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Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

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FuckingFabulous · 25/05/2021 18:14

I want to hear examples from your experiences. Like when someone drops the facade for a second and you see something a bit scary about them, or when someone reasonable comes out with something utterly ludicrous and you've no idea how to react. I want to hear them! Because earlier today, I found out that my neighbours daughter doesn't have identical twins called Ronnie and Jensen, which was my assumption. She has one boy called Jensen, but my neighbour hates the name and will only call him Ronnie. The boy is six. His middle name isn't even Ronnie. His grandma just prefers that name and calls him that.

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Cheeseandlobster · 27/05/2021 11:51

[quote Confusedandshaken]@StayAGhost

My DH attended the same barbers for over 40 years. The barber constantly called him Pete even though that isn't DH's name but his much older brothers who emigrated when DH was very young so hadn't set foot in the barbers for decades. When he was young DH had been too shy to correct him and so it continued.

Eventually a school mum acquaintance of ours started working in the barbers. She was there one day when the barber called DH Pete. She commented on this saying ' I thought your name was Alex'. DH confessed that his name was Alex but the barber had called him Pete since he was 10 and he'd never corrected him. The barber thought this was hilarious. He couldn't stop laughing and said to another customer "Did you hear that Jimmy, I've been calling this fella Pete for his entire life and he never put me right.' There was a bit of an awkward silence and the customer said 'I never wanted to say it, but actually my names not Jimmy!'[/quote]
Hahahaha this is brilliant

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 11:56

I lost a barely worn, expensive unise red hoodie at school.
I asked the janitor (responsible for lost and found) if he had seen it, through tears I explained that it took me ages to save up money so if he finds it please please let me know. he was very sympathetic, reassured me it would be ok.
but nothing. it was gone. he said he was sorry he couldn't help.

a few weeks later I saw his son at school wearing my hoodie. I recognised it from a tiny stain near left pocket. there was nothing I could do

RockPainting · 27/05/2021 12:01

Placemarking!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 12:08

*unisex

ffs, I can't seem to add a post without typos

peaceanddove · 27/05/2021 12:08

Occachocca I feel the same. Someone upthread as described my DH's friend as a complete creep, but that's totally untrue. He has always behaved impeccably toward me and never once made me feel uncomfortable. Well apart from when he told me he had always been in love with me. But even that felt more sad and poignant, rather than embarrassing or awkward.

LemmysAceCard · 27/05/2021 12:09

Similar to another post that has just reminded me.

The Financial Director and i had a face to face meeting with a customer who was heavily in debt to us. We sat with the owner and his son (who claimed to be a solicitor), we were sat making small talk whilst waiting for the sales manager to print some documents off when we got chatting about the weather.

The son said that vapour trails were not from planes but chemicals used to mind alter us, it started in the Vietnam war where the Americans used the trails as mind control over Vietnam (cant have done much good as they lost the war).

His also said something else very odd which for the life of me i cant remember. We were all sat round in stunned silence whilst the dad sat looking like he had heard it before. I wanted to break the tin foil hats out.

It was so surreal, a proper business meeting and he came out with that. And he totally believed it.

Clydie89 · 27/05/2021 12:17

Not quite on the same scale as the pigeon stories...

A guy I've worked with for a few years, professional role, seemed quiet but completely normal.

He was getting married and celebrating a big birthday within a few weeks of each other so we got a cake in and some balloons etc as a bit of a send off.

Normal supermarket round birthday cake...he cut a square out of the middle of it! I laughed thinking it was a joke on cutting the cake at his wedding or something but nope, turns out he genuinely had no idea you do triangle slices! Apparently he's never cut a cake before.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 12:18

I woke up one night at 3am-ish. needed to pee.
opened my eyes and saw 2 figures in the dark standing right by the bed in silence, staring at me.
I screamed so loud DH woke up.
it was our two youngest about to wake me coz they needed help.

81Byerley · 27/05/2021 12:26

@ForwardRanger

Re. the identical twins one... I had a therapist I saw once a week for four years. I was very upset to receive a text from her phone telling me she had died and details of the funeral. I went to the funeral and it was hosted by what appeared to be her but turned out to be her identical twin! Of course I'd had no idea she had a twin or indeed anything about her life. My lord that was a strange experience.

Years ago, my neighbour died suddenly. Her identical twin came to the funeral wearing her dead sister's dress and coat....

countydown1989 · 27/05/2021 12:31

A woman pulled trousers down in the middle of the street and started to pee (3pm, Glasgow, it was snowing)

A man injecting heroin into his leg at 12pm in a multi storey car park in Liverpool

SomethingToldTheWildGeese · 27/05/2021 12:32

A rangerover driver running over a line of little ducklings.

The road was long and straight. As the car approached I presumed it would slow down. But that never happened.

