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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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Loafbeginsat60 · 22/08/2023 20:03

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 😂

That's is SO funny and I would love to know what your parents said to you afterwards!!!

Shannon50 · 22/08/2023 20:36

I believe it's when you're put in an awkward position hun, words come flying out your mouth without thinking, realising what was actually said after. I could never relax, and was like that until my 30's....which is when I was diagnosed bipolar. My life had been a constant struggle and an easy walk over for many.

Mothership4two · 22/08/2023 22:10

For some reason @penguinxoxo 's Disney story reminds me of a friend who had an argument in a department store lift with her mum when she was a teenager. The lift opened before they got to the right floor and my friend stormed out and said to the group of people waiting to get in "don't get in with her she's mad". Apparently the group took one look at her mum and all took a step back and no-one got in and watched her (red faced) as the doors shut and she descended alone and very embarrassed.

AppletreesAndHoneybeesAndSnowWhiteTurtleDoves · 22/08/2023 23:09

Shannon50 · 22/08/2023 20:36

I believe it's when you're put in an awkward position hun, words come flying out your mouth without thinking, realising what was actually said after. I could never relax, and was like that until my 30's....which is when I was diagnosed bipolar. My life had been a constant struggle and an easy walk over for many.

I read your earlier post and that is the kind of thing I would do when under intense social stress. Not bipolar but a similar diagnosis (BPD) and also complex trauma from years of abuse (most of which I knew about but some I didn't) which really made me very anxious and awkward around people. I didn't know it wasn't just me!

Thelnebriati · 23/08/2023 15:37

Before I was diagnosed I used to joke I had 'foot in mouth' disease.

SataumaMeddler · 23/08/2023 15:38

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.

I have questions. I'm not sure I want the answers though

SecretShambles · 23/08/2023 15:46

I got the giggles when my 8 week old baby was having his jabs at the Dr's
Something to do with it being a highly emotive experience seeing him screaming in.pain turned on the giggle-ometer

I'm sure the nurse thought I was a sadistic psycho

Thing is as giggling is infectious she was suppressing giggles too towards the end

BusFullOfCats · 24/08/2023 17:09

Mookie81 · 14/08/2023 09:54

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.

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Here’s a weird thing you’ve done: read someone’s traumatic or frightening experience and getting ‘fed up’ because you just want to be entertained!

BigLicks · 25/08/2023 09:55

SecretShambles · 23/08/2023 15:46

I got the giggles when my 8 week old baby was having his jabs at the Dr's
Something to do with it being a highly emotive experience seeing him screaming in.pain turned on the giggle-ometer

I'm sure the nurse thought I was a sadistic psycho

Thing is as giggling is infectious she was suppressing giggles too towards the end

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mookie81 · 25/08/2023 10:06

BusFullOfCats · 24/08/2023 17:09

Here’s a weird thing you’ve done: read someone’s traumatic or frightening experience and getting ‘fed up’ because you just want to be entertained!

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We'll have to agree to disagree. I have sympathy for those posters, but it's inappropriate and poor thread etiquette in my opinion, not that that's worth anything.

SataumaMeddler · 25/08/2023 12:18

catscalledbeanz · 11/08/2023 21:55

I've told this story in here before- but when my pfb was born I was very over protective. This included pouring 100ml of baby shampoo DIRECTLY INTO MY OWN EYES to check it's "no more tears" credentials. This was more painful than the childbirth. I cried. A lot. It took near half an hour to wash out my poor eyes and bright light hurt my eyes for days. What's makes all of this worse, is that dd was bald. Until she was about 3.

🤣🤣🤣 I'm in pain from laughing

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