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!

Way before I met my husband I was on ye ol Tinder. Met this guy and went to his flat to "watch a film" (we all know it wasn't ever going to be watched ok?)

Anyway we started making out and then I felt his foot on my peach cheeks tickling me and then he fucking BOOTED me off the sofa we were sat on 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Not in an aggressive way or even funny but like in such a weird way.

I always think about it because it was just so bizarre but it makes me laugh😂😂😂.

Ok so this is a bit of a weird story but I do occasionally wonder who was behind it.

Quite a few years ago my mum ordered something from eBay and it turned out to be a bit of a scam/cheap rubbish. My mum had only used eBay once before to buy a Braun gas cylinder for her curlers and she’d left a positive review. For the second item she’d bought (the one that was a bit of a scam), she left a scathing review (‘utter rubbish’ or something like that).

She didn’t think much of it until about a week later, she came home and a small box had been pushed through the letterbox (not posted but hand delivered). On the outside of the box was the Braun logo which looked to have been printed off and stuck to the box and then her name and address handwritten. Inside this little box was a note that said: ‘if you need help, ring this number’.

When she rang the number it was for a local mental health crisis line (run by a charity).

Not surprisingly we were all a bit freaked out and it was only later when I did some digging, did I wonder if the person who’d sent her a scam item on eBay, read her other review (about Braun) and decided to play a practical joke? My mum died several years ago now but I do sometimes still wonder.

Oh my god that sounds terrifying. How awful that they never found him.

When I was 17 me and my mate were in a cafe in Morecambe and an old lady who we'd never met before decided to sit with us. After a while she turned to me and said 'You wear your heart on your sleeve too much. Don't. It will cause you lots of sorrow in life.' She was so right on both counts.

When I was teenager , an old gentleman read my palm. He looked at me mournfully , said I would have 3 children , but the first one would die at birth. Terrified me when a few years later , I was then married and expecting our first ! I kept thinking about it.
Well - she didn’t ! She’s 51 , has a child and is going strong !

I had that in a music shop of all places, I was trying to buy a replacement string for my teen's guitar and the shop assistant who helped me insisted he knew me, I said that I had never come into the ship before but he proceeded to insist that it wasn't in the shop, did I play in a band he did promotional work for, "er, no".

I had another one in a country park where this older, eccentric looking woman, came up to my husband, me and my 2 year old with her Labrador dog and was just chatting about the weather, said hello to my 2 year old at the time, who looked at the dog but got distracted by a flower or something, she then went near his face and slapped her hands together and told him to toughen up. 😕 Mg DH asked her to leave us and she stomped off grumbling. It was bizarre as my 2 year old was totally indifferent to the dog.

I also had a mistaken identity where a woman turned up at my house banging on the door, she'd also upended the recycling bin, when I answered she just kept shouting at me, "Sam, Sam where is Sam, I know he's in there" I replied with a bewildered look that I don't know a Sam, I'm married to DH and said his name. She continued to not believe me but then saw her man next door! She had a argument with him and then drove off leaving my rubbish!

A very cute one:
I was in Warsaw, waiting to cross a big busy street, and a little old lady grabbed my hand so I could help her cross the street, which I obviously did. Not a word was exchanged, just smiles.

Less cute, in a busy train station, a lady agressively sat beside me on a bench, she was basically shoving me away to sit on my spot. And then she yelled at me that I was rude blablabla, I had done nothing haha, I was just sat and reading a book.

A woman shouted at me in a car park for endangering my children by not holding all their hands. I have 3 children and like most people I only have 2 hands 🫤
It was a nearly empty car park so even without octopus arms it was pretty safe.

I met up with a female friend and my DD then 1(ish). We were just sat chatting when a woman came over and said 'no wonder your child has no manners, I've not heard it say please or thank you, that's what having lesbian mums does to you!' She was absolutely furious!
Also DD was asleep the entire time, can't really be saying please and thank you when you're fast asleep!

Oh another one...
I'm about 5"0, was walking with an umbrella up and a tall man kind of boops the umbrella and says to his mate 'aw look, she's so short she sees what people in wheelchairs see all the time'
Erm...what?!

I’ve had a friend since I was 19, we’re now 53

She told me recently that she’d told her daughter about the threesome I’d had with the two huge bouncers from the nightclub we used to go to, and her daughter was surprised because she’d always thought I was quite boring

I explained that I really am very boring and it never happened, but she said it was in my car and she saw some if it through the window

I’ve never had a car

All these years she’s thought this and told people.

When I was 5 months pregnant, a patient in the clinic where I worked told me 5 momths wasn't too late to get rid of it. She was a retired nurse.

I used to manage a supermarket cafe and one day whilst clearing the tables I overheard a conversation between two elderly women.
Well, said one, her gun wouldn’t work so she had to use her tights.
i scrubbed the table behind for ages trying to glean any more info but they were sotto voce after that.
This was about eight years ago and I still wonder 😳

I've had lots of these, mostly do the 'smile and wave' and back away slowly response 😂

But one I'll never forget is when my 2 month old baby, who had been extremely poorly and slow to feed, went for a heart scan. The Dr had a very serious face and said nothing for a solid 30 minutes whilst he did the scan. It was obvious something was wrong so we were starting to get worried. When he finally looked us in the eyes he said that baby had 2 holes in his heart and several leaky valves and that he was going to be immediately blue lighted to a bigger hospital as he needed open heart surgery.

