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!

After I had my first baby a work friend invited me to her house. She had been interested and excited about my baby and she had children of her own.

The minute I turned up she acted like she just didn’t want me there, my baby was invisible - she didn’t even look at him or ask me one question about him. I made awkward small talk while she got on with her housework around me - bizarre.

I tried to leave but she insisted I stay for lunch and proceeded to make some sandwiches, then started telling me all about the gorgeous baby that another colleague had just had and how much she had loved holding him. Again, no acknowledgment of the cute baby sitting in front of her. I said to her - you know this is my baby, right? Blank stare.

A visitor arrived and she started chatting to him for ages, he didn’t acknowledge me either.

Finally I left as it was just all too weird, but she insisted that I must visit her again and didn’t want me to leave.

I never spoke to her again, I always wonder what was going on that day?

As background, she was a loud, extrovert, friendly person but that day she acted like I was an intruder in her house. She had healthy, young children of her own.

Did I enter a strange worm hole where nothing was as it seemed? Or was she just having an off day?

How bloody odd. Someone I used to work with invited three of us to her flat for dinner one night. We’d been in touch and chatting on the phone before the evening. (The four of us used to work together). When we arrived at her flat she didn’t talk to me all evening. Not a word. This was the 80s and I’ve always puzzled over it. Bizarre x

I’ve also had people swear blind that I’m someone I’m not, it’s happened a few times.

Weirdly, someone was convinced I was Adam Faith’s daughter and we’d been ice skating together.

I started a new job and the woman I was sat with to shadow on my first day asked me if I watched Love Island, this was when it was a new show, I said I hadn’t watched it, was it good etc. just making general chit chat. She took an instant dislike to me, she told me to go and sit by someone else because she thought it was better I didn’t sit with her if I was so up myself, from then on she would go through my work and kept sending screen shots of ‘mistakes’ (they weren’t mistakes, I just worked slightly differently to her) to my manager and was constantly trying to get me sacked. It was just so weird, such an extreme reaction to not watching a TV show.

@Stepfordian Public sector?

No!

Aw, this happened to ds1 and his friends when they visited India. They were staying with an Indian friend, so weren't always in the usual tourist areas and lots of people wanted to have their photo taken with the group. They all swapped Instagrams 😁

DS aged about four, walking along in the park on a hot sunny day eating a Mini Milk ice cream that we'd just bought from the ice cream van. A lady sidled up to me and whispered "you shouldn't let him eat that, it'll kill him".

He's 16 now, so clearly no lasting damage!

Ex partner told me people only liked me because I was with him.

A childhood friend told another friend she didn’t know why I was doing a degree because it won’t get me anywhere in life and it was pointless. I’m now in a well paid management role with one child whereas she works part time on bank shifts with four children.

Oh, I’ve got several. People are batshit 😂
When my two dc were little (they were born one year apart), I was pushing them in their double buggy and an old man came up to me and said ‘you teenage mums are an embarrassment to society’. I was 25! 😂

More recently, while my husband was in hospital literally fighting for his life, I went shopping in a daze as we had no food in the house, wandered back to the car and sat in the driving seat for a minute, trying to compose my thoughts. A man banged on my window and literally SCREAMED at me “put your f**king trolley back. Put it back NOW!’
It wasn’t in the road. It was on the side of the path outside the supermarket, not blocking anyone or anything. He was purple with rage, it was frightening. I don’t know why he cared so much. Of course I didn’t get out to move it, I was too scared!

A older lady asked Dh and I to walk her small pet dog across the road at some traffic lights once. The Dog was on a lead and she wasn’t having any problems walking him or dealing with him , he was well a behaved pet.
We handed the dog back to her and she marched off in the other direction to us. We were a bit puzzled and she didn’t even say thanks. I don’t know what the problem was there , maybe the fact it was the lights ?
Good deed for the day though.

When I was about 8, my mum was taking my friend Jane and I somewhere on the bus. We were sitting on the long seats at the side and my mum was opposite. A woman got on and stared at Jane and me and then said to my mum "I don't think those girls have got any knickers on".
Completely out of nowhere, we'd never seen her before. I still laugh about it 50-odd years later.
In case you're wondering, we did have our knickers on.

Wow.

Yes most of these sound mentally ill, so just gotta assume that, laugh and move on 🤣 better than taking offence etc

Anyone old enough to remember BT Directory Enquiries 192? *

Called up to get a phone number and the crazy BT lady went mental at me for swearing at her 'young lady like you shouldn't be using language like that'.

God knows what she thought she heard but I was nothing but polite 😆.

