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?

I got drunk and sang Someone Like You into a microphone in front of all our friends in our local village. Really really badly.

A few years ago but every time I think about it I die a little bit inside. Mortifying. I am a dick.

This made me laugh out loud!

Dumped a not so good looking bf from a good uni who was lovely and kind with good prospects for another lovely and kind bf with zero prospects and now 20 years on we're all skint and I am filled with resentment.

Oh gawd this has reminded me that a boy
i fancied lived opposite me when I was a teenager. We went to different schools but in the same area. I used to wait in my parents bedroom and the moment I saw his front door open I used to race downstairs so I could leave too so I could conveniently bump into him on the corner and we’d walk together.

Thats actually made me cringe writing it.

Don't fight the inevitable. It's not a question of if, but when. Godspeed x

I work in community care, I had a new client and was given his address by my company. I arrived at the house, the male client let me in. I explained I was from the company and that I was here for his visit. He replied that he didn't need anything, and seemed a bit confused.
I asked him where the carers login book was, and he replied that he didn't have carers coming to his home.
I then looked at my phone and realised I'd gone to the wrong house. My company had given 2 different house numbers, I should've been a couple of doors down.
I felt mortified and apologised to the man, he was very understanding. He let me in though! I arrived in a carers uniform, I don't know why he even let me in but hey ho!

Also aged around 16 a friend and I had a huge crush on an 18 year old with an eyebrow piercing who worked at Sainsbury's. We used to go there on the weekends just to stalk him. I'm not sure if he caught on! I remember thinking 'ooh he's so old, he's 18' 😂

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

When I lived in flats, I knew my neighbours and it would be natural to talk to other neighbours about something odd that happened at the flats. In this case, I wouldn't assume that the neighbour was complaining about them doing anything. Foxes are everywhere in urban areas.

When I was a 14/15 year old young girl I used to hitchhike everywhere alone as I couldn't be bothered waiting on buses. I jumped into any car that stopped. Can't believe I did that?

That reminds me of something that happened to my mum @EverybodyLTB. She went round to my aunt's and found a dead mouse near the doorstep. My aunt was convinced it was one of my cousin's hamsters so went out and picked it up, put it on a warm hot water bottle, kept blowing onto its face while pumping its chest with her finger - this went on for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile my mum was howling with laughter. It didn't revive and it wasn't one of my cousin's hamsters. This event is regularly brought up at family get togethers

I once went to collect a piece of furniture up that I was buying off FB marketplace, the man answered the door and handed over item and I paid for it.....all standard. He then said, "oh, I've got some other items you may like upstairs". I went into his home and upstairs....alone. All very innocent but on my way home I couldn't believe I did that! I don't mean all blokes on their own are murderers but I alway think that I shouldn't have gone in his house alone like that.

This is incredibly weird and I'm going to explain this terribly but I'll try.

I was much younger and even more stupid than I am now. I was part of an X-Factor on Digital spy. We were fans of a particular contestant and many of us broke away to a private forum. There was one particular person, Marie, who wasn't asked to join the group(She wasn't alone in that) because she could be very aggressive and intense. We still talked on the main forum though.

Our little group got a shout out on X-Factor from said contestant so that did not make us popular and there was a concert upcoming. I was going to be the only member who could attend in my area so I took along a fake poinsettia because that somehow became the symbol of our group.(No I can't remember why.) i knew that Marie was going to be there, would know who I was and that things might be a little tense.

During the interval Marie came over to talk to me, and things were slightly tense but ok. She asked about the group and I rambled on about it and said that not everyone was invited, not even people we actually like. Then realised with horror what I'd said. Thankfully it was noisy so I don't think she actually heard me but just to be on the safe side I decided to take the sensible precaution of using the word like in every sentence, in the pretence that I naturally use it in every sentence and didn't say that we didn't like her, while imitating her Geordie accent to make it even more convincing. It was the most painful conversation of my life and I don't know what was weirder, that, or the fact that I took a fake potted plant to a concert.

@Elzibells this has made my day 😂

Working 15-hour days during covid for a small business that didn't pay me - it lasted 2 months and it meant we no longer had family meals. We've never managed to get back to that either 😞
I've binned working for small businesses now.

😂

I remember a job interview years ago where I had to do a presentation that was x minutes long. Before I went in I was told that when I was approaching times up one of the interviewers would let me know by putting their finger in the air. So in I go.. guy puts his finger up.. and I acknowledge this by winking at him! With a little nod of the head! It seems such a small insignificant event but I am still excruciatingly embarrassed by it 30 years later

@Ulomp and @Tootingbec I think the pair of you may have just made me piss my pants….”you slaaaaags, f’nah , f’nah.”

@IHateLegDay we also used to do that, why? I remember we’d also recline the front passengers seat and pretend we didn’t know how to put it in the upright position, so in broken English with a stupid accent, we’d try to get people to explain how the seat worked….why?

Moved into a flat with dh where the neighbour was a bit weird . We were putting up some shelves and using a drill , neighbour knocked on the door and said we were scaring her little dog but if we let her in with dog in her arms and carried on putting up shelves he wouldn't be scared as would be able to see .
We did exactly that !

Panicked after not being able to find my keys at home, ran straight out to look for them in the street...shutting the front door behind me.

I vividly recall slamming the door and instantly thinking "why the fuck have I done that??"

I lived alone and had let myself into the house the night before so the keys would obviously have been somewhere inside. I didn't have shoes on and had to walk two and a half miles to the locksmiths.
The keys were on the kitchen counter

Some brilliant stories!

When I was six or seven I went to play with a girl round the corner. I didn't know them very well and her mum always seemed quite strict.

During the afternoon, I went to the toilet and the bolt on the door wouldn't open to let me back out. I remember panicking that I'd be stuck in there and eventually wrenched it so hard it came loose and was hanging down by two screws.

I was terrified I'd get a row and for some reason instead of gong back out into the garden, I crept into their living room and hid behind the sofa. I could hear her mum going round the house shouting for me; she even came into the living room and called my name while I crouched there trying not to breathe.

When she left the room I tiptoed into the hall, slipped out of the front door and ran home.

Cloudsandrainnotsunandsand Wow 11 DC! just in awe of being pregnant so many times.Nice to have a big family though

Me and the same friend also had an obsession with Queen. We sang the whole of Bohemian Rhaspody to the dinner ladies.... every single lunch time. I mean it's a long song, I remember them trying to leave but we just kept them there for chorus after chorus. Cringey.
Thisis my favourite .

I still go red thinking about this! I was once at a funeral and in attendance was a local/minor celebrity who'd recently been charged with soliciting/kerb crawling. It had been reported in the local press and afterwards at the wake, trying to make chit chat with a group of people I didn't know (and feeling really awkward), I inexplicably started blathering on about having read about this guy's recent charge...it was like I COULDN'T stop talking! I suddenly said the word 'kerbcrawling' way louder than I intended to and there was a sudden hush in the room.

I went beetroot and looked across the room where minor celeb hastily put down his drink and quickly left.
There were a few disapproving stares in my direction. Serves me right I guess for gossiping! ;)