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!

About 20 years ago when I was doing my A Levels, my friend and I used to walk into the town near the college in our lunch hour, where we would frequently get wolf whistled/harassed by men. According to my friend, a man in a car stopped at a set of lights/zebra crossing (I can’t remember the exact details) and said something particularly disgusting. She swears blind that I snapped and punched him through his open window. This came up for the first time shortly after the ‘incident’ along the lines of me being an enormous badass (obviously, assaulting anyone isn’t on, but we were about 17 at the time).

I was a gobby teenager, but I was 100% certain at the time and am still certain now that I didn’t punch anyone! I couldn’t even recall the incident she was talking about. No alcohol or anything else involved that could have impaired either of our memories. It actually scared me at the time that I had some kind of episode that caused me to break from reality, because she was adamant that I’d punched this man and I couldn’t remember the man, the car, the punch, any of it. And it’s not like I was generally known to go around punching people, I’ve never hit anyone.

Shes a very sensible, lovely friend who I’m still friends with all these years later. We’ve been friends for about 25 years and this is the only time she’s ever said anything like this. So, (apart from this incident), she doesn’t have form for making stuff up and I don’t have form for punching lecherous strangers, and I’m still scratching my head over it!

I was collected from primary school once by a family friend who lived nearby. We got to her house & she said her son (who was in senior school) would be home soon. I said "do you think he'll go to the wrong house?" She said no, he always walks home & he knows which one their house is. A few mins later he appeared at their back patio window and waved. To trick his mum as he usually goes to the front door he had indeed gone to the next door neighbour's house & climbed over their wall to their back garden. I have no idea what made me say that. I'm definitely not psychic! 🤣

This reminds me of a short story by Shirley Jackson - designed in the wording to frighten you. Almost like a curse. What a wretched woman.

mine was a bloke who used to work local to me, didn’t know his name but I was on nodding terms with him, ABSOLUTELY insisting I’d ‘had a good night on Saturday night’ in some ropey club I’d never set foot in. He was obviously implying I’d been up to something memorable. Would NOT take ‘wasn’t me’ for an answer and was always smirking at me thereafter like he ‘knew.’ Did make me wonder if I had a doppelganger.

I remember track and trace during covid

I had to stand at the door during the eat out to help out and gather peoples details-names and phone numbers (utter waste of time,the while lot went into the bin,they didn't even bother to shove them near the shredder)

This bloke walks in and I ask if he'd mind leaving his name and number 'cos covid'

(Let's face it,I was only asking because I had to by the bosses-i didn't want to stand there and do it)

He lost it and started screaming at me that 'I HAVE 18 KIDS AND IM FUCKED IF YOU PASS THIS ONTO THE CSA!IM DAMNED IF YOUR GIVING THE GOVERNMENT MY DETAILS TO TRACK ME!COVID IS A SCAM!' and then he stormed off

He sat there,scoffing his burger,glaring at me while the boss screamed at me in front of everyone for not getting his details

Sure bitch,I'll wrestle the guy who is at least a foot taller than I am and 3 times my weight just so you can sling his bit of paper in the bin

My card was marked but I noticed she sat on her arse in the office,watching it all unfold before coming out to shout at me

Fuck you Bella

That's horrific.

It being an old wives' tale doesn't mean it doesn't work. I just said that I didn't know whether it did or not, because I've never tested it.

Plenty of old wives' tales are accurate.

I had the same thing happen in secondary school. A girl told everyone that I was bragging about being a model and how pretty I was. I’d never spoken to her and was so shy I barely even spoke the whole time at school. Absolutely awful to have people talking negatively about something that you’re already insecure about.

Sounds a bit like my mum always got to be seen with a smile on your face!

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I was once in Tesco with my young daughter and we were looking round but down different aisles and had just been laughing and talking happily. As I looked at goods on a shelf I realised someone was standing very close to me so I tried to move sideways away from her but couldn't as she stood firmly on my foot and as I looked up she stared right into my face in a very unfriendly way. I am very small and she seemed huge.

Later, I believe she tried to push a woman into traffic.

We pulled up outside A&E so I could take my very poorly 4 year old in ( Gastroenteritis, had seen the GP and been sent straight in with a letter ) when a random woman opened the back door and started to get in, nearly sitting on my 9 month old who was in her car seat.
She then started to tell DH off as she was waiting for a taxi so she assumed any car that arrived was her taxi. 😲

Yes, it was about 30 years ago, in a multistorey carpark. I returned to my car and a woman in the car parked next to me screamed at me for parking too close as she was struggling to get her toddler into its car seat (spaces were narrow, I was parked within a space). At the time I was having fertility treatment and feeling depressed and desperate about possibly never having a child. I felt too emotional to respond so I pretended to myself that I was someone who didn't understand English and simply ignored her, which riled her even further.

Since she must have realised I was about to drive away, it seemed OTT, though I understood that she must have been feeling super stressed over more than just trying to get her child in the car.

Afterwards I wished I'd had the composure to tell her how lucky she was to have a child.

With some of these stories (girl asserting that poster punched someone in a car and another that her friend told everyone she was going to be a model) make me wonder whether some people just have very vivid dreams that they then have problems telling from reality? I've come up against this once or twice in another field, and it seems to hold true sometimes.

Most of the rest is just mad, obviously. I remember a guy I'd dated for about six months seeing me about a year later in a car park and saying 'wow, you've piled on the weight, haven't you?' I had, in fact, joined a gym, lost about a stone and toned up considerably, so I can only assume that the 'me' in his head was a lot thinner...

