Strange things people have done or said to you that you still think about sometimes?!?

[biney]

Mine is I once called my uncle to ask him if he would like to meet at a cafe in town to get a coffee, he went absolutely mad at me over the phone and hung up, Later found out he had told the rest of my family that I was obvioulsy a controlling person because I was trying to control him and his life for trying to 'make' him go out for a coffee when he didn't want to!

This was four years ago and he hasn't spoken to me since, Apart from one text to tell me he was better without people like me in his life for the sake of his own mental health!.

There is no backstory apart from what I wrote here, I still think of this all the time!

I had a weird one once. I was in fairly large cafe on the retail park where I worked, having breakfast, reading a book, minding my own business and despite there being several empty tables, this elderly couple, that I had never met before, without even asking, came and sat down at my table and started chatting to me. I'm not antisocial but I couldn't understand why anyone would choose to sit down with a stranger who is clearly fine alone. My surprise must have been clear on my face cos later at work customers came up to me saying 'we saw poor you in the cafe' and 'did you know them.

Walking down a street near work minding my own business and a man said "no one will want to marry you with a face like that" 😂 i said "well someone did" and held up my left hand.

A homeless person was being removed from a restaurant for begging. He started screaming that I was his sister and he was with me. Sat down at my table and tried to get me to agree that he was my brother while I subtly shook my head mouthing "no he's not" to the waiters. Never met the man before in my life lol

This doesn’t surprise me. I feel I’ve heard of lots of incidents on this footpath. In cineworld carpark once (in the dark and scary part) someone left a random note on my car windscreen asking me to call them to discuss my shopping bags?! Freaked me out!

Many years ago, I was a young, very shy and quiet newlywed working in an office. A colleague came over to my desk and said "How's your husband?" which I thought was a bit odd as I hardly knew her and she said it in such a way that I can only describe as faux-concern. When I said he was fine thanks, she did this weird kind of smirk and said "awwww you're so brave, honey" then walked away. I was busy so just got on with my work.

About half an hour later, someone else came over and asked the same thing. I had to ask her why she was asking - turns out that someone (I never found out who) had said that I'd married a much, much older man, purely for his money, and he was very ill in hospital on life support!

DH and I met when we were still at school and got married when we were 20, so I've no idea where that story came from!

Popped in a local newsagent type shop while visiting a small town in the countryside, a seemingly posh elderly lady was talking to the shop assistant, then in a load commanding voice she boomed “stand clear!” And then gobbed a mouth load of phlegm which flew over the counter. My mate and I were gob smacked, the assistant didn’t bat an eye lid, like it happened all the time.

Ohmygod

When I was at uni and came back for my summer hols to my home town, I bumped into a girl from my old school who told me she had heard that I dropped out. I said I hadn’t, but she was then she insisted I had. I couldn’t convince her.

I worked with a woman when I was in my 20s. She was obsessed with my height. She used to tell random men I was after them. She also used to accuse me of getting it on with random clients. She was a very fucked up person.

I had a very similar experience as a kid. I was slightly pudgy as a 12 year old but looking back at photos now, hardly ‘overweight’. I also had a school friend who was ballet mad and her older sister was training to be a pro ballet dancer. The whole family was stick thin but utterly obsessed with their weight. They'd have family week weigh ins and I remember the sister jumping on the scales and wailing because she was 7 stone 13 and ‘so fat’. They’d live all week on fruit and once a week have a takeaway.

I was invited one time to join them for the takeaway and when the food arrived, we all sat at the table while the mum dished it out. Instead of chow mein and chicken, she handed me a bowl with two boiled onions in a thin brown sauce. She’d made it for me as a substitute as I ‘needed to lose a few pounds’. I was mortified. 😂

Meh,
that was so horrible of the mum to just give you a few onions in a bowl. I mean , that is just cruel.
Makes me wonder what makes people tick sometimes to think that is acceptable. I hope you never went back to their place.

