The strangest thing someone said to you that sticks in your mind

[JamesBondOO7]

Over 35 years ago a workmate of mine a bloke asked me why I was off the day before and I told him I went to a funeral of a relative.

As we talked he said his brother had died when they were both in their early 30's and then blurted out "I did not go to his funeral." (They both lived locally to the other) I asked him why not. He said, "he was dead he (his brother) would not of known.."

The guy was not joking and it has stuck in my mind since - the bloke was a good workmate we had laughs/chats but that made me feel uneasy and funny about him

There’s a man I used to see around a lot who, to me, just looked like he should be called Mitch. I later met him properly and found out his name is actually Paddy - but my brain won’t accept it. I see him and think “Oh, it’s Mitch”. Thankfully I’ve always managed to call him by his real name, but I always have to force myself.

In a similar vein I was once standing outside Tesco with my dog waiting for my husband to come out. Wearing perfectly nice/normal clothes and minding my own business. A man came up, gave my dog a sausage roll (without asking!) and thrust 50p into my hand with a pitying look 😆. I was on about a very good salary at the time but I was so shocked I just thanked him haha

A guy sitting opposite me on the Tube said angrily to me "Stop smoking!" I wasn't!

Being asked if I worked/ if dd was planned/ did I know the father etc. Because the only type of young or single mother that exists is the daily mail stereotype until they’ve passed an interrogation satisfactorily.

A dog walker asking very common everyday questions about the horses. Followed randomly up by whether a gypsy had ever stolen any I hadn’t got back.

A woman once asked me if my children had the same father. I said "yes, do yours?".
Ha ha she was disgusted id asked her the question she'd just asked me.

An old lady told me off for dressing my baby in green when she said "he" and I said "she's a girl actually".

Place marking. I want to find this thread later on. It’s grimly hilarious.

I've had that.
Dressed DC in a blue babygrow that had some pink bits printed on.
Random stranger approaches: "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Me: "A girl"
RS, crossly:" Well, you shouldn't dress it in blue, it's confusing. Pink is for girls."
Me: "Well, I want her to grow up to be a lesbian, so...."
Stranger stalks off muttering about people being rude.

Few weeks ago. I was lifting DD out into her pram. Had my hands full. The window cleaner comes up and starts asking for My DP and says ‘is he your dad’ 🤣
DP is 3 years older. I took it either I look very very young ? Or he looks very old? (He doesn’t)

Poor woman! No wonder it stuck in your head but that must have been awful for her - I've read quite a lot about this as I'm from Glasgow!

Bible John hasn't been formally identified but lots of people suspect that Peter Tobin may be Bible John due to the timeline etc.

Omg!😂😂😂

My mum said similar to me when I was pregnant with DD. She said "you're a child having a child". I was 29 and had left home years previously. I do wonder what she would have said about me having my second child at 42 🙃

Just looked up Bible John and as mrstea31 said it couldn't be Peter Tobin because;
Tobin's wife has also testified that the pair were still on their honeymoon in Brighton at the time of the murder of the second victim, and she insists he was with her at the time. Tobin was also in police custody regarding an unrelated crime when another of the killings occurred.

Of course there's also the possibility that not all 3 murders were committed by the same person.

Although it's a very cold case if someone had confided in me that she suspected her husband was Bible John I'd be contacting the police with details, they'll probably file the information in the bin but I'd sleep better at night!

I am for you @TheFormidableMrsC

I was diagnosed with IBD when I was younger and was on steroid treatment. My mum‘s friend who I hadn’t seen in a while, came to visit and exclaimed ‘your face looks just like a hot air balloon!’ (round, puffed up) – just what every 13-year-old wants to hear.

That was nearly 30 years ago and still stays with me

Standing in queue in supermarket with one customer taking ages to pay. Guy in front of me turned round and sighed, and we exchanged a few eye rolls and wry smiles as time went on! At last he was served, and as he walked off, he said "You should market that enigmatic smile......"

Was he talking to the baby?

An old couple approached me in the furniture department of a new store that had just opened. They were excitedly pointing at an abstract chunky art object sitting on a dining table.

“It hasn’t sold in three weeks… Nobody knows what it is!”

”Err ok…” I think. Keep walking. Keep walking. I got the impression they liked to check on it every week. Lol.

I was having a coil fitted when my son was a couple of months old. It was 4 years ago and the GP fitted coils back then.

I was 21, and just a few weeks post partum. He came out with 'God, it's like a cavern in here'

I was on a 2 year diploma course, 1 day a week, and this was about half way through the second year. A fellow course member said with great sincerity 'I wish I was more like you ... and didn't care what I looked like'

over 40 years ago - not 4 years

17 and walking to 6th form by myself early in the morning. Man walks past me and just says I can smell you. No one around I was slightly unnerved by it.

In town with my 1yr old browsing kids clothes. Woman comes over and starts chit chatting. She then says, "Can I ask you something? I've been really itching the last few days. I think I've got nits. Can you check my hair for me?"

What gets me us how polite I was. I just said I think she might have and to head over to Boots to buy some treatment haha

Oh my God....WTF?? I'm afraid I just shot tea out my nose reading that. What did you do?

The one I still think about is when my DD, then about 3, apropos of nothing, turned to me from whatever she was doing and said, in what I felt was quite a condescending tone:

"You know Grandad isn't your real dad?"

Now, I look very like my dad, but there was something in the way she said it that really made it feel like she felt sorry that I was the only one who didn't know this. She wouldn't be drawn any further and it was like it hadn't happened. I genuinely asked my mum about it in the end, much to her astonishment (my parents had been married for the better part of 50 years at this point).

DD remembers nothing of this aged 11 and finds it very amusing.