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

[BarbaraVineFan]

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’ve named changed for obvious reasons

i was about 12 and we had a school talent show. For some reason, me and a friend decided to do a sexy scarf dance to the Etta James song “I just want to make love to you”. We invited our 50-something year old geography teacher to sit in the front and then basically did what could be described as a lap dance for him, draping silk scarves around his neck and shimmying around. My friends older sister helped us come up with the routine so I think maybe she was taking the piss.

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.

Locking the front door of a guest house I was staying in. I had been for a late evening stroll with DH and when we returned I locked the door behind us. All hell broke loose with lots of angry guests trying to get back in later in the evening. Lots of still cross people at breakfast the following morning. I didn't tell DH I was the culprit until we got home.

Oh man, I did that one time too. A colleague from an international office was over to visit. We'd previously had pretty good friendly banter and were on hugging terms but that day I'd spilled coffee on my dress so didn't want to stand up. He went to go for a hug and I didn't stand up so ended up sort of clinging to his waist in a really awkward way.

Hahah I did something similar - asked the teacher if I could perform the highland fling to the class.

She let me.

id never had any dance lessons, didn’t know what the highland fling was, just flung my legs and arms around.

someone else then got up and started doing it properly

wtf why did I do that?

Another less embarrassing one but when I was in Germany a good looking waiter offered me his number one night and I turned it down. I got all the way back to our accommodation then decided to go back for it. Which I did 1 bus ride, 1 U-bahn trip, 1 rickshaw journey and a lot of walking later. He gave me it and I'd like to tell you it was the romance of the century but it wasn't. We never contacted each other again after my holiday. It was fun at the time though. It felt a bit like being in a Rom Com running across the city like that.

Was about 14 and had a friend who was obsessed with babies . We would go into our local Mothercare on a Saturday afternoon and she would ' shop ' for the basics babygrows , vests , nappies , pram bedding etc then we'd leave the basket at the end of an aisle and leave the shop . We would also covert the new Mothercare catalogue when it came out , and plan what we would buy one day .

I still cringe about this years later….

We had invited a few neighbours over for dinner when we moved to a new area (to make them like me). One of the desserts I had spent all day making was a crumble with fruit from our new garden. As I placed it on the table, I suddenly panicked that it wasn’t cooked all the way through, so I stuck my finger right into the middle of it. I have no idea why, I have never done anything like that before or since. I stopped, looking at my finger splodged in the centre of the dish and tried to think of what to say. I had nothing so just removed it and carried on. They all looked a bit bemused and then chose the other dessert option……

I was an exceptionally broody (yet prudish) teen... at 14 I would totally have coveted mothercare if it was an option we had.

I convinced myself I was pregnant several times despite being a virgin, as I got into the second half of my teens I would take pregnancy tests despite not being sexually active. In my defense I have PCOS (unknown then) so have irregular long cycles and it can really mess with your head.

I did buy a babygrow, rattle, some newborn shoes and teddy when I was about 16 and poundland first opened because they where so cute. I hid them in my wardrobe at my parents.

Many years later and completely coincidentally when I was pregnant (but hadn't told anyone yet as I discovered at 8 week due to PCOS and was waiting to see the midwife) my mam found them and thought (despite me not living there for years) I had bought them and been sneaking them into her house to hide them because it was a secret pregnancy.

I went along with it, seemed less crazy than admitting that I bought them at 16 when I was a (willfully prudish) virgin because I was somehow baby obsessed as if I was going to be the next virgin Mary.

