:58

I work on quite an old historical industrial estate which was one big factory, at the centre of this is a crown green bowling lawn, which has a really active club.

One day they were playing a game and a member of the away team had bought her red amazon parrot with her to watch. It perched on a bench the whole time. The security guard told me that it had it's own perch on the front seat of the car.

There is also a man locally who rides a mobility scooter with 5 little dogs as passengers, 3 in the basket, 1 on his knee and 1 in the foot well bit.

Shockers · 27/11/2019 21:00

There are a lot of public pooers, aren’t there? I saw a lady squat down by a tree outside the bank and poo once. It terrifies me that one day I might lose my mind to that extent Sad.

Someone once opened our back door at 1am because he thought there was a party going on (very dark house- everyone in bed). He was completely pissed and had already totalled a small conifer as he fell over the fence. Our dog had him pinned to the wall in the dining room until we came down.

Last seen being marched down the garden path by semi naked DH, with the dog still dancing round him.

Booksandwine80 · 27/11/2019 21:01

@FrangipaniBlue

I have no idea, this has really made me laugh though Grin

JorisBonson · 27/11/2019 21:17

A woman plucking her chin hairs on the tube 🤢

I have a different dance I perform to each of my 3 cats

FrangipaniBlue · 27/11/2019 21:18

@Booksandwine80 It's usually the whole washing line end to end in identical white socks, each with its own old fashioned wooden dolly peg Grin

JorisBonson · 27/11/2019 21:19

And a man who used to walk down Camden high street with a cardboard box on his head in the shape of a spaceship going "beep boop beep"

AdoptedBumpkin · 27/11/2019 21:19

@Shockers - that is indeed shocking. Grin

AdoptedBumpkin · 27/11/2019 21:22

Listening nicely in a group at a National Trust property tour, older American gentleman in a tourist shop kilt, legs akimbo

In my former hometown, there was an older man who would cycle around in a kilt, and sometimes it would blow up. Not even in Scotland either.

DamnitCharlie · 27/11/2019 21:26

Oh God, my mum uses a whole can of polish to polish the stairs, skirting boards and floors making them so slippery she's fallen over. She's cleans the toilet every time someone used it.

I used to see a woman collecting carrier bags of grass outside my flat.

A friend's girlfriend I met constantly used a chapstick non her nose and nostrils, I suppose she had dry skin but she just kept doing it in front of everyone and I thought what if she uses it on her lips as well? Eurgh.

MrsPinkCock · 27/11/2019 21:30

Witnessed a woman, at 8AM, trying to feed her can of beer to a pigeon and then trying to fight said pigeon when it wouldn’t accept her offer.

Called the police as she was clearly mentally unwell and she was carted away soon after Grin

fruitypancake · 27/11/2019 21:41

I once saw a woman eating a packet of crisps on the bus.. when she had finished she took out her false teeth and licked them all over before putting them back in again Grin

QforCucumber · 27/11/2019 21:43

@Parsley65 bizarrely that's completely normal! I used to work in a hotel and we had a group of chinese business men who would stay quite regularly as their firm owned something locally, for breakfast they'd each have a bowl of cereal or fruit topped with a fried egg!

Theres also an old man in our local town who goes shopping most days on a mobility scooter with 6 live owls. They perch on his shoulders and handles and dont fly off, people can stroke them.

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