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

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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!

They do say that everyone has a doppelgänger, so it might be that people just look like others and it becomes a big old mix up! Plus some people have ‘ face blindness ‘ , so again , they think it’s someone else ?
Some people from behind can look similar to each other , then they turn around and you think ‘ oh ‘
Many women have similar hair cuts these days too

After hours of sightseeing in the sweltering heat of Italy in August, my husband and I stopped to sit on a bench and quietly chat. Cue a loud and very irate local woman gesticulating at me and screaming her displeasure. What was the problem? We were no different to other tourists. As she continued I realised that my top had billowed out to totally cover my shorts. She must have thought I was soliciting.

This exact thing happened to me. Sitting on a sun lounger minding my own business and all of a sudden I was surrounded by a large group of female (I think Japanese , but maybe could have been Korean) tourists who wanted a group photo with me on the lounger and then crowded around.

It was in Hawaii so it wasn’t like there weren’t many Westerners around. No idea to this day who they thought I was.

first time i went to Korea (back in the early 2000) i was down in the southern part with Korean colleagues at a tourist spot. I was the only westerner out that day, and hordes of school parties queued up to have their photos taken with me, take photos of me and asked for my autograph

I was very obliging but it amuses me to know that there are literally hundreds of Koreans who have, among their photos of their childhoods, photos of a middle aged English woman.

Once my very much loved cat went missing. I put up 'missing' posters in the area I lived. A man rang me to say he thought a fox got her. I asked if he saw this happening. He hadn't but it had occurred to him that that might be what had happened and so had taken it upon himself to call me up to share the theory with me 😐

I always get the nutter at the bus stop who awill without fail sit next to me on the bus even if it's practically empty😭 some of the conversations I've had with them have been wild to say the least. Luckily I have relatives with quite severe schizophrenia so I'm used to it in a way😅

I love this thread! All the weird and wonderful…& I feel the perfect place to air a ‘wtf’ moment that happened to me that is minor and silly compared to PPs here, but I still don’t understand ‘why’ when it pops into my head:

Years ago I was part of a musical theatre group and after a show one evening the cast went to the pub for a drink. I was sat with 3 friends from the group (2F and 1M) when another member of the group came over to the table. We were all sat down so had to stand up to greet him and lean over as he greeted everyone with a kiss on the cheek. But when it came to me last, he stood back and said “No”!, shaking his head, and wouldn’t greet me / kiss my cheek
My friends were surprised and saying “What?!”
But we were all laughing and shaking our heads and I was thinking ‘huh?!’
I had no history with this person and knew him no less than other friends who he had greeted with a peck on cheek.
I bumped into him randomly months and months later and he was really friendly and chatty.
Of course entirely up to him who he greets / doesn’t - but as the recipient in that situation it felt like rude & very strange behaviour from him 🤷‍♀️

When I was about 4 I got stung by a wasp while running around outside. Started balling my eyes out, this made my brother laugh at me so I ran away down the street. An old lady saw me, told me to come in to her house, stripped me off (top half only) and rubbed vinegar on me. Genuinely the weirdest thing that happened to me. The vinegar stops the sting apparently?

Well, you're supposed to put vinegar on a wasp STING (old wives' tale, don't know if it works), but not on the whole person!

@Vroomfondleswaistcoat I have no recollection of if it worked or not just being sat on a counter top and dowsed like a battered fish. I mean going into a strangers house could have ended much worse I guess..

We were visiting friends in a town on the Thames and sitting at a table outside eating. A very drunk man came up to us and asked if we’d been messing with his boar. Err no. He was quite drunk. What do boat botherers look like? Perhaps we look northern.

@TorroFerney Was that boar or boat?

We were on holiday in Australia and got on a Quantas airline flight to go from Cairns to Sydney, The plane had come from Japan and most of the passengers disembarked at Cairns so the flight was pretty empty. As we were going up the stairs the steward, who was standing at the top, did a double take. He shook my husband's hand and said it was an honour to have him aboard.
After take off he came and sat in the empty seat in front of us and told my husband he knew that he was travelling incognito but just wanted to reiterate what an honour it was for him to have us aboard.
I still wonder to this day who he thought he was. I would have explained but my husband played along.

I hope you put in a complaint about him @Woollygreymittens . That's disgraceful. 🤞 all is well. But he shouldn't be able to do that to anyone else.

