Page 11 | What's the weirdest thing you've done that you look back and think 'WTF did I do that for?'

BarbaraVineFan · 2023-08-10T18:20:09+00:00

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?

wayyour · 12/08/2023 15:55

Mothership4two · 12/08/2023 15:46

At my primary school Summer fete, my best friend and I won first prize in the fancy dress competition as the wicked queen and the mirror from Sleeping Beauty. It obviously went to our heads as we spent most of the Summer dressed up as them wandering around town. We got lots of bemused looks and a few foreign tourists asked if they could take our photos - this is one of the strange customs that English children do in their spare time! It was quite hot dressed up in all that clobber and pretty boring. Not sure what was going on in our heads?

That's brilliant and wins the thread for me 🤣

SleeplessInCity · 12/08/2023 16:07

penguinxoxo · 12/08/2023 00:04

When I was about 6 my parents took me to Disney and I accidentally got lost. Got found by some lovely staff who let me go to the front of the queues of the rides to console me whilst they tried to find my parents.

I was having so much of a good time not waiting in the queues that what when my parents finally did track me down I swore blind I’d never seen them before in my life. My mother got carted away by security/staff and my dad had to go all the way back to the hotel to get our passports to prove I was in fact their child.

I’ve never lived it down and cringe thinking about it to this day 😂

This is hilarious 😂

Yajebbend · 12/08/2023 16:24

God so many but a couple that make me cringe was when madly infatuated with a boy at school as a teenager:

He fancied Pamela Anderson and I spent weeks getting images of Pamela and sticking them in a book for him with loads of facts about Pamela.

He played in a local village football team and I used to wait for the weekly local newspaper to be delivered, making myself late for school to see if he had been mentioned and then cut it out and give it to him.

Getting myself a sweater shop jumper so we matched and having it in my bag at all times, so when he wore his we matched.

waiting for his school bus to
pass and if I couldn’t see him on the bus (tricky as it whizzed by) I just wouldn’t go to school.

at uni I used to be quite depressive but would go from being depressive to going in the bath with a full plastic jug of cider and came out as a new person

whirlygirly · 12/08/2023 16:28

Dp and I went on a city break abroad years ago. We arrived late one Sunday evening. It was rainy and dark.

Neither of us knew exactly where we were staying. It was before the days of mobiles. We both assumed the other had brought the info. We had to cobble together anything we could remember - i knew it had a cross as the logo and he remembered a tram station. After an almighty row, we made it.

I'm now super organised..

VivaciousRadish · 12/08/2023 16:32

When I had my first baby we lived next door to a convenience shop. Right next door.

I would change her nappy, pack a bag INCLUDING a change of clothes and spare bottle, put her big all in one coat thing and off we’d set. Not for a day trip, just to pop to the shop next door, a journey that took minutes, certainly time than it took for the kettle to boil.

It was only months later when my mum witnessed this and pointed out to me that perhaps it was ever so slightly overkill, that I realised what I was doing

RuthTopp · 12/08/2023 16:39

As a child I knew where my parents hid the Christmas chocolates , they didn't buy tins but lots of boxes of various ones ( Roses, Quality Street, those ones that were mini bars etc )
I used to manage to get into them via the bottom on the box without it looking like anything had happened . The top of the boxes had a sticker sealing them but the bottom did not.
Every year they would tut tut at the amount you'd get in the box !

violetcuriosity · 12/08/2023 16:40

We had a class list with home phone numbers when I was in year 6. For some unknown reason I decided to call every single one at 7am on Christmas morning, while my brothers and I waited to my parents to wake up, to wish them all a merry Christmas. Wtaf was I doing 🙈

Ihateslugs · 12/08/2023 16:55

When first married, I invited my best friend and her new boyfriend to come round for dinner. I decided to cook a Chinese meal, no idea why as I wasn’t really an expert cook! I spent all day cutting bit of food ready to cook later, making sauces, marinading meat etc and putting everything in little dishes.

My friend arrived and just as we sat down to start eating, introduced her friend by saying we was brought up in Hong Kong as his dad worked for the Diplomatic Service and he really enjoyed being back in the UK to eat traditional English food as he was fed up of eating Chinese food!

I nearly cried having spent hours preparing the dishes but luckily, my version of Chinese food was so far from the authentic meals he’d eaten in HK that I don’t think he realised it was not good old English food!

My friend went on to marry the guy and we are still friends today, we now laugh when we remember this dinner party.

dikwad · 12/08/2023 16:56

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

I shit you not my sons godfather did this exact thing to him when he was about 2 weeks old. Poor baby absolutely shit himself and his godfather said 'I have no idea why I did that'

Mother87 · 12/08/2023 16:58

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.

Sort of quite funny really

QOD · 12/08/2023 16:58

excellentsometimes · 12/08/2023 10:15

Oh man, I did that one time too. A colleague from an international office was over to visit. We'd previously had pretty good friendly banter and were on hugging terms but that day I'd spilled coffee on my dress so didn't want to stand up. He went to go for a hug and I didn't stand up so ended up sort of clinging to his waist in a really awkward way.

