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Tell me about the most jaw dropping OMG moment you've ever witnessed...

639 replies

AlpacaPicnic · 30/03/2014 15:59

Because everyone's got a story! And here is mine...

I was on a bus recently, quite a full bus. A wheelchair in the wheelchair space, one lady with a pram (unfoldable I think) in the buggy space. Bus pulled up at a bus stop, where two ladies are waiting with pushchairs, chatting to each other.

One lady gets on, parks her pushchair into the remaining buggy space. The second lady tries to get on, but the bus driver won't let her as the buggy space is now full. She asks the lady with the pram to get off the bus so she can travel with her friend. 'Pram lady' looks at her askance, and says sorry, but she needs to get home. Both pushchair ladies then proceed to loudly and verbally abuse the pram lady for being selfish and not getting off the bus, so they can travel together.

Everyone else on the bus was stunned into silence, the bus driver throws both pushchair ladies off the bus and drives off. Pushchair ladies stand at bus stop yelling and shaking fists at the receding bus!

I've never known so many bus passengers strike up conversation all at once, making sure the 'pram lady' was ok, and generally saying 'what a pair!'

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ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 31/03/2014 20:46

LOL at jerk with a Merc! I witnessed an elderly lady do that to a friend's car a few months ago, she literally bounced with the impact as the front of her car hit the back of his (parked) car, then tried to drive away - we chased after her knocking on the windows until she stopped.

She said she "hadn't noticed" hitting his car, at which point he very politely pointed out that perhaps it was time for her to reconsider holding a licence. Then she had the nerve to say to him "I hope you're not going to try to defraud me on the repair costs." Cheek!

complexnumber · 31/03/2014 20:47

Lj , yours is bollocks and you know it.

It's a shame when folk mess around with a fantastic thread like this.

My fave is Gobble gobble gobble Xmas Turkey man so far, but it is a very close thing.

complexnumber · 31/03/2014 20:49

Ooh, second is the old woman carrying a ghetto blaster playing 'Rambling Rose'.

Priceless

RabbitPies · 31/03/2014 20:52

A nice one was seeing Batman and Robin running along the street,like that scene in Only Fools and Horses. It made me smile.

Lj8893 · 31/03/2014 20:53

How rude complex I have contributed to this brilliant thread several times, none of my posts have been bollocks! Perhaps my mums friend did make it up, but like I say, I would be very surprised as she is an extremely sensible woman.

RabbitPies · 31/03/2014 20:53

It was in Lenzie,East Dunbartonshire so probably not Delboy and Rodney sadly.

Lj8893 · 31/03/2014 20:55

rabbit a guy dressed as robin came up to me in the street the other day and said...

"I heard you scream, robin is here to help"

Turned out he was collecting for charity, I did donate but did warn him his cheesiness may put people off!

complexnumber · 31/03/2014 21:00

Lj, yes you have made some brilliant contributions to this fantastic thread.

However

Your mum's friend made that one up.

Lets keep the others coming

Lj8893 · 31/03/2014 21:03

Ill have to ask my mum when I next speak to her, shocked I've believed her all these years, I still remember how upset she was when she told us! I've told loads of people that story!!

Still rude of you to imply I was the one lying though.

Primadonnagirl · 31/03/2014 21:12

Lj8893 I live in Leeds ..we are very exotic up north!
My last Omg moment was on the tube though. It was one of those that start overground.I had got on the train but it was waiting for a while. A couple ran on thinking it was going to set off then realised they needn't have bothered. He blamed her,she blamed him. There was a five minute pause then loud and clear to the completely silent carriage she said " I think it's time we got a divorce" and went on to very calmly and clearly state all the reasons why. The poor man was stuttering his objections but she said shed made her mind up. I didn't know where to look!

By the way still killing myself laughing about the Chinese lady going after people with a butter knife and a side dish!!

EatShitDerek · 31/03/2014 21:15

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FrankSpenser · 31/03/2014 21:18

I'm still laughing over the rainbow varnished polyps!! It actually reminds me of something Attenborough would say.

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 31/03/2014 21:23

Never mind jerk with a Merc, jerk with a horse! Shock

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 31/03/2014 21:27

Slag with a nag, no?

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 31/03/2014 21:30

Yeah, I reckon so. Grin

Tabby1963 · 31/03/2014 21:43

When I was 13 we had an Italian exchange student stay with us. He was gorgeous and I was smitten. My parents decided we would visit the local safari park and it was there, in the monkey enclosure, that I realised that me and the Italian hunk would never, ever be. The moment when a monkey sat on dad's car bonnet and masturbated, licking the semen in obvious enjoyment, we just sat frozen and silent while the horror unfolded. Christ, I wanted to die. Grin

More recently I witnessed witless parenting choices; first one was at a school turning circle. We had had a lot of rain and it caused a great big puddle covering one half of the center of the turning circle and half way across the road. A father took his (probably) two year old son in wellies to paddle in it. He did not hold the child's hand and the child ran across the road. This turning circle was busy with cars and taxis too. I was open mouthed with amazement and shock.

