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What's the weirdest thing you've done that you look back and think 'WTF did I do that for?'

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BarbaraVineFan · 10/08/2023 19:20

I'll start - when I was in my first long term relationship at the fairly advanced age of 24, my partner and I used to regularly cook our dinner, then take it up to bed on a tray and sit there watching TV eating our dinner like Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! No discernible reason, there was a perfectly good telly and sofa downstairs 😐 I have no idea why we did it! Anyone else got something similarly weird to share?

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BarbaraVineFan · 10/08/2023 21:44

And another thing, same partner, we used to be terrible at planning meals, and so we used to endlessly be going to the shop, sometimes two or three times in a day. Madness!

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BarbaraVineFan · 11/08/2023 18:32

… and another weird thing that I’ve done is to start a thread on mumsnet that nobody responded to, boo :(

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Purplecatshopaholic · 11/08/2023 18:36

Getting married to my ex tops my list..

LookingForFreeDoughnuts · 11/08/2023 18:38

Purplecatshopaholic · 11/08/2023 18:36

Getting married to my ex tops my list..

Beat me to it.

Cloudsandrainnotsunandsand · 11/08/2023 18:40

Had 11 dc.

Hewasawierdone · 11/08/2023 18:41

The man kept his dildo in the kitchen cupboard, I thought at the time it was unusual but I somehow didn't run a mile. I did not live with him.

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 11/08/2023 18:41

I held my tiny, weeks old, beautiful goddaughter. And yelled Boo at her causing her to, obviously, cry loudly

Shes now 5 and has no long lasting effects but I do stop and thing “what the fuck were you doing”

Worst part is I’ve been a nanny for 15 years so I’m not clueless on babies

Robinbuildsbears · 11/08/2023 18:42

My husband and I are equally disorganised and impulsive food-wise, I dread to think how many trips to the local co-op we do each week.

Probably one of the weirdest things I used to do was when my now husband used to visit me on university accommodation, I would drop my fob out the window for him to come up rather than walk 4 floors down and then up to meet him.

ADHDDDDDDDBOOM · 11/08/2023 18:42

OP nothing about any of those things is weird.

Literally nothing.

shortpeopleproblems · 11/08/2023 18:43

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 11/08/2023 18:41

I held my tiny, weeks old, beautiful goddaughter. And yelled Boo at her causing her to, obviously, cry loudly

Shes now 5 and has no long lasting effects but I do stop and thing “what the fuck were you doing”

Worst part is I’ve been a nanny for 15 years so I’m not clueless on babies

This has just made me laugh uncontrollably, thank you!!

jay55 · 11/08/2023 18:44

Met a guy on a ferry in Honduras, we were headed to the same guest house so shared a room.
Took me a long time to think hmmmm maybe we weren't actually headed to the same place.
Still he didn't murder me, so all good.

ILoveYourLittleHat · 11/08/2023 18:48

BarbaraVineFan · 10/08/2023 19:20

I'll start - when I was in my first long term relationship at the fairly advanced age of 24, my partner and I used to regularly cook our dinner, then take it up to bed on a tray and sit there watching TV eating our dinner like Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! No discernible reason, there was a perfectly good telly and sofa downstairs 😐 I have no idea why we did it! Anyone else got something similarly weird to share?

How did you not get gravy all over the duvet?!
I find it really hard to eat in bed sitting up with my legs up, so yes I think this is weird!

ILoveYourLittleHat · 11/08/2023 18:49

I've done a lot of weird things but they're all pretty outing, sorry Grin

Elzibells · 11/08/2023 18:50

A woman in my previous office job was upset and came over to my desk to tell me. I couldn't be bothered getting out of my chair to hug her so instead I just hugged her hand against my cheek...makes me absolutely cringe. Why did I do that??

