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?

Sorry to be a pedant of a poster, but it's not 'Hugh, Pugh ...' it's 'Pugh, Pugh ...' 😄

Coming out of the supermarket, I saw a 1p on the ground. As I bent down to pick it up I noticed an elderly gent standing there watching me. I told him it's meant to signify good luck and asked him if he knew the rhyme - ' See a penny and pick it up...?'. He said' ...and all day long you'll have good luck'. 'That's right', I said.

He added, ' What a load of shit !' and walked off.
That had me laughing all the way home. 😂😂

And thank you to you too !! I wasn’t sure to be honest. 😁

Hilarious !!

Just remembered this inspired by another post.

DD did an activity with a lot of very wealthy girls. She was aged about 12 and invited to a party of one of them. When I dropped her the mum asked where she went to school. I said ‘X school’ the local comp and she physically recoiled. It was bizarre.

Yeah, my neighbours wife is now in a home, but before she went there I took her out on occasions to give him some time off.
My God the things she came out with and the things she did.

I took her to a garden centre cos she liked them before, she was like a toddler eating in the cafe. A few people looked at us and I gave them a death stare.
She fangirled over Thomas the tank engine when I took grandkids and her to see him.
She interrupted people to say weird things and regularly shouted out 'RAPE, RAPE'

I miss her acerbic wit now shes deep in dementia.

First Post talks about a woman who said to poster... Leave the dog poo there.

Second poster said someone left a dog poo outside her daughter and son-in-law's house.... and it was probably the dirty dog poo'ey woman from post 1 (I presume not literally, as no-one knows who she is).

Not at all confusing, but took forever to type 😉

Makes sense when spelled out like that 😂

Not sure my experience is a representative example, but I found a lot of very senior people in my company (from the CEO to senior directors in the global branch) to have very awkward social skills - some I would say with ASD.
They would start very random conversations like this, at times inappropriate, because they keep being told by their PA or Comms team that they should "show interest in their employees", but they have no clue how to go about it.

One of very senior director in the US, when visiting our UK office, would gather a bunch of employees and ask them 4 questions.
The same 4 questions, to all of them, one by one. Ranging from their key project at work to their favourite place to go on holiday. He would listen to the answer, nod, and then move on to the next one. It was borderline robotic and soooo weird!

A few years ago I was queuing up to pay in a shop. The woman behind me pulled the back of my top out - so she could see my back tattoo!!! WTAF. I was so shocked I just paid for my shopping and left but I have quite an expressive face, so I can only imagine what that was doing.
I've also had men ask me 'Are you tattooed all over?'. Now I am heavily tattooed and I understand they are a talking point, but random strangers don't need to know if my tits and arse are tattooed! (Despite that, I'm happy to state here that they're not!)

Years ago as a slightly overweight teenager I had run to the bus stop and sat next to an elderly man. He then proceeded to ask me why I had such a sweaty face... I was so embarrassed that I just walked back home and didn't bother going into college that day. It's nearly always the old men isn't it?

I was looking at the jewellery in M&S once. A shop assistant came storming up to me and said 'You aren't allowed to try the earrings on!' I said 'OK. I wasn't planning to'. She told me that I had been SEEN on CCTV, trying earrings on.
I told her that it wasn't me, perhaps it was someone else l, but she carried on standing there with her arms folded and following me around the display until I gave up and left the store.

To be fair, I used to know someone who worked as a security guard and LOTS of well off people carrying 'expensive' looking bags and purses were caught shoplifting!

I told my DH about the random 'fish in foof' question and his response was 'if a new co-worker asks that it seems a clearly and not so subtle hint to say you have 'fishy fanny'.

I never even considered than but now it does seem even ruder.

When my daughter was 3/4 I was in Tesco. I was packing and she moved away from me. I called her back. An elderly woman in the queue said ‘keep her in your sight, she’s a pretty little thing. A paedo would love her’. I just stood there open mouthed whilst she wandered off

I don't think thats remotely true.

I've got some fabulous and close friends who are black.

That does not mean that I might not fuck up and say something racist out of ignorance though, nor does it mean someone can't accuse me of being racist when I wasn't.

There is neither causation nor correlation between these things.

The issue with people saying 'but my best friend is black' is that they think this means they cannot POSSIBLY put their foot in their mouth and say something offensive and of course they can, anyone can (and of course people can claim they have a friend who is black and be lying, or they could and yet still be outright intentionally racist ...).

@Duparsisoverrated you don't think that, you're just excited to see a pile on.

No, the willingness to allow men to invade womens’ spaces because they think putting on a dress and saying they’re a woman actually makes them a woman is depressing. Not to mention women apologising for them.

Years ago, when I was about sixteen, I was on a train going to meet my friend. The train was very quiet; hardly any passengers. The train stopped at a station and a boy of about the same age as me got on. It was one of those carriages they used to have where the only way you could get out was to open the slam door and get out at the next station (no access to a corridor). He told me that he'd just escaped from a children's home and had nicked some fireworks from a shop. Then he proceeded to throw said fireworks out of the train window on to the train tracks and laughed hysterically every time one of them exploded. He asked me if I'd like to have a go. I was absolutely terrified and said no thank you. I was so relieved to escape when it came to my stop but I hope he was all right, looking back.

No one on earth is cutting off their dick to listen to you fart through a cubical wall.

I keep thinking of more of these strange strangers scenarios! You are not alone, OP! A few years ago I was in my local Sainsburys with my son who was a toddler at the time. We were mooching along one of the aisles when a man in front of us accidentally knocked something off a shelf and it hit a packet of condoms, causing dozens of packets of condoms to fall to the floor, like condoms dominos. I could see how embarrassed the poor man was so I went over to help him pick them up. He was bright red and clearly very flustered. To try to lighten the mood and make him feel better, I said, "Just don't look at them, ha ha." In reply, he said, "I wouldn't know what to do with any of these...I'm 54, and I'm a virgin." Needless to say there was a strange deathly silence while we picked up the rest of the packets and put them back on the shelf.

I entirely forgot about the school Mum I didn’t actually know being fucking weird.

So standing at pick up when my daughter was about 4, DD is an only child. It was the summer before they went to Reception, and I was talking to one of the Mum’s I did know about buying their new school uniform. I think I made a comment of it being expensive as I’d been a bit surprised in the school uniform shop at the cost.

School Mum I didn’t know but obviously knew DD was an only, pipes up ‘well you should have had another older child, then you could pass the uniform down. That’s the problem when you have an only child’.

We both looked at her like WTF?. And I muttered something about ‘shame about that miscarriage then’.

She never spoke to me again - RESULT!!

No, the predatory type like Katie Dolatowski et al embrace their lady dicks.

As well as being tactless, that's a huge logic fail on her part!