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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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SamVimes6 · 21/08/2021 17:02

I saw a ‘lady’ at kings cross station. She had a kettle as a handbag. Not a handbag shaped like a kettle to be quirky, but a stained, stove top, whistling kettle type of kettle. Iykwim.

OneFootintheRave · 21/08/2021 17:13

@Audit

A builder after work in a pub squatting on a fruit machine while defecating.
Can you elaborate on this @Audit. I mean it sounds like he had a job if he was a builder so did it look like some kind of MH episode? How can you even get on top of a fruit machine?
KatherineJaneway · 21/08/2021 17:16

Sorry have to go against the weeing thing. Woman pulled down her knickers and pissed in front of hundreds of people outside Wembley Arena at a Whitney Houston gig. Toilets were working inside 🤮

BearSoFair · 21/08/2021 17:18

Guy on the tube maybe 10 years ago, pulled a pot of yoghurt out of his coat pocket, opened it and lapped it up like a cat Grin He was very neat with it too, so I guess he did it a lot!

littlemissblue · 21/08/2021 17:21

My husband walked into Morrison's toilets and caught the chef from the cafe wanking into a urinal...my dh went into a cubical as didnt know what else to do and heard the door go...don't think he washed his hands...Confused

Audit · 21/08/2021 17:22

I was faced to the bar talking at the time. I then noticed the shocked landlady's face and turned around and by then he was on top of the machine. I guess it was only about 5 or 6 foot high and he had probably accessed it by standing on the adjacent table. I am sure it was alcohol related mainly. The landlady's husband was equally shocked and there was a hushed silence around the pub as everyone gradually realised what was unfolding and stood or sat holding their drinks with jaws on the floor! This was in the days before mobile phones and someone kindly handed over their copy of the Evening Standard so the husband could remove the turd. The builder doing the turding was not alone. He had a colleague who was equally pissed. I recall him mumbling that the machine had not paid out so it was 'shit' and they were punishing it, or something to that effect.

TheRebelle · 21/08/2021 17:22

Riding a bike in the nude, I suppose no one would want to steal that bike!

helloyoutoo8 · 21/08/2021 17:24

A woman taking her tampon out in a busy city centre. She was pissed.

ISpyCobraKai · 21/08/2021 17:25

I was in Indonesia at the time if that explains it but I saw some guys showing a cow into a minibus.
I also had to get on a small boat to another island with just me, the boat driver and a tied up goat Confusedl

ISpyCobraKai · 21/08/2021 17:28

@Oliveandsage
My mouth has gone all dry and puckered just imagining that.

ImInStealthMode · 21/08/2021 17:29

There's a man near us takes his parrot out sat on the handles of his mobility scooter, and someone else who takes their bearded dragon to the beach.

I've also seen a man probably in his 80s, very smartly dressed in a blazer and straw boater, zipping along the seafront on a push scooter. He was incredibly cool.

EsmaCannonball · 21/08/2021 17:32

A normal-looking middle-aged woman in a very nice shop, when it came to paying she unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans, pulled them open, revealing her knickers and thighs to everyone, and produced her credit card from a pocket which was hand-sewn onto the knickers. I guess she was worried about being mugged more than she was worried about getting her knickers out everywhere.

notnownora · 21/08/2021 17:32

In a Burger King in Manchester city centre, a woman with her tights round her ankles while she "washed" her legs with the teabag from her tea.
A man walking by a main road in flippers, it was nowhere near anything watery!

ElephantCup · 21/08/2021 17:47

@CirqueDeMorgue

Just place marking in case I'm featured.

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

Ive walked my cats on leads before 😬
lemonyfox · 21/08/2021 17:49

Walking through Manchester City centre early one weekday morning. A very tall thin young man stopped me, he had this wild hair and odd dress sense. He stopped in front of me, eyes glazed over and staring at something just slightly above my head, and repeated 'erm erm erm' over and over again. Went on for about 25 seconds until I managed to unstick my feet from the floor and walk off 😧

I do often wonder if he ever managed to get out what age wanted to say! I think about him quite often and it was years ago.

Susannahmoody · 21/08/2021 17:49

Bloke eating a raw pork chop straight out of the packet

Lorw · 21/08/2021 17:52

Walking in the underground and there was a man in like a full suit, looked dapper, with a full loaf of bread tied to his trousers with a bungee cord (not with his actual belt which he had on) and the loaf of bread kind of hung where is knees are like he was taking it for a walk 😂

NoProblem123 · 21/08/2021 17:52

I was at a conference venue once in the parent & child room breastfeeding. A lady came in but a venue employee turned her away. She had baby hamsters.
Apparently the mother had died so she brought them with her to the conference and they needed feeding Confused

Sparklingbrook · 21/08/2021 17:52

In Southport people eating meat pies with teaspoons walking down the street. I saw one and thought that's a bit weird, but then saw loads more, all day.

NoProblem123 · 21/08/2021 17:55

And an Afghan Hound being walked in a full coat & trousers outfit- front & back.

WheresTheLambSauce · 21/08/2021 18:17

I once saw a car parked at Asda that was completely decked out in Halloween decorations, like a coffin on wheels. The man driving it had on a marvelously dramatic top hat and tailcoat combo, and the sheer joy on his face when he started blasting the Ghostbusters theme was enough to make me a little envious.

Goatsdorhone · 21/08/2021 18:21

@SnoopyLights

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.

I used to take my guinea pig out on my skateboard as a child Grin
WheresTheLambSauce · 21/08/2021 18:22

Adding a photo for proof Grin

Strangest thing you've seen someone do in public?
Unfashionable · 21/08/2021 18:25

I once saw a woman walking around Nottingham city centre with a
large iguana perched on her shoulder. The iggy was quite cute, to be fair, but it was still an odd thing to see.

Worried234 · 21/08/2021 18:28

A couple shagging in the street, at 3pm.

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