CringeyCrispys · 11/08/2023 18:50

Name changed for this. As an 18 year old I had a boyfriend my (very controlling) parents hated. On Christmas Day I was absolutely desperate to see him to swap presents/profess undying love to each other in his van. We arranged to meet on the corner of a neighbouring street that evening, and I told my parents I was going to a friends house up the road for Christmas drinks. My dad was absolutely insistent he gave me a lift despite it being literally a street away. (I’m certain he knew I was planning on an illicit tryst with my banned boyfriend).
so after much protestation, into the car I get with my dad who drops me the 2 seconds to my friends house. I get out….and he waits. And waits. I find myself walking up the driveway of a girl I barely fucking knew from school on Christmas Day knocking as my dad continues to watch. She opens the door understandably totally bemused what on earth I’m doing knocking on her door on Christmas night while I mumble something about wanting to wish her a happy Christmas. I’m sure she thought I was on glue or something, it says so much about how conditioned I was to not stand up to my parents that I didn’t just tell my dad that I was 18 and if I wanted to see the boyfriend he disapproved of I bloody well would. Anyway after a couple of minutes of absolutely painful chitchat with the girl I knew and her family, I said happy Christmas cheerio and bombed it down the road red faced to meet my boyfriend. I look back 20 years later and still feel so fucking embarrassed at what on earth they must have thought.

Hewasawierdone · 11/08/2023 18:55

@Elzibells that one is hilarious, can just imagine doing that at work.

Hewasawierdone · 11/08/2023 18:57

@CringeyCrispys if it helps I did similar 🤣

et12 · 11/08/2023 18:59

When I was 14 my friend and I decided to sneak out at 2am to go to the 24 hour Asda because we wanted to see what it was like in the middle of the night. My mum caught us, asked what we were doing and then offered us a lift (in retrospect, she probably thought we were lying about what we were up to). The only thing I bought was a blue sponge shaped like a whale.

My mum has never mentioned it again, bless her.

FrenchandSaunders · 11/08/2023 19:01

I attempted to smuggle some GnT cans into a theatre …. security opened the bag and removed the two at the top. I then told him he’d missed two and proceeded to rummage around the bag .. handed him the cans.

My friend just stood there saying WTAF are you doing 🤦‍♀️🤣

WorriedMillie · 11/08/2023 19:03

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 11/08/2023 18:41

I held my tiny, weeks old, beautiful goddaughter. And yelled Boo at her causing her to, obviously, cry loudly

Shes now 5 and has no long lasting effects but I do stop and thing “what the fuck were you doing”

Worst part is I’ve been a nanny for 15 years so I’m not clueless on babies

Sorry, but 🤣🤣🤣🤣

ApocalypseNowt · 11/08/2023 19:04

Not me but a couple of good friends of mine were minding my DD who was a few months old for me, for literally half an hour.
DD got hiccups so they had the bright idea to scare her to stop the hiccups 😂

I came home to a crying DD and a very embarrassed & apologetic couple.Grin

Cheeseandlobster · 11/08/2023 19:07

CringeyCrispys · 11/08/2023 18:50

Name changed for this. As an 18 year old I had a boyfriend my (very controlling) parents hated. On Christmas Day I was absolutely desperate to see him to swap presents/profess undying love to each other in his van. We arranged to meet on the corner of a neighbouring street that evening, and I told my parents I was going to a friends house up the road for Christmas drinks. My dad was absolutely insistent he gave me a lift despite it being literally a street away. (I’m certain he knew I was planning on an illicit tryst with my banned boyfriend).
so after much protestation, into the car I get with my dad who drops me the 2 seconds to my friends house. I get out….and he waits. And waits. I find myself walking up the driveway of a girl I barely fucking knew from school on Christmas Day knocking as my dad continues to watch. She opens the door understandably totally bemused what on earth I’m doing knocking on her door on Christmas night while I mumble something about wanting to wish her a happy Christmas. I’m sure she thought I was on glue or something, it says so much about how conditioned I was to not stand up to my parents that I didn’t just tell my dad that I was 18 and if I wanted to see the boyfriend he disapproved of I bloody well would. Anyway after a couple of minutes of absolutely painful chitchat with the girl I knew and her family, I said happy Christmas cheerio and bombed it down the road red faced to meet my boyfriend. I look back 20 years later and still feel so fucking embarrassed at what on earth they must have thought.

🤣🤣🤣

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BarbaraVineFan · 11/08/2023 19:20

These are great! I love the 24 hour Asda trip and the people scaring babies 😂

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Scentedrose · 11/08/2023 19:23

🤣🤣

S0upertrooper · 11/08/2023 19:34

Around 1985 I was 16/17 and had a Saturday job in Boots the Chemist as it was known then.

My married female neighbour (probably late 40s/early 50s) came in for condoms and I said, laughing at my own 'joke', "Will that be the small size?"

I still cringe at the thought but to be fair, there's no way I'd buy condoms from a 16 year old I knew and saw on a daily basis. She could have bought them anywhere.