Page 14 | What's the weirdest thing you've done that you look back and think 'WTF did I do that for?'

Pearshaped20 · 13/08/2023 10:00

In my late teens on a first date, so quite nervous and I'm generally quite shy. So my date took me to pub where we met a group of his friends. He introduced them and for some inexplicable reason I reached out and shook all their hands 🤝 saying hello like it was a business meeting 🙄😬. Still no idea to this day why I did that and still cringe what they must have thought

waterlego · 13/08/2023 10:34

Mgi4243765 · 13/08/2023 08:46

I was at boarding school and there was a family that used to live on one of the floors to look after us. They had kids a girl my age who went to the school (her dad was also a. Teacher) and twin girls. I was writing Christmas cards with them and teaching them how to draw etc and I (unbeknownst to me at the time) wrote to their mum and dad happy Christmas mummy and daddy!!!! Only found out months later when a boy ‘friend’ of mine, who the girl my age was seeing said why did you write a Christmas card to them with to mummy and daddy!?! I was horrified.. didn’t even realise I did it was just for the girls.. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I don’t get this one- please explain! Are you saying that you were helping them write a card to their parents but that the parents thought it was from you? 🤔

wayyour · 13/08/2023 10:52

LaurieFairyCake · 13/08/2023 07:50

Used to dial random numbers for the fancy city about 80 miles away - then when a bloke answered ARRANGED TO MEET HIM (if he was close in age to me, so I was 15/16 and provided he said he was under 20 I would)

WHAT. THE.FUCK - how am I not murdered?

Some old friends of mine used to do something similar using CB radio

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 13/08/2023 11:13

I live in Wolverhampton, there is no 'big tesco' off the roundabout.
@sashh @TheOwlChronicles

Possibly 'near to Wolverhampton' or 'Wolverhampton Road'? There is a large Tesco at the roundabout outside Dudley- on the road to Wolverhampton. (Just a thought ).

JusthereforXmas · 13/08/2023 12:15

CrawlingFromShitshowToAfterglow · 12/08/2023 22:43

@CringeyCrispys - I really relate to this! My controlling parents hated the boyfriend I had when I was 18. My parents had actually never met him but knew of him. Anyway, my boyfriend used to live in a different town and one day came up to meet me in my town. We agreed to meet at the station.

I told my parents I was meeting a friend from sixth form called Tasha, who lived in the neighbouring town and was catching the train in to see me (there was a girl by that name in my class who did live in a neighbouring town, but my parents had never met her).

Anyway, my dad insisted on dropping me to the station, despite my (feeble) protests. When we reached the station, my dad told me to go and get Tasha because he'd like to meet her. Obviously, he guessed what I was up to.

I dragged myself out of the car, not knowing what to do. My boyfriend was waiting outside the station. I walked past him, hissing: "don't look at me, don't talk to me, don't follow me."

I still don't know how the idea struck me, but I walked into the station cafe. There were a group of students about my age sitting there chatting. I approached one of them, explained the situation and asked her to pretend to be "Tasha" and come outside with me.

She actually did it! She walked with me to my dad's car and past my boyfriend who was still standing there with a wtf expression his face. My dad looked relieved and disappointed not have caught me out. "Tasha" said hello to my dad and we waved my dad off. Once he'd driven away, I thanked her profusely. She returned to her friends and me to my very confused boyfriend.

Sorry this is long! It just brought back a very suppressed memory from 1997! I still get anxiety when I think about it.

Why do we even do this?

Like at 14 I get it but at 18? Like we don't have to answer to them about anything, we could just tell the truth lol.

I use to just feminize the guy I was going on a date with name... I had 'friends' called Martina, Davina x2, Carly and Carla, Alana x2 & Edwina lol.

Dappy55 · 13/08/2023 13:06

Did loads of things that I would never want my kids doing, walking home alone through horrible areas rather than paying for taxis. Zig zagging across the roads to avoid the kerb crawlers

WrongCar · 13/08/2023 15:32

Donkeys years ago I used to get the train to work, and dh would pick me up from the station. Always parked in the same place.

One day after work, opened the car door without looking, as I was getting in said something like "Hi, how was your day?"
Which was responded to by a somewhat panicky sounding female voice saying "well fine thanks, but who are you?!"

At which point I remembered dh's car was at home as he was in fact out of the country Car was identical in my defence.

DelilahJane · 13/08/2023 15:48

Truemilk · 12/08/2023 23:25

I still use this book 😂 it's like a bible

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Omg! I thought I was the only one. I'm I. My early 30s and learned to cook with this. I still whip it out at Christmas for the turkey instructions

TheOwlChronicles · 13/08/2023 16:02

@sashh I know! He'd just told me a load of shit probably.

SkylarSpirit · 13/08/2023 19:37

I went to drama school in New York when I was young and very naive. Right after I arrived a guy (my age, also British, travelling around the east coast on hols) helped carry my suitcase down the stairs at the airport to the airtrain, and we got chatting. We hit it off and wound up making plans to hang out later on, as it was the first day in the USA for both of us and neither of us knew anyone there and were both travelling alone. When he mentioned that his hostel wasn't very nice, I invited him to move into my apartment for the rest of his holiday! A complete stranger!

He was very gentlemanly and treated me almost like a big brother, and we wound up having a wonderful together, completely platonically. When he reached Washington DC I actually travelled down to visit him for the weekend and he arranged a bed in the female dorm of his hostel there, and took me for a night out with some of the people he'd befriended at the hostel.

