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

[AlpacaPicnic]

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!'

[WitchWay]

I was in a small traffic jam in a small local town - nothing much, just a bit of a queue for an awkward junction. In front was a sports car & in front of that a girl on a big horse. The bloke in the sports car kept revving up & creeping close behind the horse which was now dancing about a bit. The rider kept glaring over her shoulder & making "back off" gestures - no use. Eventually she made the horse reverse till it literally sat on the bonnet & dented it! He was furious

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

I can't think of anything but the penguin/guillemot has me in stitches.

I did have a moment today of a more minor scale. Was on a dual carriageway. Dh moved out of right lane into the left to let a zooming motor bike past. Just as it over took a bloody great buzzard came hurtling down missing the motor bike man (and us to a certain extent) by a hairs breadth to land on the median.

Could you imagine the police report had the bike and the buzzard collided?

[RalphLaurenLover]

I went to pick up lunch from M&S and whilst walking through the clothes department and overheard some couple arguing about the amount the wife has in her trolley, (turns out her husband had been calculating it up and it was £200+) when he told her to put some stuff back she hit him in the balls and shouted "why should I you had an affair" everyone stopped wide eyes and looked at him. He quickly followed that with "fine, keep it" never seen someone look so ashamed before!

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

About two weeks after 9/11 I saw a passenger plane fly the full length of my road about 50 feet above the houses while accompanied by two fighter jets. Totally freaked me out. Never found out why.

Yeas ago on a foggy day I saw four cavaliers (Civil War soldiers, not the cars) coming through the mist towards me. Once again I was pretty freaked out, then I noticed they were carrying shopping bags, and realised they must be from some kind of re-enactment society

My mum saw a man have a poo on the pavement outside a very naice tearooms in the West Country.

[Sparklysilversequins]

In the park walking my dog with my two small dc. As we left a big exuberant dog bounded up and started harassing my little timid dog. His owner and her friend were yelling for him but he refused to come back. By this point my two dc both aged under 5 (both with ASD, so little road sense) were going out the park gate to the car. I carried on walking to catch up to them and big dog came too, still hassling my dog.

Eventually the owner caught up with her disobedient dog and proceeded to lay into me verbally for not waiting for her to retrieve her dog and leading him out of the park apparently I should have abandoned my children to their fate while waiting for her to cross the park. Her mate caught up and joined in with her! Two shrieking women

I actually laughed in her face and told her she was mad if she thought my responsibility towards her dog was greater than towards my own children. Then turned my radio up to a high volume to drown her out and screeched away leaving her and her friend mouthing behind me.

I posted about it in AIBU actually and got a rare 100% YANBU.

[EBearhug]

Whether it's a penguin or a guillemot, what would make anyone think it's okay to catch it (how did she manage that anyway) and take it on a train?

I can't think of anything particularly jaw-dropping compared with all the public pooing. (I've never seen anyone poo in public. Which is good. Though work legend has it that before my time, someone apparently pooed in the dishwasher at work following the announcement of a big round of redundancies.)

The last time I remember my jaw-dropping was at work when I was with HR making a complaint about a manager, and when the response was, "I've only ever heard good things about him," I was literally open-mouthed with shock. But actually, it was probably true - most people have either put up with his bullying, or left and said they've got another job even when it's really because they're fed up with the bullying.

[HappyGoLuckyGirl]

I bet it was pretty mortifying for the woman in the traffic jam though. What if she had been stuck for hours and really needed to go?

I wouldn't have pooped on the roadside. If I was really desperate, I would have at least gone behind a bush!!

[fuckitall]

A while ago I was out clubbing in a more upmarket club in student town, the club had a beach theme. So the club had a stage and on that stage was a hot tub. They let two guys and two girls paddle in as it was basically a paddling pool. I turned round to look at my friend and back again and the men were stark naked swinging their pride and glory but they only stopped when they got bored or cold. We were like it's a posh club.

Same night I was picked up when I was dancing and the bloke ran off with me over his shoulder like "me Tarzan you jane" that was scary as I'm tiny.

[RabbitPies]

I took a pied wagtail on a train once. Much smaller than a guillemot though.

[Dwerf]

Standing in the school playground one time waiting for kick-out time when I hear the slow clopping of hooves. One of the travellers had come to pick up their nursery kids on horseback. There's now a sign on the schoolgates that reads 'no bikes, no dogs, no horses'.

Another horsey one, came back from a night out in a taxi about 2am to discover a herd of about thrity horses just ambling down the street. This is not shocking any more, it's happened half a dozen times.

Oh, and the sight of six kids on four horses galloping down the main road. One of the kids I knew was about ten, she was in my daughter's class at school. Not a helmet (nor indeed a saddle) between them.

Oh, and the guy walking through the city centre this winter dressed in a leather jacket, big boots and very tight leather fetish shorts...

