To think back and go 'what was that all about'?

[Sunflowersforever]

Ok. I know this is BU, but I'm looking for examples of any reasonably light-hearted bit of cathartic venting from your past, where you still look back occasionally and think 'what was that all about'?

My example (just remembered this tonight) was back in my 20's when I was single a 'friend' (let's call her Rachel) told me she knew this guy who really liked me from a few parties we were all at. I couldn't remember him at all. Rachel kept making a big deal of how keen he was blah blah so I said fine, ask him to call me. This is when it got weird. Rachel then decided we wouldn't be compatible and didn't want to be the one that brought us together for it to fail. Eh, ok. Whatever. So I forgot about it. However, she kept bringing him back up every few weeks. Same conversation, same conclusion. I really wasn't that bothered as I had no clue who he was. This went on for six months!

Here is the 'what the' part.

During all this going on in the background, I met my DH through another group of friends and we started dating and quickly it got serious. When Rachel found out, she was seething. It was all sort of 'how dare you meet someone, and what about poor X'.

Needless to say, the friendship dwindled but just tonight I did wonder, what was all that about? And also, who was this mystery man? Did he even exist?

Anyone else had something odd like this? When you look back and think, what on earth was going on there?

@Teri87 I'm sitting in bed with DH asleep next to me and he just stirred as I snorted with laughter at that.

THats really funny Teri. I hope you were both 6 and not 16!

Sunflowers, I wonder if your friend knew some guy had a crush on you?

Oh I can’t answer this ! I would probably hit the jackpot 😳😳😳

@Teri87 go and wank elsewhere you creepy fuck. Multiple threads tonight you have talked about doing pe in bra and knickers, each time a different story either happening to you or your 'daughter'. Fuck off.

@blaaake Ugh, really? Jeez, this thread has bombed already.

@Sunflowersforever yep unfortunately. Advance search him you're in for a laugh

Teri, I've reported your post. I suspect others have reported the various other identical posts you've made this evening.

You are flesh crawlingly weird.

I'm trying to search now. How utterly horrid. What a creep.

Teri you said the same thing on another thread!

Boring.

Just read the other posts. You utter lowlife.

I've asked for the post to be removed as others don't need to see this.

Sorry about your thread @Sunflowersforever

@blaaake it's alright, just a bit of fun to pass the evening. I'm having my laughs on the Paul Hollywood thread instead. My eyes!!!

Jesus Christ!!! Why didn't I see that thread earlier

I have 2.

The first one.
My sister had this thing for a guy for ages. They used to revise together, too as there were only a handful of them doing German rather than French (6 people in total v small class!).
One day he knocked for her, I let him in and he asked to use the toilet. I said, yeah sure.
I went back to my room and assumed they'd be revising downstairs. Only when I spoke to my sister a couple hours later she hadn't seen him! Turns out he'd jumped out of the bathroom window. He blanked her after that and she was very

1. In a house share, I was sharing with a lad in his late 20's and a girl in her early 20's. She was Lebanese and would frequently walk around with a slice of ham on her face. Tesco value sliced ham to be precise. She didn't talk much either. I was very at that too. I never figured that one out!

I think this must be up there as one of the weirdest threads on mumsnet in a while. So far we have a pervert, and someone wearing ham on their face.

It's going to be a long night.

I was trying to keep the tone upbeat with my experiences. Guess it didn't work.
This shall hearby be known as the ham faced pervert thread.

I've got something, I think. Boyfriend in HS. Turned out to be a jerk in so many [more generic] ways, but these two little bits of weirdness stick with me decades later:

1. stole a flask from me - I'd left it in his car after a group outing and my friends later reported that he swore I was never getting it back, for reasons none of us could understand. He was even cuddling it at the time. Decades later it still pops up in my head and when that happens I want to go to his house, punch him in the face and steal something of his.

1. when talking about his family house (which I never got to see), described in exquisite detail the fact that there were two washcloths in the shower - one for him, his brother and father, and the other for his mother. I never figured out why exactly, but I never had the impression it was because his mother insisted on something nice, etc. Just three men on one washcloth, one woman on the other.

@PeanutButterSquash

I loved your examples. It's just the overall combination. Will be interesting to see if this thread can be rescued or else always known as perverted ham

For the record OP I don't know anyone that has used pork products on their face, not knowingly anyway
Regarding your friend. It sounds to me like they were attempts at being controlling and diminishing of you for whatever reason. You just never conformed is all. The fact that she set up the situation and then did the opposite of what you wanted, reeks of control and an attempt to cut you down.

Oh, I thought so, too, GreenItWas - I was hoping to stick to the "lighthearted" remit, and maybe get weird, but now that it's out there, I totally concur!

Sunflower, I've had a similar weird thing happen to me recently. Don't want to hijack your fred, but if you want to hear it, PM me.

When I was at college a few friends asked me if I fancied X (X was another student in my hall of residence) "Err, no!" Thought it was a bit weird, so asked people where they had heard it from - and traced it back to X himself. I asked him why he was telling people that I fancied him and he said "I didn't ... but you do." Surprisingly this didn't persuade me to go out with him .