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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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HunterHearstHelmsley · 14/08/2023 10:25

EverybodyLTB · 12/08/2023 06:12

I’d not long done a basic first aid course as a teen when my hamster keeled over. I did CPR on him for what seemed to go on forever 🤢 trying to blow air into his tiny toothy mouth 🤢 it didn’t work!

I once tried to give my cat CPR, I'd dreamt I'd rolled onto her and suffocated her so was giving her heart compressions. She was not a happy kitty.

Cantbelieveididthid · 14/08/2023 12:01

@Mothership4two there must be somebody somewhere laughing to themselves as they propagate these myths to catch out unsuspecting teenagers.

cheesecroissant · 14/08/2023 12:43

I started a job, realised a few days in that I hated it. I left on my lunch break, called the office and told them I'd broken my leg. Then ignored all calls and never went back.

PinkShoelacesAndAPolkaDotVest · 14/08/2023 15:09

TightieWhities · 11/08/2023 22:14

Probably lowering the tone, but I once shat the bed after a night out, about the size of a small dog's poo. My boyfriend at the time was asleep so I inexplicably threw it out the window to cover my tracks.

Downstairs neighbour knocked later that day to complain about foxes pooing on the doorstep 🤣 it was about 10 years ago but still makes me cringe!

You’ve just reminded me of something I did but not as bad.

I always take a glass of water to bed with me but don’t always finish it. Our bedroom (1st floor) faces onto the pavement and one morning, I picked up the glass to take it downstairs to the kitchen as usual but as there was some water in the glass, for some unknown reason, I decided to throw it out of the open window.

I’d never done it before, never even thought about it but just did this casual toss of the water out of the window thingNext thing, I hear a “Nice!” from outside. Absolutely mortified and didn’t dare go downstairs for a good 5 minutes in case the person I’d given an unwanted shower to, could see me through the downstairs windows.

I hope they it was a seagull peeing on them and not some random middle aged woman having a moment of madness.

@TightieWhities imagine if your poo landed on someone’s head 😳😜

PinkShoelacesAndAPolkaDotVest · 14/08/2023 15:13

Yetisrus29 · 12/08/2023 07:50

We used to call BT and ask if Buzby was there or if we could speak to Buzby. We thought it was hilarious.

Oh God (cringe) us too! I wonder if you’re my friend?? 😂

Deathraystare · 14/08/2023 16:44

@Minfor

That reminds me. When I was very young (under 10 cos it was our first house and I moved when I was 10). Anyway, Dad used to bring us tea in bed in the morning. I should have been grateful but he put far too much milk in it. I don't know why I did not chuck it down the loo but instead had the brain wave to pour it out the window. Cue Dad coming up and saying someone must have poured their tea out the window... A neighbour must have blabbed,,,

Deathraystare · 14/08/2023 16:49

I am surprised that a number of you are still alive with your antics with random strangers! Especially the one in Hondurous! One of the most deadliest countries if you are a woman. I think it came in at number 2 out of 10. India being first (after that poor lady was killed on a bus).

Pineapples198 · 14/08/2023 17:10

Oh gosh trying to remember. When I was 16 I worked in a pub as a waitress and on a training day I met a rather handsome waiter who worked different shifts to me. After spending the day gently flirting I decided to be brave and passed him my number written on a piece of paper. He looked at me blankly and said “wtf does this mean?” That’s when I realised I had given him the wrong piece of paper. Rather than confess or give him the right one I laughed and said “I knew you wouldn’t get it!” Then ran away.

MagicFarawayTea · 14/08/2023 18:55

Allowed myself to be talked into a drastic short haircut 6 months before my wedding which I immediately hated. I wanted to wear my hair up….

CameltoeParkerBowles · 14/08/2023 19:29

Middleagedmeangirls · 12/08/2023 10:14

When I was a teenager my BFF and I used to walk up and down the local high st asking people to sign our petition for the government to stop the income tax system so the Bay City Rollers would not become tax exiles.