(*For the young amongst you, back in the day before Google, you could call 192 for free from a phone box to get landline numbers as the phone book in the house only had numbers for your local area).

This happened to us when we had a stopover going from London to Brisbane. We had our first stop in Brunei and so many people wanted photos and to talk with our 2 year old, I think because he had blonde hair and piercing blue eyes perhaps? It was a little unnerving, so odd but they meant no harm. Our son was happy with all the attention. 😅

Are you or your husband very tall? As this happened to us in the Far East. (Husband is 6’3”). Made his day!

When I was a teenager I had an older man sit next to me on the bus and ask me if I wanted some PVC boots. He said he got them for lots of girls and could get me some. Continued to ask me if my mum wore washing up gloves to do the dishes, and some other stuff relating to PVC/rubber which I can’t remember, but it was all very creepy/odd!

I was wandering around a shop. I had DS, aged about 18months at the time, in a shopping trolley. He was grizzly and tired and generally making a noise.
An elderly woman walked up to me and said "When my kids were like that I would give them toast."
I have no idea where she thought I was going to find toast in Matalan women's department.

I have quite a few but one that stands out for me is a random attack, I know this happens to women every day but I wish I knew to this day why it happened.

It was 2018, I was 25 weeks pregnant with my firstborn and driving happily along on a Friday summer afternoon through my leafy village. Out of no where comes this aggressive Range Rover driver up my behind, revving and trying to overtake!! He eventually does so (it’s a 20mph village) he then slams his breaks on when he gets infront of me. He corners me in at an angle so I’m trapped and can’t drive out because of the oncoming traffic. He gets out, starts banging aggressively on my drivers window, I STUPIDLY put the window down asking him what’s wrong? He starts calling me every insult, the C word, a stupid woman driver, then sees my belly and calls me fat. I wasn’t, I was a size 8 with a pregnancy bump. He starts reaching in hitting any part of my body he can, trying to open my door which thank god was locked, so tries to drag me out by my hair through the window as I fumble trying to get the key out of the ignition, I do my best protecting my belly and try to put the window up. I nearly have his head trapped in the window but he pulls out and proceeds to try smash the glass with his keys. He was in his 20s, high on drugs most likely as his eyes were bloodshot and angry. Luckily two builders walking by see the commotion and wrestle him to the floor, I drive off as fast as I could back home to my husband crying and of course called the police. They never found him or found out why. It terrified me for a long time, I still get driving anxiety even now.

Absolute rubbish.

When I worked in a discount store, I was serving someone at the till. I asked him if he needed a carrier bag and he said "No thanks, I'm not a terrorist!" Um wtf?😂

I always get mistaken for other people! Once I was working as an exam invigilator, and another of the invigilators was eyeing me strangely. She sidled up to me and said she was sorry for stating but I looked just like a friend of hers who is half Serbian and half Croation. She asked me if I was from either of those countries and I said no. She then asked me if I was sure! It was very odd. I'll frequently be out and people will wave at me or say hello like they know me. It's very weird, and what's weirder is I think I'm quite unique looking and don't resemble a lot of people.

Another time I was about 10 at a roller skating rink and a girl came up to me and told me accusingly that I was Chinese. I still laugh about it today because it was so baffling.

Years ago, I was using a ATM at a petrol station with my then 2 year old. Whilst I was focused on the ATM, my boy decided to run off down the forecourt. I obviously ran after him as I didn't want him to get run over, & as I had 1 hand full of purse, keys & phone (I had an outfit on that didn't have pockets), I scooped him up under 1 armpit to carry him back to the car.

It was then I noticed a woman in a car shouting & pointing at me. After putting my boy in my car, I went over to her & asked what her problem was. She started shouting at me about my 'poor child' & what I had done was child abuse. Really full on shouting at me. I tried to explain what had happened, but she just kept saying how he'd be 'covered in bruises', that I was a child abuser, & that she was going to report me. I gave her mine name & his name & told her to write down my registration number.

She did indeed report me to the social services, who found me by contacting my eldest's school. I have no idea how they got my eldest's name or school, but thankfully the social worker accepted my explanation & told me not to worry, as she would've done exactly the same thing.

A totally bizarre incident, but 1 that upset me for a quite a long time. Especially as I also had to explain to my eldest's head Teacher why the Social Services wanted to speak to me.

I was on a bus around 8am on the way to work when a woman with a beanie that said "FUCK OFF" got on, paid for her ticket, and turned slowly round looking at everyone with both middle fingers up!! Everyone else was engrossed on their phones so I was the only one that saw it😄. To have that much rage at 8am really confused me.