Most surreal favour anyone has ever asked you for?

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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?

In my previous house, I had someone knock and ask if they could have the large dandelion which was growing in my front garden. I said yes and very slowly backed away and closed the door...

A woman asked if my husband could marry her ...

Luckily he's a vicar 😀

Might have wanted the dandelion for feeding to her tortoise

A neighbour wanted us to swap houses for a month: her house was substantially bigger than ours, she had family visiting from overseas, and she said if they saw all her spare rooms she’d never get rid of them.

So she wanted to tell them that they’d had her address wrong for years, and she lived at teeny tiny number 4, not huge palace number 2.

I am :) She's like a sister to me and has been by my side through all of my rough times too. We have laughed hysterically during some of the most bizarre episodes you could imagine! In hospitals, funeral directors, classrooms, tutorials, church services, airports, art galleries...

Ndn wanted to some my pj's.
No problem..
They came back washed and folded..
Ndn wanted to borrow those particular pj's..
No problem.
Until she told me it was because her bf like her wearing them for sex..
I told her to keep the pj's..

@crockofshite I would never have thought of that! Makes sense!

We got the keys to our new house and went round and the next door neighbour came out and asked if she could borrow our keys for a few days so that she could use the bathroom because she was having hers redone. I told her my house insurance would be invalid and she stalked off in a huff. It's definitely the weirdest thing anyone has ever asked me !

So new neighbour you've never met wants to randomly pop into your house while you're there with your keys to use the loo? And storms off in a huff when told no? 💀

Was it the first batshit experience you've had with her or was there more afterwards?

Did you live in huge palace number 2 for a month then?

Jeremy Irons once asked to have a look at my Rayburn (not a euphemism).

@Lipolio - she hadn’t really thought it through, we had our nursery decorated with a dinosaur mural, obviously a cot etc and she was child free so would have been hard to explain!

Lovely thread. A guy once knocked on my car window when I was pulled up in traffic and asked very urgently if I could give him a lift to the railway station. He was from overseas and clearly in a severe panic about missing a train in a country whose infrastructure he didn't really understand.
The strange thing was that he clearly didn't twig that his behaviour towards a lone woman could have been experienced as a little bit intimidating.
He said almost nothing while he was in the car and just burst away with barely a thank you when we arrived at the station. I KNOW it was just because he was stressed, though, and I felt pleased to have been able to help him.

A lady used to come into tye shop l worked in, l was always polite to her as that was my job. Got talking one day and l mentioned we were off to Devon the following month. She asked if she could have a lift as her daughter lives there. It is a good 8 hour drive from us and l really didn't fancy making small talk all that way with dh and dd who was about 7 at the time!

While we weren't there. The house was empty as we hasn't moved yet! Sadly not , in the 2 years we've lived near her we've had several more incidences of bat Shittery from her, I once found her in my back garden pulling weeds 🤣 I actually rang the housing association that time because I was sick of her. She would constantly come to the door complaining about where we were parked (it's on street parking , no fixed spots) she also threatened to knock down the wall between our two gardens and also came to the door trying to sell me a mop 🙈 we now have a ring door bell and the housing association told her one more complaint and they'd evict her. She's absolutely nuts!

Eleven years ago while me and my now husband were on our first date a complete stranger stopped us and asked to take a photo for his university project. We were too polite to refuse. I never saw the photo and not sure what the project was on. But felt weird. There's our first photo together ever, out somewhere.

(I realise now with SM and recordings of everything everywhere, regardless of people's consent, things have changed a lot.)

I think we need context on this one! I'm intrigued! 😄

Apparently he was thinking of buying one for his house in Ireland. He popped round and asked me a few questions, then took a very long phone call from his girlfriend while making 'sorry about this' eye rolls at me (although not telling her he might call her back as he was in fact stood in a strangers kitchen at that moment), then thanked me and left.

A very good friend (who was a 30 year old virgin) started dating a woman and was worrying if one thing led to another and he couldn't perform.
So he asked me if he could practice with me!

The absolute cheek of it! He's now an ex friend, I could never look at him the same way again and we were friends for over a decade

A woman once asked me to report an abandoned push chair in an alleyway in town, as she was too nervous to go in the police station herself. I was a nervous teen at the time and did it; the police were polite but obviously not interested. I still cringe a little on the (thankfully rare) occasions I happen to remember it.
Oh, and while getting into my car after a night shift, a random dude jogging past asked if he could have a lift (I forget where to, but I said no!)

A woman recently asked me to move tables in a cafe because I was at her favourite table and she wanted to sit there with her friends. She then asked if she could share it...in an empty cafe. The really weird thing was that I was in there again the next week at the same time on the same table and she asked me again!

We have an arsehole neighbour who asked my mother (from Australia, who he had met that morning in passing as we were bringing her suitcases in) on her first ever trip to the UK to see us) to sit with his wife just after she had a stroke in the hospital because he wanted to go to a summer bbq. He literally knocked on the door and asked my mother if she would do that.

Then he became very angry when I said no. (Mother is a people pleaser and was about to say a bemused yes). I said no. Not least because we were due at the same fucking bbq.

This was about 14 years ago and he has since ramped up being a bit strange and does things like records us going in and out of our own house and comes onto our property to tell my gardener to take various trees out. (There is more but I won'y go into it for now).