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?

When I first moved North I was surprised that there were so many people speaking Polish. Took me a while to realise that they were actually speaking very quickly with a strong Geordie accent...

I remember many years ago, at around Christmas, I wore little silver bell earrings to work. I was crossing the road and noticed the bus coming so I ran to the bus stop. The lady waiting at the stop said to me in an accusing tone "you jingled all the way here!" I laughed but she was quite upset!

This is a bit outing as I've told loads of people irl, but it's a happy one so I'll add it. I was standing waiting to cross the road once, feeling a bit miserable, definitely looking a bit sad. I realised after a while that a young bloke was waiting next to me, and quite clearly trying to get my attention. I'm a middle aged woman so I was a bit surprised. Eventually (because I'm a pushover) I gave in and turned to him enquiringly.
Only to be absolutely gobsmacked when he grinned and nodded towards the red man and said "want to race? I started laughing, the green man appeared and we ran across the road. He really cheered me up, the nutter.

Someone stopped me in the street once saying "John Major's the prime minister, isn't he, what do you think of him?"

John Major hadn't been prime minister for about 15 years at that point.

Love this 😂 what a fun and wholesome interaction with a stranger :)

It always amazes me the comments some people make.
People criticising other’s appearance when they are hardly God’s gift.
Some of these are hilarious though.

WTF!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

I attend a church choir and there is a woman there who makes exactly those sorts of comments. To the point I am wondering if it may have been her! She thinks they are funny and she is being ever so amusing.

It;s neither of those things. Once she made one of those sorts of comments on our choir whatsapp group and another member exploded and told her to STOP MAKING STUPID COMMENTS!

Well- then it was ON. Cue two women having the written whatsapp version of a screaming match. It lasted for days and made attending choir a little tense.

That's a lovely story. Brilliant.

It was Halloween at uni and being a student I had time to work on my costume. It’s the only time I’ve spent a while making a costume. I was a big Tomb Raider fan and wanted to look exactly like the character from the original game. I paid attention to the little details and had to paint the guns and belt to get them just right. Anyway, I popped into Tesco and there were loads of other students dressed up. A few people in the queue next to the one I was waiting in complimented my costume and I was feeling happy and thanked them. I hadn’t engaged or ask them they’d just done it. Then the woman who was serving my queue in such a nasty tone said something like “Yeah right, in no way do you look like Angelina Jolie.” And then laughed at me. I wish I’d said something back.

I was on a walk early in the morning - which is along a trail and fairy busy mainly with elderly people exercising. It doesn't feel at all remote or scary. I see the same people most days. One day a man who was walking who I had seen before - suddenly just leaned over to me as I walked past and hissed loudly in my ear. I literally screamed and jumped a mile - as I looked back at him he was just walking on casually as if nothing had happened. I have seen him since and he has never done anything like it. I am starting to wonder if I imagined it - it was such a strange thing to happen.

One from DC.

DC (aged 2.5) had a minor protest in a shop. It was actually a minor one, no screaming or flailing or anything that would constitute extraordinary or even particularly comment-worthy behaviour for a two year old. They hadn't liked a sensory stimulus so exclaimed "oh no" until it went away.

A stranger walking past stopped and told them: "You know, little boys and girls don't like children like you who do that. They won't want to be your friends."

DC stopped, looked at them absolutely calmly, and, with a coldness I've never heard from them before, said: "Good."

It's a myth that 'cis' women have that experience. Even in a hoodie, most women can tell a male from a female.

And if it does, the fact that males are in our spaces, which therefore, understandably, LEADS to women fearful and paranoid, is now switched around as OUR fault, as so we are gaslit, too! Newsflash, fearing MALES (not 'trans') in female spaces is not 'silly' nor harmful. What is harmful is handmaidens attacking women for paying attention to our instincts and using the misogynistic slur 'hysteria'. Males entering our spaces, understandably causing women to be on high alert, is the fault of males for invading our spaces. Not the fault of females for having those understandable reactions, in the first place. Quit gaslighting women and doing DARVO.

That’s just sad.

Not wanting males in females safe single sex spaces is not 'bigotry'. That's not what that word means. 😂

It's called EMPHASIS. And what is embarrassing, is you calling a rape survivor a 'bigot' for needing a safe single sex space. You must be so proud of yourself for cheering on the removal of all womens sex-based rights and spaces.

Why do misogynist bigots and handmaidens never want to debate the issues, instead they pick at delivery, typing or grammar?
Answer; they know they have absolutely no justification for their vile views.

Even in a hoodie, most women can tell a male from a female
Not always true..Has happened to me and it feels shit

What is harmful is handmaidens attacking women for paying attention to our instincts

No, what is harmful is those policing women's appearances and what constitutes "looking like a real woman" whatever the fuck that means
Find those much more of a danger personally.

I’m a rape survivor too. Trans women are women.

No one is "policing womens appearances". Except males and transwomen, again, males.

Being able tell a sex (gait, voice, philtrum width, jaw structure, limb length etc etc) is a hard-wired instinct in females since the dawn of human existence, for our survival. We can do it at a side-ways glance. It's a survival instinct.

A male with a cock and balls is NOT a woman. And never will be.

No one is "policing womens appearances". Except males and transwomen, again, males

Apart from the fact that women who aren't trans are telling you that it happens to them as well.
I just did.
Also there was a thread on here with some poor runner who was being ripped apart for being trans when it turns out she wasn't at all 🥲
So it clearly does happen, policing women's appearances whether you like to pretend it doesn't or not.

Explain in what way a male with penis and testicles who identifies as a woman is different from a male with penis and testicles who identifies as a man? Go on. Tell us. Without saying (the obvious) that the only difference is.... the male's say so.