I burst out crying and he looked at my husband confused and said 'why is she crying? Baby doesn't have cancer!' 😵‍💫

bizarre!

My Dad was not an easy man. In no way abusive but I believe he suffered from what is now known as PTSD as he was in Bomber Command in WW2.

When he died my brother was ringing relatives to inform them. One of Mum's sisters said 'Good. He was a terrible man. He destroyed your Mother's life.

I will admit it definitely wasn't a marriage made in heaven but they rubbed along OK and Mum missed him very much.

What a peculiar thing to say to someone about their deceased Father though.

This happened many many years ago but was so odd it's stayed with me. I was about 14 and had a Saturday job in a sort of chintzy small town gift shop. A very well spoken, smartly dressed middle aged man came in one day when we had a sale on. He brought a few items up to the till and I started ringing them through, then applied the discount. It was something like 20% off all items. When I told him the amount (£8 instead of £10 for example) he got really pissed off and almost offended. "But it should be £10!" I explained we had a sale on so actually he was saving £2, and only needed to pay £8. He said that he absolutely would not be paying the sale price and made me ring everything through again without the discount. Then happily paid £10. It was so weird, and I can't for the life of me work out what on earth was going through his mind that day.

Also when I was pregnant with my son, about 3 or 4 women came up to me over the course of my pregnancy (separately), looked at my bump knowingly and told me I was definitely having twins. Again so weird - people say all sorts of random crap when you're pregnant - but to have so many people say the same thing to me so just bizarre.

Something kinda nice that I’ve always remembered. Driving on a busy side road, a woman thought I was going to move forward, she looked so angry. I smiled and told her to come through, she smiled and said thank you. It was so nice. I’ve always remembered that smile and her change of expression.

Ok! Something funny..

Navigating around the retail car park in our car, a woman in a burqa smiled and let us pull in front of her.

We smiled, and waved a thank you, she smiled back.. all really pleasant.

So then she was behind our car right? She must have seen our very small ❤️ 🇮🇱 sticker on the back tailgate, she went absolutely ballistic, gesturing, as she drove off, turned right, eyeballing us for like 5 minutes. 👀 🤣😬

I was filling up with petrol for the first time after passing my driving test. I'd been advised to tap the nozzle before removing from my car to avoid spillage.i tapped it 5 times before carefully removing it .An elderly West Indian gentleman was sweeping the forecourt.he stopped, leant on his broom and said" oh no, you won't get any more out of that".I felt my face go hot.for some reason it really embarrassed me.in the 40 years since I passed my test I've heard those words in a West Indian accent in my head every single time I fill up with petrol 🤣

@MelanieHardy If she was wearing a burqa, how did you see her smile?
What is a love IL sign?

Probably too much of a coward to say it to her dad so was being a bully to his daughter.

A few weeks ago I was in a cafe sharing a little cake with my almost 2 year old son. He was munching away happily and some random older lady told me I was a bad mother for letting him eat that and he was going to choke because he doesn’t have any teeth. I told her he actually does have nearly all his teeth now but she kept arguing so we just left and sat at a table outside. It was very bizarre. I can only assume she thought he was a lot younger because he mostly babbles and doesn’t really talk. But he’s not a baby and is very used to eating solid food.

Not all burqas cover the whole face. 😊

As a young child in the 70s I was at home when the phone rang. (My dad most likely at work, mum must've been somewhere in the house). Anyway, I answered it, probably thinking was my grandparents. The caller was a woman saying she'd seen our family walk our dog in the local park. At the time we had a lovely cross breed terrier. She said our dog was so sweet and well behaved she wondered if we'd agree to have him mated with her dog! I never knew if this woman was known to us or now thinking about it how she got our number. I can only remember I burst out laughing, but then again I was only a primary aged child. I cannot remember how the call ended, whether she hung up or if I said I'd ask my parents (I didn't). Thinking about it 50 years later I wonder why a grown woman would've discussed this with a child rather than just ask for my parents. I don't think it was a prank. Anyway it never happened and our poor dog got to keep his integrity.

I seem to attract weirdos.

Once I was having coffee with a couple friends and this older woman came over to me. She looked normal, like she could have been one of my Mum’s friends. She asked me if my hair was real (it’s just normal medium length dark brown hair nothing special) confused I said yes, to which she said she said she didn’t believe me and grabbed a handful and just yanked it and wouldn’t let go, whilst still yanking. A man came over who seemed to know her and just pulled her away and they walked off.

Another time, DH and two mutual friends were having a drink at a bar and two women (again both normal, my Mum’s age women) walked over and said “hiya!’ like they knew me. They kept saying stuff like “you do know us why are you pretending” and “you were here the other day and we were chatting” (I’d never been to this place before). They both sat themselves on our table and just kept staring at me, asking why I was ignoring them. We had to leave in the end it was so weird. They were so convincing though, still to this day I wonder if it was some sort of trick to confuse us and rob us or scam us somehow.

My ex MIL said to me when I was expecting DD1 that there was a chance DD could be black. Ex FIL is half Jamaican. I explained I was aware of the genetic possibilities what with her son being dual heritage. She then went on to say ‘don’t worry, we’ll love it anyway’ 🙄