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

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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?

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That's true, sadly. My mum was diagnosed last year and I am occasionally horrified, embarrassed and upset by her comments to and about other people (strangers or friends) stuff she would have NEVER otherwise said .

I was sitting with my kids at a fast food place.
They had their food,they must have been 5,4 and 2 at the time.
My number was called and I went to collect my food

Came back to a man sitting in my seat.
I was only gone a couple of seconds.
Turfed him out of my seat.
And thought to myself,who sits on a table with 3 kids.
Like they're not old enough to be by themselves.
What a weirdo.

KreedKafer

Don't waste your breath. It was late at night, and they are bored.
Either women with a very low bar, and strange fetishes that think it is perfectly OK for a random man to talk about you urinating in public, or they are men who would actually stop to talk to a random woman about her urinating in public.
HeySummerWhereAreYou not over the top at all.

Took my 2 DDs (8 & 5) and DN (4) to get new shoes. Also had my DS in his pram. The shop owner must have assumed they were all siblings. As she held the door open for us to walk in, she looked at the three girls then peeked in the pram and announced ‘Fourth time lucky!’.

Indeed. The naivety of a lot of these responses. Shows how many women really don’t understand how a lot of men’s minds work.

I had a random man glare at me as I passed him on the street and say "you fucking Russian bitches, go home!"

This was in 2010 so not a time of great anti-Russian sentiment, and I was walking alone so hadn't even said anything out loud. I don't have any foreign roots and don't know how you "look Russian".

Wtaf. Did you report him to his force? Because that is giving serious future woman abductor vibes.

Used to love watching "The Herbs" as a child. That's brought back some memories.

DW used to have an umbrella with a hippo handle. Going to work on the tube one morning the 'carriage weirdo' sat down next to her, and her umbrella touched the weirdo's leg. His response was "Fuck off. And you can fuck off too'.

DW thought it was funny that she didn't know whether he was talking to the hippo first then her or vice versa.

I’m the batshit awkward one lol. I’m very awkward in social situations. My dog tried to hump another dog and I apologised and said he’s been watching his dad. Then I said oh I don’t mean he watches us we don’t do that. And then walked away very awkwardly, to this day I still die inside when I think of it

I love that 😂 I had a friend years ago who said something similar - he was doing some door to door stuff and when talking to one lady, meant to say “walking the dog,” but accidentally said “porking the dog.” Luckily she saw the funny side, and he was mortified lol.

So mine was a weird encounter with someone who had been a close friend of my mums and in primary school me and her kid were besties, her and my mum had drifted apart by this point, it was now the late 90s and I’m about 17.

So I’m working in a supermarket stacking the soft drink isle when around the corner come this group of three women, in a collective, pushing their trolley, three generations of a family I knew very well, the friend with both her mum and one of her daughters. Suddenly I recognise them, sort of do a little excited hop to position myself before them and exclaim ‘hi Hillary!’. Without any of them directly looking at me, Hillary asks her daughter “who’s that?”, to which she responds “that’s cookiebee mum, Janet’s youngest!”. In response Hillary lets out an “ohhh” akin to her royal highness Princess Margaret and almost as if they were standing on a moving platform, the whole party just glided on by, without further acknowledgment, leaving me standing there, confused, with a bottle of R Whites in each hand!. It seemed so surreal to me I just giggled to myself, the whole thing reminded me of the scene in the sitcom dinner ladies when Anita mentioned her nipples and the royal party just move straight on without comment!

😂

Bit of an overreaction from you 😂

Not me, but an experience related to me by a very close friend.

Walking along the South Downs in 1999, it was a lovely sunny Spring morning. In the distance someone approached looking as if they were carrying a child.

As they got closer, it was a man wearing one of those ostrich suits, with the fake legs hanging down by the side, yellow tights on for the bird’s legs. As he went by he turned the ostrich head to say ‘good morning’ then carried on.

Probably a prank, but there are some odd folk about.

exactly

Not to complete strangers, no. Some people just engage their gob before engaging the few brain cells they possess.

I was walking back from the shops on a completely quiet, peaceful street in my town-I realised that with every step my birkenstocks were making a huge squeaking sound.

An elderly man from the other side of the road yelled
"you'll never make a spy"
and was still cackling away at his joke when I turned the corner.

To be fair I laughed too

Many years ago I was in the back garden with my toddler son. I was blowing bubbles with one of those tubs of bubbles you can get, and he was laughing.
An angry man appeared at the side gate, red faced with rage, practically spitting with fury because one of the bubbles had made its way across to the front of the house, “POPPED” near him and “got some bubble juice on his jacket”.
I was so shocked, toddler found rhe angry man funny and was copying him saying “popped! Popped”.
Bloke stormed off before I could say anything else. No idea to the this day who it was.

This reminded me of sitting in a hospital clinic waiting room with my 93 year old mum. She has advanced vascular dementia, to the point where inhibitions are pretty much non-existent. A nurse came out to call the next patient in - she was a very big girl. Mum looked up and said in the loudest stage whisper ‘OMG look at the size of her - mind you, if she lost that weight she’d be a pretty girl !!’. I just wanted the floor to open up and swallow me !! When the same nurse called us into the clinic I apologised and explained about the dementia. She was lovely and said her own mum had Alzheimer’s, so she sympathised - but she told me she’d appreciated the ‘pretty’ comment !!

Firstly stop with the 'my friend/postman/dentist is black' trope, its ignorant.
Secondly stop with the 'aggressive, violent' black person trope; I'd be shouting and annoyed if a random dog came over nosing into my food while it's owner had no recall or control. Why stand there being shouted at, walk away then, and keep your dog on a lead if you can't control it.

When I’d first split up with my son’s dad and wasn’t ready for a relationship, I joined Meetup to get out of the house when my son went to his dad’s. Some pissed bloke in his 40s spent all night negging me. He was on my train home and his parting line was “You look like somebody’s mum but I don’t mind. Give me your number”. No idea how I managed to resist him.

I also had a woman in a shop ask me my sons name and then tell me he wouldn’t thank me for giving him ‘a poof’s name’ when he was older! Charming.

OP ladybirds can bite.

infestation at DGD’s uni bedroom , they couldn’t work out what was biting them, had seen lots of ladybirds but not realised.