All I can think is that maybe they were gifts and he wanted the receipt to either give to the recipient or keep in case of returns but didn’t want said recipient to think that he was “tight” or had bought the items because they were on sale?

Bubble gum
I agree with the poster below that the man didn’t want sale items on a receipt as it was a gift ! ( just a guess )

A work colleague saying that bacon came from a cow. No convincing her that bacon was in fact pork and it came from a pig.
Even after googling it and showing her the results, she believes to this day that bacon comes from a cow 🤣🤣🤣

Oh crikey it was supposed to be boat!! The people who have liked the comment you can retract those likes if it not being a boar is disappointing!

I can’t stop laughing at this - sorry!

I was outside a pub, and a very drunk man came up to me a said "you know what... antique shops are not what they say they are". I was baffled then and I am baffled now.

There's been a few. In my early 20s a distressed woman came into my workplace and accused me of having an affair with her boyfriend. Her "proof" was white cat fur on his clothes, I didn't even have a cat

I had similar...
I used to have a motorbike. A blue Honda.
When I visited my parents, I would bump it up on the path and park outside their front garden.
One time, I was visiting, and this woman banged on the door. My DM answered. She had just had a shower so was in dressing gown with a towel on her head. Woman swore blind her husband was in my DMs house. She said his motorbike was parked up outside. Yelled stuff about them just been in bed as my mum was not dressed.
DM calmly told her that she should check the number plate before freaking out. Said it was her daughter's bike. I appeared, in my leathers. She quickly shrunk off.

Xeno, that man may have a point about antique shops to be fair! Maybe he’d been ripped off by one.

In the old days when phone boxes were still a thing, I was walking down the street past one, and the phone started to ring. I looked around and there was no-one about so I went in and answered it:

"Hello?"
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"Er - I was just walking past this phone box and it was ringing, so I answered it"

The man on the other end then went off on a total rant about how it wasn't me he wanted to talk to, and what was I doing answering the telephone if the call wasn't for me, and how rude I was, how very dare I, and that I should never do it again.

Okaaaay...

I tried explaining again, but he yelled "Go away!!" and hung up.

I must admit I did have a good look around me to see whether it was some sort of prank that was being filmed, but nothing. Not a soul anywhere around.

As I was walking away, I heard the phone start to ring again. 😂

True! Although I find it weird and something I still remember as he just wandered up to me, said his bit... then wandered off again 😂

I remember when I was seeing a bloke who lived about 150 miles away (I'm going back about 12 years)
I'd never been to his town before and knew nobody apart from him
I went to visit him for the weekend and we'd had words
I went outside to calm down a bit,when this woman I'd never met before walked up to me
'Alright delboy?how are the kids?did your dd get on OK in her first job at subway?did your ds get his promotion?how was your birthday last week?' (Etc)
She was spot on in everything
I'd never seen her before in my life (and none of the adult kids knew who she was when I asked)
I now live in the town I visited (with my now dp) and have never seen her since

No but I’d LOVE to meet him!

It was Tyson Fury and he gave me such a gentle affectionate pat.

Oh I was once accused of having an affair........with my own husband.
My DH had moved jobs to become a manager. As a manager his contact details were on the company list in case any of the agents needed to contact him in an emergency - this was 30 years ago so it was like a business card.
A colleague's STBEW saw us together at the Xmas dinner- dance the company put on. She wasn't there as a guest but had snuck in to keep an eye on her STBEH.
She must have seen me and DH having a quick snog while we were getting our coats. - Now we have an age difference and at the time had been married for nearly 2 years.
She phoned me up on the landline the next day and told me DH was having an affair with a " little slapper" then described me and the outfit I was wearing ( nice dress from Principles actually!)

@Eccythumpy She must have been beside herself with embarrassment when you told her that the little slapper was actually his wife - aka you.😁

@BeNiceWhenItsFinished I didnt get a word in.
I rang DH at work and he had a word with her STBXH who apologised repeatedly.