This was particularly ridiculous because the Bay City Rollers were famously Scottish and we lived on the South Coast.

I LOVE this one! 😆

wineschmine · 14/08/2023 20:46

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?

Did you ever actually meet them??

And how did you arrange it?! What did you say to them??

wineschmine · 14/08/2023 20:55

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

I did something very similar years ago when a boyfriend was introducing me to friends.

I thought one of them was reaching out a hand to shake my hand, so I started to extend my hand. For some reason I then thought "ohno, he isn't going in for a handshake, I've misread it" so i quickly kept my hand moving and ran it through my hair casually instead, like that's what I was doing the whole time, not going for a handshake.

Except I was right the first time, the other guy WAS going for a handshake. And I looked like I'd just inexplicably been a total cow to some guy I'd never met, pretending to be about to shake his hand then just leave him hanging Blush

SkylarSpirit · 14/08/2023 21:00

This happened when I was maybe three or four, and completely obsessed with swimming and being in water.

We were at the swimming pool and my mum made me get out because it was time to go home, I didn't want to, and for some reason I got this idea in my head that if I could get myself back into the water, my mum would just... give up and let me stay in the pool indefinitely?

But I knew if I jumped in on purpose I'd get into Big Trouble, so I very cleverly (I thought) figured out that if I could stage things so it looked like I'd fallen in by accident, that I wouldn't get into trouble and my mum would let me stay in the pool.

I walked to the deep end and stood facing away from the pool with my heels hanging over the edge, then "absently mindedly" stepped backwards.

And honestly plummeting straight to the bottom of the deep end wasn't a problem, since I knew that would happen and didn't mind, if only I'd known there was a grille covering the filter right below where I'd stepped in.

I don't know why I thought my mum wouldn't react to her only child suddenly plummeting into the depths of the deep end, but she sure as hell reacted to me surfacing with blood streaming down my face. As did literally every other person in the pool.

And that's the story of why the very top corner of my upper lip is missing to this day.

Beeinalily · 14/08/2023 23:20

Jesus Christ @SkylarSpirit , I nearly passed out just reading that!

RuthTopp · 15/08/2023 16:51

We used to holiday in the same area . My dh was on a hobby forum of his and got chatting to a man who lived in the area , he arranged to meet up with him when we were next on holiday . He did and they still got on so we went to a drink together later in the week.
It happened again next time we were on holiday . This time he mentioned he lived in a vicarage as his wife was a vicar and it would be nice to introduce us to her , we are duly invited over for a coffee before the end of our holiday.
On the morning of the invite we go over and stay for an hour or so chatting , all good.
When we left , for some reason , I hugged ( the vicar ) like she was a great friend I wouldn't be seeing again ( I'm not a hugger ) grabbed her hand to shake it and did a sort of slightly bended knee mini curtsy thing !. WTF .

StillHereStillBreathing · 15/08/2023 16:54

RuthTopp · 15/08/2023 16:51

We used to holiday in the same area . My dh was on a hobby forum of his and got chatting to a man who lived in the area , he arranged to meet up with him when we were next on holiday . He did and they still got on so we went to a drink together later in the week.
It happened again next time we were on holiday . This time he mentioned he lived in a vicarage as his wife was a vicar and it would be nice to introduce us to her , we are duly invited over for a coffee before the end of our holiday.
On the morning of the invite we go over and stay for an hour or so chatting , all good.
When we left , for some reason , I hugged ( the vicar ) like she was a great friend I wouldn't be seeing again ( I'm not a hugger ) grabbed her hand to shake it and did a sort of slightly bended knee mini curtsy thing !. WTF .

Had you been at the communion wine? 😀😁

Latenightreader · 16/08/2023 16:36

DameEdna1 · 12/08/2023 09:17

Just thought of another. For school science lessons we had these little boxes that generated a small electric current to make circuits. Every time we were allowed to use them, I used to hook up the crocodile clips to the ends of the wires to my train track braces to make my teeth part of the circuit. For some reason, it was entertaining to run electricity through my braces and see the lightbulb light up

Oh my goodness, I came on here to confess to doing the same! I think I only did it once…

Hadenough2021 · 16/08/2023 22:36

I win this one. I let my narcissistic, irresponsible DM move in with me and DH in our early 20’s. She’d sold her house and spent all money and had nowhere else to go. She stayed 5 years. Nearly broke me as a person, half killed my marriage and cost me endless ££££’s.