It happened a few years ago and still makes me cry thinking about it. Mumma duck was completely distraught.

countydown1989 · 27/05/2021 12:33

Oh another one

After a night out, I lost my shoe ... well I could only find one the next day. About 2 months later it was laying in the corridor of the floor I stayed on in the apartment block. My two friends who had been with me (or me) had any recollection of anything shoe related on our way home. It really confused me and I still wonder what happened and where it had been. Do you think someone found it, kept it, and then left it out? mind games!!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 12:35

grown man walking on the street in a tiger onesie in broad daylight. it wasn't Halloween or anything.
I saw him a few times when I used to park my car a good 40 mins before school pick up.

Cowbells · 27/05/2021 12:45

@peaceanddove

He is creepy. Imagine being married to the creep. You really aren't capable of imagining this from his wife's perspective are you?

jobsagudden · 27/05/2021 12:48

Love this thread! Great idea @FuckingFabulous

duodunical · 27/05/2021 12:59

I was in a department store in Florida many years ago when a very smart woman farted loudly. In England she would have slunk away, pretending it was nothing to do with her. What she actually did was look at me, smile, say 'excuse me', and carry on looking at the clothes rail. I was so surprised, it's my main memory of the holiday.

Magicpaintbrush · 27/05/2021 13:07

About 20 years ago when I was in my early twenties and still lived at home with my parents and siblings my parents went on holiday and left the three of us on our own at home. After a week or so I was getting the hump with my sister and brother as they had already managed to notch up a list of achievements which included going to bed having left the front door wide open and going to bed having left the oven on. One morning I got up and was going about my business when one of our pet pugs came happily trotting into the room with a used condom swinging from her mouth. I had to chase her around the house to get it off of her, then carefully picking the thing up with a wodge of kitchen roll, I marched up to my sister and thrust it into her face demanding to know why she and her boyfriend thought it was okay to leave used condoms lying around because a) it was gross and b) the dog could have choked on it..........turns out it belonged to my quiet and unassuming younger brother

peaceanddove · 27/05/2021 13:12

Cowbells are you the poster who has already said he must be creepy? You seem very vehement on the matter?

Aside from his (very matter of fact) declaration, he's never done a single thing that is creepy/awkward. Whether I can or can't see the situation from his wife's perspective is neither here nor there. It doesn't change anything does it?

SydneyCarton · 27/05/2021 13:13

Don't know if it's true or not but a few years ago someone from the West country was travelling to London to watch Chelsea, he put Stamford Bridge into the sat-nav and finished up in North Yorkshire in the village of that name.

Years ago I was working in St James' Park in London and a man who I think was either Spanish or Italian was asking for directions to the football and what time did the match start, and we had to tell him that what he wanted was the St James' Park which is a football stadium in Newcastle....

FanFckingTastic · 27/05/2021 13:13

My old cat gave me many WTF moments - he was an absolute bugger and tended to not act like a cat at all. The best one has got to be the elderly neighbors complaining that he was nicking all of the strawberries in their vegetable garden. I thought that they were a bit deluded and politely denied that the cat was responsible for the strawberry-theft. Several days later, I witnessed from my bedroom window my cat, going from plant to plant, selecting the most succulent strawberries and gobbling them down. I've never known a cat to eat fruit before. After this we discovered that he would do anything for a piece of peach or mango. Very odd.

ThreeKneeRepeater · 27/05/2021 13:19

I was on holiday in Spain a few years ago. At the end of the day on the beach I liked to do a few lengths in the hotel pool.
I was doing that one night when I noticed I was being watched by a young Spanish lad, about 16 I guess.
I thought no more of it until, when I was going back to the hotel room to get dried and changed. I got into the lift, and at the last minute this same boy got in with me. I wasn’t bothered, strangely. The lift clanked up to my floor, and as the doors opened, he leant over and gently kissed me on the cheek. The doors closed and I never saw him again.
I was in my late 50s, and no looker!

LyndaSnellsSniff · 27/05/2021 13:25

@AintNobodyHereButUsChickens

Nope! But I have been with my partner for 27 years. I guess she scared me off marriage!

LuvMyBubbles · 27/05/2021 13:26

@StayAGhost

There was a mum on the school run that I used to chat with. Sometimes really friendly and chatty Other times a bit standoff-ish

Fair enough

One day I was chatting with her, walking down the path....then I saw her waiting with the other mums!

Yes, they were TWO separate people.

Haha I'm a twin and school mum's say that all the time when my sis is not very friendly with them

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 27/05/2021 13:26

literally just posted this elsewhere about gift giving

a family member knew I was doing Weight Watchers. she tried to convince me to try something else, despite me saying several times that I didn't want to try her thing, WW was working for me.

Eventually she dropped it so I thought I was off the hook. Then for my birthday she gave me a book saying: "This is the diet book I was talking about. just read it!"

and a year later on my next birthday she gave me another copy of the same book.
bonkers

MolyHolyGuacamole · 27/05/2021 13:31