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!'

[lifehasafunnywayofhelpinguout]

I remember when I was about 10 and me and my friend knocked at this house to take this little baby to the park,she was only 2 years old. The mum was in the garden. My friend said can we take (insert name here) for a walk. The mum said "I don't know where she is, babe. My friend said well if we find her can we take her to the park. Yeah, love of course you can. She didn't know where her two year old baby was and she seemed so calm about it. This baby in question would be late 20's now. xxx

[CruCru]

I was in Bella Pasta in Covent GRden and a man in a green hairy suit / baby grow thing came and sat at our table and drank my coke then left.

[FastWindow]

In sainsbos in Bracknell I saw an old lady who clearly hadn't bothered to take any undergarments off before going to the toilet. She obviously hadn't bothered actually locating a toilet either iyswim. She was pretty fragrant, but the worst thing was that she was walking around eating stuff, like a few grapes out of a bag but not taking the bag to then buy.

I made sure I was ahead of her and upwind.

I felt very sorry for her. But sorrier still for the poor cashier.

[FastWindow]

Not mine but my friend's - a car with two women and two babies. Windows shut. Women smoking... Weed.

[Quodlibet]

I was in a hotel swimming pool in The Gambia with my friend, early evening.
The only other people in the pool were a white Dutch couple with two (presumably adopted) young black children who must have been 3 or 4.
The mum was at one end of the pool smoking a joint, and the dad was at the other end, so the mum passes the joint to the little girl who was running about on the poolside to take to her partner. The little girl takes the joint, and on the way pauses, says 'Mummy look' and takes a massive great toke on the joint. Both the parents fall about laughing.

My friend and I were .

[ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie]

I once saw a young woman in a restaurant order a Coke, tip it into a baby bottle with a teat on, and feed it to her baby who was maybe 6-8 months old.

Reader, I judged. I judged so badly I was choking on my judgy pants.

[notjustamummythankyou]

Shred - I saw something very similar waiting for the out of hours gp with my dd. A woman went to the vending machine, bought a bottle of vimto and poured it into her baby's bottle. The baby was very young - still in a pram if I remember.

My judgy pants were also well and truly hoiked ...

[GarlicAprilShowers]

CruCru, your hairy green cola thief gave me a genuine LOL

[PollyCazaletWannabe]

More! More! Don't let this great thread die!

[Pimpf]

Marking place to add mine later!

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

So many: 4 Traveller children including a baby riding a quadbike on the dual carriageway.

The naked woman jogging on Hendon Way at 1 am. Very beautiful, looked a lot like Nigella.

The morbidly obese family making the ascent from Snowdon station to the summit cairn. They did it, bless 'em. Only took 20 minutes.

Our neighbour's three year old DD, who worked out how to unlock her front door and push her 6 mo baby sister ACROSS THE ROAD in her stroller to "see the baby and have coffee, but I don't like coffee so can I have crisps instead?" Lovely child, on track for a First.

[DalmationStripe]

Mines not as good as alot of these but it was still quite funny for my teenage self.

I went to visit a friend in London and we went to the cinema. The cinema was quite empty. A few rows in front of us there was a couple and in front of them, another couple.

Towards the end of the film,one of the women shouted at the other couple to 'shut the fuck up.' This must have been ignored as few minutes later the woman grabbed the other womens hair, pulled her head back and started punching and slapping her! The two women started to have a full on fight over the seats. The weird thing was that their boyfriends just sat there and didn't even try and stop them!

[snailhunter]

It was September 11, 2001, and we had all been sent home from work early. I was working near Bank at the time and got the District Line back to where I was staying in Fulham. Lots of City people on the tube, many of whom obviously had connections in New York. Everyone was reading the Standard, which had this huge photo of the burning towers on the front page. Some people were crying. It was horrible. I've never seen anything like it - people just trying to take in the enormity of what had happened.

Two stops in, a hippie busker got on, all hairy and beads, with a guitar. He looked around, shouted: "Cheer up, everybody!", and proceeded to launch into The Wonder Stuff's 'Size Of A Cow'.

People just stared.

At the end of the song, there was total silence. The busker looked round like he was expecting everyone to break into applause. Then someone muttered: 'I think you'd better get off now, mate.'

The busker snorted with disgust and got off.

I still wonder to this day whether he was the only person in London who hadn't heard...

[Ploppy16]

Remembered one from my waitressing days. Had a very posh all day wedding in our function room, daughter of a local councillor and much money spent, so champagne reception, wedding breakfast and evening dance. We offered the bridal party a small room in the landlord's flat to change/have a rest/whatever in - to get to the flat you had to go through the pub kitchen and laundry area.
I had been there all day and was just coming towards the end of my shift but decided to get a few things organised for the Sunday lunch crew the following day so went into the just cleaned and now closed kitchen to pick up some cutlery. Only to find the bride and groom consummating their marriage on the kitchen work tops!
Weirdly the only thing I could think of was the fact that someone was now going to have to disinfect the counters. Again.
Actually the things I saw at that place could fill a book...