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Omg that’s reminded me hahaha

we wfh since pandemic and had a rare in office day, walked over to hug a guy I’m chummy with and somehow he didn’t stand up and I bent down and basically smothered the poor man in my cleavage

we both tried to laugh it off but to anyone else it just looked like I swooped in, hugged his head and leapt back

Mother87 · 12/08/2023 16:58

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??

waterlego · 12/08/2023 17:04

Great thread.

‘SLAAAAAG’ cracked me up 😂

LardoBurrows · 12/08/2023 17:22

When I was about 20 I was at a party at a house and after drinking a lot and being rather drunk needed the loo. There was a downstairs loo and I joined the queue and by the time it was my time I was busting for a pee. As soon as I was in the loo some man started banging on the door telling me to hurry up, all while I was trying to pee as quickly as possible while being drunk and a bit uncoordinated. Anyway I suddenly got really angry at banging man so I opened the casement window, climbed up on the loo seat, over the cistern and out the window, leaving the door locked. Then strolled round the corner and back into the house and carried on drinking while people kept banging on the loo door and shouting "hurry up". God know why I did it, just seemed a good idea at the time.

Blossomtoes · 12/08/2023 17:25

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.

😂

ILoveYourLittleHat · 12/08/2023 17:51

violetcuriosity · 12/08/2023 16:40

We had a class list with home phone numbers when I was in year 6. For some unknown reason I decided to call every single one at 7am on Christmas morning, while my brothers and I waited to my parents to wake up, to wish them all a merry Christmas. Wtaf was I doing 🙈

This is brilliant!

LouLou198 · 12/08/2023 18:00

Easter 2020 I wanted to get dc an Easter egg each, so I put milk and bread and tampax in my trolley with them, I didn't really need them, just didn't want anyone judging me that I was only buying items that were not essential! Seems like absolute madness now!

CoachBeardsJane · 12/08/2023 18:00

LardoBurrows · 12/08/2023 17:22

When I was about 20 I was at a party at a house and after drinking a lot and being rather drunk needed the loo. There was a downstairs loo and I joined the queue and by the time it was my time I was busting for a pee. As soon as I was in the loo some man started banging on the door telling me to hurry up, all while I was trying to pee as quickly as possible while being drunk and a bit uncoordinated. Anyway I suddenly got really angry at banging man so I opened the casement window, climbed up on the loo seat, over the cistern and out the window, leaving the door locked. Then strolled round the corner and back into the house and carried on drinking while people kept banging on the loo door and shouting "hurry up". God know why I did it, just seemed a good idea at the time.

That's brilliant

PollyThePixie · 12/08/2023 18:13

benkatup · 11/08/2023 22:36

I was so scared of large rowdy groups of teens when I was a teen and always thought they would batter me if I walked passed them so I would stick my stomach out as much as I could and pretend I was pregnant! I was about 13 when I started doing it. I thought if they thought I was pregnant they would leave me alone! I absolutely cringe now thinking about it!

😂😂

I wish I’d thought of that when I had to pass a certain street corner and the gang who hung out there after getting off the bus. It was terrifying.

Mommybunny · 12/08/2023 18:55

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I did something very similar, weirdly also with a German guy. I’d arrived in Berlin from the US to meet up with some Irish friends and stay in their flat for a week. They’d given me their address and I made my way to the flat (this was the early 90s, before Google Maps or mobile phones) and kept ringing the bell without them answering. I went to a pub nearby to ask if anyone knew my friends and where they might be. No one did but by the end of the night they still hadn’t arrived at home and this guy, I think his name was Volker, offered to put me up for the night on the floor of his nearby flat. I went as I had nowhere else to go and like your friend he was thoroughly decent. I finally hooked up with my friends the next day - they'd gone out on the piss and had gotten mixed up about when I was arriving - but every so often I do look back on that and wonder what I was thinking in doing that.

Shizzlestix · 12/08/2023 18:56

Proper cringe moment. My parents had friends round, one of whom played the piano, we’d been round to his and he’d played/sang, really brilliant. Dad put on a record with piano playing and I turned to this guy and said, really sarcastically/horribly ‘Nice to hear decent piano playing for once’. I was about 11/12. I have no idea why I said it. He must have just thought I was a foul youngster. Still makes me cringe. 😢

jenny77 · 12/08/2023 18:59

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??

Haha

Michiyo · 12/08/2023 19:14

Yajebbend · 12/08/2023 16:24

God so many but a couple that make me cringe was when madly infatuated with a boy at school as a teenager:

He fancied Pamela Anderson and I spent weeks getting images of Pamela and sticking them in a book for him with loads of facts about Pamela.

He played in a local village football team and I used to wait for the weekly local newspaper to be delivered, making myself late for school to see if he had been mentioned and then cut it out and give it to him.

Getting myself a sweater shop jumper so we matched and having it in my bag at all times, so when he wore his we matched.

waiting for his school bus to
pass and if I couldn’t see him on the bus (tricky as it whizzed by) I just wouldn’t go to school.

at uni I used to be quite depressive but would go from being depressive to going in the bath with a full plastic jug of cider and came out as a new person

The cider in the bath thing is now prescribed on the NHS, so well done there.

Georgyporky · 12/08/2023 19:33

Purplecatshopaholic · 11/08/2023 18:36

Getting married to my ex tops my list..

Ditto

MyNameIsJane · 12/08/2023 19:34

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 🤦‍♀️🤣

You loon! 😂