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NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 17/08/2023 08:19

SkylarSpirit · 14/08/2023 21:00

This happened when I was maybe three or four, and completely obsessed with swimming and being in water.

We were at the swimming pool and my mum made me get out because it was time to go home, I didn't want to, and for some reason I got this idea in my head that if I could get myself back into the water, my mum would just... give up and let me stay in the pool indefinitely?

But I knew if I jumped in on purpose I'd get into Big Trouble, so I very cleverly (I thought) figured out that if I could stage things so it looked like I'd fallen in by accident, that I wouldn't get into trouble and my mum would let me stay in the pool.

I walked to the deep end and stood facing away from the pool with my heels hanging over the edge, then "absently mindedly" stepped backwards.

And honestly plummeting straight to the bottom of the deep end wasn't a problem, since I knew that would happen and didn't mind, if only I'd known there was a grille covering the filter right below where I'd stepped in.

I don't know why I thought my mum wouldn't react to her only child suddenly plummeting into the depths of the deep end, but she sure as hell reacted to me surfacing with blood streaming down my face. As did literally every other person in the pool.

And that's the story of why the very top corner of my upper lip is missing to this day.

😱I think (and hope) that swimming pool filters are designed very differently these days, for exactly this reason!

JusthereforXmas · 17/08/2023 09:27

NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 17/08/2023 08:19

😱I think (and hope) that swimming pool filters are designed very differently these days, for exactly this reason!

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Not quite the same but as a kid we where at the Sandcastle in Blackpool and granted I was running (which your not suppose to do) but I slipped on the grate and fully grated my knee open.

My DH knocked his adult front tooth out in a swimming pool as a child so his front tooth is fake now... I think it was a standard place to injure oneself back in the day.

CringeyCrispys · 20/08/2023 19:22

I did something similar! Worked one trial
evening shift in a local restaurant as a 16yr old, all the chefs were basically being pervs every time I went in the kitchen for something and I decided I wasn’t going back, so at the end of the shift when the manager asked if I still wanted the job/could I do Saturdays as discussed, instead of being honest about the dickhead chefs I made up the excuse i was going on holiday and never went back.

Shannon50 · 22/08/2023 19:10

Going back to around 17 I went to college in computer tec, and I was the only girl there, younger than about 10 men.... which made me feel very uneasy, "I was going through a difficult life at the time" from childhood abuse I didn't even know about until recently, which as been 30 years ago. Shortly after, some new younger students joined the class, amongst them two girls who were very immature, and actually knew one of my brother's. Anyhow, after a week or so I qued up outside the room and these girls came along with their friends who were boy's, I happened to glance over at the one boy... he was cute, he saw me and asked what I wanted.... For no reason at all and can't think why I said it but the words (you know what I want) just came straight out my mouth, and of course they laughed and took the pee, one girl saying you said the wrong thing there (as if I didn't already know) .... telling all the other lads.... including the man who was the first one to welcome me to the class.

I ended up helping out in the office downstairs the day after, couldn't bare to go back to the class.... felt so ashamed and embarrased, to why I would even say it 😳 I never found it easy to make friends or if I did they wouldn't last, deep hidden scar's from my childhood made sure of that. Thankfully never said anything ridiculous after that.

PollyThePixie · 22/08/2023 19:34

@Shannon50 jeez, that reminds me of waiting to be put through to my daughters Headmaster only for him to think I was someone else called Margaret Anne. He said, “is that you Margaret Anne” and I then replied “no, but could be if you’d like that”.

It was supposed to be a joke but I’d even put on a sultry voice to say it and it all sounded horribly real.