What is the strangest thing a stranger has ever said to you?

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Took my almost 2 year old to the park this morning in between heavy rain showers so he could jump in puddles. When we arrived the park was empty, after about 10 minutes a women arrived with 3 children who began playing with my DS, all good and so she started to make small talk.

This is exactly how the conversation went.

Women - Awww he's a sweetheart what's his name.
Me - Thanks, his name is X. Your 3 are being so kind to include him in their game.
Her - Yeah they are great, it's good they have each other to play with. Is he an only?
Me - Yes.
Her - Oh that's sad... What happens if he dies?
Me - Errrrrrrrr (I was literally speechless)

Who the fuck thinks that's an acceptable thing to say to anyone let alone a random stranger in the park mere feet away from our kids.

Anyway you may not be shocked to learn we then made a hasty retreat and that comment well and truly killed the conversation.

But it got me wondering has a stranger ever said anything even more batshit to you? Or did I meet the strangest stranger ever in our local park and should I perhaps consider moving.

When I was pregnant with DS, on more than one occasion:

People: Are you having twins?
Me: No, just the one!
People: Are you sure?

Also, my uncle when I was pregnant with DD:

‘I can’t imagine you could physically get any bigger.’

I was about 5 months 😂

@Nc123

A random man on a train once said to me, “you know if you take LSD, and you eat a fish, that fish will haunt you forever.”

He was the only other person in the carriage, the train was not due to stop anywhere for another hour, and when he sat down (opposite me, instead of in any one of the many, many other available seats), he asked if a half drunk bottle of water on the table near me was mine. I said it wasn’t, and he said, “oh great,” opened it and drained it. I knew then this was not going to be a comfortable journey.

He didn’t do anything but he kept up a constant stream of conversation the whole hour. I was very glad when the train stopped.

When I’ve come across people like that I’ve pretended I was getting off and moved to another carriage.

Once I ran into the blimmin’ guy on the station when I did get off!

'Is that yours?' nodding at the football-on-a-rope dog toy I was holding as I left the beach with my Border Collie. um, yes...?

Looking at sandwich options in a supermarket one lunchtime, random man slides up to me to tell me 'you definitely look like a women who likes meat' 🙄

I have several examples!
I once crashed my motorbike (avoiding my exh who had slipped on black ice on his bike). This old bloke said to me, in my day ladies didn't sit astride horses or motorbikes! Really helpful mate, my bike is ruined and I am shaking like a leaf.
Second one I was flying and was in the window seat. The bloke sat next to me was a scientologist. He asked me if I had ever urinated on myself to help my excema. I could not wait to get off the flight!
I work in London and have had someone came up and asked me to invite them as a plus one to kate and wills wedding. Another asked me where God was, he knew I knew. Another said they were searching for St Paul's cathedral (we were stood next to it) . I pointed it out and they walked in the opposite direction.
Lastly I must have a doppelganger as many people talk to me like we are old friends but I have never met them before. They tell me their kids miss me etc.

Walking into dh grandparents house 3 months after birth,it was the first time they'd seen me or ds since I was pregnant.

Dgm.oh! You look around 3 months pregnant !
Dgf has everything gone back OK?
Fuck me.I cried my eyes out when I got out of there.

@BoredZelda

Also when I had my first baby and took him into work someone said he wasn't as monstrous as they'd expected (he was a big baby)

When I took mine in one lady said “she’s not strange looking at all” I said “eh, no she doesn’t look strange at all” She then looked embarrassed and explained it’s an Irish term for a baby who isn’t very shy or something. I think I believed her 😆

That's "make strange" as I'm "does she make strange?"

I can sometimes tag on the end if I'm feeling super bitchy 'thought you'd understand looking like that' but it upsets the men and makes em cry

My hero @singingrainbow!

A check out woman at my local supermarket had commented on the blueness of our eyes. Our being me, dd, and dgd. We are like 3 peas.
The next time I saw this woman at the checkout she told me she had BOUGHT CONTACT LENSES THE EXACT SAME COLOUR SO SHE COULD LOOK LIKE US 😱
Creepy as fuck.
As a teenager I was asked at a swimming pool if my eyes were real (errrrr) because they looked fake. I knew nothing about contact lenses 30 odd years ago, it was an odd encounter.

Some Irish lady ( Irish myself ) said to me one day when I was walking alone with my six month old baby in the pram.
Have you had him baptised yet ?
Yes.
Thank God for that cause if he dies he will go to heaven.

Some people 🙈🙈

I was shopping with my charge (12-18mths) and she was stropping because I'd strapped her in the trolley seat.

A lady comes up to us and strokes her head saying " aww don't cry baby, don't cry...it'll give you wrinkles..."
Looks at me, smiles and walks off.

I was literally speechless, I mean what do you say to that?

Two bus drivers were chatting when I got on and tapped my oyster. They were joking about something together but were polite and we exchanged pleasantries as I tapped in. As I walked away, one said to the other “what a b” and when I turned around in shock they looked away. I was a teenager and that was my first brush with misogyny. 36 year old me would have marched over and taken their details to report but 18 year old me say in silence tearfully trying to work out what had prompted that.

