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

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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!'

Fanciful, a seagull did that with my freshly-unwrapped sarnie from Pret! The seagulls in West Sussex have more pretentious tastes than those in Cornwall ...

... Are you sure it wasn't a penguin?

During the storms recently, I was driving down our long drive, and had to stop to sort out my sat nav. I looked up just in time to see a HUGE pine tree, go right over, it was about 20 feet away from me. The roots all came up and everything, it took about 3 seconds. I just sat there staring.

OMG, recall! You were saved by your satnav! That's got to be a first.

About ten years ago I went out to the bars with my friend and she invited her friend. FOF was a tiny little punk-ish woman; we were all early 20's but she looked like a nine year old. Just teeny.

Anyway, we're leaving the bar, pretty tanked, and on the sidewalk outside there was a huge unpleasant man screaming at his girlfriend :(. I mean proper in her face screaming, calling her all sorts of names, and the woman was just cowering in a way that made me think he was certainly physically abusive.

We were looking for the bouncer when FOF marches over (all 80 pounds of her, if that) and shouts "hey! You don't talk to her like that!"

Huge man bends down (and he truly was a few feet taller) and says "nobody asked you, bitch," in the most menacing tone I've ever heard.

FOF, without a moment's hesitation, balls up her miniature hand and punches him square in the face. Just completely decked him, and one hell of a lot harder than I'd have thought such a small person could.

THEN, again without hesitating, she takes off running, which was probably clever as he didn't seem like the type of man who would balk at hitting a woman. She gets about a block away, turns around, flips the double bird, screams "motherFUCKER" at him, and turned around and ran all the way to a friend's house several blocks away. (We found out later.)

I have never laughed so hard in my life. I just remember her tiny child-sized red Converse speeding away in the dark and that great big asshole bully standing There with his hand on his face like he couldn't believe it.

shockedballoon I used to go to that tequila night...

Not jaw dropping OMG moments like some of these but I never forgot years back in Manhattan seeing an extremely smart groom striding past some brown stone buildings with a bulldog on a lead.
The bulldog was in full and very elaborate bridal regalia including fresh red roses.

I wish I'd had a camera

Just thought, it would've been very early 90s I think. We were stood on the bend right outside Chester Racecourse after a meet there, everyone was piling out of the main gates and it was really crowded. The traffic was at a standstill on our side of the road.

Suddenly we heard a bit of a commotion.
There was a well known bearded Liverpool actor who'd previously been a main character in a soap, really sounding off at the other occupants of a black cab he'd been ejected from. It looked as though is was two couples who'd had a long day out with plenty of 'hospitality' He was loud, very red faced and ranting.

The taxi under instruction from one of the women, turned on a sixpence and managed to make off from the Racecourse leaving said actor in the middle of the road looking rather dishevelled and none too pleased.

Everyone just stood gawping, but it wasn't being filmed for anything

2 incidents come to mind:

The time I was in a shopping centre and a woman slipped in a banana skin!

Sitting on a very busy bus, at the back, woman with lots of bags sits opposite, much rearranging, after a few stops look up to see where we were only for her to sneeze right in my face!! Initial reaction was to tell her off, so I did, but half way through realised whole bus was looking/trying not to look but I'd gone too far and couldn't back out! Ended it with saying "let that be a lesson to you all" to the entire bus and went back to my book

Darthula, I am poorless with Laughter and dd and dh are like

I used to live in a horrible flat in a horrible crime ridden part of London. One night about 10pm, I heard a load of noise near the communal bin area- sawing noises and dragging sounds. I looked out to see two men with a hacksaw dragging huge -really huge- chunks of flesh out of bags and cutting them up on top of the bins before slinging the chunks back into bags and into the boot of their car. It went on for about twenty minutes. Now, obviously, at this time of night and given the location, it looked dodgy. I rang the police after five minutes who came out immediately, questioned them, and then contacted me to say they were from the local halal butcher and had been 'portioning' the left over meat from some carcass to take home.

On a bin.

In the dark.

With a hacksaw.

But at least it wasn't a corpse.

Late at night waiting for the last train at the station. The track was up a flight of stairs and there was also an elevator. There was a glass wall surrounding the elevator bit. A girl needed to pee and was too drunk to find the bathroom so she squatted against aforementioned glass wall. We got a good view of her bare bum squashed against the glass... The floor however was made out of one of these grids, so her pee dripped straight down onto the head of an innocent man!

Cardamomginger we did wonder that

We live at the bottom of a ruddy great hill, which is also a very busy road. One day, waiting at the bus stop, a guy on a bike comes hurtling past, carrying a toddler with one arm while peddling furiously.

Sister and I in the queue at the general post office in dublin. Two older well to do ladies in front of us, crisp D4 accents, hair clearly professionally blow dried at least three times a week, clearly not short of a bob or two. One says to the other "Did you see Darina last night?" (Darina allen being the irish equivalent of delia.)
The other says "yes yes, I was in Ballymaloo last year (Darinas cooking school for the well wedged). "I do love her stuff, but she is an awful cunt for the butter"

Literally shat myself laughing.

A house full of pre schoolers all playing a violent 18 ps game while parents sat and drank tea.
Made slightly more jaw dropping by the fact I was their cp social worker and was there on an announced visit

I once got into the lift to get up to the platform for the DLR with my Mum (who is arthritic and couldn't manage the stairs). There was a young, pretty, well dressed girl in her 20s in there - smoking a crack pipe. Her eyes were watering and there was pee all over the floor. Horrid.

What did you say Ledkr?

Ledkr - please tell me you read them the riot act!

Of course I did.
The dad was a convict ed murderer though and there was a Big dog so I was diplomatic
They did ok in the end though, it's weird but sometimes people just don't have a clue until it's pointed out.

but she is an awful cunt for the butter

I'm PRAYING for an opportunity to use that myself.

She is an awful cunt for the butter

On holiday abroad with my parents many, many moons ago. We saw a car parked in the middle of two others who had left barely inches each end.

The driver went backwards and forwards literally bumping the other two out of the way until he had enough room to get out. We all just stood there looking like this .

One of those seminal family bonding moments

James Martin. He's an awful cunt for the butter as well.

Stayed in a friend's "ecohome" in the USA years ago. We'd already had endless trouble with the loo in our ensuite, so when OH needed a pee at 2am, rather than disturb our friends again, he hung it over the sink. Turned out the water from sinks went into some sort of holding tank which had to be examined daily; our friend's face was a picture when he tested it with his ph meter or whatever it was

On the same holiday, OH gently pipped the horn at a guy who'd cut us up. Brakes screamed as he swerved, halted and clambered out ... and oh god, he was MASSIVE ... what now, oh god is he going to shoot us, we thought. He then started to harangue his (otherwise empty) car, waving arms the lot, apparently for having behaved as it did. At no point did he even look at us and, having completed his rant and kicked a tyre just to show it, he clambered back in and drove off. I still can't quite believe we saw it ...