Page 15 | 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?

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 13/08/2023 21:13

AldiPaldi · 13/08/2023 20:32

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

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She didn’t write

To Jane and Mark, Merry Christmas love MGI

She wrote

To Mummy and Daddy, merry Christmas, love MGI

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 13/08/2023 21:18

dikwad · 12/08/2023 16:56

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'

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😂 Hooray! It’s not just me!

If your son needs some support with the trauma of that I’ll ping you my goddaughters contact details and they can talk it through 😁

AldiPaldi · 13/08/2023 21:29

@IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece Thankyou

YoSof · 13/08/2023 21:31

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

She said that she personally was more afraid of women, having been attacked to the point of being hospitalised. By a woman.

She was talking about her own experience. I didn’t read anywhere that she said women are more dangerous in general, did you?

bananafarmer · 13/08/2023 21:58

Don’t spoil the thread! There are some real gems in here!

wineschmine · 13/08/2023 22:16

Busubaba · 11/08/2023 21:36

A lovely trip down memory lane.

I collected recipe cards and every week and the folders to put them in

I had a dinner part for 4-8 guests and made a three course meal from using the recipe recipe cards.

I was addicted to it.

When our guests arrived, friends and family, the men would go in the sitting room and chat about football etc and the women would sit in my dining room whilst I scurried about in the kitchen and they could view me through the open doorway.

They would be as excited as me and would read the cards and ask to borrow them or if they also collected the cards would talk about what they made.

It was like a huge big weekly event and my partner who belonged to a wine club would select the wines. I don't drink so I wasn't involved in that.

We would all dress up and look glamorous even though we were only in my house!

It seems funny looking back at it but ordering a take away in those days wasn't really an option. We all cooked and baked.

The sad thing is that most of those people are now dead.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224671090616?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338749367&toolid=20006&customid=GB 11224671090616.146402343561~1871060449859-g Cj0KCQjwuNemBhCBARIsADp74QQERNqDiCvBtQH1dUnEaO8Rn3kwOU9eEM5ufBh-Pth67aj6LSnGkCgaAsrsEALwwwcB

That sounds so lovely. Lots of lovely memories.

BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 · 13/08/2023 23:46

Had a very similar one to @LimeDrizzled but mine didn't end in rape thank God.

Was driven home from a Tesco shop one evening by taxi back to my student digs (gosh, this was a long time ago) and he kept insisting he wanted to sleep with me. I really didn't want to but he would not be put off.

as well as not wanting the sex I was terrified of getting pregnant. He kept insisting so I finally (to get him to shut up and leave) told him he could sleep with me but not put "it" inside (sorry this is graphic). He agreed to that and I just lay there feeling stupid and wishing he would go away. He looked at me and said something about me shaking like a leaf and then left.

I wasn't very experienced in consensual relationships (Some non consenting stuff as a child and teenager, but aside from that I only ever had one partner and we split up not long after. I was tired and fed up and v t thinking straight . I was battling some mental health issues at the time and tended to get very anxious about things. I started panicking that although he didn't end up inside me he might have gotten some sperm there. Managed to get the MAP, was so relieved when next period came.

I feel so very stupid because I could have said no. I felt I couldn't but realistically he didn't threaten me or hurt me so I don't know why ? I just kind of found myself complying .I think it's because I have a tendency to people please and in the past when I was SA once I was old enough to know what was happening , I just froze. so even though this wasn't assault I think it triggered me back maybe? I don't know?

I do feel lucky nothing bad happened and he didn't harm me in any way but it highlights how naive I was.

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 02:16

Pontiouspilate · 13/08/2023 19:57

Zig zagging across the roads to avoid the kerb crawler

eh?

Was that the famous Ramsey Kerb Crawler Bolton?

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 02:17

Was that a boarding school in South Devon perchance @Mgi4243765?

BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 · 14/08/2023 02:23

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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I agree I don't know why people are piling on you.

BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 · 14/08/2023 02:25

wayyour · 13/08/2023 10:52

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

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The CB radio thing reminds me of an old film (from the noughties) I think it was called Roadkill or something like that ? Two young college aged men driving cross country in the Midwest and making crazy calls over radio to strangers...It didn't end well, being a horror film!

BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 · 14/08/2023 02:27

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 02:16

Was that the famous Ramsey Kerb Crawler Bolton?

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There's a Ramsey Kerb Crawler? For real? Or urban legend ...I'm thinking of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of London Town (an ancient Two Ronnies sketch).

coxesorangepippin · 14/08/2023 02:36

So I yelled "YOU SLAAAAAG" thinking we could do that amusing thing you do where you trade TV quotes

^^

😂😂😂

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 02:53

I once shared a flat with someone I met once at a party @SkylarSpirit. At the party we got on well and I mentioned I was moving to a big city about 100 miles away in a few weeks. Turns out he lived there and gave me his number and said to call him to maybe meet up when I moved. That was all, brief chat, nothing went further than that. Anyway I went up and was staying with a friend when I did ring him and during our chat mentioned that I was looking for a flat share and he said that his new flatmate that was due to move in in a couple of weeks had backed out was I interested. I went round had a look and moved in. We became very close, but, like with Skylar, he acted in a brotherly way towards me and, decades later. we vaguely still keep in touch although he lives on the other side of the World now. I know lots of people flat share with strangers,, but it gives me the shivers that I knew nothing about him and that initially I went to his flat and no-one else had a clue where I was.

