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

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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?

And me 😂

Missed the opportunity for an affair with Mrs Robinson type person. Everything was there the whole opportunity I just needed to agree and my shyness got the better of me.

I love this story!

I love that.

Either your mum is very kind, or she too wanted to know what Asda was like in the middle of the night.

Showing my age - my first partner and I had a television before remote control TV's became fashionable.

My partner sourced three bamboo canes and taped them together so that we could cuddle up or be laying down watching the tv and use the stick to change channels on tv rather than get up!

I laugh at the madness of it now

I was at a sleepover with a bunch of mates at a friends house who lived on the edge of town. There wasn't much to do, and we had drunk all the booze we have bought with us, so we decided to wander to the large manor hotel that was a mile up the road to buy some cigarettes from the machine in reception. (It was the 90s!) we were about 15 years old, and all wearing pyjamas. I think it was around midnight.
When we got to the hotel we realised that there was a huge wedding reception being held there, which looked like lots of fun and so joined in!
No one stopped us as we danced and mine swept drinks. One guy asked us who we knew at the wedding, and we said the best man had invited us!
I sometimes wonder if we ended up in the background of the people's photos!

@Elzibells omg I was just sick

Dreadful isn't it!

This made me laugh! Love this thread OP really cheering me up!!

Questionable behaviour early twenties, very infrequent but It makes me cringe inside out when I do memory trips

Love the bamboo remote control 😁

My first proper teaching job in a very posh boarding school.

I was very naive, young and shy. A few of my lovely male colleagues saw me coming out of the staff room once at the same time that another female colleague was coming in. The other female colleague had a slight reputation for drinking and tended to drink with groups of men, nothing strange I guess she just preferred their company. Anyway, the male colleagues asked her why she hadn’t taken me out for a drink yet. I felt a bit uncomfortable and thought that they were sort of meddling a bit. I confidently said ‘oh it’s because I don’t have a penis’. It came across all loud and brash but the truth is I was embarrassed and didn’t know what to say. I think about what I said almost every single day and cringe about it constantly. It was so out of character! Sometimes (nearly 16 years later) I think about contacting this colleague and apologising.

As a teenager me and my friend walked around pretending to smoke incense sticks. We thought we were so cool.

As a child, having outgrown playing with my wendy house, I used to chew up small pieces of toilet roll and let them dry hard. I'd then stick the wendy house sticks out of the upstairs bedroom window and use them as pea shooters, hitting unsuspecting passersby on the neck with my home-made ammo.

Aged 16, I hatched a plan with my then boyfriend that he'd pretend to leave my home on a Saturday night. I'd say 'goodnight then' loud enough for my parents to hear while he'd scarper up the stairs to my bedroom where he'd spend the night with me. Worked a treat except that he spent all night in the wardrobe, petrified that my dad would walk in to my bedroom.

Snap!

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!

We used to live opposite a well known large sports stadium. One day when I was home alone, a man and his early 20s son who were clearly having a good time partying and having a drink before the match, knocked on my door saying they were sorry to disturb me but they used to live here many years ago and would love to look around.

I only bloody let them in!

It was fine, no problems, but Christ why on earth did I do that! This was over 5-6 years ago and I’m still too ashamed to ever admit it to my DH. He’d go mental about how idiotic it was!!

I used to truant when I was 14/15 and go and sit in Starbucks in town reading chick-lit 😂

I would take a change of clothes and some make-up in my backpack and change out of my uniform in the toilets at the shopping centre. I was lucky in that I looked a bit older so never aroused suspicion.

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.

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When I was 19 I moved in with my boyfriend(now ex) I used to make his sandwiches every night for him to take to work????? Wtf!!! I'm sure he could have made his own sandwiches but he said his ex always used to make them for him, so naive me just went along with it. Glad I binned him off!

Flings and one nighters with same and opposite gender regret regret and more regrets

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.

Me and my ex used to do this pre kids. The answer is specific old towels to put under the plates. Known as the eating towels.

This sounds so lovely.

@catscalledbeanz thank you for sharing that again! I remember it well and loved it the first time (although obviously not laughing at you in pain...ouch!)