A school friend once told another friend I thought she fancied my boyfriend and concocted a lot of dialogue that I had never said or even thought. When my friend told me, she admitted she'd believed it, which made me think badly of both of them to be honest! The friendship was never the same after that.

An old colleague was looking at my wedding photos as I'd brought them into the office and I overheard her saying 'why is she smiling like THAT?'. I asked her what she meant and she was very embarrassed and flustered and made up a flimsy excuse. It did upset me as I was so happy on my wedding day, it was the best day of my ife. I studied the photos afterwards and can only think my smile was a bit fixed as I was trying not to cry (I'm very emotional!) 😂

Yeah the thought crossed my mind, but this was in a very busy part of central London, the odds that we'd run into an angry ex or someone by chance were extremely low. Besides that I trust him! He's always been very open about his past with me, so I've no reason to think it was anything shady on his part.

So strange, did you say anything to them?

A friend and I (both FTMs) took our little boys - (same age) both around 14 months old I think at the time - for a walk and to the park, my little boy was walking at this point, quite confidently however wasn't a hand holder, so I had reigns for him, we were walking down the road towards the park when an older couple walked past us, the man smiled and said "hello, what's your name?" To my little boy, my little boy didn't answer but looked at me. I smiled and just said "say, my names Oliver". My little boy couldn't say his own name yet.... the man scoffed at me and said "this is the problem with you modern mothers, you never give them a chance to fucking speak"..... and walked off!!!!
I honestly couldn't believe what had happened. My friend and I just stood there speechless. I really wish I'd had the confidence at the time to give him a piece of my mind!
Not long after this we were at the beach having a family walk, and again, my overly confident, water obsessed little boy was on his reigns, (it was also winter, so pretty cold) a lady shouted at my partner and I to "set him free, hes not a dog and shouldn't be on a lead" . I did have the confidence to tell her that he was on his reigns because otherwise he would be straight into the water and obviously that wouldn't be safe given he can't yet swim as he was around 15 months old plus it's winter and he'd be freezing cold!!! She didn't reply to me funnily enough!
Not sure why so many people think they need to give their opinion on something that absolutely does not concern them! Idiots!

When i was at secondary school, another pupil started telling everyone that i had said that a boy had tried to sexually assault me.

This boy and i only had a passing acquaintance, and the first i heard about it was just before an exam.

My head of year came over and said to me (10 minutes before an exam), I want to see you in my office as soon as humanly possible.
I was bloody terrified, so i asked ‘what about, Miss?’ and she said ‘oh, i think you know what about’.

I must have gone to see her after the exam, but i can’t really remember any of the conversation.
I remember that she told me who was responsible for spreading around this bloody disgusting rumour, and I was just baffled why she’d do it.
Other than to get me into some sort of trouble, of course.

They didn't sit with us, they pulled up chairs as though they were watching TV. Listened to our conversation and commented as though they were on Gogglebox. We just ignored them.

That's absolutely bizarre!

I was shopping at a large supermarket one day and had taken one of the (many) smaller trolleys as I only wanted a few bits. As I pushed it towards my car, an older lady approached me, very angry, and shouted that I shouldn’t have taken a small trolley because they were meant for old people then said loudly ‘which you clearly aren't!!’ I was in my early 30’s at the time (so probably around 20 years ago) and it still pops into my mind now and again. Probably because a) we were right next to the ‘trolley park’ bit where there were a whole host of small trolleys lined up, and b) she followed me to my car, waited until I’d unloaded my things then took the trolley off me. I could never quite work out what her actual beef was. Was it the trolley, or the fact that I was clearly not an older person? 😂😂

This is definitely a cultural difference one. I was at a hotel restaurant in Asia with DH where music came on after the meal and everyone was up dancing and in high spirits. Dh was tired so we sat down to take a break. I was singing along to the music, obviously enjoying it. A young attractive woman approached my table and asked me to dance. Dh nearly burst himself trying not to laugh out loud and encouraged me to go. She said she could see I liked the song so I thought fair enough lets do it, maybe they do that here.. So we started dancing.. I did that awkward side to side dad dancing because I'm not much of a dancer and this girl suddenly started doing gyrating type dancing, really sexy stuff running her hands up and down her body. I was absolutely mortified so kept up my awkward dance and didn't know if i was supposed to look at her or not. Meanwhile I could see Dh nearly falling off the chair with laughing. At the end of the song I thanked her for the dance and we parted ways.

In the late 90's, I was visiting London & was wandering around the tourist traps, when a very lovely young man stopped me in the street with a very enthusiastic "Hi, how you been, haven't seen you in ages". Clearly he thought I was someone else. The look on his face when I replied in my big, ocker, not British accent was priceless. I still wonder who he thought I was..

When I was roughly 10 - I definitely wasn’t old enough to be in secondary school - I can’t remember the exact age but younger than 12 - I was in my local newsagent. This older girl - or even young woman -it’s hard to tell ages when you’re 10 but she was likely around 16-23? - came over to me as if she knew me and started talking -

“how are you, ?” blah blah blah - (can’t remember all the subjects we talked about) then she asked

“how are your brothers and sisters?”! This is odd ‘cos I was an only child and I don’t feel we knew each other at all!

The other thing that was odd was I felt why would an adolescent/ young adult woman really want to talk to a 10 year old girl she didn’t really know? I thought if anything a 16 year old might look down their nose at a 10 year old. She did this at least twice and cos I was really introverted and shy I didn’t question it just passively went along!

I had this happen yesterday 😂 someone started a conversation with me in the pub asking how I’ve been and where’s my daughter but I didn’t have a clue who he was lol