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 02:56

Think Game of Thrones @BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 and we loved The Phantom Raspberry Blower of London Town - hilarous

BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 · 14/08/2023 02:58

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 02:56

Think Game of Thrones @BrindleAbyssinianGuinea2 and we loved The Phantom Raspberry Blower of London Town - hilarous

It sure is.

Poudretteite · 14/08/2023 04:27

RicherThanYews · 12/08/2023 08:26

My childhood wasn't the greatest and often I would not have anything to eat as there was no food in the house. In order to distract myself from the hunger I would read books that contained vivid descriptions of food to live vicariously through the characters. I remember The Famous Five being one of them because their picnics were huge, there was also my dog eared copy of James and the Giant Peach and if I felt truly masochistic I would read an enormous recipe book with full colour pictures. I was an odd child though.

I did the same! And I used to use the school hand sanitiser religiously
because it smelled like lemon cake. Eventually I started stealing food from
the local shop. Not weird - a normal response to hunger

autienotnaughti · 14/08/2023 05:10

When I was married to my ex we use to spend hours sat in the garden with them. Doing nothing. In all weather. I have no idea why.

Mgi4243765 · 14/08/2023 06:15

No Kent..

JusthereforXmas · 14/08/2023 08:52

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

Way to discredit another woman's experience and try to undermine her 'bro'.

It's also not true... women are far more likely to be violent they are just less likely to kill or be reported through the legal system. Part of that is due to sexist views like yours that women can't be dangerous meaning it isn't taken seriously.

Cantbelieveididthid · 14/08/2023 08:53

Do you remember that urban myth (or is it? I’ve not entirely tried it out…) that if you don’t wash your hair for 6 weeks or 3 months or something it goes into a beautiful condition and you never have to wash it again? Well I did try it, years ago, when I was at university. For about 5 weeks (or was it about 14 of 15? It seemed like forever anyway). It got greasier and greasier but that heavenly hair was always just around the corner so I persevered. Then when I was home for the holidays I went to the local hairdressers. Fortunately it was one of those where you feel uncomfortable and you don’t really like what they do with your hair but it’s cheap, so it’s not particularly one I’d want to go back to. The hairdresser asked me when I’d last washed my hair and I told her a few days ago, as I did keep rinsing it through with just water. It must have looked like it was still wet, it was so greasy. I spent the rest of the hair appointment feeling smaller and smaller as the stupidity of what I was doing sank in. I went home and washed my hair thoroughly with lots of shampoo and never tried that experiment again. I just can’t believe I let it go on so long! Apologies to any hairdressers out there, or indeed anyone who came within 50 feet of me during that experiment!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 14/08/2023 09:07

Cantbelieveididthid · 14/08/2023 08:53

Do you remember that urban myth (or is it? I’ve not entirely tried it out…) that if you don’t wash your hair for 6 weeks or 3 months or something it goes into a beautiful condition and you never have to wash it again? Well I did try it, years ago, when I was at university. For about 5 weeks (or was it about 14 of 15? It seemed like forever anyway). It got greasier and greasier but that heavenly hair was always just around the corner so I persevered. Then when I was home for the holidays I went to the local hairdressers. Fortunately it was one of those where you feel uncomfortable and you don’t really like what they do with your hair but it’s cheap, so it’s not particularly one I’d want to go back to. The hairdresser asked me when I’d last washed my hair and I told her a few days ago, as I did keep rinsing it through with just water. It must have looked like it was still wet, it was so greasy. I spent the rest of the hair appointment feeling smaller and smaller as the stupidity of what I was doing sank in. I went home and washed my hair thoroughly with lots of shampoo and never tried that experiment again. I just can’t believe I let it go on so long! Apologies to any hairdressers out there, or indeed anyone who came within 50 feet of me during that experiment!

I tried that too! I also didn’t hold on long enough because my mum nagged me. I remember wearing an Indian cotton scarf to conceal it.
However I have made the transition to solid shampoo bars now and they really do do away with the boom and bust cycle where your hair gets stripped of all the oils and then overcompensates and looks lank and greasy if you don’t wash it for a few days so perhaps there’s something in it.

Cantbelieveididthid · 14/08/2023 09:10

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel i might try that!

Mothership4two · 14/08/2023 09:18

I did that too @Cantbelieveididthid as I had very greasy hair in my teens and made it to three weeks. It felt gross and probably looked that way too. Not sure why my parents didn't have a word with me? It didn't work

Mookie81 · 14/08/2023 09:54

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

Oh piss off.
While some of the stories are bad and I'm glad the women involved have come out of their situations safely, this is supposed to be a lighthearted thread about silly stuff, and I'm fed up of people dragging threads like this down with inappropriate postings.