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Strangest thing you've seen someone do in public?

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kodaknodats · 21/08/2021 11:30

Weeing doesn't count! Grin Far too common.

I just came out of Asda and walked by a car with a woman chucking back scoops of Cow and Gate powder!

I thought in my head that can't be right, maybe she's suspicious parenting and testing to see if it's okay.

Saw her doing the same again when I drove off. Just taking scoops and eating them!

What's the strangest thing you've seen someone do in public?

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ComDummings · 21/08/2021 11:30

Wanking 🤮

ComDummings · 21/08/2021 11:31

Not strange though just strange to be doing in public

kodaknodats · 21/08/2021 11:31

@ComDummings

Wanking 🤮

Hmm, think I've seen a discrete wank here or there a few times on the underground Shock

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CirqueDeMorgue · 21/08/2021 11:33

Just place marking in case I'm featured.

I saw someone walking their cat on a lead a few weeks ago. 🤷‍♀️

Galassia · 21/08/2021 11:34

A woman with a taxidermy dog in a dog carrier as if he/she was alive.

dannydyerismydad · 21/08/2021 11:44

Woman in Tokyo pushing a pram. I peeped into the pram expecting to see a cute baby.

Instead I saw a small fluffy dog wearing a baby's bonnet.

SimonJT · 21/08/2021 11:47

I live in Shoreditch, so weird stuff is a daily thing.

When I was a kid (nottinghamshire) there was a woman who used to paint herself black, wear a large white bucket on her head and ride around on a bike without any tyres.

SomeKindOfFloppyWeirdo · 21/08/2021 11:57

I’m sure I’ve posted this before but absolutely nobody else commented that it was weird so it may just be me Grin I was abroad in an Aldi-style supermarket where you pack your bags at counters at the back, after paying.

While I was paying, I saw a woman at the counter rip open a pack of beef mince and, with her bare hands, pick up handfuls of mince and transfer them into various small plastic bags, She then wandered off, leaving the empty mince packet on the counter.

Perfectly normal to do at home, but with mucky shopping hands? Then pushing the trolley out with mince blood and goop on your hands is a bit Envy

I mean, I’ve seen weirder things, but that one just sticks with me.

ichundich · 21/08/2021 12:02

A woman pushing around an empty, old-fashioned pram. I saw her several times, so don't think she was on her way to pick someone / something up.

BingoBhango · 21/08/2021 12:03

A man walking his enormous python around the town centre.

An elderly man that gets dressed up as a pirate and waves to children every day.

A man that preaches about Jesus in my town centre. Not so unusual, but he has huge tattooed friend that stands immediately in front facing him with his arms crossed and gives him the stare down. I thought he was intimidating him at first, but they actually work together.

The absolute strangest was a woman in Greece who would cover herself in white paint and wear a long white dress. She would hold a small doll wrapped in blankets like a baby and do a weird sort of interpretive dance on the beach in front of the tourists. For the finale, she would fling the 'baby' into the sea and kneel on the ground sobbing. I often wonder about her and what she had been through Sad

Councilworker · 21/08/2021 12:03

On the train commute home there was a man from my village picking his ears with tweezers. Every day.
If I saw him on the platform I'd make sure I was far away so we weren't in the same carriage

TossieFleacake · 21/08/2021 12:06

When DD was younger, we parked up outside a soft play place which had a bingo hall next door.
As I was getting baby ds out of the car, an elderly man in a motorised wheelchair came out of the bingo, stopped right next to our car and dd, and proceeded to unhook his bag of wee (sorry, can't think of the technical term!) and empty it into the grid RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE MY DAUGHTER WAS STANDING!!!
I was too shocked to say anything... surely there is a more private place to empty a bag full of smelly wee, rather then next to a young family in a busy car park.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 21/08/2021 12:06

We used to live near a man who had x country skis with wheels on. You'd see him wearing lycra, snow goggles, and speeding along the B roads at a fantastic speed early in the morning.

He always looked like he was having a blast!

cheesepizza22 · 21/08/2021 12:07

I was asked if I was 'mentally ok' when walking my ferret on a lead down the road 🤷‍♀️😂

FionnulaTheCooler · 21/08/2021 12:08

There's a man in my home town who keeps exotic birds, he often walks around town with either a parrot or an owl perched on his shoulder.

Thorinfling · 21/08/2021 12:11

On the bus to work in the morning. Saw a woman chatting to a guy. Something looked out of place, then I realised she was totally naked apart from her shoes and handbag.

Someone in New York was walking past me and just stopped and did a roly poly then carried on walking. No one batted an eyelid.

Mollymalone123 · 21/08/2021 12:12

A man riding a bike with a parrot on his shoulder
My friend once followed a white peacock through a housing estate- she said no one would believe her until a man drove past,wound his window down and said ‘have I just seen a white peacock?😂

userxx · 21/08/2021 12:13

@SimonJT

I live in Shoreditch, so weird stuff is a daily thing.

When I was a kid (nottinghamshire) there was a woman who used to paint herself black, wear a large white bucket on her head and ride around on a bike without any tyres.

Winner.

Emanchego · 21/08/2021 12:14

How did the bike without wheels work?

MintyGreenDream · 21/08/2021 12:18

I wonder if the cow n gate lady was pregnant and craving it

Deathraystare · 21/08/2021 12:19

Talking of the lady who painted herself with white paint - Greek lady?

Where I used to live near Camberwell and I used to see a black girl on the bus sometimes. White flour/powder in her hair, white make up and a white sheet or something over her. She used to get angry looks from her fellow black passengers but luckily I don't think anything ever came of it.

ThanksIGotItInMorrisons · 21/08/2021 12:24

Saw a woman stop dead in a busy town shopping centre, just outside the entrance doors. Stopped and pulled down her jeans and pants and proceeded to defecate all over the wall. Crouched there with her arse in the air spraying all over the wall. Was called out by several people , myself included - there’s public toilets all over the place!!! Think quite a few people were so shocked they weren’t sure if they just saw what they thought they say. 🤮 🤢

Mybestusername · 21/08/2021 12:27

A woman driver stopped at traffic lights, playing a penny whistle

Brollypackedforscottishholiday · 21/08/2021 12:31

A woman wearing a tartan dress in a wheelchair sporting a huge ginger beard...

SnoopyLights · 21/08/2021 12:34

It's possible I might be on this thread as the weird person.

I have walked a guinea pig on a lead in public. She was an indoor guinea pig and we didn't have a lawn but lived across from a park so I'd carry her over in her harness and let her walk on the grass for a bit on the lead.

I've also pushed two indoor cats around the streets in a cat pram.

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