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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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CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 27/11/2019 21:45

They perch on his shoulders and handles and dont fly off

I thought you were going to say they perch on his shoulders and help left him off it.Grin

SpinningBob · 27/11/2019 21:46

Mild compared to some of the corkers on here....on a beach in Perth(Australia) we saw 2 teenage boys walking a small pig on a lead down to the water, then attempting to teach it how to swim, for a good half hour. We took many photos,surreptiously, to prove that we hadn't imagined it.

youcanonlydraftthefuture · 27/11/2019 21:47

my town is famous for having a lady with no trousers who wanders around doing her shopping, presumably enjoying the breeze. which is all well and good, until i was behind her in Marks’ and she bent down to look at some biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Surely she belongs in Iceland Grin

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SpinningBob · 27/11/2019 21:48

Also,less amusing, as a young teenager doing a Saturday morning shift in my local Safeway (a pp also mentioned it....showing our age I thinkGrin) a customer put a set of false teeth down on my counter and said she had just found them outside and someone might come back for them...they were very slobbery, bleurghEnvy

SkiingIsHeaven · 27/11/2019 21:48

I saw a man put a dog poo bag on his hand and then catch the poo as it came out of the dog before it hit the ground. Yuk.

Patroclus · 27/11/2019 21:52

Has anybody ever met the parrot in the golden last in scarborough?

TiceCream · 27/11/2019 21:53

DC was in the shops already and I'd be taking him back with me
To be fair OP, if he was big enough to go ahead of you into the shops on his own then you didn’t need a parent and child parking space!

SeaViewBliss · 27/11/2019 21:54

There is a story in my family that when my Dad was going to meet Mum’s parents for the first time, he was late. This is especially odd because he was in the army and a stickler for punctuality. He says that he was stuck behind an elephant that was walking up the middle of the high street. He is 83 and swears to this day it was true. The circus was in town! My Mum and my GPs have never let him live it down. Even after my GPs died, the rest of the family carried the baton for them and we still bring it up from time to time!

Millymollymandybestie · 27/11/2019 21:56

I saw a man take a shit outside a bookshop in Victoria station.

gypsywater · 27/11/2019 21:59

I sat opposite a man at the back of a bus who spent 20 mins peeling long and chunky strands/pieces of skin from his palms and flicked them in front of him! The floor was covered in skin pieces!

suitepea · 27/11/2019 21:59

Man at Morrison's cafe, eating a huge plate of chips with a knife and fork, while wearing a pair of yellow marigolds. See him most Saturday mornings

Calmingvibrations · 27/11/2019 22:00

I saw a family have a picnic on the middle of a grass roundabout, which was in the middle of some fairly major, busy roads. Nothing else around - no buildings, shops, nothing.

AnneTwackie · 27/11/2019 22:05

My mother in law put dog food on my baby’s hand and got the dog to lick it off so the dog would accept him into the pack. She’s fucking batshit.

Winterdaysarehere · 27/11/2019 22:06

Anyone remember the thread about a neighbour who dried black bags on the washing line?
If you are an mner please explain!!...

MuchTooTired · 27/11/2019 22:10

I talk to my car too. My last car I promised to wash her and get her serviced if she’d just pass the mot for me. My current car I thank for getting us home safely, pat the steering wheel and apologise if I do something stupid.

I’ve seen someone take their cat for a walk, and a woman pushing a vintage silver cross pram around with a doll tucked up inside it. Have also seen a woman squat outside the pub and have a wee by the front door of the pub so she could finish her smoke rather than wait to go inside. That was gross!

howu2 · 27/11/2019 22:12

@Dementedmagpie I've just woken my husband up crying laughing at the vegetables with the bonnets on. I was crying laughing. What the hell was that about?

onedayallthiswillbeyours · 27/11/2019 22:14

On the ferry from Santander back to Portsmouth. I was watching from a side window as the port receded into the distance and we began to head out into open water. Suddenly a small boat drew up alongside our massive ferry, a door in the side of the ferry (below and to the left of my window) opened and a middle aged man with a white beard (the image of Captain Birdseye Grin) stepped carefully out of the ferry and into the small boat, which then sped off with him back towards Santander. I swear this actually happened but unfortunately none of the rest of my family witnessed it and sometimes I start to doubt myself when I think about it too much!!

My neighbour came down to her lounge one morning and found a complete stranger asleep on her sofa. He had got very drunk and lost the night before (we live rurally) and struck lucky finding the back door unlocked and decided to just bed down for the night Shock

ArthurMorgan · 27/11/2019 22:15

Winterdaysarehere yes! Did anyone ever figure out what that was all about?!

MrsFezziwig · 27/11/2019 22:16

When we were kids my mum used to hoover our heads as a joke (with the vacuum tube, not with the sweeper, and obviously this predates the invention of the Dyson). It’s a really nice feeling, probably very similar to those head massagers, and we used to think it was hilarious. I just assumed everyone did it and many years later with a group of people from work we were discussing something and I said something along the lines of “you know, it’s like when your mum hoovers your head”.

Apparently it’s not as common as I thought. Blush

Redyellowpink · 27/11/2019 22:17

Who has time to clean their bathroom EVERYDAY?! What the actual

hazeydays14 · 27/11/2019 22:19

Used to live in Bristol and there was a man on a mobility scooter with not one, but three actual live chickens on it. Used to see him all the time taking the bus to and from work.

siddo · 27/11/2019 22:20

Can't believe I'm admitting this but I hoover my drive, patio and fake grass weekly. The neighbours like to take the piss but I'm not messing about with any yard brush.
Takes 20 mins and the My Henry is as hard as nails.

ArthurMorgan · 27/11/2019 22:21

onedayallthiswillbeyours this happened to dp before we got together, his dad came round to take him to work, dp shouted down that he'd be a minute to get ready and could hear his dad talking to someone so assumed he was on the phone. He came down to face a 6'7 polish dude that was asleep on the sofa and his dad trying to explain he was in the wrong house! Grin god knows how long he was there for!

missmouse101 · 27/11/2019 22:25

I went to the Tate gallery this week and there was a guy sitting and drawing with what looked like a pillowcase over his head and ski goggles on?????

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 27/11/2019 22:27

I went to the Tate gallery this week and there was a guy sitting and drawing with what looked like a pillowcase over his head

He was down in the mouth!

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