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?

Random woman told me to have a second child in case something happened to my first one 😳. I didn’t want a 2nd child as I nearly died giving birth to DS but either way, none of her business.

Also, not being royal means I don’t need a ‘spare’!

It was really awful. Something along the lines of "My DC think I'm too strict. Thanks for showing them they have it easy!" I have no idea why or how those words came out. It's not at all true or what I meant to say. Poor woman!

I was once in the queue at a tube station and a woman started ranting and raving and screaming at me because she said I looked at the young man she was with (black male) in a funny way and I was obviously racist. She was older in her 50s and very very posh. When my (black) boyfriend caught up with me a couple of minutes later and told her she was fucking nuts, she said I was only with him ‘until something better came along’.

Also a random man came up to me when my baby was in her carrier she was maybe 8 weeks ago. Telling me he was a doctor and I was ‘very stupid’ and English mothers were ‘very stupid’ (he was foreign) and my baby couldn’t breathe. I told him to fuck off and gave him a mouthful which he clearly didn’t expect. Passers by were staring.

Many years ago,I had a boyfriend who found the sight of women having a pee very erotic! Kept asking me to pee on him when we were DTD. I wouldn't. Surprisingly,the relationship didn't last very long......

Properly wetting myself now !!

I was once driving down a country road and when I turned a corner my water bottle (which was precariously balanced on the backseat) tipped and water started pissing everywhere . I pulled over to sort it and a random man got in my car.

I ask what he was doing and he thanked me for stopping. I explained I hadn't stopped for him. He asked if I'd drive him as far as I was going, I said I was close to home (lie).

I drove about a mile then pulled up near some houses and told him I was home. Thankfully he thanked me and left, I turned left at the houses as though I was planning to park but carried on feeling freaked out.

Always lock your doors!!!

Let's not go back to that Katie Price story from last week, I've just about scrubbed my brain clean 🤮💩

I was on a packed commuter train home out of London the other week, it was more than full, a lot of people standing. A guy decided to start juggling with 6 oranges in the middle of the carriage. One of the oranges landed on someone's bag and rolled in and the juggler guy accused the woman of stealing the orange by her "power of gravity". She gave the orange back and the guy next to orange juggler told him to "give it a rest" when he started to juggle again. The tense stand off ended when juggler guy got to his stop but he tripped on the way out leaving his oranges rolling around the train carriage as he didn't have time to retrieve them before the doors closed.

That made me laugh -a poster upthread suggested the fish would be easier to ‘insert’ tail first if it was frozen !!

PotterHead1985 · Today 04:00
I was in the airport. Had spent all night on the uncomfortable chairs waiting for an early morning flight. Hadn't slept a wink, was blurry eyed, wearing a hoodie and jeans (needed to be comfy for a night on those seats). Was walking into the loos when a woman and her two youngish children were coming out. She looks at me and goes 'this is the ladies'. She gets a half asleep yea back from me to which she repeats herself more forcefully. I know I said and walked past her. Later that day I felt I wish I'd been awake enough to ask her did she want me to prove my right to be in there. Like apologies for not wearing my push up bra and a skirt for a night in the airport
@Magazinerack I’ve heard of loads of cis women having the same experience. Shows how silly and harmful anti trans bathroom hysteria is imo

'SIlly'?
It makes more sense for MEN (transwomen) not to be in women's toilets/changing rooms/Prisons/sports at all rather than women (no need for the insulting 'cis' - woman is not a subset of not-man) to wonder whether someone in a hoodie and jeans is actually female. We should be comfortable that MEN are not in our spaces, because they are (should be!) single-sex!

I am howling at this. Dear old Parsley.

I was probably the weird one in my scenario. At sixteen I had to get a long distance train somewhere. It involved getting up horrifically early and I think the train left at something like 6am.

I was sharing a table with a man probably in his late 30s. We didn’t speak, he just got on with some work, and I had a book to read.

About an hour into the journey, the sun started to rise - one of those really beautiful golden sunsets, and the scenery looked gorgeous. The man caught my eye and smiled and said “Isn’t that beautiful”

I, being an incredibly gauche and awkward teenager, tried to be polite and agree that yes, it was beautiful.

Instead, I came out with, “I KNOW that”

Absolutely no idea what I was thinking. We didn’t speak again.

i was offered a seat on the tube recently,
am 58 so definitely not pregnant!
i must be old for the tube, i had a look around and yes most people were younger

My sister in law was flashed - full dirty raincoat job. The flasher shouted ‘look at this lady’ as he opened his coat. She said ‘Oh yes, it’s just like a penis only a lot smaller isn’t it?’

Are you sure he didn’t have a lisp ?

I was looking at paint in B&Q and a male customer came over and started giving me unwanted decorating advice. I said "thanks but I didn't ask". He then claimed I was rude and stuck up 😂

I have a question about Trumpton. Remember the fire engine crew ? Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and………………? Anyone ?

..... Grub

Tying yourself in knots trying to excuse bigotry. And that’s not what cis means 😂

This is a pretty confusing reply. Does she live with your sil? Do you dislike your daughter or your sil? Either way, glad the turd has left the area!

I went to our (always a little bit odd) GP to let him know I was pregnant with no 2. He said “same father?”

Thank you !! That’s really been annoying me since I saw that post !!

I was walking with my DS (about 7 at the time) on a paved path with grass either side of it. With us walking side by side, there was room on the path for a person to pass, should they wish.
We heard footsteps behind us and a woman barged past, with her daughter (looked to be about 10), forcing my son off the path and onto the grass.
I told her that she was extremely rude and she replied that they wanted to get past. I asked why she didn't just walk around us, and she said that they 'didn't want to walk on the grass' and that I was being ridiculous.
It's apparently fine for my son to have to walk on the grass though 🤷‍♀️

So the desire to keep womens’ spaces for actual women is bigotry now ? And as for the meaning of CIS, the Oxford English Dictionary added the word “cisgender” to its listing, defining it as ‘designating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds to his or her sex at birth - and contrasted with transgender’. It’s offensive and unnecessary, and in this context absolutely designates woman as a subset of man. If there was no issue, we wouldn’t have to reiterate that it was a ladies room would we ?

I’ve got 2 both very different haha.

1- was at King’s Cross train station and I was waiting in the queue for the cash machine, the guy in front of me, was doing like an on the spot dance, and literally out of nowhere he turned around and yelled ‘YO!’ In my face and stamped on my foot then literally ran away. It didn’t hurt, but I was so shocked I just burst into laughter and then tears 🤣

2- not batshit as such- but just a ‘wtaf’ moment.. was at the softplay, and the lady who I paid to get the kids in asked if I had any ‘food or drinks as it’s not allowed as we ‘ARE A CAFE’ too.. I said ‘yes just flavoured water for my DC (11 months). She looked appalled and said ‘it’s not allowed you will have to pour it out..!’ I said ‘it’s literally flavoured water’ then she started reeling off this thing about some law where she can’t allow other food.. this is absolute fine and I agreed I would purchase some of their flavoured water.

10 mins later I go to the counter to order food and drinks.. I asked her (the same lady!) to pour the flavoured water away out of his bottle. She then said ‘it’s ok you can have flavoured water just not other drinks..’ I said ‘you said I couldn’t have flavoured water??’ And she said ‘no I said you couldn’t haven’t flavoured water.. we sell it’ by this point I was questioning wether this was a real interaction or it someone was going to pop out and tell me I’d been pranked. So random hahaha