[AmyMumsnet]

Hi all, we've now moved this thread to classics and spent about half an hour reading all the stories like this

[Sparklingbrook]

i bet MNHQers have some good stories.

[TheCunnyFuntIsGettingMarried]

Half an hour? Is that all? :o

[Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme]

I would imagine lifehasafunnywayofhelpinguout that the mum did in fact know exactly where her baby was but didn't want two young kids disappearing off with it. I wouldn't!

[NoMoreMarbles]

I worked for a couple of years behind the bar of a very well known and notorious nightclub in Liverpool and saw some sights that made me

One time there was a late middle aged woman walking down the stairs from the upstairs bar/toilet area. she was steaming drunk and dressed like a prostitute (very short red lurex-type dress, platform stripper shoes, too much make up - the works!)...she missed the step about halfway down and rolled down to the bottom and landed in a drunken heap legs spread-eagled...she had no knickers on and lay for a while laughing until the doormen came to escort her out (she refused to get up -she hadnt hurt herself but wouldnt move from the bottom of the stairs) she even propositioned one of the doormen as she was going out asking him if he had liked what he saw!

[Filimou]

I am at reading some of these....whats with all the poo?!

I had loads of these moments while working as a holiday rep, sad ones, like hearing an awful screeching outside my balcony when I lived in Ayia Napa, running out to see what it was, just in time to see a young lad skidding across the floor on a moped (sort of flush with the road), go straight under a coach he was going a round a bend as the coach was coming up the main road), the moped came flying out in a rain of sparks from the back of the coach and the young lad didnt.

And the grim...on bar crawl one night, standing at the back of the bar I hear a lot of errrrr moaning. So, I turn around and behind me, there is a girl sitting on a table, legs open, knickers round her ankles, with a guy practically elbow deep inside her, while his mates watched. I just quietly walked away..........

[Tiredtomybones]

Loving this thread! Am shocked by the amount of poo stories though. The truly awful thing is that very regularly as I run the gauntlet with the pram, trying to miss the dog poo (the streets are filthy round here), I look at a great pile and think it looks human rather than dog - how horrible to think that, after reading all these stories, there's a good chance it is. Makes me feel sick.

[Filimou]

Oh, and I suppose, not really "Oh my god" to anyone but me, but one of my neighbours in one of the apartments I lived in on this tiny Greek island was a small German man, young-ish, called Norbert (not sure why that makes me laugh but....) anyway, he would randomly (and silently) let himself into my apartment (the doors/windows were rubbish) in the middle of the night whilst I was sleeping and I would wake up the next morning with him sleeping right next to me. Freaked me right out, and no matter how much I told him to sod off, he would just still do it.

[LokiDokey]

Thinking about the plane incidents on here reminded me of something that happened many many years ago.

To set the scene I live in Staffs and planes passing over the house from Manchester airport isn't an usual sight, they come towards us on takeoff. I also live opposite some fields, not huge, probably a mile square (I'm awful with measurements, I apologise)

Anyway, this particular day was a reasonably warm summers afternoon, long before 911 I add. We'd heard the noise of a 747 and commented that it seemed very low. DH and I went out and stood on our front balcony and watched as an incredibly low 747 passed over the field. The next thing we knew it banked sharply and turned. There was a haze underneath where it had passed the field and after a few moments the smell of aviation fuel was thick in the air. It then went back in the direction from which it came.

I stood glued to the balcony for the next half hour waiting for something. I thought maybe someone would come out and deal with the fuel etc but nothing happened. Literally nothing. Nobody came, nothing was mentioned anywhere online or in the press. It was only the fact that myself, DH and a few other neighbours who came out had said 'did we just see that?' that we knew we weren't dreaming.

I'm intrigued to this day tbh! I've often thought he chose the field to dump fuel for whatever reason and return to the airport but surely then someone would have come and cleaned it up?

[YNK]

Just remembered another!

In Sri Lanka, my resident friend gave me instructions for getting the A/C coach to meet her in Columbo.

On board the crowded coach, we waited ages for the bus driver until a man got on and stood at the front addressing the passengers.
He held his arms wide and began chanting in his own language, looking very pious. I was quite worried as I thought he was praying over us, but everyone else was ignoring so I assumed it was a custom.
At the end of the 'prayer' he suddenly whipped off a prosthetic arm!!! The next thing another man appeared and roughly threw the 'driver' off the coach and they both departed. Still everyone ignored!!!
Next thing the second man came back and slipped into the drivers seat.

I realised then that the first man had been a beggar!!!

[Tryintohelp]

Got to the top of Tryfan (very rocky mountain in Snowdonia) to find a BBQ and a large group of men in dinner jackets et al, having lunch.