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Weird experience with women in playground

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Fishermun · 13/06/2025 15:38

She came over all smiles with her little son and daughter sitting pretty much right in front of me I was there with my 4 year old daughter who went off playing with her little girl, but the woman just kept looking at me every few second she spoke a few words to me here and there, her daughter ran out of the playground so I went and go her for the women and she was like thank you and said to her daughter look who went and got you look little girl was like hi, I just feel weird about the whole thing and I dont know why

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Ilovenutellaaaaa · 13/06/2025 17:48

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 15:50

I'm a guy

Maybe she is mistaken you for someone that she's searched for (like a family member that was given up for adoption)

Clockface9 · 13/06/2025 17:49

im guessing you would like to see her again

DurinsBane · 13/06/2025 17:53

She fancies you. We all know how attractive a man spending time with his young child is to single mums! 😁

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 17:54

Clockface9 · 13/06/2025 17:49

im guessing you would like to see her again

Not so much, my daughter has friends she plays with at the park that go to the same nursery and she dosnt need one that kicks her a bunch of times for trying to get on a pull up bar next to her

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Clockface9 · 13/06/2025 19:05

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 17:54

Not so much, my daughter has friends she plays with at the park that go to the same nursery and she dosnt need one that kicks her a bunch of times for trying to get on a pull up bar next to her

Presumably you intervened?

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 20:33

Clockface9 · 13/06/2025 19:05

Presumably you intervened?

At first my DD came to me crying saying she had been kicking her so I just took her to the other pull up bar and stood with her well she played on it everything seemed find after about 5 mins so I went and sat back down maybe 10mins later the girl was kicking my daughter again so I went over and told DD to come away from her and play with the other kids she goes to nursery with, I dont feel its my place to be telling someone else's kid off because no matter what my DD does it's on me to sort her out and I wouldnt be having anyone telling my kid off

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countingthedays945 · 13/06/2025 21:13

Maybe you’re just being British! I said something to a young bloke in the Greggs queue last week and you would have thought I had slapped him. I think men can grow up without having to interact these days and it freaks them out when strangers then do interact.

Emma6cat · 13/06/2025 21:23

Agree sounds weird.....

KindleAndCake · 13/06/2025 21:36

I need a diagram

BristolDolly22 · 13/06/2025 21:51

Could you have had a ONS or something at some point in the past?
if you’d been drinking it might be a bit of a blur?

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:02

countingthedays945 · 13/06/2025 21:13

Maybe you’re just being British! I said something to a young bloke in the Greggs queue last week and you would have thought I had slapped him. I think men can grow up without having to interact these days and it freaks them out when strangers then do interact.

I am 40 so not too young and i do ok talking with strangers for the most part, some time il just randomly add something to some one else's conversation if there talking kind of loud about something thats not personal, but maybe your right

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Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:04

BristolDolly22 · 13/06/2025 21:51

Could you have had a ONS or something at some point in the past?
if you’d been drinking it might be a bit of a blur?

Gave up drinking about 9years ago so she would need to have a great memory, it could be that we have meet before i can't honestly say I remember everyone that iv crossed paths or maybe she just thought we had, might explain the familiarity or weirdness

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LemondrizzleShark · 13/06/2025 22:08

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 16:10

I'm pretty good with faces I dont really forget people, can't remember names for the life of me but faces im really good at remembering

Maybe she thinks she knows you but is wrong. That would explain “look who went and got you” - she thinks her DD knows you as well.

She’s probably wondering why her BIL/neighbour/boss/whoever she thought you were was acting so weird like they didn’t know her!

LemondrizzleShark · 13/06/2025 22:09

BristolDolly22 · 13/06/2025 21:51

Could you have had a ONS or something at some point in the past?
if you’d been drinking it might be a bit of a blur?

Maybe the daughter is yours OP! 🤣

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:10

LemondrizzleShark · 13/06/2025 22:08

Maybe she thinks she knows you but is wrong. That would explain “look who went and got you” - she thinks her DD knows you as well.

She’s probably wondering why her BIL/neighbour/boss/whoever she thought you were was acting so weird like they didn’t know her!

Hahah id feel alot better about it all finding that out

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Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:13

LemondrizzleShark · 13/06/2025 22:09

Maybe the daughter is yours OP! 🤣

That would be messed up lol but im sure she not she looked younger then my daughter

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Spudthespanner · 13/06/2025 22:51

Fucking loathe posts like this on Mumsnet 🙄

All the drip feeding, all the intentionally confusing information, the rambling way of saying something that should be fucking straightforward.

God it’s tiresome.

raysan · 13/06/2025 22:54

No explanation i can think of but your spidey senses seem switched on.

TheSeventh · 13/06/2025 23:21

I'm sorry op but you're going to have to accept that if you go out in public, you're going to encounter other people.

Clockface9 · 14/06/2025 06:23

Spudthespanner · 13/06/2025 22:51

Fucking loathe posts like this on Mumsnet 🙄

All the drip feeding, all the intentionally confusing information, the rambling way of saying something that should be fucking straightforward.

God it’s tiresome.

Essentially a man who hours before is posting about how unhappy he is with his girlfriend, then starts a thread about a mystery woman.

This boils down to a man in an unhappy relationship desperately hoping for us women folk to say “ooooh how exciting, this is exactly how a woman behaves when she fancies the pants for a man”

TookTheBook · 14/06/2025 06:31

You feel it is worth mentioning that she is Polish but I suspect her English is better than yours.

You've drip-fed that you've had memory issues.

She acted like she and the child recognised you from somewhere. She probably did given she sat so close.

Clockface9 · 14/06/2025 06:44

I imagine this woman hasn’t given the OP a nano second’s thought since yesterday, and if she passed him in the street today, she wouldn’t even clock him.

A strange(r) sitting in the park with his kid playing. The end.

marshmallowfinder · 14/06/2025 06:46

WomEn = many
WomAn = one

Title says something different to your post.

Musclewoman · 14/06/2025 07:05

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Fishermun · 14/06/2025 07:32

Clockface9 · 14/06/2025 06:23

Essentially a man who hours before is posting about how unhappy he is with his girlfriend, then starts a thread about a mystery woman.

This boils down to a man in an unhappy relationship desperately hoping for us women folk to say “ooooh how exciting, this is exactly how a woman behaves when she fancies the pants for a man”

You know you didnt have to comment here right, you seem very bitter for some reason also do you think men are just desperate for women to like them, I couldn't careless if she was into me or not.

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