Dd and I where once walking into town in york
We had 2 options to get to where we wanted to go-walk the long way round or cut round the side of a very small graveyard-there was a narrow path and then you get to the river ouse,we would then turn left and be in the city centre
We took the graveyard route and where walking down while chatting
Suddenly,a massive bloke appeared at the bottom of the path,screaming at us that he'd lost Anne Boleyn and had we seen her?
Odd thing was,he looked exactly like Henry VIII
He came across as mentally ill but scared the hell out of us-we turned back and walked the long way round
We could see him from afar a few minutes later and he seemed genuinely upset that he'd lost her
It was one of those 'did you see what I saw?' moments

He said it to hurt you or put you in your place. He knew absolutely nothing about what your future would hold. That's just coincidence. Don't imagine he had any special insight.

Your OP has just reminded me of something that happened about 30 years ago when I was a student.

I’d helped academic staff organise a paying event, and had been asked to stand outside the door of the lecture theatre for a few minutes as it started to direct late comers to enter by the back door.

A middle-aged woman I knew by sight and name who worked in the university library arrived and I greeted her politely and asked if she’d paid already. She just started screaming hysterically at the top of her lungs, in apparent hysteria, as though someone had just told her her last appeal had run out on death row. I was so shocked I don’t remember the words. I
think I heard ‘HOW DARE YOU…?’ It was so loud that the speaker inside the room stopped and one of the lecturers came out to check who was being killed, but she’d run off by then. I was really shaken.

I continued to run into her periodically for years, and she had reverted to her usual polite, reserved self, but never mentioned it or appeared to have any memory of what had happened.

Or maybe he had second sight, and was just giving the information.

We aren't even anything as interesting as redheads, just boring blonde and brown hair! Nor are we as cute as your baby certainly is!

We did wonder if it was our 'western-ness' but there were loads of tourists of all nationalities there! I wish we'd asked at the time 😆

I was in my 20s and working in a very large government office. I worked on a large team as junior admin. I was on good terms with everyone, and very friendly and chatty with a few colleagues.

One colleague who I had known for years ( and was very friendly with) came up to me one day and asked me if I was related to a lady on the next team down because we looked so similar. Now the lady my colleague was referring to had a very striking facial difference. I was a very taken aback as I'm a very ordinary looking person, and myself and this other lady shared no similarities, we were not even the same ethnic group. I looked pretty shocked and said no, I was no relation. She kept on and on for about 10 minutes that we were identical and the whole office was saying it.

I later found out the same colleague was telling everyone I thought I was absolutely gorgeous ( couldn't be further from the truth, I'm very shy and introverted) and that I was telling everyone I keep getting stopped in the street and being mistaken for Carole Smilie !!! It just seemed so random. It very much knocked my already non- existent confidence and now I acknowledge it was cruel.

My brother spat in my ear and laughed when l was about 11 , he was 17 . I still don't understand why he did that . I hadn't done anything wrong or been nasty .

I've had people wanting to have their picture taken with me in Argentina. I'm very pale with blond hair.

I've never been able to work this one out. When I was about 12, I was walking along the street next to a stone wall. There are some steps in the wall leading up to the graveyard, which is above the level of the street. As I walked past, I saw a man huddled at the bottom of the stairs, staring at me in absolute horror. The creepiest eyes you've ever seen. I said to my friend, did you see that man? She had been walking on the inside of the pavement, me on the outside. She said no, there's no one there. I insisted there was and she looked at me like I was bonkers, walked back to the bottom of the stairs and shouted to me that there was no one there.

There's no way that man could have moved before she walked back to look. If he'd gone up the stairs, we'd have seen him and if he'd come out into the street, we'd have seen him. I'll include a picture so you can see what I mean when it uploads.

I wouldn't dare go back and check myself because I had a horrible feeling. But I've always been puzzled about it. Where did the man go? Did I see a ghost?

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.

That's hilarious 😂

Most of the people mentioned here sound like they have MH issues. There are some very strange/unhappy/horrible people in the world and then people that are just plain ill and you shouldn't think any more of it than that. For instance the couple in the Lidl car park may well get enjoyment from doing things like that and then knowing that person will be puzzling over it.

One I remember is a midwife after I'd had my firstborn and was stood up with him trying to rock him to sleep as he was crying coming up and saying (with a mean look on her face) "they don't bounce if you drop them you know"? I was too stunned to reply before she walked off and was only 20yo. If a midwife said that to me now I'd have her fucking head off, but she probably only targeted new young mums.

She was basically just a nasty, unhappy bitch 🤷‍♀️

Ashipcalleddignity

I would say that colleague was clearly threatened by you in some way, probably you are attractive and she was trying to dent your confidence.