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!

Was it Stephen Merchant, by any chance?

How weird, I just posted something so similar. Wondering if your weirdo is the same person who tugged at my “fake hair” mad to think there’s more than one of these loose in the world 😂

In Germany a couple of friends and I went to a cafe one evening and sat on the tables outside as it was warm weather. A waitress approached and we politely gave her our order. She acknowledged my friends in a polite manner but as she walked away gave me the most horrible evil look. Even my friends looked at me like woah where did that come from?! I sat racking my brains as to what I'd done? I ordered in German and said thank you and please, I was in no way rude or unpleasant. A different waitress came back with our drinks and food so never saw her again. Really odd and made me feel really uneasy for the rest of the evening

My Dad randomly saying "you sicken me". He spat it out with such spite and anger. Completely out if the blue. It wasn't said in the heat of the moment and he really meant it. I was too shocked to say anything. 10minutes later it was as if it hadn't happened.

I have no idea what it was about. It still really upsets me. I've never had anyone look like that at me before or since. I just want to know what I'd done that was so sickening. Its pointless asking him as he'd deny it.

The other thing that shocked me was something various MNers said on a post I made (under a different username). I wont go into it but they validated something I was expecting to be poo-pooed. I'm not going to do anything about it so it makes no practical difference but giving it a name and helping me see it wasn't right has given me some closure.

*wracking my brains I meant

A few years ago, our dog pulled down a bowl (he’s big, tall, long legs) it smashed, him and the others were eating the pie off the floor..

I immediately phoned the vet (the vet answered the phone) I said Hi, I think Jacob and the others have eaten some glass!!!! Vet said, och it’s alright, they often eat it, it’s normal.

I was like 👀😱😱😱

I said I think they’ve eaten some glass, I think they’ll need an X-ray, she was still like, och don’t worry, they eat it if they need to be sick.

I was like GLASS GLASS I think they’ve eaten GLASS, not grass.

Anyway, 3 X-Rayed dogs later, all ok, no glass (or grass) eaten. (No more bowls left within reach now).

A fortune teller in Lancashire told me at 22 I wouldn't get married. She was right. I am nearly 80 now and have no regrets.

Many years ago, I worked in a shop. An elderly Italian lady was outside at the bus stop. She came in, walked up to me and said “You musta alwaysa weara the black” and went out again… 👀

I came out of a toilet cubicle at work at almost the same time as a woman I’d never seen before. She looked me up and down and said “you’re so fat it’s a wonder you can turn around in there.” I was like wtf! I was a size 8-10 at the time, having previously been a size 20. I was sensitive about my weight back then and was quite offended.

I ignored her, washed my hands and walked out. Thereafter I met seeing her around the office and she tried to be friendly but I ignored her. I mentioned to a couple of colleagues and they said that she had been on very long-term sick leave for MH issues and was well known for saying tactless things. She left again not long later and never came back.

I don't get it. If she was wearing a burka how could you see she was smiling as her mouth would be covered?

Her face wasn’t covered, hair covered, and up to the jawline. 😊

I hope you put in a complaint about this. I'm so sorry it was malignant. Hope you are doing okay.

At my grandfather’s funeral, a woman who was the mother of someone I went to school with (we were not friends, I barely knew him, and I’d left school five years earlier) came up to me and said, “Oooh, you’re Salt, Ollie talks about you all the time, he says you have very beautiful eyes!”

Utterly baffled. I think I said something about them being very red at the time.

You must have beautiful eyes then!! 😃👀😊

Many years ago I worked in the bookings office at Butlins. A lady has come in to rebook her holiday for the following year. Half way the the process, she took my hand and said "never get married" then just carried on booking her holiday. 🤯

I was sat in a cafe with DS when he was about 2. We'd been innocently eating a toasted tea cake when a woman shimmied up and said, "well you're a right pain, aren't you?" This was aimed at DS. Huh?? 🤯

I was standing waiting for a train at Waterloo and a man was standing right next to me. After a while he leant over and asked me if I believed in God. I answered "no" and he grumpily said "wrong answer!" and stomped off! 🤯

When I was in my early 20s I was working in a local convenience store. Lots of regular customers, so you got to know them. One couple in particular were somewhat...characterful. One evening, I was serving the husband was in buying Buckfast (probably) and said, "sorry to hear about your Aids test result." Then fell about laughing at his own hilarious bantz. What an arse. 🤯

I was on a boat trip on holiday and was feeling low. A local man stood behind me and strummed different chords on his guitar. I was listening to it then he played one that resonated with how I was feeling. He played it a few times and the heavy feeling I had lifted away leaving me feeling better. When I realised what had happened I turned around and he had walked away.

