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

[PinkWaferBiscuit]

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.

Waiting in queue at supermarket, people were getting fed up, and man in front of me turned round and sighed, and we both did an eye roll and weary smile. He got served eventually, turned round and we smiled again. I was putting stuff on counter, and as he went through the door, he looked back and said "You should market that enigmatic smile." Never saw him again, but that comment stayed with me!

Someone stopped me when I was out with my (very) newborn. ‘How old is he?’ ‘X days’ ‘yeah thought so. You’re walking funny’

A co-worker i've known a while, really nice man, although is known to talk a lot but do very little. He's in his 50's married with grown up children. We were catching up as we both happened to be in the office after a long time. He asked how my DS(12) was doing and I said all good! I asked about his two who are in their 20's. He proceeded to tell me that he was worried about his oldest son who is 25 and hasn't ever come home with a gf or bf yet and he was worried ' as its about time he got 'practicing' ... i felt this was an over-share and i had no clue what to say back.

@PinkWaferBiscuit what an awful woman, what is WRONG with people.

My oldest son looks very like me in colouring and general face shape. Neither of us is a great beauty but he is taller, thinner and has youth on his side.

Bumped into a colleague outside work and introduced my son. He was in the same class at school as her son.

Got back to work (without my son!) and my colleague said, “ooo, isn’t your son handsome! What a good looking boy......

.... he looks nothing like you!”

I lived in norway for a bit. I was speaking to DH's new work colleague for the first time (afterwork drinkies). Anyway we were making small talk about other Scandinavian countries. She volunteered this information "i have no lesbian tendencies at all, but when I hear a girl speak danish i just cream my pants"

I was totally lost for words, but in my head thought "I'm too english for this"

Jesus. What an awful thing to say.

Strangest thing someone said to me was during my very first visit to London. I was sitting in a park with a friend and a man came up to me and said, "Your hair looks like a bowl of cornflakes," then walked off.

My hair is ginger and very curly.

When my uncle killed himself my grandma was obviously distraught as it was her son, a lady my great auntie knew was 'psychic' and my great auntie had obviously told her about my uncles death so this 'psychic' said to my grandma 'he knows you're sad but you let him down so bad, you wasn't there for him' now during growing up obviously I wasn't around but my grandma has 4 other children and they all love and have a good relationship with her, my uncle was obviously depressed but I don't think it's because of my grandma, and I'm not sure who thinks to say that to a person who has just lost her son and is going to order flowers for his funeral...

@Hen2018

My oldest son looks very like me in colouring and general face shape. Neither of us is a great beauty but he is taller, thinner and has youth on his side.

Bumped into a colleague outside work and introduced my son. He was in the same class at school as her son.

Got back to work (without my son!) and my colleague said, “ooo, isn’t your son handsome! What a good looking boy......

.... he looks nothing like you!”

Once when DS was about 9 months old, I took him to A&E in the throes of a violent allergic reaction. He was screaming, his face was bright red and blotchy and puffy and his eyes had closed up.

More than one nurse commented on how he looked like me.

I was walk into Morrisons with my 6 week old when an elderly lady said “this is a ridiculous time of morning to have a baby out “!
It was 9 15 and I’d just done the school run ?

Blonde, blue-eyed, DD in her pram, approx 12 months old. An elderly lady came and had a good look at her, then scrutinised DH and I (both brown-eyed and dark hair). She then asked whether he was the father!! (he is, by the way!)

Moved into a new rented house, stood in the garden with my partner at the time and our landlord who seemed totally normal in all other encounters bar this time. I was asking questions about what was ok to do out there, I asked about planting flowers/plants
Him: yes no problem go ahead
Me: great! Can we...
Him: (interrupts) have sex?
Me: ............put a shed up?!............

Why. Why would you say that? I appear to have some kind of moving day creep attractor as the time we moved before that, our new next door neighbour, who was indeed completely mental, knocked on the door the first hour we got there, and started the conversation by telling me the walls were very thin and he would be able to hear EVERYTHING, with a wink.

Fucking gross men.

Older lady in our village telling me all about a day trip she’d had with her local group.
‘I asked the driver how far it was and he told me 50 miles. Mind you that’s on a coach, how far it is by car I have no idea.’

How I kept a straight face I’ll never know!

@Capferret

Older lady in our village telling me all about a day trip she’d had with her local group. ‘I asked the driver how far it was and he told me 50 miles. Mind you that’s on a coach, how far it is by car I have no idea.’

How I kept a straight face I’ll never know!

That is fantastic!

@Capferret

Older lady in our village telling me all about a day trip she’d had with her local group. ‘I asked the driver how far it was and he told me 50 miles. Mind you that’s on a coach, how far it is by car I have no idea.’

How I kept a straight face I’ll never know!

That's straight out of Victoria Wood

It's not so much what was said, as how it was said.

Have an oriental shorthair who was somewhat 'spirited' (feline psychopath), yowling, spitting and swearing her head off in the cat cage, as we wait to pass her over for a flight.

Strange looking dude came up, said nothing to me, bent down, stared for quite a bit intensely into the cat cage, and then slowly unbent, looked at me equally intensely, and said, in a very Rif Raf from Rocky Horror Picture show voice, 'she's not very happy, is she'.