At the same turning circle but on another day a mother was walking with her friend and their nursery aged children. They were both chatting away to each other and not watching their children. One child ran across the road to the middle of the turning circle, to play in the puddle. Mother shouted "come here" several times but did not bother her arse crossing to get child. Child then ran right across to the other side of the (very busy) road laughing. I expected her to give him a row when she eventually caught up with him but no, she said nothing at all and continued to chat to her friend.

This thread should definitely be promoted to Classics!

NurseyWursey · 31/03/2014 21:48

Ice Cream Van war was amazing that I seen.

One ice cream van was on the other's 'patch'

The other one went driving after the ice cream van and they ended up driving around in circles, with the music thing on. Was like a sketch

TheGenialHarryGrout · 31/03/2014 21:54

Lj..... I don't care if that tale turns out to be a bit of porky. It's rare these days to get a tale to make me go fuuuuuuucccccckkkkk!!, and for that, I salute you.

Lj8893 · 31/03/2014 22:00

nursey that made me Grin

hairygrout it's been making me go fuuuuuuuucckk for over 10 years, I'm gutted I've been lied to all these years!!

Roseformeplease · 31/03/2014 22:15

I went to a school (all girls) where our "outer" pitches sometimes drew unwanted attention from passing flashers. We were playing rounders one day when one moved out from behind the bushes, wanking away furiously at 25+ girls playing in sports kit. I was closest so shouted to the teacher, "Miss, Miss" in some alarm (I was about 12).

She saw him and turned away, shouting very firmly, "Eyes in the ball girls, eyes on the ball."

chesterberry · 31/03/2014 22:18

Mine was on a train, a weekday and about 7pm at night. It was a fairly deserted train ambling along mid-Wales and I was sat at a table seat, a woman who looked to be in her twenties got on and sat at the table across the aisle from me. She was dressed up like she was going on a night out, small dress, heels etc. Anyway, she proceeded to pull out a make-up bag and to start touching up her make-up, nothing unusual. She then produced a pair of nail scissors, slipped off her heels and started cutting her toe-nails. I thought this was a bit odd but not unheard of but she went on to EAT the toe nails, literally just popping them into her mouth like they were a tasty snack as she cut them off. She went about the whole thing like this was perfectly normal, not a hint of embarrassment or anything as I sat open-mouthed. Once she'd cut her nails she painted them and once they were dry slipped her heels back on, she got off a while later. She was on the train maybe 15 or 20 minutes but unfortunately there were no other passengers nearby for me to share my horror with.

AreYouBlueOrAreYouBlind · 31/03/2014 22:23

It ok, they not my children has really tickled me. Grin

I might have met rainbow polyp lady, I was befriended by a similar character once in the absolute dive pub next door to Middlesbrough Arena. I must have a friendly gullible face.

Anotheronebitthedust · 31/03/2014 22:41

Sunbathing outside my uni flat (faced on to the beach) and a woman started screaming at a fairly young asian student, calling him a pervert because he'd been taking photos of her children, threatening to call the police unless he gave her his camera, etc. He didn't seem to speak much English and was trying to explain to her that he'd just been taking photos of the scenery but she wasn't having any of it. She called her husband over who didn't seem to know what to think. I wanted to intervene but didn't know who to believe!

Another one not particularly weird but excellent karma: I was walking to work in the rain and a strong wind blew my umbrella inside out. Man riding past laughed so hard at me he missed a can in the road and fell off his bike. I laughed the last laugh there!

GarlicMarchHare · 31/03/2014 22:49

Haha, AreYouBlue, you didn't buy a drink then? Grin

Chesterberry Shock

Pancakeflipper · 31/03/2014 22:53

In my early 20's, I was going home one Saturday morning and took a short cut through the nearby disused cemetery now a haven for wildlife.

Sat on a old tomb tone was a man wearing very expensive clothing with a vast array of what my dear friend Alan calls jazz mags. He was having a good wank and as I walked past we nodded and said morning. Then I ran off giggling immaturely.

On the Monday our new Acting Inspector at the police force started and walked in to be introduced to his new team. And guess who it was.... Mr Jazz Mags with his jazz hands. We just looked at each other..... And I giggled immaturely again. I got moved depts not long after.... cannot think why...