To ask you to tell me your wtf moments from this week...?

[bwentinquake]

Today a stranger walked up to me in the street, gestured to my 2yo, and said "She's Downs Syndrome, yeah?".

Dd does not have Downs Syndrome. Nor does her appearance in any way suggest she might do.

So. Weird.

Can anyone beat that?

DS took a bite out of a slug

Your son did what, with a who now?

My ten year old daughter has just woken up to a massive WTF moment and is not recovering well. After her behaviour yesterday, her iPad was hidden when she went to bed and she has been told that she won't be getting it back until tomorrow.

This pales in comparison to most of these, but, was sitting talking to my Mum tonight. I was talking about something fairly serious and important to me. She completely cut me off, mid-sentence, to say 'God, you're not even wearing a scrap of make-up'. So when I was talking about something important to me, rather than listening to me, she was evaluating my appearance, and found me so lacking that she had to cut across me to comment on the absence of make-up on my face. I was a bit upset.

I shouldn't be surprised though, my parents are fairly obsessed with appearance, weight etc. When I walked into their house tonight my Dad looked me up and down, and said 'oh, you're wearing a skirt. Now, isn't it nice to make an effort to look nice'. For the record, I do usually dress nicely, just not always in skirts. Not that that matters, I should be able to dress however the fuck I want. No wonder I have self-esteem issues .

Helloitsme88 not real ones, but here you go...

Out with one of our company offices this week. New manager in one of the offices, Been with us a month.
Having lovely meal out with staff to celebrate success project. Manager nudges one of the Directors next to me and says "After the meal we'll get rid of staff and go to a gentlemans club."

No you fucking won't sunshine.
Thankfully as I imploded across the dining table my colleague informed him we wouldn't and why we wouldn't.

Was at shopping center with DS and DTs this week. DS was on ride when a DM and DGM came running across to stick their kid on to avoid paying. Whatever, I just ignored them but I think they felt they had to make conversation with me. It starts like every time I meet any stranger when I leave the house.

DGM: so you've got twins?
Me: yes
DGM: must be such hard work!
Me: they keep me busy but they're very easy babies so I can't complain.
DGM looks disappointed. Then:
DGM: did you get them the natural way or did you do IVF?
Me:

Seriously? People usually go for the more subtle, "was it a surprise", or even, "so many twins around these days..." followed by a raised eyebrow, but straight to IVF? None of your bloody business, random woman in a shopping center!

Out in town with DD and she's taking her favourite toy along in the pram. We're sitting outside people watching whilst I drink a tea and this mum comes over with her kid and starts talking. All fine... Then the mum tries to forcibly take DD's toy to give to her kid 'as she wants it'. DD hands it over and then this woman tries to leave!

I stop her and say: "excuse me, you've still got my DD's toy". Her reply: "oh, you can't get that back, it'll upset her".

I asked the child nicely and took it back and the mum stormed off. I didn't think these people existed!

I seem to be coming across them at bus stops. (usually get taxis to and fro but I'm skint this week and poorly).

Older lady talking to me at the bus stop, starts striking up conversation as the bus is late, asked if their Dad helps a lot with the kids as her husband never did, so I said yes where he wants to can we're not together and I'm a single parent. Lady: "you know you can get pills for that now. There's no excuse nowadays". She was on about birth control. bit after the fact too given DS is 8 and me and the ex split at 18months. Not sure how birth control would have helped then! 😂 afraid I was that taken aback I didnt have a witty reply for once (I'm usually the queen of sarcasm) I just managed a "PARDON?!".

Yesterday. Ended up at the docs very poorly (asthmatic). Good job I went as got whisked into the treatment room as needed nebulisers' (chest infection-bloody things). Was feeling like death warmed up. Friend came to help me and I sat waiting on the bench bit of the bus stop with her. A man with a walking stick came on and started declaring about how rude this youngens were nowadays to not even offer up their seat. I was in the middle of getting up to offer it him my seat aswell. Afraid he felt the full wrath of my friend on that one when she told him how unwell I'd been. Didnt get an apology but he did look rather sheepish. Maybe he wont be quite so judgemental next time he sees an apparent sprightly one sat down.

Going to my monthly sands support group i asked dm if she would come with me. Ive asked before - other people take their dm's and mine was with me when i gave birth.

Her response - i don't really want to i don't see why people want to go and sit and get upset im tearing up thinking about it.

It's not even his second birthday yet - i don't think she grasps that every day of my life i am upset because i lost him - not just when i go to sands.

She's usually a great mam so i didn't say anything - she was lucky that day i tell you.

I have 2 on the top of my head.

