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?

I find it odd that she should have presumed it was human faeces, as opposed to any other species'.

My 16 yo daughter was doing work experience in a local nursery in very multi cultural area. She was part of a trip to a local park with 2 small children in a double buggy and two others holding on to either side of the buggy. A middle aged man looked at her and the 4 ethnically diverse children and told her she was a fucking slag who needed her tubes tied.

DD drew herself up to her full 153cm and told him in very RP tones that they weren't her children, she worked in a pre-school. To which he responded 'oh, no offence meant love'!

What he would have said if he had intended offence I dread to think.

This made me laugh 😂

🤣🤣🤣

I was walking my dog along the river the other day when I passed a lad in his late teens loudly describing his love for bum sex to his equally young friend. It was around 9pm or so. Seemed sober just an attention seeker. Added it to the list of reasons why I’m leaving London.

I have had similar. But when DS1 was a baby a random man stopped me in the supermarket and implored me to have a second child because apparently one child was about the ego of the parents and two meant you really wanted them. Or something like that.

Yes, The Herbs, Hector's House, Clangers, Tales Along The Riverbank, Sebastian etc. Knew it anyway as have been around a while.

The other funny thing I did not mention in my post was the gentleman was a pretty close match for Donald Sinden - so fairly leonine in his own way.

And this was not a stranger but my rather creepy neighbour who was in his late 60s at the time and when I was checking our letterbox just after Ds was born started questioning me closely about if I was breastfeeding him and gave me hand signal instructions about latching and said his DIL to his older son breastfed until the child was 2 and the DIL of his younger son was a 'selfish little madam' who formula fed. He was really quite strident about it all.

I’m with you Mookie, ‘My best friend is black’ is usually an indication that the encounter didn’t happen.

A woman approached me recently when I was walking quickly in the pouring rain. I wasn’t sure if she was going to ask for directions or money (city living) but either way stopping in the heavy rain was annoying. She said “Excuse me, do you know what would take a head off a pigeon?”

To be fair, 10 metres further down the road I saw a pigeon with its head missing (😱🤮). But it was a slightly surprising and confusing interaction 😂

I recently spent a long period in hospital. The cleaner on the ward was a shy man whose English wasn’t very good and who never interacted with the patients. One day he stood at the end of my bed and said “Can I pray for you?” Surprised that he was talking to me after eight weeks of silence I agreed. So he said a prayer for me. I was quite touched actually but why me? I never saw him praying for anyone else. Still find it puzzling.

If it takes all sorts of creepy apologists like you to make the world go round, I think I'll get off.

This person would probably become my new work bestie! I love randomers 😂

That first “ugly baby/ugly husband” comment is WILD! No wonder you were stunned into silence. The rudeness (and weirdness!) of some people seriously astounds me.

Do you also find the female colleague asking the poster which side of the fish she wants to shove into her fanny creepy?

Not sure if you saw the update, but it was a live fish and they were possibly being brought up on animal cruelty charges!

"Bubble juice" aka "soap".

That reminds me of a lady who offered to drive me home from church recently and then added, “That is, if you don’t mind lady drivers?” 😂

I’d been visiting my DD and had parked the car in DDs space outside her flat. When I left it was a glorious day, so I put the roof of the car down. Her neighbour came flying out screeching like a banshee about how dare I put the car roof down, I didn’t even live there, who did I think I was, she was going to call the police, get DD evicted etc. I asked her WTF her problem was and she went off on another screeching rant about the car roof going down right outside her flat and I didn’t live there so had no right to do that.

Still not worked it out to this day.

Our house is currently for sale.
We had one woman come round 3 times (she didn’t make an offer but that’s another story). First time she came on her own, second time with hubby, last time with daughter.
We have a walk in cupboard in the bedroom. Just big enough to keep stuff in, not a dressing room or big enough to make into an en-suite or anything.
First viewing, she opened the door and said ‘oh it’s a glory hole! I love a glory hole!’. I thought I might have misheard but DH confirmed.
Second viewing, she showed her husband the ‘glory hole’ and they both agreed they loved a glory hole!
Third viewing, glory hole discussion with daughter and they also described the loft as a glory hole!
😂😂

YES!

I was walking my two dogs and they stopped to have a sniff as dogs do. A man somewhere in his fifties possibly early sixties was walking towards me and I could tell that he was itching to catch my eye so that he could talk. As he got closer, I turned towards the dogs so that I wouldn’t have to speak as I wasn’t feeling very sociable. As he passed by he said, “what a lovely pair of cuties you have there”. So it could have been innocent but he had a smile on his face that came across as leering plus the tone he used. I didn’t like it so ignored. This, also in a village and I’ve never seen him before 😂

I gasped when I read that to comment, imagine saying that to someone. She sounds vile

This happened a couple of weeks ago. Sat in lane 2 of McDonald's drive thru slightly before the intercom waiting to order, singing along to TLC No Scrubs. Man in lane 1 completes his order starts driving forward then aggressively reverses back towards me to ask if I called him a 'ginger c*nt'?? Quite angry about it too. I was so taken aback lol. Have replayed the song numerous times to try and find the part that even remotely sounds like what he accused me of saying and I can't hear nothing remotely similar 😂😂