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.

I was sat in a restaurant with a work colleague. It was one if those where the front of the restaurant is open to the street.
A lad similar age to ourselves, early 20's, came in, pulled up a chair and sat at our table. Waitress came, he ordered a coffee and a sandwich. We exchanged pleasantries with him but didn't have an in depth conversation with him.
He ate, drunk up and said thanks but he must be getting on.
It was only when he had gone that we realised neither of us knew him 😂, each of us thought the other knew him.
10 out of 10 for a way of getting a free lunch!

I'm not sure if this counts as weird but it certainly unsettled me at the time. As a young teenager I was walking down a city street with some friends and a young man approached me. We'd seen him and his mates in the near distance having a laugh and thought nothing of it. He picked me up and lifted me over his shoulders and put me down again. None of us saw this coming and it was so sudden. I gasped with horror, apparently I went white and then I went red. The lads walked off laughing. I can only imagine that it was because I was small (not so small now) and maybe he'd had a bet with his mates.

I helped a 90+yo lady with her shopping in a tesco, we had a nice chat. Before she left she asked me "Do you have any single grandpas, dear? I like you a lot!" 😂

“DH was once buying nappies and some nutty woman behind him at the checkout threw them off the conveyor belt and on the floor and started shouting she'd had enough of bloody nappies!She was escorted out of the store by security.”

Nous sommes toutes cette femme.

@concernedrepurplehouse eh?!

Years ago, DH and I were having a lunchtime drink in a hotel bar. He went off to the loo and to get some drinks.

A bloke (mid 30s ish, stylish, good-looking) who had been at the other side of the bar, came over to me and said, calmly, not smiling and with no expression on his face, without any pre-amble, 'You have beautiful eyes. I am staying here on business, I'm from London. Do you want to come up to my room and have sex?'

I said, very politely, 'No thank you. I am having a drink with my husband who is at the bar there'.

He said, 'I know, I've been watching you. Just come up to my room and have sex.'

I said 'I don't want to. Please go away.'

He said 'It's room xxx (can't remember the number). I'm going up now. If you change your mind, I'm here all week'.

It was the strangest conversation. All very polite and matter-of-fact. I am still amazed that anyone could be so strange. DH came back with the drinks and I told him what had happened. He just said 'He must be on something or drunk or both.'

As a teenager I worked in a cafe. A guy came in and asked for a crocodile sandwich and a pair of size 8 shoes. Refused to accept I couldn't sell him them. Still sticks in my head decades later

I was once having lunch in a cafe with a friend when a man in a green, hairy costume walked, sat down next to me and drank my drink. Then he got up and walked out.

I think this thread clarifies that getting on any type of public transport in London is a risk

Don’t be daft.

Hmmm... really, a knife huh?🤔 And not even going into the ethnicity thing. For the record, I'm white, European, have lived all over London for 30 years (since my degree and having grown up in the Home Counties) and don't have a car so have used buses extensively, and have never had anything like this - although Londoners can be very protective of their older people on buses, it's true.

But I guess I'm one of the 'vile people' so what would I know?

They were going to the ministry of magic of course @LisaSimpson77

This happened about 20 years ago. I was living temporarily with my parents after a relationship break up (I was mid-30s). Sunday morning, parents were out. Front door bell rings, I answer it and there's a man, maybe about 30years old, standing there. I think he was foreign and seemed agitated and was gesticulating and pointing to the next door house. He kept making cradling movements with his arms. I had no idea what he was trying to tell me but, because I was alone in the house, I said sorry don't know what you want, and shut the door. Two minutes later there's a knock on the back door and it's him again, still pointing to next door and more cradling motions. Now, my parents' garden is completely enclosed with a 6 foot fence round it and a gate that's locked from the inside. He would have had to climb the fence over all the clematis etc to get in. I was seriously alarmed by this point and said, sorry you're going to have to go. Much to my relief he left immediately (through the gate, not over the fence). I still have absolutely no idea to this day what he was trying to tell me but feel slightly guilty that there might have been a child in trouble. To add, there were no young children living next door. Bizarre!

