Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Woman on the bus wanted half my fudge...

147 replies

MonaLisaDoesntSmile · 11/12/2018 20:56

Light-hearted thread (hopefully?).

I was shopping today, got on a bus home. As a treat, I got a nice bar of Christmas fudge (kind of like mince pie flavour!). Trying to save up and it was a bit pricey, but I haven't gone out in ages or done anything much that would cost anything, so I thought it would be a nice thing to have a little treat. I was hungry, so bit off a bit to much on, and put the rest in my handbag. Then a woman sitting across tapped me on a shoulder and asked what it was I was eating, so I said what it was. She said it smelled nice and if she can have the rest of it (!). I was a bit take aback and said I ate it all and there was non left. She kept on asking where I got it and how much it cost and if I was sure there was none left a few times.

I later thought she was maybe hungry, but then she saw my shopping bag sitting proudly next to me on my seat with bread and bananas sticking out and didn't ask for those, so wonder if she was a CF just going after my nice fudge?

OP posts:
WhoTookTheChristmasCookie · 12/12/2018 01:14

@StoppinBy I didn't realise that Grin

I couldn't fault her reaction, I was completely gobsmacked too.
She wasn't even holding out her hand, the woman just took the crisp!

You might be on to something there....

Poppyinagreenfield · 12/12/2018 01:22

I feel a bit hungry now. Anyone got ant fudge.

Miscible · 12/12/2018 01:28

She might of had a developmental disability

Might have had.

MrMakersFartyParty · 12/12/2018 01:45

Basically nobody can moan about people being weirdos without them having ASD or MH issues. Some people are just weird you know! I come from a family with lots of mental health issues, my sil however is just weird, happy, but weird.

Iloveautumnleaves · 12/12/2018 02:46

miscible jog on love.

I poison other people and do more than my fair share towards wrecking the planet because I simply CAN’T mix with the undesirables!

There’s always one 🙄

It’s fecking annoying when it’s your daily commute, but I actually miss the bonkers behaviour of people on (London) public transport 😂

The quaver stealing woman is lucky she didn’t get a swift kick on her shin! Bonkers

1forAll74 · 12/12/2018 03:46

I had to laugh at this fudge story. I sounded like an Up North thing to do.
I would be thinking,oh,I wonder what lies beyond this request,and made some kind of joke about it. then I would have given her the remaining treat, as this is the kind of thing I would actually do.

Patroclus · 12/12/2018 04:57

Well, some of us, like me, cant use cars, due to me not having a head.

Deadbudgie · 12/12/2018 05:03

They’re a bus wanker

Alfie190 · 12/12/2018 05:05

Really don't like the snobby comments about getting buses.

I expect she has MH issues. It is nothing to make a joke of.

Patroclus · 12/12/2018 05:25

As a diagnosed nutcase who takes the bus everywhere, it really doesnt matter Alfie. People with mental illness can have a sense of humour still.

If you cant spot the nutter on a bus, its you.

strawberrisc · 12/12/2018 05:34

Just say...

Woman on the bus wanted half my fudge...
jessstan2 · 12/12/2018 06:04

People with mental health problems always used to make a beeline for me at bus stops. There must have been something about me that invited them. I hadn't thought about it for years but twas a fact. They even elbowed other people out of the way to get to me :-).

Interesting.

ragged · 12/12/2018 06:28

Aww.... sounds totally harmless. Wouldn't have bothered me. I'd be glad I don't have her boundaries issues.

Original poster
MonaLisaDoesntSmile · 12/12/2018 07:34

To people wondering about fudge- unfortunately it was one of those little stalls selling handmade stuff on a little Christmas market, but some people mentioned here Waitrose also sells something similar? (off to save up money for a Waitrose trip).

Anyway, I thought MH may be at play, but I also once say a businessman in an empty cafe at Heathrow airport come over to this couple's table, striking up a conversation while drinking his coffee, and then helping himself to their snacks, eating most of them and walking off not to miss his flight. Just rude. Not sure if the lady has any mental health problems, or whether just wanted to eat some nice free fudge.

I think a 'weird people I met on the bus' thread is overdue!

@jessstan2 - were you eating mince pie fudge at the time? :)

OP posts:
WitsEnding · 12/12/2018 07:59

I use buses loads and they are a great way of seeing (sometimes interacting with) people outside my own little bubble - wouldn't swap them. Almost everyone is polite, sometimes friendly.

This post triggers memories of "if you're going to be so inconsiderate as to eat in front of the class you must share your sweets round" - more ingrained in some than others? I can imagine someone having a 'did I say that out loud' moment.

PinaColada1 · 12/12/2018 08:06

I once had the woman behind me start playing with my long hair.

What?!

I take public transport all the time. I’d like to say it’s nice seeing humanity. But it isn’t. It’d stressful. I just hate cars.

FitzChivalry · 12/12/2018 08:14

Saw some mince pie fudge in Morrisons yesterday.

Duchessgummybuns · 12/12/2018 08:19

This is why I eat weird forrin stuff like sushi on the bus, no one ever asks for any and if they did I’d ward them off with my chopsticks.

I am the bus weirdo.

OnlineAlienator · 12/12/2018 08:27

Thankfully i drive because i am the bus weirdo and would have got VERY huffy at being asked to share my special treat (i have an eating disorder so if its going in my mouth its been obsessed over and calculated etc) and the persistent 'are you sure'....

RandomObject · 12/12/2018 08:27

I would love a bus weirdos thread! Trains as well, and can't forget the tube.

AllRoadsLeadBackToRadley · 12/12/2018 09:12

Not fudge related, but I once argued with a guy who I refused to give up a seat to. Apparantly he was more entitled because he was "blinder" than me! (We both have white canes).

Fuck that!

I struggle with standing up on the bus. Not because I'm VI, but because I'm 4'11" and can't strap-hang like people who aren't shortarses taller people!

mothertruck3r · 12/12/2018 10:25

Years ago I was sitting on a train reading a book and the woman next to me started talking to me about devil worship and that I should "come to Christ" and started trying to get me to attend her church. Batshit.

Doonewanker · 12/12/2018 10:38

Not a bus but I remember being really little and watching people on floats in our town's carnival. I had just started eating a beautiful strawberry ice cream from Thontons that my dad had bought me. Some bastard woman jumped off her float in some crazy costume and took a massive slurp of my ice cream before my dad could stop her. I couldn't face eating the rest. I was really upset. Ice cream stealing CF bitch. Grin

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 12/12/2018 11:23

Years ago, a woman plonked a baby on my lap, picked up her shopping and got off the bus. I had to chase after her to return him.

More recently, the man sitting next to me fell asleep and flopped to one side so I spent about 15 minutes with his head on my shoulder.

Also, I posted a couple of years ago about the massively racist couple on the tram who refused to accept a local shopping centre was not a mosque.

And those incidents are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the weirdness I have encountered on public transport.

cardifcannonball · 12/12/2018 11:40

Which bus were you on, OP? This is exactly the kind of thing my DM would do Blush