Something that's true no one would believe

[Lululime2024]

so Something happened this morning that's so funny to me but I can't really say it to anyone because they'll think I'm nuts so I'll start.

i genuinely turned a corner in Lidl this morning and Tracy beaker was there (dani harmer) I'd heard rumours she had moved to my town but I wasn't sure. But no, sure enough there she was.

I won't say where just incase there's some odd balls super fans but there you go. Have you ever bumped into a celeb in an odd place or something happened that no one would believe?

that's a good one!

When I say no one would believe I don't mean that literally, I just mean if I was to say to family or a friend I saw Tracy beaker in Lidl I'd sound like a fruit cake.

I mean it sounds a bit far fetched. Without context of where I live it sounds normal. But trust me it's not.

I met Bill Gates on a plane from Mexico to Texas.
I met Princess Diana in the newsagent's.
I unexpectedly met my brother in Athens.

I used to work in London's West End, so met a lot of famous and "famous" people here and there, but a few instances stand out. @Lululime2024, I think it's sweet that you're so excited about Tracy Beaker. Enjoy your moment, and do tell your friends!

That's awesome

When I first read that I thought, "So what?"
Then I read it again and realised you didn't mean Marc Bolan's T-Rex.

I walked out of my midwife’s appointment at UCH in London and bumped (literally) into the next woman going in after me. It was Vanessa Feltz. I rushed home to spread the gossip with my friends who were all quite disbelieving (she was 50 something at the time I think). I subsequently saw a newspaper article where she talked about her pregnant daughter so I assume she was meeting/supporting her DD at the appointment!

While frantically multiplying its cells, the developing foetus tries to invade the mother's body. Pregnant women have an extra class of Natural Killer Cells to keep it in check. Some cells make it through, though, and a few persist. This means that your body probably contains cells from each child you have gestated.

Since the female foetus develops all its oocytes in utero, the egg that eventually became you was grown in your grandmother's body.

That there is only one country separating Norway and North Korea

I sat on a bench chatting to Harry Styles at the park as our dogs were playing together.

I was already seated on the bench when this dog came along and started to play with my dog. A man then came and sat on the other end of the bench (it was a three person bench). As I was focused on the dogs playing I didn’t properly look at him and we just chatted for about ten minutes about the dogs (dog owners will know the chat I mean). Then a girl came up and asked for his autograph and I looked at the man properly and realised who it was. He realised I hadn’t known who he was as we were chatting and we had a laugh about it.

We then had a photo together, taken on my phone. He was very nice and down to earth.

I like this, but it's a bit of a stretch! You'd have to wriggle round Japan.

I once met the queen mother in a drainage ditch at the bottom of a field. Apparently her convoy often used such routes to get away from security problems, or traffic jams

not just the cells, the chromosomes can go a bit rogue, and do! Hence any woman who has gestated a son will have Y chromosomes in her body!

classic example of people not believing what is true on a recent thread! - every European is descended from Vikings (however much those dna kits tell you you are not) and every English person is descended from Edward 1 - this is basic maths, but people will argue until they are blue in the face that it isn't true!

I met the entire cast and crew of Only Fools and Horses in a restaurant in Bristol. They were having a meal, because even actors and directors need to eat.

Donny Osmond once lifted my friend’s very heavy suitcase off a train for her.

That it is possible to have given birth many times and not have a fanjo like a welly top....
Just saying.

Simply cross Russia, they both border it.

Yep, my mistake! I forgot that Norway bends around the top.

I met an actor two years ago. Also not in London. Our paths crossed a few times. We got friendly and ended up exchanging numbers. He text me and asked if I wanted to meet at the pub for a few drinks.

So, I went. I was a bit star-struck, I think. He was gorgeous. I told my DH I was going. He didn't want me to, but I said I'd only go for one, and then I had an event to attend afterwards.

Anyway, me and the actor got carried away and I missed my event. Got seriously drunk. Nothing untoward happened, but I didn't tell DH that I'd stayed longer and missed my event.

He found out anyway and accused me of sleeping with this actor, etc. We almost broke up. Had to delete and block the actors' number!

Always wander if he ever tried contacting me again. That was December 2022!

Yep - me and DH helped recapture Ginger Baker’s escaped Dalmatian. Twice.
(lived in the next village along and the dog was an escape artist). He’s dead now of course (Ginger Baker that is, although I suppose the dog might be too by now).

Also, I met Isabella Blow in an Indian restaurant near Waterloo. She was very nice.

Who was the actor? TV? Film? British? American?

Not surprised your DP was miffed.
Imagine if this situation was reversed and a MNers posted about it.... your DP gave a gorgeous female actor his number, then he arranged to go for a drink with her, then he 'got carried away' and 'seriously drunk' with this gorgeous lady. LTBs everywhere. Quite rightly.

Omg I would have fainted 😆😆

One of the Antiques Roadshow experts helped rescue our kitten that was stuck up a tree. We had no idea who he was; just knocked on the door of the house attached to the garden we thought she was stuck in. He got a ladder and was really kind and helpful.

The following Sunday evening we happened to watch the Antiques Roadshow, and there he was.

Pineapples don't grow on trees.