In a pub in Edinburgh one legged man (wooden pegleg) with an eyepatch trying to force us to take his cigarettes, strong bristol accent but insisted he was from London telling us about his daughter.

@FlissyPaps 90s South Kensington, I had exactly the same thing. Maybe it's the same guy, and his only conversation opener is "Are you French?"

Someone came up to me and told me I look just like Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds. I actually love LP but she is a puppet after all!

Sounds like me too and I’m not Autistic @JemimaPuddlegoose I know what I want so I go in and get it and my only interaction with check out staff really is saying ‘no thanks I’ve got my own bag’ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Camping, small site, group of 4 of us sat round chatting, probably quite loudly, late at night. We decide to call it a night and head together to the loo block. En route we are approached by a single man with a very bright head torch. He starts shouting at us, accusing us of talking about him, he’s heard us he says talking about him. We point out we’ve never met him before and have no idea who he is. He tells us he’s Gordon Bennett and he’s heard us talking about him. Then he walks off. He was so angry and upset! I presume he was quite intoxicated? He was there on his own in the tiniest one man tent. I didn’t sleep much that night, convinced this nutter was going to attack us in the middle of the night.

Was on a bus with DS in a sling, just sitting minding my own business when a woman got on and started screaming at me that I had breastfed her child. Calling me a pervert and sick and that she was going to call social services on me.
I had never seen this woman before in my life.

I was so bemused and freaked out.

The guy next to me said "just ignore her I think she's not very well"

I'm sure she was very mentally unwell but it was awful.

I've never got off a bus so fast in my life, I was worried she'd attack us or something, she was screaming like a wild thing.

Something that happened last night, I was busy rushing around, dropped the boys off at martial arts, took dd into Asda to grab a few things. An elderly man stopped dead in front of us and said to dd, excuse me miss can you take my blood pressure? I looked at him like wtf, grabbed dd hand and marched off.

Then, I realised she was still wearing her nurse outfit 🤦‍♀️.

Potentially outing as the friend I was with uses mumsnet but anyway. 13/14 year old me and my friend were waiting outside local shop for mum to collect us from school when a man maybe 19/20 approaches us and whispers "me and my brother are cat burglars I wear black gloves so they can't find our fingerprints and I've got a gun in my back pocket " me were both like wtf so humoured him for a few mins til mum turned up. Anyway it turns out this man had some kind of learning difficulty possibly on the spectrum as well I don't know but I saw him most days for a few years and he was act very sweet and harmless despite us being very freaked out the first time we met..he even got me a Xmas card one year and signed it from all the star wars characters 😁I haven't seen him for years but think of him sometimes and wonder how he's doing.

Waiting for DH to pick me up outside our local ASDA, minding my own busness, not really aware that a bus stop was nearby or that a bus had just pulled up. I noticed that a surge of people were going towards the store entrance, however one woman stopped in front of me and punched me in the shoulder!!???
She muttered something under her breath and ran off to the store entrance. I was so shocked that I didn't notice DH arrive to pick me up

My aunt was sitting on a seat in Nice airport, a man starts fiddling underneath the one next to her and pulls out a massive knife. Presumably he had realised he couldn't get it through security and had hidden it there.

This has me in tears😂😂😂. Exactly what Delboy Trotter would do

Also standing at a bar in Italy with a coffee, a woman I don't know orders a coffee too. A man comes along and orders one too but before he can drink it he looks at both of us and starts shouting "you bitches are here too. Can you not leave me in peace?" And he storms out. 😮

When I worked in London about 10 years ago I had been to lunch with some work colleagues and we left the restaurant and were waiting to cross a road. I looked to my left and there was a man probably in his late 50's standing there who very cheerfully said Oh Hello. I will talk to anyone and said hello back.

He walked off for a few steps then came back and said Oh hi! like he really knew me. So I said hi again and he walked off but did look back a couple of times. I had this niggle in my head that I'd seen him somewhere before then I realised he was one of the valuers on the Antiques Roadshow. He wasn't creepy at all, just very pleasant. My DM thinks it was because he thought I was Jenny Agutter as I look like her but I will never know 😀