Strangest encounter with a stranger?

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Today I went to the cash point outside Tesco and a man walked in front of me diagonally and we almost clashed and so I moved back (assumed he was walking to the entrance) and he just stared at me.

He was on the phone talking, with his back to the cash point, staring at me carrying on his conversation. So after about a few seconds I was like “are you using the cash point” - he responded yes but then still carried on his conversation. I was just like 😬 ok ….

Probably not that weird, but it’s fresh in my head.

It was some sort of black or white majic. Let's hope white.

I should add that the cemetery was on a higher level to my Dads house and there was a huge drop down to the square so there was no way I could have just kept 'walking forward' to get to the house.

Chased in a train station by an odd little man who wanted to comb my hair.

When I was a teen I began suffering with alopecia. It wasn't noticeable to anyone else at all

One day, I was stopped in the street by a woman with learning difficulties. She reached out and touched my hair saying "It will grow back". Then walked away. Still don't know how she knew

This didn’t happen to me but my daughters, One of them was out in town shopping when a man she didn’t know tried to talk to her. My daughter just ignored him and carried on with her day. Second daughter was approached by a dad of one of her pupils, asking why she had ignored him in town when he tried to speak to her. My daughter explained that she has a twin sister and he must of seen her twin. The Dad was very annoyed and thought my daughter was making up being a twin, he definitely didn’t believe her. Some people are so strange.

On a different experience, I’ve found that total strangers feel as if they can ask you anything and expect you to answer. I’ve been asked were my twins natural, are they adopted and where did I adopt them from. All very weird and rude.

I was out on the way to the play park with my children aged under 7 at the time, the 3 oldest and pregnant with my fourth. Also my freinds youngest was with me. I was waiting outside the post office for my freind. A lady in her 60's or 70's came up to me and told me I was irresponsible for having so many children, and ruining planet earth by using plastic bottles and many nappies. I just smiled and said I didn't use bottles and used cloth nappies. I think I was hoping she'd leave but she asked if I'd ever heard of contraception. Just them my freind came out the shop. I started walking toward the park, the woman followed us a bit and complained more about over population, my freind turned to her and said, " I don't think we were the best people to have this conversation with", and added that she was a mother of 10. She is too! The women looked agast, said we made her feel sick and scuttled off in the opposite direction. My freind just smiled and said a cheery "good bye".

I have a weird coincidence one.. my now dh and I pre kids went for an impromptu weekend in sunny Blackpool. I was a hotel manager in Liverpool at the time and after our weekend in a dated room with no view, (though we made the best of it and at least it was clean ) headed home. Went to work that night and the hotel manager from Blackpool checked into my hotel for a couple of nights.. there was only availability for her booking due to a cancellation! I graciously gave her a lovely room, rather than the one facing the ally we got in hers.. she definitely got the better end of the room deal 😂 her face when she recognised me was a picture.. I’m sure she thought I’d stiff her!

This is how I shop.
Want it over and done with.
I walk fast even if I'm not in a hurry.

@KermitlovesKeyLimePie now that is bonkers !!! What are the chances 🤷🏼‍♀️

Back in the day I used to walk to work; the same route every day at the same time.

I was in Morrison’s one day, in the cheese aisle. An old man came up to me; a bit breathless. Said he’d been trying to catch me as I walked round the store (I’m a fast walker).
He said he was so pleased to actually meet me. Said I walked past his window every morning as he was eating his toast and I’d become part of his morning routine. He wanted to just say hello when he saw me in the supermarket in real life. It was lovely, but unusual. He didn’t know what to say after he’d said hello and neither did I. But we were smiley about it. Felt a bit deep in a funny sort of way

@blubberyboo you've just reminded me of once in the train station after work back in 2019. I was heavily pregnant and a bit tired so was leaning against a post waiting for the platform to be announced when a girl came over and asked if I was OK. After saying that I was, she made the usual conversation asking when I was due and did I know what I was having etc. Right before she left she said she wouldn't be offended if I said no but asked if she could pray for me. Doesn't really bother me if she wanted to do it but it was a bit odd asking if I minded as I'd never have known otherwise!

This is so lovely. When I used to walk to school in my teens there was always a few people who I’d pass everyday and they’d become part of my routine, I’d always worry a bit if I hadn’t seen them and we’d always smile at each other. It’s been years now since I’ve seen them but I do sometimes wish I’d have actually said hello

About a year ago I was hobbling to work on crutches with a bad back. A guy who smelled strongly of weed mumbled something (I had headphones in) and handed me a tenner! Instinctively I took it, immediately tried to refuse but he insisted and walked away. I obviously couldn’t catch up with him. Bear in mind I was wearing brand new Nikes, dressed for an office and listening to AirPods I did not look like I needed money! I hated that job, was dreading getting to work, in a lot of pain and he left me in tears at his strange kindness. I put the £10 in my kid’s money box because I felt guilty keeping it.

