Most surreal favour anyone has ever asked you for?

EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 2024-05-17T10:07:21+00:00

Inspired by another thread about favours. Doesn't have to be a cheeky favour, just one that's unusual in some way. Mine is that a complete stranger once knocked on my back door and asked if she could put two fish in my freezer. 🤔Turned out she'd brought them for a neighbour I only knew by sight, but said neighbour was out so she wondered if she could put the fish in my freezer and leave a note for the neighbour to come over for them when she was home. I said yes and it wasn't really a problem, but it was definitely surreal. 😄 Anyone else been asked for any weird favours?

DustyLee123 · 17/05/2024 11:09

I have the type of face that people know not to ask favours 🤣

aaaaffffks · 17/05/2024 11:11

I got asked to help plan a party, I did all the planning but wansn't given an invite or date. I saw the photos on Facebook and my friend didn't have enough space to invite everyone

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EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 17/05/2024 13:26

aaaaffffks · 17/05/2024 11:11

I got asked to help plan a party, I did all the planning but wansn't given an invite or date. I saw the photos on Facebook and my friend didn't have enough space to invite everyone

OMG the brass neck of it!😮I'm guessing this person is no longer in your address book!

@DustyLee123 I think I need to cultivate that kind of face 😄

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Nevergonnagiveuup · 17/05/2024 13:28

@aaaaffffksthat’s terrible!

aaaaffffks · 17/05/2024 13:28

She actually is! We were 15 so I was able to forgive her 😂

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EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 17/05/2024 13:31

aaaaffffks · 17/05/2024 13:28

She actually is! We were 15 so I was able to forgive her 😂

Ah, I see 😄Hopefully she's more considerate these days!

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Thecomfortador · 17/05/2024 13:32

I was in a park with a lake and lots of geese and swans, with my toddler. A couple came up to me and asked if I could throw bits of bread down for the birds so they would flock around the couple and provide a romantic background for their photo. I helped but toddler started freaking out with these massive birds around him so had to stop. Hope they got their romantic photo.

Menomeno · 17/05/2024 13:34

A man once knocked on my door and asked if he could cut a big branch off my eucalyptus tree to make a didgeridoo. That was a bit weird.

Lipolio · 17/05/2024 13:35

Menomeno · 17/05/2024 13:34

A man once knocked on my door and asked if he could cut a big branch off my eucalyptus tree to make a didgeridoo. That was a bit weird.

What did you say? 😆

permanently · 17/05/2024 13:41

Haha didgeri-don't

Menomeno · 17/05/2024 13:48

Lipolio · 17/05/2024 13:35

What did you say? 😆

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I actually told him that he could! He explained he’s a didgeridoo maker and apparently they can only be made from eucalyptus. He said he’d come back once he’d sorted a tree surgeon, but I never heard from him again so he didgerididn’t!

KnitnNatterAuntie · 17/05/2024 14:00

When both my elderly parents were being treated for cancer, someone they barely knew asked me if my DP's could host some of their family for the weekend as they were having a big christening party and didn't want to use hotels. I said definitely not, my parents were not in a fit state to host visitors and it was very likely that one of my siblings would be staying over the weekend to help out as DP's were struggling so wouldn't have a spare room available.

The person then contacted my DF and asked him! Fortunately he said NO!

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EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 17/05/2024 18:28

Menomeno · 17/05/2024 13:34

A man once knocked on my door and asked if he could cut a big branch off my eucalyptus tree to make a didgeridoo. That was a bit weird.

Love it! 😂 That knocks mine into a cocked hat!

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CombatLingerie · 17/05/2024 18:34

@Menomeno You win! We had a lovely big Eucalyptus tree in our garden neighbours did nothing but complain about it. We eventually got it cut down 😢. I wish I had known about didgeridoo’s it would have made a fair few !

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EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 19/05/2024 11:19

Shamelessly bumping as I'd love to hear more surreal favours, although I doubt anything will beat Didgeridoo Man 😅

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OneRedSandal · 19/05/2024 11:26

Back in the days of house phones, a man knocked on the door of my flat asking to use the phone and then immediately posted his drivers license through the letterbox. We let him in, and quickly realised he had broken ribs and a possible concussion. He'd been locked out of a friend's house and tried to climb the drainpipe up to the 2nd floor balcony but fell off the side of the building. He was quite erratic, told us all about his time in Australia, then stood up mid sentence and walked out. Never did find out what happened to him. I kept his drivers licence for a few months then posted it back to the DVLA.

Shetlands · 19/05/2024 11:41

My closest friend asked me to mix some her parents' ashes together and gave me a serving spoon to do it with! I'd never seen ashes before so I did it while shuddering and shrieking. Half of each of them went into a storage jar, which she subsequently hid in her luggage and flew them to Canada.

Prior to that, I'd gone with her to the Isle of Wight and helped kidnap her dementia suffering father from her bipolar mother. Oh and then there was the time before that when we flew to Canada to move her parents into a care home without them knowing and buy them a funeral plan to use up some money. Yes, we had to look at coffins and choose two!

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EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 19/05/2024 15:38

OneRedSandal · 19/05/2024 11:26

Back in the days of house phones, a man knocked on the door of my flat asking to use the phone and then immediately posted his drivers license through the letterbox. We let him in, and quickly realised he had broken ribs and a possible concussion. He'd been locked out of a friend's house and tried to climb the drainpipe up to the 2nd floor balcony but fell off the side of the building. He was quite erratic, told us all about his time in Australia, then stood up mid sentence and walked out. Never did find out what happened to him. I kept his drivers licence for a few months then posted it back to the DVLA.

Crikey! That must have been weird, especially the driving licence thing.

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EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 19/05/2024 15:41

Shetlands · 19/05/2024 11:41

My closest friend asked me to mix some her parents' ashes together and gave me a serving spoon to do it with! I'd never seen ashes before so I did it while shuddering and shrieking. Half of each of them went into a storage jar, which she subsequently hid in her luggage and flew them to Canada.

Prior to that, I'd gone with her to the Isle of Wight and helped kidnap her dementia suffering father from her bipolar mother. Oh and then there was the time before that when we flew to Canada to move her parents into a care home without them knowing and buy them a funeral plan to use up some money. Yes, we had to look at coffins and choose two!

They sound like a very odd family! I'm not good with ashes myself so couldn't have done the mixing bit. I think I'd have struggled with the rest as well, tbh!

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Cuppachuchu · 19/05/2024 15:45

A woman knocked on our door one Sunday at about 9am 😠 and asked if she could park on our drive whilst she went to church!

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 19/05/2024 15:48

Didgerididn't

Lipolio · 19/05/2024 15:57

Cuppachuchu · 19/05/2024 15:45

A woman knocked on our door one Sunday at about 9am 😠 and asked if she could park on our drive whilst she went to church!

Did you say yes? 😆

Cuppachuchu · 19/05/2024 16:01

Ha, no. I pointed out all the empty parking spaces on the street, and told her to jog on. Went back to bed.

VerlynWebbe · 19/05/2024 16:06

My dad's colleague came to my house as I was about to leave for school (age 16, nobody else in the house), and asked if he could bury his cat under the big tree. Said it was all right with my dad. If life was a tv drama he'd have been a wrong 'un trying to corner a young girl, but irl he was so upset. I was late for English and my teacher just rolled his eyes at me when I told him.

SallySunrise · 19/05/2024 16:09

@Shetlands you are a really good friend!