1. in lidl , im looking at the veg this elderly lady paused, stared at me then literally crashes her trolly into mine to move me out of her way because she obviously couldnt go round me or stand next to me. I just turned glared at this lady and said in a calm manner. Excuse me im looking and then glared grabbed aubergine

I was working years ago (shelf stacking) and this woman came up to me and insisted for 15 minutes that I am German. When I declared I'm not german or have any German heritage (actually Swedish heritage) she said that I'm so wrong because she knows these things apparently because she's studied german or some random crap she said.

Some ones done thr family tree recently and yep, I am in fact swedish not german.

UP YOURS YOU FREAKY BINT

I was sat in an M&S cafe once. Empty except for some of the tables for 2 by the windows where you can nose at the street below.. Having a cup of tea and toast and minding my own business.

I got up to get a napkin and a couple arrived and asked if I had finished with the table. I said no. They said it was the table they liked to sit at. I looked at the other empty tables and carried on.

But they just sort of hovered next to me while I drank my tea.

I was sitting in a park making something, and had loads I had premade, someone sits beside me and says oh that is so easy to make, it's so easy a child could make it in 10 seconds, so I gave them the stuff and said prove it..

They looked very loss, and mubbled sorry and walked off..

I was in a queue in WH Smiths. Two cashiers on and I got to the front of the queue. The customer with one cashier had literally just been given her receipt and the man behind me grabbed me from behind by the elbows and shoved me towards the cashier.

I was in a supermarket yesterday and had screaming baby and no sleep. I went to the self service checkout that a man had just finished using and parked up screaming baby, unloaded my basked and put bag in 'bagging area'. Just about to start scanning when I hear "excuse me you can't use that machine ", I looked confused and asked the shop lady why, she replied "I need to get something out of that one". So I huffed and puffed and packed my stuff up again to move to another till, I was getting really annoyed (baby still screaming) and went to the next till. I turned to shop lady and said rather loudly "is it suitable for me to use this machine? Are you quite sure about that before I start all over again?", I was so angry. I huffed and puffed some more and glared daggers at her I could feel myself starting to shake with rage I may even have dropped in a 'ffs'.
So I got back in the car and started to cry, my wtf moment was 'wtf is wrong with me!' I totally over reacted but lost all rationality. I can't cope with going out in public after not sleeping for 8 months and being screamed at all day. So shop lady, I'm really sorry

I saw a car doing a 7point turn on a blind bend outside a secondary school with buses and cars trying to pass and kids milling about round it.

Sat in a nice country pub with DH, 4mo DS and our dogs, having lunch. Beautiful pub and great food so v busy. DS was peacefully asleep in the pram for once as we ate. Woman comes marching up, shoves her head into the pram, stares at DS, then shrieks loudly for her own adult DD, about 2 inches from DS's face. DS of course wakes up, but luckily being a cheerful little chap, does nothing more than look a bit bemused. Her DD comes over and she starts going on and on at her about breastfeeding. At our table. Without having said a word to us. Goes on and on about how a BF baby is a healthy baby and how you can tell DS is because he's so delightful and she needs to learn from me as I'm a "proper mum". Umm, excuse me? 1. You aren't a "proper mum" if you aren't breastfeeding?! 2. It's true that DS is fairly healthy and robust looking, being the 99th centile for height and 75th for weight, but actually he's FF. has been since 2 weeks when I developed such bad mastitis I couldn't pick up the baby. WTF?!

Some of these are so sad. And loads are satisfyingly weird. People are so odd.

Saw a car doing a speedy reverse the wrong way down a street away from a cop car last week.

was in a queue in WH Smiths. Two cashiers on and I got to the front of the queue. The customer with one cashier had literally just been given her receipt and the man behind me grabbed me from behind by the elbows and shoved me towards the cashier.

What the actual fuck?!

Sparklingbrook

I think the bloke would have ended up with one of my elbows in his groin if he tried that with me!

DH, DM, and I were driving from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles on the 101 freeway (one of the busiest in California) when we saw a white Range Rover driving towards us on the opposite side. It was driven by an enormous, balding man with bulging eyes, bristling mustache and who appeared to be incandescent with rage. The car was going at about 10 miles per hour, mainly because it was driving along on its hubcaps as both front tires had burst. They were probably burst by the spike strips laid down by the police who were following him in about 20 police cars, with their lights flashing, also driving at 10 mph. It was the slowest car chase in history.

A wonderful advert for the stamina of Range Rovers though.

@BoldKitties do we have the same mum?

2 male colleagues having a blazing row over a fan, threatening to knock each other out and everything. Tbf it was hot yesterday (we all work by hot chemical tanks) but still i was wtf

those two men need the getalong t shirt - lol then they could share the fan