Both the cat and I were rendered speechless. She was cowering silently in the back of her cat carrier.

I went through a patch of having ransoms ask me if I was pregnant (I wasn’t).

I’ve also been asked if I’m “working” while walking home from the office (wearing heels and a mid calf length skirt).

Was racking my brain for odd things strangers have said to me and realised the only people who say odd things to me are generally relations.

My DGM once stopped the Christmas meal to ask if I was still a virgin as it’s ‘the greatest gift you can give your husband on his wedding night.’ She does love the odd sherry.

Was in the park with my daughter and son they were babies at the time and I was pushing them on the swings, my son was around 10 months, a couple of women walked by with children, one of them stopped and just started staring at me, she then said “that’s my baby” I looked at her and assumed she was joking so I said “well I do remember giving birth to him!” In a jokey way, she then just repeated, “that’s my baby!” It became clear at that point she wasn’t saying it as a joke she seemed angry and just kept shouting it at me and saying “give me my baby” she was leaning against the gate and just staring at us, I called my mum as I wasn’t sure what else to do! But she wouldn’t leave, the worst part was the woman and kids she was with didn’t say anything at all, didn’t try to take her away, she was staring at me with an angry face, eventually the others walked off and she followed them as i stayed on the phone to my mum until she left, weirdest situation I’ve ever experienced.

I was with then toddler DD in starbucks having a coffee and an older woman approached and began asking about her.
"What's her name?"
"DD, she's named after my mum"
"Such a beautiful name you don't hear it much these days"
"Thank you"
"Shes just like a cow isn't she?" She then called her husband over and said it again to him this time. He agreed DD was very much like a cow.
I just said "excuse me?"
And she said "oh she has lovely kind cow eyes"

I think it was meant to be a compliment.

I was once on a train sitting at a table of 4. A woman was sat opposite me. A man in his early 20s got on and sat beside her. He randomly just said “I’ve got a pet crow, I’m teaching it to talk”.... I ignored him but the other woman said “oh, really. What can it say?” And he replied in a screechy voice “worms!!”. Then never said another word to either of us

@TokenGinger

Jesus. What an awful thing to say.

Strangest thing someone said to me was during my very first visit to London. I was sitting in a park with a friend and a man came up to me and said, "Your hair looks like a bowl of cornflakes," then walked off.

My hair is ginger and very curly.

I used to regularly have men pull up to me in cars and tell me ‘you look like a carrot’ and other such nonsense. Hadn’t happened much in recent years as my hair has naturally gone a bit darker over the years.

What I always find weird when I occasionally speak about having red hair to friends they say things like ‘yes but your not really a ginger’ even people who knew me back when I was as orange as Ed Sheeran (for comparison)

When DD was born myself and DH were both pleased about her red hair, Even the nurse at my section mentioned it. MIL and some other family members were like ‘don’t worry they all look a bit red to begin with, She is probably blonde and will grow out of it’ I’m not worried lol

You remind me of Marilyn Monroe

I look absolutely nothing like MM. I have very dark eyes and hair and olive skin. My features are nothing like hers. Not even with a blonde wig would I resemble her in anyway

He then went on the say it was my child like voice and beauty spot (he wasn’t coming on to me I’m the wrong sex). And neither did he appear drunk/under his influence. We then chatted out our love for MM but apparently he could see it (others in our company politely agreed with me)

We have 3 DDs and on one occasion we were at an airport going on a family holiday when they were aged 2, 5 & 7. A woman started to talking to me, saying how pretty they were and then asked "Are they triplets?" I said no and gave their ages (feeling quite mystified as to how she could imagine the 2 year old was the same age as the 7 year old!) but she replied, "They look so alike they must be triplets!" This went on for some time as she continued to insist they were triplets before she suddenly clocked DH standing nearby - then she changed tack and said very seriously "Is THIS their father?"
I said yes and she shouted, "Couldn't you find anyone better to be the father of your children?" before storming off angrily.
We were but assumed it was because DH is Chinese

Several things. All from men.

In an interview. "Do you have young parents or will you be taking time off for any family deaths?" Both!!

Feedback from an interview at the start of this century. "You interviewed beautifully and I would have liked to offer you the position, but I think you would be distracting......attribute wise." Bewildered, said thanks anyway, hung up, told my mum, she stared at me open mouthed and said "he's talking about your boobs! He saying they're too big to have in the workplace!"

A man asked me once if my eyes were blue. While looking directly into my blue eyes. I said "umm.... yes. Last time I checked." Did that sort of uncomfy giggle and turned away and he snapped "look at me! It's not a laughing matter!"

And my personal favourite, an evangelical type preacher with a microphone in the street, pointing at me walking past, calling "WOMEN LIKE THIS! The one with the long yellow hair. This one dressed up like goods for sale to drag the names of god fearing men through the mud!" Apparently he'd been accused repeatedly of sexual assault, I found out later. I was wearing a black polo neck, red tartan skirt just above the knee and black opaque tights. And I'm blonde, not yellow!

I was shopping in a supermarket and a woman asked me to get some baby sweet corn down from the top shelf. I handed it to her and she said ‘ thank you, I need it for my dead hamster’ I was speechless.