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Strangest thing you've seen someone do in public?

222 replies

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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FictionalCharacter · 21/08/2021 12:34

@Emanchego Without tyres, not without wheels

BingoBhango · 21/08/2021 12:39

@Deathraystare I have no idea as I never spoke to her. She used to tour the islands every summer but no one knew where she was from.

meadowbleu · 21/08/2021 13:09

New York City, so a bit like Shoreditch not really sure what passes for strange.

Man in full morning dress and top hat walking his dog on a lead. Dog was a grey poodle. Dog was dressed in a white tutu, veil and corsage on her collar, full bridal attire infact.

It made for a double take, he was really quite tall and they made a striking pair Grin

Disrespected · 21/08/2021 13:17

Where I used to work a couple used to come in with lots of teddies in a pushchair and change the teddies nappies, in the entrance, on furniture you name it. Anywhere they felt like the Teddy needed changing.

joystir59 · 21/08/2021 13:21

Commuting to Waterloo station on the train, young woman opposite wearing very smart short skirt suit, sat rubbing cream into her bare legs from ankle to thigh!

Nosilayak · 21/08/2021 13:28

A man walking an Ostritch on a lead, it's his pet apparently. Even stranger, an elderly man walking his elderly wife on a lead through TESCO car park. She wore a dog collar around her neck with the lead attached. I was only young, sat waiting in the car for my mum to finish her shopping and I think she thought I must have been imagining things when I told her.

Patapouf · 21/08/2021 13:46

Pushing a hen around in a baby buggy.

Audit · 21/08/2021 13:50

A builder after work in a pub squatting on a fruit machine while defecating.

billycat321 · 21/08/2021 13:51

I remember a lady who would ride aroundCcheltenham on a sit up and beg bicycle with a parrot on her shoulder
And I once saw a man cycling along the main road steering with one hand and using the other hand to keep in place a grandfather clock on his shoulder

kodaknodats · 21/08/2021 13:54

@joystir59

Commuting to Waterloo station on the train, young woman opposite wearing very smart short skirt suit, sat rubbing cream into her bare legs from ankle to thigh!

I've done this before if the trains quiet Blush

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NiceTwin · 21/08/2021 13:54

A man having a crap on my driveway a couple of months back.

A boxer dog, sat in the front passenger seat, wearing sunglasses Grin

Thoughtcontagion · 21/08/2021 14:00

Was sitting in my local pub garden and you can see the road a guy casually comes past on a penny farthing

CurbsideProphet · 21/08/2021 14:08

A man walking barefoot through South East London. Not overly strange I suppose, but all I could think about were the risks of standing on glass / dog shit / drug paraphernalia / the general crap that accumulates on city pavements.

Sparklingbrook · 21/08/2021 14:13

Not as gross as some of these but I used to work in a bank a couple of doors down from a fish and chip shop.
Family of four arrived into the bank with fish and chips and sat at the table in the banking hall and ate their tea. Complete with bottle of vinegar.

Rubyupbeat · 21/08/2021 14:19

A lady pooping in our work car park, my manager told her to leave and this lady got her boob out and squirted breastmilk in my managers face...reported to police and was told this was not unusual from this group of people. She was a really good shot Hmm

ItsNotNormalLove · 21/08/2021 14:50

A man pacing up and down the street in Kentish Town pushing two long pieces of wood with wheels on the end, in front of him. Almost as if they were extensions of his arms. He was ranting and raving absolute gobbledegook.

A man walking down the street with a cat on his shoulder.

A woman going into a kebab shop in her pyjamas, slippers and dressing gown.

Another woman filling her car at a petrol station in fluffy massive slippers and pyjamas.

Wrongsideofhistorymyarse · 21/08/2021 14:55

A man having a dinner date with his teddy bear.

Soubriquet · 21/08/2021 14:56

Woman got on the bus with a dog pram.

Opened it up for what I assumed was a dog to have a nosy. Nope, was two ducks Grin

Cocolapew · 21/08/2021 14:58

Someone having a shit in the aisle in Tesco.

NoEffingWay · 21/08/2021 15:01

Man waling down the street walking his dog, with a parrot perched on the dog on a specially made perch which was attached to the dogs middle.

dontputitinyourmouth · 21/08/2021 15:05

Years ago I was in Manchester City centre with my mum, we had stopped to sit for a minute on the benches on Market st, this guys come out of the Tesco express and sits next to us and proceeds to get a trifle out of his bag and start eating it with his hands, properly shovelling it in, it was going everywhere! We genuinely thought that it was some kind of hidden camera stunt, we got the giggles so bad but no one jumped out to tell us we’d been pranked

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 21/08/2021 15:06

I used to live on the route of one of those open roof tourist buses. We used to do odd things on purpose to confuse the tourists, as getting filmed and photographed doing normal stuff gets annoying quickly.

Some friends used to dress up as a bus and run up and down the road.... the costume fitted 8 people. It was made of cardboard and wood.

NeonJellyBaby · 21/08/2021 15:12

A neighbour who lived near us when I was little used to to do cartwheels in the middle of the road wearing a long skirt but with no knickers underneath, meaning everyone in the vicinity could see her arse and fanjo. She also used to go the local shop to buy birthday cards, then rip them up and chuck them all over the road. She also used to throw money everywhere.

hellcatspangle · 21/08/2021 15:13

Saw a bloke stood on a bus wearing those silky running shorts - but he had deliberately tucked the one side up into his pants to flash one buttock (I know it's deliberate because he gets spotted doing it all the time, it's clearly some sort of fetish)

Mmmmdanone · 21/08/2021 15:14

A woman doing a shit in a phone box. Arse pressed up against the perspex side 🤮