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 was on a week's course with work. On the last night one of the men asked me to dance. It was all friendly, nothing sexual at all. As the dance was ending, he looked at me and said "I hope this isn't going to frighten you, but I knew about you from the first time i saw you. It wasn't your fault, what happened, It was his. It's time to stop punishing your self".

he was spot on, and he will never know how much he helped me. Nor how he could possibly have known my deepest darkest secret.

This happened to us at a wedding in a touristy venue. A party of Japanese tourists took photos of DH and 18 month old DS1 who has bright red hair and was wearing a wee kilt and Aran jersey. Ignored boring old me!

That was supposed to be a reply to the poster whose red haired toddler got lots of attention in an Asian country... I'll get my coat..

A couple of things.

The midwife who delivered my first child, said a piece of equipment (to check my baby was okay in labour) didn't seem to be working properly, but another midwife on the next shift who was better than her would change it. This was 25 years ago.

Then the second.

A girl (about 12/13) I didn't know saw me (I'm black) and said "Oh my God, you mean we have ni@@ers" round here as well"

This was over 30 years ago.

I had taken some children out to the park and got them an ice cream after. They were sat on the bench happily, quietly and neatly eating it, when an old lady came over, sat down next to them and not on any of the other unoccupied benches available and said "spoilt brats" then just sat there staring at us. So strange 😂

Then it is a hijab
The burka would cover.everything, except the eyes.

Yes, I lost my husband going up Penang hill, he'd been stopped for photos by some young lads, he always says it was his big nose . And some lovely ladies who were in our hotel in KL have a photo of themselves with my daughter when she was about 6, assume because she was so white.

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I was in my local supermarket around 20 years ago and a strange woman came rushing up to me and said "(name not mine) its so wonderful to see you again! have you moved back or just visiting? how is the family? are they here too" I extracted myself and said "I am sorry I don't know who you are and I think I am not who you think I am" She honestly didn't believe me and called her husband and (probably) son over who also thought I was this person they knew well. It was pretty funny but also a bit scary? Fortunately the shop was pretty busy and i did finally manage to convince her that I was me and not the other person. I do wonder who the person was and whether she ever was mistaken for me.

A week after my DM died I had to go into a jewellers shop to pick up a watch repair, the first time I had gone anywhere since she died. There was a man and his wife at the counter being shown something by the shop assistant, with a small queue behind them, and me at the back of the queue. Suddenly the man turned round (he had had his back to me and the other people in front of me the whole time), came over to me and said my face was offending him because I wasn't smiling. He then turned back to the counter. His wife didn't register anything - no surprise, embarrassment, anything. I had been letting my mind drift to the lovely colour of my mother's bedroom when he said this. I was absolutely gobsmacked.😢

I have loads of weird ones but these happened fairly recently…

I’m only 4 foot 10 and a very tall celebrity patted me on the head in my local Sainsburys last year 😂.

I was in a cafe earlier this week that was almost empty and had ordered a jacket potato. I was sat at a table for 4 when an old lady (looked to be in her 80’s) started asking what I was eating, how much it was etc. I pointed at the menu behind me and she sat down opposite me and started eating off my plate with her hands.
I was a bit pissed off as it was the last jacket potato and wasn’t eating something a stranger had been pawing at, in the end I walked away and left her to finish it.

The same day I was in Tesco when a women in her late 30s/early 40s started following me round the shop, I paid and stopped at a bench outside and she followed me and kept talking to me as if she knew me. She was asking how I was, how was Carol? What had I been buying? Have I repotted my plants?
I told her I didn’t know a Carol and she had me confused with someone else but she was insistent she had the right person. My phone rang and it was my DP asking how a meeting had gone, the whole time I was talking to him this batty woman was answering as though I was talking to her, I walked away and she followed again.
In the end I managed to shake her off when I got in my car but I was a bit freaked out.

Years ago I was in Dublin on a college trip with a group of friends, a man came running over saying “my name is Michael and I eat glass, I love it, I love to eat glass” he kept saying it over and over but we didn’t see him eat any!

I was at the train station once with my daughter and husband and a group of Chinese tourists stopped us and asked to take photos with myself and daughter so they could show their family back home the locals? I was ginger and daughter was very blonde so thought it might just be that but it always makes me smile thinking of our photos being proudly shown off in some random Chinese families photo album

I have Age-related Macular Degeneration and one of the main symptoms is poor facial recognition. I often end up waving to people I don't know and ignoring people I do know! I don't even recognise my adult DD unless she is very near to me.

A woman in the supermarket reached into my trolley and removed the birthday cake, telling me to put it back as it wasn’t healthy and I was already too fat!

Me and DH were just leaving our local hospital after an appointment and had our 2 DC with us, 2 buggies as they are very close in age. A woman walking past looked at us all and muttered "they breed like rabbits". This was back in the 90's.

Oh God my dad used to say he was a "Nutter Magnet" (I'm not meaning to upset anyone by saying that)
Every pub he went to he had drunken men and women making a beeline for him.
If there was someone acting up on public transport they wanted to sit right next to him!
He had no luck in social spheres God bless him!

This is exactly what I go through 😂 I can sympathise with your dad 100%

I had the exact opposite sitch to you. Going out with an Australian guy for 2 years in my mid 20's. Both of us knew it wouldn't last but I was adamant at the time that I didn't want children. He said I'd end up having kids as he got the sense I was a 'breeder'. I scoffed at this but am a mum now. Left it to the last minute though.

That’s sad, particularly the timing and I can understand how upset you must feel. Please try to put it at the back of your mind, but if you see the silly old bat again, give her a wide berth!
I hope your dreams come true! 🤞

@dayswithaY similar thing happened to me, although not with a baby - with my new house. A lifelong friend came round with the express purpose of seeing my new house. After about five hours in said new house, she had yet to make a single comment about it, but had told me - at great length and with extraordinarily loving detail - about the house of a friend of a friend she had visited recently, how stylish it was, how amazing the kitchen/bathrooms were etc. Now, we'd just moved in, so our house was in no way up to showroom standards, but it was -and still is - a bloody nice house, far better than anywhere I'd lived before. In the end, I just put it down to good old jealously coupled with social cackhandedness - but it was so odd.

Out for a meal with DP and his friends, I sat next to the new girlfriend of a guy we both knew. She seemed nice enough and I noticed she kept looking at my hair, then at one point she touched it and said: “Is that your real hair? Are you wearing a wig?”

I said I wasn’t but she just wouldn’t believe me, and kept saying it was fine I could tell her the truth. At one point she said she’d assumed I had cancer and lost all my hair!? It was weird and a bit embarrassing to be put on the spot like that as others witnessed/joined in (they clearly thought she was being odd though and the guy she was dating apologised later).

I have long straight hair that no one else has mistaken for a wig as far as I know!

I sat for 2 hours next to a man on the bus who chatted the entire time, he offered me sips of his bottle of diet coke and an entire frozen meat pie, it was a pack of 2 and he ate the other one

Ooh this reminds me of another odd encounter (nothing said this time though!). Once got on a train and the man sitting opposite me casually pulled out a 2 litre bottle of coke and a bag of carrots (like the bag you'd buy in a supermarket). He drunk the entire coke and ate every single carrot (skin and stalk-y bits as well) in the 1.5 HR train journey.

Not particularly! I'm 5'4" and my husband is 6', so not unusually tall, plus there were loads and loads of westerners around, some taller than us. Neither of us are striking in any way!

I'm still kicking myself for not speaking to them, but we were both completely gobsmacked. We even looked around for TV cameras in case it was a show 😆

I stand corrected! Thanks. 😊