[BecauseIsaidS0]

On a London bus, I'm sitting on one of the seats right behind the luggage hold thingie.

A woman gets on the bus, stands in front of me and says "Excuse me, can I sit down?". I look at her, a bit confused, because she does not look disabled, but then I remember that many disabilities are not obvious to the naked eye.

In the split second that took me to think the above, she screams at me "I said can I sit down, you fucking bitch!!!". I've never got out of a seat so quickly. She kept screaming at me as I scuttled to the back of the bus, where nice people asked me if I was ok.

All of this at 8am on a Monday morning

[callmekitten]

As I was leaving the grocery one day, there was a woman ahead of me who had several small children with her. The youngest, who was barely old enough to walk independently, was very focused on the banana her mother had given her and had fallen significantly behind the rest of the family. The parking lot was pretty busy but the mother just kept walking and didn't even look behind her for the child. Well, this brought on a feeling of fear in me that is usually reserved for my own child. I approached the child and guided her to her mother, who then looked at me like I was trying to steal her child, and began yelling at the child for falling behind the rest of them.

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

viva we think the pilot may have lost it and either misjudged the angle or purposely did it. When we thought how close it was from the beach. But no explosion, just pfffft.

[RandomPants]

We have a breastfeeding group that meets in a local building one afternoon a week. The same day at the same time another group meets. There are only ever two of them. One is a little old lady and one is a 6 foot man with stubble. He wears a dress, a wig and make up. He's very pleasant. But I just want to know whyyyy?!

[YoungGirlGrowingOld]

Back in my university days I befriended an ex-miner who was a mature student using his redundancy money to fund his degree. He used to take the piss out of me for being a "soft Southern Jesse" and said I needed a "proper" night out with him and his mates.

Fast forward to our night out in a pit village near Mansfield and the first of his mates we met had "Fuck the Pope" tattooed backwards on his forehead. There were 4 loo cubicles and one shared toilet roll dispenser between them nailed to the wall outside. You took a handful of loo roll whilst queuing...

Freely admitted to him afterwards that clearly I had led a very sheltered life up until that point...

[LadySnapcase]

A 60-odd year old man with a heavy cold blew his nose, opened the tissue, took a good long look at the contents and then ate it.

[Sparklingbrook]

I worked in an office in charge of a team of about twelve. We sat at desks facing each other, 6 each side.

The employee opposite me used to drink can after can of diet coke all day. Always putting it back in her drawer after each swig.

Part of my job was to do a drawer check (to see if work had been put in there and not completed and stationery wasn't being stockpiled). There was always a can in her drawer.

One night after everyone had gone I did the drawer check and something made me sniff the can. Whisky.

[Roseformeplease]

I took a load of teenagers on a trip to London. We stayed just outside the centre and travelled in by train. Coming in on a Saturday morning, we went through a station slowly, without stopping. The pupils' eyes were out on stalks as, on the platform, seemingly waiting for the next train as if nothing was out of the ordinary, was a large group (20+) of men wearing nothing but nappies.

I assume stag party but always wondered. For my pupils, many on their first trip to London, it was eye popping!

[jonicomelately]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=7G0HPofcr6E

This is shocking!

[Mintyy]

Dh has seen a man pooing on the platform at Peckham Rye station at 8 on a weekday morning.

Just having a think about mine ...

[VoyageDeVerity]

Not a very nice one but my jaw did drop.

On my honeymoon in Italy, Milan to be exact, we sat down for a meal in a pizza restaurant. Sat opposite us was a very beefy aggressive policeman and a blonde, frightened looking woman both around 40. He was verbally abusing her very badly, everyone ignored it, a packed restaurant. DH and I were about to step in when he pulled out his gun and started waving it in her face.

The staff all turned away.

[GarlicMarchHare]

Whatfuckery, your diving plane story was but what really sealed it was your closing comment! A day to remember!

Saskia, I wonder if there was some sort of running air force 'joke' after 9/11? I worked in Canary Wharf then, and for a few days afterwards small jets would fly between the buildings ... it was disturbing, but of course we all had to pretend to be nonchalant about these near re-enactments occurring around the 15th floor.

[PirateJones]

The other week I asked my 13 year old if she had a question for miss piggy and Kermit, she responded with:

“why do people keep treating them like they are real, they are puppets!”
And then to make matters worse she said, “Jim Henson died in the 80’s so its not even the same people doing the voices”
My jaw hit the floor, what was she talking about?

[KrevlornswathoftheDeathwokClan]

Was this the plane accident Ohwhat?

aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=56584

[VivaLeBeaver]

According to the train guards guillemots often semi collapse on the beach after tiring themselves out flying out at sea.

She found it knackered on the beach. Wrapped it up in a fleece jacket, tied its beak up with a shoelace and decided to catch the train to the zoo.

I had tears rolling down my face. I still get the giggles about it.