I’m just remembering more. Walking the dog as a teenager and en route to the park I heard several boys voices and seconds later it became apparent I had stumbled across the home of a boy I fancied from the bus and he and a few of his friends were playing basketball on the front driveway. At literally the exact moment me and said bus boy clocked each other, my dog stopped. To do a shit. I desperately tried to persuade him to move, trying to almost drag him away. But no. The giant Labrador was doing a giant shit. On the grass verge outside the boy from the buses house. In front of him and all his friends. He looked horrified, and I scuttled off absolutely mortified leaving a giant dog shit behind me. (yes as an adult I am totally aware how awful it is to not clear up dog shit, I can only explain that I was about 13,
didn’t have the pooper scooper with me and it was an excruciating situation, before anyone rushes to tell me off! 🙈)

Sounds like lovely memories x

omg

Got married even though I did not want to.

I had a secure tenancy and let a 'friend' talk me into joining a group in a house share. She turned out to be a complete nightmare, and we all ended up homeless.
The worst thing was, she joined an online group I was in recently and I just had to leave. I can't stand the sight of her.

I has something similar @CringeyCrispys when I was about 13 I really fancied the paperboy who used to drop the paper into our kitchen and make a fuss of the dog. So I took the dog out for a walk one evening deliberately on his route and sure enough we "bumped" into each other on a steep hill and when he stopped, the dog, being even more excited to see him than I was, wet herself and her pee went cascading down towards him. It actually was quite funny but I was so mortified I could barely speak so he patted the dog and cycled away.

I was on holiday in Blackpool, must have been 8 at the most. We were staying in a B&B.

Woke up to someone outside shouting “Marky mate” over and over again. It must have been in the middle of the night but light because it was summer. Looked outside to see two men, probably only 20 but looked like old men to me, standing outside. They shouted up that they were locked out and could I let them in.

Stupidly, I did go down, let them in and then flew back up the stairs and into my room as they were thanking me.

I told my gran and aunt the next day and they were, understandably, raging. Thankfully, it seems that they were just a bit drunk, locked out of the B&B, looking for Marky to let them in.

Thinking back of what could have happened is quite horrendous. I just wanted them to shut up so I could get back to sleep. I’d imagine the B&B owners would have lost their shit at me letting what could have been random men into their hotel in the dead of night.

I have just realised that it probably explains why I only ever peek out windows to assess what’s going on before making myself visible to whoever is outside. I have a terrible memory but can remember this so vividly. And also thinking that I’d only ever heard people use the word “mate” in neighbours and home and away 😂

Love this! Reminds me of one of my old school friends.

I was on holiday in Egypt and I had hung some smalls on the roof of our villa before we went out. Coming back across the Nile in a busy water taxi, the sun was going down. I’ve always been scared of the dark and so I was probably panicking a little and I said far too loud: “I must get my knickers down before it’s dark!” My husband just smiled and answered “Whatever you want, darling” as the boat ‘audience’ sniggered.

Oh, that is so funny! Adorable in its oddness even.

SallySunrise
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.

What about that thing called a tray? 🤣

Love this!! 😂

What do you get out of deflating somebody with a twattish comment like 'How do you get through life... blah blah'?

My old car broke down on a busy A road. It was before mobile phones were around and I didn't know what to do. A car pulled up and I was offered a lift by a strange man. I accepted, but all the time in my head, I was imagining scenarios of being murdered and how my family would be at my funeral.

Needless to say, he was a very nice man and dropped me off at my parents house.

My parents used to go to the Cash & Carry when I was little and when I was 6 I found a wholesale box of hard liquorice sticks (Mum's favourite sweets) hidden in the larder. It was a display box that you would help yourself from in a sweet shop. So, when Mum was making tea, I slipped out and went door to door around our heighbourhood selling them for a few pennies each. It was around 6ish but quite dark out. Most of my "customers" did buy some (bless them), probably because they felt sorry for this little urchin being forced to hawk sweets around! My very pale faced Dad eventually drove up having found me several streets away from home. Not sure why I did it, I think I was playing at being a shop keeper. Actually didn't get in to too much trouble, just a stiff talking to, and was allowed to keep the money. Makes me shiver now!

I'm a nurse and a lady came into my clinic. She knew a lot about her health and instead if saying 'you're on the ball' I said 'you're definitely on the game'😂