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?

I was once at my gym’s swimming pool, about to get in to swim some laps. A woman approached me and asked if I could watch her 7 year old son in the pool, because she didn’t have her swimming costume and the lifeguard wouldn’t let him swim without an adult in the pool with him. I replied that I was at the pool to swim laps and couldn’t swim with her son.

It was so weird that she thought I may agree to this. I had my goggles in hand and obviously was getting in to exercise, and I would never take responsibility for watching a random stranger’s son swim!

Not me but my mum.
Mum goes for a run every morning. On her run she often passes a man out for his run but going the other way. One morning he stopped her, “I keep meaning to ask but how old are you?”
“73”, says my mum
“I thought you were” he says, and carries on.

Most people would follow up her age with some comment and well done for still running at that age or how she doesn’t look it or something like that.

Actually I just read that 'taking an interest in his employees'.
He didn't ask for names etc.
Not sure why anyone was dying of laughter.

NB I use a walking stick sometimes.

A woman once argued with me and my DS correcting us that he was in fact a girl not a boy... that was pretty batshit.

Imagine thinking I don't know my DS sex and even more so that HE doesn't know it.

Another one I was at a work conference and at lunch time there was a van outside selling sweet treat stuff. Many of us bought stuff and this girl that I had only met that morning but super friendly and we hit it off really well asked if she could try some of mine.

I'm not really a share food type (especially as it required sharing a spoon) but have friends that have the 'waste not want not' mindset and will eat anything and I was actually full so I said 'you can just have the rest of it if you want' and gave it to her. She had a few bites, said thanks and tried to hand it back and I said 'you can just finish it if you want, I've had plenty'. She said thanks and then offered it to the rest of the group (basically 'would anyone like some before I finish it' once again not something I would even think to do but I guess shes a share food type) so far all has been fine.

Then one girl (new to the group who had barely spoke to any of us all day) announced loudly 'I WOULD have had some except SHE has touched it' and then glared at me. She spent the rest of the day with a face like a smacked arse staring at me from across the room with a death glare.

I 'touched' it? (what the spoon?)... it was MY food, that I went out and bought and paid for with my money, was I meant to give this random woman MY food first. So bizarre.

I was walking my dog in a park with a river one side and trees the other. My dog did a poo, I got a poo bag out, she came over and said very firmly to leave it as “the slugs love it!” I did, of course pick it up in the face of her protestations. But I was baffled.

Oh well apparently I was weird for not laughing off my DH's uncle slapping and groping my backside- I am such a kill joy! 🙄
I gave him the most disgusted Paddington stare in existence and in a voice dripping with distain told him never to lay a hand on me again.
The rest of the family (except DH!) thought I was overreacting, as he's always done it to females of all ages (🤢) in the family and doesn't mean anything by it!
Spoiler alert, reader he has never dared touch me again and hasn't laid a finger on any one else since!

Think in my case it's the other person with the WTF moment...... I answered the door to some random when I was newly married. Only thing he said was "is your mum in?" I just stumbled ...errr, no..... and closed the door on him. Seriously, it seems light years ago.

You can be annoyed about a dog eating your picnic. How you choose to react even if the person has apologised and retrieved their dog is up to you. Yelling in someone's face, whatever the provocation, is deeply unpleasant.

But the family of another colour yelling in someone's face about racism when the actual issue is dog behaviour is unhinged.

You also making it about skin colour when it's nothing of the sort is ignorant.

I'd imagine they 'stood there' as they were so shocked at an insane accusation or, as they have said, scared.

My uncle grabbed me aged about 12, stuck his tongue down my throat and said I was getting curves in all the right places.

i shoved him and yelled and my mother slapped me across the face and said 'I don't care what anyoje does to you, you will NOT be rude'.

It's never left me.

Anyway- the pee thing that the poster is getting so much backlash for- yes, some men are creepy fuckers who like to make random women feel uncomfortable for kicks and pee porn is an actual thing. I rather envy the posters who are innocent enough to not know that.

I was standing at the bus stop minding my own business when a man walking past suddenly stopped, turned to me and told me "you're going to give birth to a son. A gift from God. There, isn't God good?" And walked off. I was actually ttc and having IVF at the time so I was a bit shaken up. His prediction never did come true!

Omg I think you win! I just had a good cackle, thank you.

In all seriousness though, being accused of shoplifting makes you never forget the receipt when buying something… a silver lining perhaps? Only kidding 🤣

Did you reply by singing "I'm Dill the Dog, I'm a dog named Dill"?

If not, you are the weird one. 😂

I was horribly rude to a random stranger in an airport last year. Our plane home was very delayed and we were sitting in the airport for hours next to a family with restless DC. Our flight was called and for some reason I decided it would be nice to compliment the mum on keeping her DC amused for so long. This wouldn't have been a good idea anyway but my words got completely scrambled and I ended up insulting her. There was no way to fix it so I just ended on an agonised smile and scuttled off. I cringe myself into pretzels every time I think of it. Poor woman. I hope she enjoys telling people about the rude bitch in Majorca.

😂😂

I agree completely with @KreedKafer, @Bitchette - this was an utterly inappropriate comment for a man to make to any woman, never mind one he doesn't know.

Thanks for that. Yes my son did apologise, very politely. His dog didn’t actually get close enough to eat their fish and chips but nonetheless he knew his dog was out of order.

What subsequently happened was bizarre. Yes, we were very shocked at how it escalated.

I would've laughed at that. What's weird and pervy about that? 🤔

My friend is in his eighties and housebound. He used to be a stand up comedian, and thinks he still is, but he hasn't really kept pace with the way the world has changed since his act in the '70s and he still thinks 'blonde jokes' are cutting edge. I do my best! So it's not him, although I can well imagine him saying this.

I'm sorry you were yelled at. Must have been very unpleasant.

I wouldn't have been offended by the pissing comment, I would have just laughed it off. However I do find it interesting that a lot would be but then didn't comment on the fish up the foof post, why is that not inappropriate? Is it because it was a woman to a women?
Just to note I would have found both funny but am genuinely interested.

Such a ridiculous assumption. She’s my best friend, we used to work together, I known her for 20 years.

I'm the kind of woman who would've laughed with the man. I guess we just have differing sense of humours.
People are so uber sensitive these days, sad 😔