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?

Took parents out this week for a birthday afternoon posh tea plus prezzies
Ddad bye bye kiss and thanks, then says when you going on a bloody diet

Quietly cried on the way back to the car 😩

Was at a cafe in the airport waiting for a flight last month. Was with DH and DD (8 months) who was sitting in a high chair.

A man came over and sat next to us and said 'I see you have a bald baby there.' Errr DD is slightly challenged in the hair department but still.... He then said 'what you need to do is shave its (ITS?!) head. That'll make ITS hair grow in.'

I mean, WTAF?!

I wish we'd thought of something witty to say but we could only mumble thanks!

Nigel
Is it out if the question that he might have grown up?

Not this week but when was about 38weeks pregnant with DS I was in town and a bloke (but of a Phil Mitchell lookalike) approached the Big Issue woman, shouted right in her face that she was a dirty illegal immigrant and slapped her!

People stopped and stared but no one said a word.

He's about to hit her again when I got over my and waddled towards him shouting 'don't you dare touch her again' - I had the sense to stay out of his range (maternal instinct kicked in) but I was outraged that still no one else said anything. He gave me a mouthful, shoved the BI woman and stalked off.

I checked she was ok, she didn't speak much English but managed to say she was ok, and called the police to report him.

Yeah, let the pregnant woman face off the racist thug! Cheers British public.

I was standing at the front door waiting for the DC to come in when a bird swooped in over my head. It proceeded to fly all around the downstairs of my house before I managed to isolate it in one room and usher it out a window!

A person at a bus stop who became verbally abusive when I wouldn't tell them which bus I was getting and which stop I was getting off at. With repeated shoulder tapping. If it wasn't for the fact that I had one of my dc with me I would have told him to fuck off.

Same stop different day. Woman with a dog in a buggy who has a full on diva strop when the bus driver quite rightly won't let her on the bus with the buggy still up.

Lots this week!

Young lad lining up for class, I notice he's wearing glasses with yellow lenses. I ask him what they're for (knowing he has an overlay for reading, thinking they're for this). He confidently tells me they're for his Downs Syndrome. He does not have Downs Syndrome.

Boss cancelled a meeting I was running, due to take place after work: trouble is, he didn't tell me, but told one subordinate who told me. This has been arranged for weeks. Other (not as high up) boss came along and reinstituted the meeting. Funny!

Driving home and at a standstill for over ten minutes due to a family going to a wedding, taking photos of the beribboned car, standing in the middle of the street.

Someone off sick managed to attend an offsite meeting and proudly tells me (her boss). Just odd.

Don't know if anyone would think this is a Wtf but it's stayed with me as as WTAF moment.

Spent around a year ttc, finally found out I was pregnant, fantastic. I knew dm, her first gdc, was really excited. One day when I was around 12 weeks she said to me in front of most of our family, "if you ever decide to get rid of the baby, dont. I'll take it." My mums narcissistic and even joked I was just the vessel for her gdc.

I was on the tube and had to go through a wider barrier with my group as hot sweaty tickets had stopped working. A man pushing a pushchair felt I had got in his way (maybe I had, it was very busy) and he rammed the pushchair into the back of one of my legs, hard enough to make me stumble. I have an enormous bruise and swollen lump.

My son, who was behind me and saw it, felt it was deliberate. There was a half hearted apology but who knows. It was hot, the man was clearly pissed off at being up early in a Sunday in sole care of the child and I stepped into his path.

WTF.

Cycling along the road yesterday, as I approached a zebra crossing I looked to check if two men walking along the pavement were going to cross. One made eye contact, laughed and shouted "Bitch!!". Charming!

Work in a supermarket, last week had to see my line manager as a customer had complained about me? Line manager said the same thing had happened in 2012! So there was a pattern developing here, WTF stand by for 2022 then

Just been to Booths supermarket (for those of you that's aren't familiar it's like a Northern Waitrose).

Saw that someone had added the following to the food bank collection tin of pinto beans, a pack of six brioche and some red lentils..oh and a six pack of Evian..,... 🙈

My DM was horrified that I told my 4 yr old where a baby comes out of mum's tummy....she told me this might turn him into a paedophile! WTAF!!!!

• RedStripeIassie fuucckkk I've got another one. Currently being driven at 80mph down a motorway and he's simultaneously rolling a fag and driving with his knees! WFAF! shock*

That's how I grew up with my dad driving... ;)

DM was horrified that I told my 4 yr old where a baby comes out of mum's tummy....she told me this might turn him into a paedophile! WTAF!!!

I don't even... I.. What?

Eveninties that's one of the most outrageous, nonsensical and downright insane things I have ever read! What on earth did you say to her?

I was just stunned..I just stared at her. It was nearly 4 years ago and still makes me sick to think of it. I couldn't even look at her for weeks afterwards. She does have a history of saying utterly ridiculous things, seriously don't know what goes on in her head sometimes!

A wedding speech in which the groom's dad regaled everyone about how great his son was with animals so his new bride should be wee buns.....wtf?

Chapterandverse WTF indeed. Have you the slightest idea what he meant by that, because I haven't.

TOP DEFINITION
wee buns
Something that is easy, such as a task. Originated as slang in Northern Ireland.
"How was your driving test?"
-"Meh, wee buns!"
#easy#buns#easy-peasy#no problemo#neigh bother

never heard it before though

Oh. So he said his son was great with animals so his new bride should be really easy. How rude! Why on earth would he come out with that?

mummyofmoomoos - when my youngest ds was about 5 he got hold of hair clippers and shaved half his head before I found him. The only thing to do was shave the rest of it too. I nearly blubbed and I also learned that people treat boys, even v little ones, with shaved heads quite differently

cjt110 I was driving, very early in the morning, along a country road in Brittany. Met a llama and an ostrich trotting up the road together

Ginger , coloured lenses are used for Irlens syndrome - as are overlays. Either he had the wrong name in his head, or you heard '...ns syndrome' and filled in the blanks...

Yes yes wee buns. We're in northern Ireland

He meant she'd be easy to handle as he was so good with livestock.... wtf? Comparing his new daughter in law to sheep, cows, goats & dogs....!!!