I was on the bus coming home from work when this old lady got on the bus and sat next to me. She wore a dirty raincoat, a silk scarf covering her hair and had very long wellies on that had been rolled down. She told me that Tesco had wanted her house to demolish it to put in a service road to the new superstore and when she'd refused they'd sent men armed with shotguns to try to intimidate her. She got off the bus next to this very dilapidated bungalow. The bungalow got bulldozed but Tesco never got their service Road.

There is a very clear message coming through in this thread. Don’t catch buses. Ever. 😳

I think I've told this story before but quite a few years ago when DD was around 18 months old there was a knock at my front door. Opened it to find a man and a Little boy around 3 that I'd never seen before. 'Is this where DDs name lives?' he asked. 'Erm... Yes' I replied. He then handed over a massive bag of Christmas presents for her. I was so surprised I just said thanks and never asked who the hell they were! She was so little there's no way she could have met this kid and me not known about it. Still confused now!

That’s so funny it happened to you too @AchatAVendre ! I think your theory is probably spot on… My arsehole guy’s ego was visible from space and I think anyone could see how smitten I was. Ugh, just thinking about it all makes me bloody relieved to be middle-aged now!

A man once offered me a crystal. I said no thanks but he became a bit sinister and insisted I take it, placed it in my hands and said that it would bring me luck. I laughed nervously and said 'well, I hope it works'. He was furious and started shouting at me that people had used these crystals for thousands of years so of course they bloody worked. I was terrified, ran off and threw the Crystal in the fist bin I saw.

Why do I get the weird feeling the woman saying she was threatened with guns was telling the truth.

Lol at Jesus in Hull

I've thought of another,
Walking home with my friend and she says of here is C (my son). I said , oh I thought he'd already left. I'm full on staring at this lad riding towards me, ready to chat to him, he's looking at me weirdly, probably wondering why I'm staring. He is the absolute spits of my son, same hair, same glasses, same coat, same bike but as he got up close he's about 2 years younger. Even one of his mates mums thought it was him, saying my son ignored her the night before (he wasn't even in the same town that day 😂)
I'm convinced he must be my exes son!

Another couple from my carer.

He was in Tokyo in a shop that sells cheap toys, he had a shopping basket on the floor while he looked at something on the shelf.

A small boy, carer estimates 3 or 4 year old, walks up to him, one by one picks up the things in the basket, makes a comment in Japanese, puts it back in the basket and does the same with every item, then just walks off.

The other one I've put on here before.

Carer is at his place, having a nap and hears a noise, he goes to investigate and a man walks in through the living room external door, which is creepy enough but he lives on the 6th or 7th floor (I can never remember) and this is the door to the balcony.

He (stranger) had apparently had an altercation on an upper floor, had jumped from the balcony 2 floors above and grabbed the pigeon netting on my carer's balcony.

You drew Jesus a map to Halfords 😂

I have several, but the stories about photos in Borobudur reminded me of this.

Our local park in East London is a huge Victorian thing, all laid out formally with an Azalea walk. It's a very Asian area, and every spring you always see couples and families in their best outfits posing for photos with the azaleas in the background.

When DD was little she had white-blonde hair and big blue eyes. I would take her out to the park regularly and we were constantly asked if she would be in their photos - it was so weird, yet rather sweet, and I often wondered what they said to their friends and relatives when they showed them the photos later... I mean, how did they explain it, "here's one of us with this random white kid we borrowed" and nobody asked why or said how odd it was...? 🤔😂

I was sitting at the lights earlier and they started going amber. The last person crossing saw this and sped up to a fast walk/jog. They managed to get across the crossing just as the lights changed and I wasn't delayed.

The other one is not so sweet...

I was sitting at the railway station waiting for a train into London and this bloke in his 30s comes staggering down the platform, the worse for drink or drugs, he sees me and the first words out of his mouth are "You wanna have sex?"

Bear in mind this is midwinter, I was about 50 at the time and cocooned in a parka, jeans and moonboots, anyway, I just ignored him. He stood over me and said "How much? How much for sex?"

Again, I tried to ignore him and read my book, but he then started to get abusive so I got up and walked away, him following me shouting I was a whore and why wouldn't I have sex with him... the place was deserted as I'd just missed a train, so I went to the stationmaster's office, which was on that platform, and knocked on the window. The bugger shook his head at me and turned away!

So I got annoyed and continued knocking until he got up and came out to give me an earful, I told him that there was a drunk bloke shouting abuse at me and he honestly could not have cared less, until the bloke coming after me caught up and, I kid you not, went to him and said "You gay?"

"You what?" (Stationmaster = little fat bloke in his 40s)

"You gayboy? You wanna have sex with me? I have money. I pay!"

This of course was an affront to the stationmaster's manliness and he forgot about me and got into his own argument with the bloke. The next train came and I got on, leaving them to it.

It did piss me off that he didn't give a shit about me being harassed, but when it came to him...