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To be freaked out by friends weird behaviour?

95 replies

WeirdHandDryers · 01/11/2018 12:02

Have name changed as circumstances quite specific!

Basically I went out for a drink with a group of friends. I said I needed toilet and one of the friends said they did too so came with me. I had a wee, washed my hands and went to dry them. She did all this at approx same time. I finished drying my hands and looked at her, she just smiled and carried on drying her hands. I thought fair enough and told her I’d see her back in bar.

10 minutes later we notice she still hasn’t come back and we’re talking about moving on. I go to see if she’s still in and she’s still stood in same position drying her hands!! I tell her we’re thinking of moving on soon so she says “ok” and still stands there with her hands under dryer.

I go back to group and tell them friend A is still drying hands. We have a bit of a laugh over it and then talk about something else. 10 minutes later we’re all done with drinks and ready to move on. Friend B says she needs toilet so will tell friend A to get a move on at same time. Bare in mind she’s been in there over 20 minutes now drying her hands.

10 minutes later neither friend have returned. Getting a bit impatient now I go in to tell them we’re moving on to see them BOTH stood there drying their hands!!! Not talking or anything, just stood in silence with their hands under the dryer! We left without them in the end. Have spoken since and they’re both pissed off that we left without them.
Other friends thought it was beyond weird at the time but I can’t get over it! It was so bloody weird.

Am I over reacting??

OP posts:
Sitranced · 01/11/2018 14:07

More likely that you can't tell the time and it wasn't 20 minutes at all.

ScabbyHorse · 01/11/2018 14:12

Were they on pills

user1467718508 · 01/11/2018 14:26

Definitely sounds like they were mellowing out under the hand dryers Grin. Pills/MDMA?

Either that, or a really unfunny attention-seeking joke??

spanishwife · 01/11/2018 14:36

Did you actually check the time each time? e.g. you're sure it said 9.20 on your phone and then 9.40?

Andtheresaw · 01/11/2018 14:40

Imperius curse. Only explanation.

fallingleavess · 01/11/2018 14:42

First one was waiting for second one to come in to do a line ?

NorthernRunner · 01/11/2018 14:45

maybe they are just really thorough hand washers? 🤷🏻‍♀️

twospoonsofcoffee · 01/11/2018 14:47

I really think that even if OP is exaggerating the length of time this is still fucking weird. Two people checked up on her and it was clearly long enough for the majority of the group to think it acceptable to give up on the obsessive hand-dryers and move on to the next bar.

Even not leaving the loos at the same time as the OP in the first place is a bit odd IMO.

I don't get the drugs suggestion either. Why would they both be standing at the hand-dryer exactly when OP returned if they were snorting lines? Popping a pill doesn't require an elaborate hand-drying cover surely?

I neeeeeed to know. OP, send a link to the thread to the whole group and ask for an explanation!!!

Sammymommy · 01/11/2018 14:47

The only thing that bedazzle me is that you left your friends there. Or even that you left your first friend 40 minutes in there not giving a damn she was having a special moment with a hairdryer (if any of it actually happened).

Sure enough, you'd just ask them what's going on, try to get them out pf the toilet or stay with them. Honestly after 10 minutes of drying their hand, not xommunicating, I'd have assumed friend 1 was having a mental breakdown and done something.

Sammymommy · 01/11/2018 14:49

*hand dryer

Sammymommy · 01/11/2018 14:50

Sorry for the triple posting but why would they do coke then just stand there drying their hand. Sure enough, they would do their line in the cubicle then move on. Coke doesn't exactly push people to meditate and be calm

TheWickerWoman · 01/11/2018 14:56

You would stand in there for that amount of time doing coke, you want to be as inconspicuous as possible, in and out jobby.

How weird!

Mummyoflittledragon · 01/11/2018 15:10

I’m thinking some kind of legal high too. I didn’t know you’d not be able to stand up that long if on spice.

ScabbyHorse · 01/11/2018 15:16

Haha @plantingandpotting That is amazing.

TheWickerWoman · 01/11/2018 15:20

**wouldnt

Sorry typo

Sciurus83 · 01/11/2018 15:20

was it a Dyson?

GrinGrinGrin

OP they were doing coke in the loo

citiesofbismuth · 01/11/2018 15:33

They must be bots who started to malfunction. Perhaps it was catching, and the other friend caught whatever computer virus the first one had. They need their chips updating.

Fashionista101 · 01/11/2018 15:52

Honestly chuckle every time I see this

Treaclepie19 · 01/11/2018 15:58

This is crazy! Maybe the OP was on something and imagined it? (I'm joking OP)

Belina · 01/11/2018 16:19

mdna, cocaine, spice and pills make you hyper not zoned out so it isnt any of those.
what it could of been (if it is drugs) is they could have drank something called "lean" it is codeine mixed with sprite or some other fizzy drink that make you turn into a zoned out zombie.

However what you should of done is confront them for being so weird that what i would of done.

Diamondangel8 · 01/11/2018 16:29

can u imagine waiting behind them to use the hand drier? 🤣

CodeOrange · 01/11/2018 16:30

Were they not aggravating the other people in the loos by hogging the hand dryers?

spanishwife · 01/11/2018 17:26

Please can you go back to them and ask, we need to know.

Gettingbackonmyfeet · 01/11/2018 17:29

If it was just one I would suggest temporal lobe epilepsy as it can manifest in total zoning out however they provablyvwouldnt have answered you

Two however ...yes I would think drugs or obviously aliens

TheWickerWoman · 01/11/2018 17:59

OP cant you just message one of them and say ‘what on earth were you two doing at that dryer for so long the other night? it was really odd’

I couldn’t not