I think the way the radiologist spoke to you was pretty crass and unprofessional, but I also think it’s right that someone shouldn’t be giving opinions without the results of the biopsy.

I am sorry about your diagnosis x

Me too, and what makes it even weirder is that I have the most epic resting bitch face. Doesn't seem to put off the more eccentric folks unfortunately.

My boyfriend's mum used to come out with a lot of strange stuff. She once suddenly asked me about my teeth "are them teeth all your own?" I was only about 30 at the time, and was totally flummoxed. 30 years on, we still laugh about it, and I still have all my own teeth 😁

She also once saw a photo of me riding my trials bike and informed me "I didn't know girls could ride motorbikes!" 🙄I wish I had asked at the time, because I've never been sure whether she was questioning the legality or the physical ability...🤔

About 10 years ago, I remember being on the motorway when me and DH were younger and this guy suddenly started driving at the side of us in the right lane, really dangerously, keeping to our speed and yelling abuse out of his window. DH just ignored him and kept diving but then the guy sped up and pulled in quickly in front if DH so he had to brake suddenly. Luckily, DH is calm and a good driver so just carried on as this guy continued driving erratically in front of us, slowing down, speeding up, etc. it was so dangerous!

We were hoping he’d carry on up the motorway when we pulled off to go to the cinema but he stayed in front of us, and we realised he was going to the same place. When we pulled into the carpark, we had to go through barriers which were side by side and this guy starts screaming at DH again, shouting abuse like “I’m going to kill you when you get out of the car.” “F*nh c**t” “You’re going to ditch.” etc. Again, DH kept his cool and just ignored the guy. I was furious but DH was adamant the way to deal with it was to stay calm.

Then we got out of the car, this guy had parked much further away, and we realised he was with his wife and 2 young children. We all started walking in the direction of the cinema, the wife looked mortified, and the guy stormed off. We ended up directly in front of his wife and kids in the queue so I just asked her if everything was ok and she was really snappy (I don’t blame her, being married to him) and basically snarled at me to “Leave it.”

Suddenly, the guy storms back towards us all in the queue, I’m expecting him to kick off again, and he just goes totally silent and won’t look at me or DH.

He says nothing, we say nothing, we all buy our cinema tickets (thankfully, for 2 different films) and go our separate ways.

DH is a massive guy so I think he was a bit surprised when he got up close (this guy was about a foot shorter). But it was totally bizarre and DH and I often wonder how his wife and kids are doing.

I still think about the time I, still in primary school, was invited back to a schoolfriend's house to play and have snacks and her mother - who was slim and quite attractive and was rumoured to have been a ballerina - decided it was fine to deliver a patronising little speech about how good it was to be thin and how everybody knew that was much, much better than being fat.

I was an overweight child, knew I was, and was horribly sensitive about my size. I wasn’t stupid either (she no doubt thought I was) and I knew perfectly well that she was telling me I was a fat, unworthy lump. I can still feel the utter shame to this day. Of course now I just think WTF was an adult doing fat-shaming an 8-year old to their face? Not sure what she expected me to do about it right there and then but I expect she felt a warm glow of righteousness as she beheld my crushed expression.

After my partner died a bizarre rumour went around our extended friendship group that I had lost her ashes. I hadn’t ever been in possession of them!

Umm... something to do with your Boyfriend surely?

A friend of mine’s dad picked us up from the airport after a holiday, when he dropped me off I thanked him for the lift and out of nowhere he snapped “Well I wasn’t going to leave my daughter stranded at the airport, I’m doing this for her!”.

I was baffled, the holiday went very well, no cross words at all and the whole car journey was fine, never had an issue with her parents or anyone in her family before either. I also didn’t ask for the lift, was happy to get a taxi, but she said he insisted. Still to this day have no idea what prompted it.

You mums sounds like she has toxic positivity. Can’t cope with negativity from people