So many things stick out. One was an ex colleague who met my DP once and said, angrily not in a jokey way 'I just didn't think he'd look like that, I thought he'd look just like you.'
Number 1: why did she think everyone paired up with identical genetic versions of themselves like the weird centaur things in Fantasia?
Number 2: he has brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes, just like me! We've even been mistaken for siblings in the past (barf)

This is a funny one.
My friend and I were chatting away in our native language in a cafe in London. A couple (maybe 60es) next to us interrupted us to ask where are we from since they never heard our language before. We said were from and they said:” exotic - never seen your kind here before”. We are from an EU country, in Southern Europe which is a very popular travel destination. The couple looked well-travelled, and well off and we were in an organic style cafe in Chelsea.

I had quite an extreme goth look when I was younger. Now I tend to look like someone who used to be a goth. If that makes sense? There's still a goth influence to my appearance.

When I go out (looking a bit goth), I am often approached by men hitting on me and asking if I'm a primary school teacher because I look like one.

I am.

I can never work it out!

@Hen2018

On a plane back from Austria, the Austrian (presumably) man sitting next to me said, “Are you English? You’ll want my cake then”, and slid his plate of cake over to me!

(I ate it)

Brilliant!

@Cocolapew

What is it with men telling us to cheer up? I joined a gym in June to use the pool, my Dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I found it helped relax my muscles, but it also made me cry (only a few tears, not full on sobbing) after about 30 minutes of swimming for some reason. A women noticed one day and asked if I was ok. A man noticed another time and told me to cheer up My dad died 3 weeks ago and I was in the pool last week. I was minding my own business, no tears or anything when a man stopped me (!) and opened his mouth to say something. I just glared and said whatever you're planning on saying to me don't fucking dare. He swam off and glared at me the rest of the time I was there. Twat

Good for you!
About time blokes are put in their place and back in their lane!

When my eldest dd was a couple of weeks old, my mum and I went for a coffee in a local cafe. We were finishing up and dd had fallen asleep so I strapped her into her car seat.
A lady came in, started cooing over dd and then proceeded to unstrap her.
I told her to leave dd alone and she said "if you weren't here, I'd just take her"
My mum and I were in total shock so we just got up (with dd safely in my arms) and left.

some dude was trying to sell something at the door & asked if he could speak to my mummy or daddy.
I was either 31 at the time and hadn't live with my parents for almost a decade so I thought I'd have a little fun.
I told him they were at work.
when will they be home? no idea
can he speak with them? he could try but my parents don't speak English
(his head was getting visibly bigger😁)
ok, but can he come back to talk to them later and maybe I could translate? well, ok, but he has to foot the phone bill because they live in Hungary.

(dude is now quite agitated but relentless)
umm, ok, so if my parents don't live in the house then could he speak to the owner. yes, sure, that's me
and with that he was finally speechless so I quickly told him that as a mother of 3 I don't usually have time for this crap, but thanks for playing and that maybe he shouldn't be so patronising, condescending and assuming anything.
and then I shut the door on him

ignore random "either" in my previous post
I so wish there was an edit button!

@lynntheyresexpeople

Our town has a well known drunk lady who likes to scream obscenities in the street, she once told me I looked like a common slut and would have been burned at the stake in her day. That was nice!

I grew up in a really tiny village, I was about 17 still living at home, I was very poorly with compalabacta at the time, and my mum was at work. I was in bed sleeping/turning my insides out, when someone started hammering on the door. I ignored it as I felt awful, but they wouldn't let up so I answered, in my pyjamas which were shorts and a strappy top as it was summer. It was a group of Jehovah's witnesses, who told me I was going to hell for wearing something like that and especially answering the door to men in that get up. 💯 true and I still can't quite believe it happened!

Several more, but those two stand out the most. Possibly due to being "slut shamed" as a young woman, and how at the time I was embarrassed but now at 30, I'm furious that these things actually happen to women.

When people put me in positions like this, I like to make them feel arkward back 🤣 I'd probably have flashed my tits, smiled and slammed the door in their face.

We have a really weird guy who works at my local shop and he comes out with weird questions all the time.. "so do you like ice cubes" or "what are you planning on doing with that pack of crisps". He asked my other half (not knowing wr were together) if he had a mistress . I found it funny but I now avoid going there.

I walked into a KFC to order some lunch. I had my newborn first child with me. The woman behind the counter said "she is so pretty" I said "thank you, he's a boy" she literally looked at me like I was crazy and said "it's a girl!" I was baffled and I just kind of laughed and said "oh I'm sure he's a boy" but she was very adamant he was a girl. Was so bizarre. He was not dressed in anything that would be mistaken for "girl clothes" (this was the 80s so not a lot of gender neutral back then).

Years ago, I was sitting on a bench at King's Cross Station. A man came and sat next to me and said "My wife smells of elderberries and has put the milk in the bathroom". He looked like he was waiting for me to say something but when I didn't he immediately apologised and got up. I have no idea what he was expecting me to say - I'd love to know!

Years ago telling my ndn that we were expecting our 4th child. Her "oh no? I hope you won't be having more after this one, it's not that kind of neighborhood!"

:-o

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