AIBU to think this lady was nuts? Share your WTF interactions with strangers here

[BarbaraVineFan]

In the park with 4 year old DD today and she became fascinated with a ladybird which she found near the path. We were standing by the side of the path as DD let the ladybird crawl over her arms and hands. A lady went past with a little kid of a similar age and was looking over, so I said 'we've got a ladybird!' (Not sure why really but I felt the need to explain.) Upon which this woman sort of sniggered and went 'ah..,Chlamydia!' And then just...went on her way.

Having googled, I see that apparently ladybirds carry all sorts of STIs, which they transmit to other ladybirds and not humans. So I guess that's what she meant. But at the time I was like 'What the actual fuck?' 😂 Who even says that to a stranger?!

Does anyone have any similar stories of batshit interactions with strangers to share?

Was out with my dog and picking up her poo...a lady stopped to tell me not to bother as it would breakdown naturally.

I was on a busy narrow paved footpath...

I was once on a train commuting home from work, sitting with my then-boyfriend chatting about whatever. We had been to the gym after work then caught the train out of London to our commuter town.

A couple of stops before ours, this well to do looking lady, probably about 55-65 age range who had been sitting across the carriage stood up and came over to me and said I was an absolutely disgraceful young woman and my mother would be ashamed etc etc! then got off

Boyfriend and I was completely baffled what I had done to deserve it, still unsure to this day!

When DS was little we were having a picnic in the park, and a woman let her dog wander on to the rug and try to help itself to our food. She thought I was being unreasonable to push her dog away. It was on an extending lead.

I'm not kidding you, this 100% happened to me the other week. I'd got my rain coat on because there was a bit of a shower and I needed to post a letter in the postbox 7-8 minutes walk away...

My raincoat comes down just past my bum at the back, and I was lifting it up slightly to get my phone out of my jeans pocket. This man - around 10 years older than me, (early-mid 60s,) was walking towards me on the opposite side of the road. He said 'I thought you were going to squat down for a piss then. Haha...' 😆

Who in the name of holy hell thinks it's okay to say this to a random woman that they've never met before? 'I thought you were going to squat down for a piss?!!!' (Just because I was lifting my jacket up slightly at the back, so that I could get my phone out of my jeans pocket!)

'What an absolute weird perve,' I thought. Never seen him before or since, even though this was in my village about 5 minutes walk from my house. As I said, who thinks it's OK to say something like this to a random woman he doesn't know?

I didn't say anything back by the way, I just looked at him for about 3 seconds like >>>> and carried on walking.

Fucking weirdo.

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Sorry but this has absolutely cracked me up 🤣🤣

Are you sure she didn't say Coccinella - the Latin name for ladybirds? @BarbaraVineFan

A few years ago I was in a coffee shop, reading on my Kindle, and a random woman spontaneously had a go at me because I had a slightly more expensive model of Kindle than she felt was acceptable. She was genuinely irritable with me for spending my own money on something she personally didn’t feel was worth it. Total stranger.

Also years ago when I did bar work in a really rough local pub, we only had about four people in,
all regulars except one stranger, all sitting at the bar. It was close to closing time and the customers were chatting with me. During said conversation the stranger suddenly volunteered that he was on the sex offenders’ register after being ‘branded a pervert because of a fondness for much younger females’. He genuinely didn’t seem to think this would be negatively received by the people around him. I had to ask him to leave for his own safety.

That was a bit of a disappointing essay tbh. I was expecting more than a daft comment

No, definitely Chlamydia, with a kind of weird sniggering laugh

No not like that! Saying to a strange random woman you don't know 'I thought you were about to squat for a piss!' (When she was just walking along, lifting the back of her raincoat up to get her phone out of her pocket?!) I

That's not a normal thing for a man to say to a strange woman FFS! 😆

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Not something like that, no.

I think the piss posture is quite funny, not sure why it’s pervy. There is a man at my work who bends down in a squat position, for a fleeting second I always think he’s going to the toilet 😆😆

I wouldn’t be surprised if the first person was my mum. Tighted fisted bat and judgmental too 😂

Hahaha! If she’s completely insane and lives in Manchester, very possibly.

I was in a sauna and a man came in, sat down and said "It smells a bit fousty in here, is that you?" I just left.

This one still bugs me.

I was out with DS at a busy city centre café - lucky to get a two-seater pavement table. Our drinks were delivered to the table. I left the table for literally ten seconds to take my son's drink to him (he was watching the ducks on the canal a few feet away), leaving my own fresh drink and my hat on the table. So the table was very clearly occupied, you get my drift.

I returned to find a lady sitting in my son's seat. She looked surprised when I sat down opposite her. "Oh", she said, "My husband was about to sit there".

I politely replied "Ah, that's a shame, I was already sitting here - I was just taking a drink to my son. I don't mind you sitting in his seat though, he doesn't need it", gave a big smile, and remained in my seat, sipping my drink.

Her husband showed up and looked sad. They had a fake whispered conversation about my horrific rudeness, and he pinched a chair from somewhere else and sat on the other side of her.

At this point I assumed they were waiting for their order to be delivered from inside the café, as mine had been, but as time went on and nothing appeared...I realised they'd ordered nothing. They genuinely expected to be able to turf paying customers out of the café's seats because they fancied a sit down.

So bizarre. I think they may have thought that because I was a good twenty years younger than them, I should show them appropriate deference and surrender my seats. I might even have done that, had they asked nicely. But as it was...no.

Cheeky bastard! Sounds like he was trying to get rid of you. What a c*nt.

It’s incredibly rude and quite creepy for a man to start talking to a random woman he’s never met about ‘squatting for a piss’ in the bloody street. It’s not in any way OK for a man to tell a woman he’s never met that he’s thinking about her ‘squatting for a piss’ in front of him. Just FYI.

This was years and years ago. I was 14, and had gone with my gran to a service at the city Cathedral. After it, one of the priests came over and said 'are you the one enquiring about a wedding'. I mean, I was tall for my age but no way did I look old enough to be enquiring about a wedding haha I still had braces and was obviously a teenager.

FYI I wouldn’t have found it incredibly creepy or rude but I don’t associate squatting or pissing with anything remotely sexual.

Several years ago, I was probably about 13, I met a guy in the local library who finished every sentence with the word "death!"
"What are you up to!? DEATH!"
"What book is that? DEATH!"
"What are you doing? Death!"
I realise now that he probably had Tourettes or similar, but I had no idea what to make of it at the time.

Yeah YOU don't!

Thank you @KreedKafer It is completely inappropriate and weird and I can't believe any WOMAN would laugh it off and think it's OK.

It depends on how hyperbolic you want to be I suppose. I’m pretty sure it was a man just going about his business, saw something he got the wrong end of the stick about, and made a joke out loud that he probably shouldn’t have. I imagined he was laughing when he said it, and I’d probably have laughed too. It takes all kinds to make the world go round, doesn’t it?