I was very shy and introverted so it wound up being a really lovely thing, but I look back now and can't believe I did that.

I do remember propping something heavy against my bedroom door the first night just in case he tried to break in and rape me in the middle of the night, so I was clearly aware of the risk, but still happy to invite a total stranger to move in? What was I thinking!

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 19:55

@SkylarSpirit you don’t have to be terrified of everyone you meet.

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 19:57

Zig zagging across the roads to avoid the kerb crawler

eh?

TheLemon · 13/08/2023 20:11

Not wanting to bring the thread down but... So many of these stories are women "putting themselves in danger from men".

Imagine the world we could live in if male violence wasn't a thing and we didn't have to be scared that every strange male could rape / mug / physically overpower us.

(It's also reassuring to hear in the vast majority of these stories that "thankfully nothing happened" because of course that's what should be the case when two decent people meet.)

SkylarSpirit · 13/08/2023 20:11

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 19:55

@SkylarSpirit you don’t have to be terrified of everyone you meet.

Why on earth would you assume from that that I am "terrified of everyone I meet"??

A teenage girl inviting a strange man who approached her in public to move in with her is behaviour most people would consider risky and stupid.

This thread is full of posts from women going "when I was young I stayed the night at a strange man's house/let a strange man sleep at my house, what was I thinking" and no responses implying they're overly fearful.

Obviously I'm not "terrified of everyone I met" given that I asked a man I didn't know to move in with me, and then happily shared a hostel dorm with a load of other strangers.

I don't understand your response at all.

JusthereforXmas · 13/08/2023 20:14

TheLemon · 13/08/2023 20:11

Not wanting to bring the thread down but... So many of these stories are women "putting themselves in danger from men".

Imagine the world we could live in if male violence wasn't a thing and we didn't have to be scared that every strange male could rape / mug / physically overpower us.

(It's also reassuring to hear in the vast majority of these stories that "thankfully nothing happened" because of course that's what should be the case when two decent people meet.)

TBF I have been beaten so badly I was put in hospital twice... both times by women, who where strangers, that I never did anything to.

Men aren't the ones that scare me.

Gpnever · 13/08/2023 20:21

Startyabastard · 11/08/2023 21:17

I kept a blue bottle fly in my doll's house and when it died, I tried to resuscitate it with a tiny rubber straw from my brother's lego fire hydrant.
Eugh!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 am dyin 🤣🤣🤣

AldiPaldi · 13/08/2023 20:32

Mgi4243765 · 13/08/2023 08:46

I was at boarding school and there was a family that used to live on one of the floors to look after us. They had kids a girl my age who went to the school (her dad was also a. Teacher) and twin girls. I was writing Christmas cards with them and teaching them how to draw etc and I (unbeknownst to me at the time) wrote to their mum and dad happy Christmas mummy and daddy!!!! Only found out months later when a boy ‘friend’ of mine, who the girl my age was seeing said why did you write a Christmas card to them with to mummy and daddy!?! I was horrified.. didn’t even realise I did it was just for the girls.. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I've read this several times and don't get it, can anyone explain?

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 20:39

TBF I have been beaten so badly I was put in hospital twice... both times by women, who where strangers, that I never did anything to.Men aren't the ones that scare me

cool story bro. Men commit 80% of all violent crimes

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 20:40

@SkylarSpirit and I don’t understand your ‘hilarious’ story. You met a person who you liked and who was really good to you. And?

CurlyhairedAssassin · 13/08/2023 20:45

SkylarSpirit · 13/08/2023 20:11

Why on earth would you assume from that that I am "terrified of everyone I meet"??

A teenage girl inviting a strange man who approached her in public to move in with her is behaviour most people would consider risky and stupid.

This thread is full of posts from women going "when I was young I stayed the night at a strange man's house/let a strange man sleep at my house, what was I thinking" and no responses implying they're overly fearful.

Obviously I'm not "terrified of everyone I met" given that I asked a man I didn't know to move in with me, and then happily shared a hostel dorm with a load of other strangers.

I don't understand your response at all.

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PontiousPilate is clearly a troll or has started on the gin too early. Just ignore and enjoy the rest of the posts. There are a few like that on here lately. Looking to take umbrage over everything.

overdalexx · 13/08/2023 20:50

CurlyhairedAssassin · 13/08/2023 20:45

PontiousPilate is clearly a troll or has started on the gin too early. Just ignore and enjoy the rest of the posts. There are a few like that on here lately. Looking to take umbrage over everything.

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agree, the
>>cool story bro.
is cut and paste snarkiness.
It's a wonderful thread - dipped into it a few times today for a good healthy laugh/wonder at the oddness of people.
rather doubt pontious could deliver such positivity.

YoSof · 13/08/2023 20:55

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 20:39

TBF I have been beaten so badly I was put in hospital twice... both times by women, who where strangers, that I never did anything to.Men aren't the ones that scare me

cool story bro. Men commit 80% of all violent crimes

Don’t be a dick.

QueefQueen80s · 13/08/2023 20:57

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?

Haha we did that, it was because we were in a shared house and wanted privacy. But when I think of all the food on the duvet now 🤢

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 21:05

Don’t be a dick

and the woman trying to assert that women are the scarier sex isn’t eh? @YoSof

Timetochangegonzo · 13/08/2023 21:09

It's a wonderful thread - dipped into it a few times today for a good healthy laugh/wonder at the oddness of people.rather doubt pontious could deliver such positivity

yes! My favourite funny one was the woman who was taken advantage of in the shower by the older man. Fucking hilarious