Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

[FuckingFabulous]

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.

Years ago I was on a train in a seat with a table and had a takeaway cup of tea. The woman opposite me suddenly said 'Can I have a sip of your tea?'. I was so taken aback that I just handed it over to her. She started drinking saying 'nom nom nom' at the same time looking me straight in the eye. Then handed it back. I didn't want to drink the rest of it so it just sat there. The older me now would either say no in the first place or just give her the whole cup.

@CrazyCatsAndKittens thats really not good for the cat to eat as its main food will make it ill

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

See, I reckon that depends on your perspective on it: some might see it as creepy and disrespectful, whereas others might see it as a really touching tribute to their lost loved one.

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

How do you know it was definitely heroin, though? Could it not have been insulin or adrenalin or something?

We were driving down the M40 on our way to take family members to Gatwick for their honeymoon and a minibus overtook us in the next lane. At least four blokes on board gathered at the nearside, lowered the windows - and their trousers and pants - and mooned us, cheering loudly. It was almost like it was a belated stag night escapade, except they were complete strangers to us and our (ordinary and unremarkable) car wasn't 'wedding marked' in any way.

When we were at university, we were walking along one of the main roads, when a car went past and somebody in the car just randomly shouted "CHICKEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!". That was weird enough, but then, a week or so later, we were in the supermarket and an announcement came over that they were selling off some reduced-price chickens at the deli counter. Immediately, a familiar voice could be heard across the shop - "Do you wanna buy a CHICKEEEEEEEEEEN?????!!!!!" - I think he was actually louder than the tannoy

Also, walking down the hill to be met with a line of five pairs of pants strung across the road, between two lamp posts, with P, A, N, T, S written respectively, one letter on each pair!

LilysChips

Can't believe you remember the wig man! We called him 'syrup of figs' cos it actually had that texture. It was so grim! I lived just off Walcot St then, and he was always around with that absolutely minging blob on his head.
I'm still here and haven't seen him for at least 10 years. Never seen a wig to rival that one, used to make my stomach turn
There was also the guy who walked around with the pillowcase and goggles on his head. I thought it was part of the Natural Theatre Company, but it wasn't. Think the poor bugger had some issues.

When I was in my late teens, my mum was driving us back from a concert late at night, and I spotted a person lying down on the pavement. In a rare moment of chivalry, I got her to stop the car, and went to help. The guy woke up, said he felt ok. I asked where he lived, and he looked up, pointed to the house right next to the pavement, found his key, thanked me and headed inside. I’m pretty sure neither he nor I had any idea why he thought he’d take a nap on the pavement!

"once I left my pushchair on the pavement; strapped kids in car, walked on the road side of the car, got in and walked off."

You got in the car and walked off? Had you bought Fred Flintstones old car?

As a teen I was sitting with one of my gran´s relatives and after sitting in front of the fire not saying anything, he came out with "he´s got such beautiful eyes, hasn´t he?" while his eyes wondered to one side of the chimney. Of course there was nothing there. I pretended I hadn´t heard.

We were invited round to a friend’s house for an informal gathering thing. I knew her quite well and liked her, but our DHs had not really had much to do with each other.

While chatting to some friends, I noticed my DH and hers had got talking. They had a long and fairly intense conversation, quite animated on her DH’s part. Mine kept looking over at me, I thought with a strange expression, but I paid no attention. Nice they were getting along so well, I thought.

We left at the end and got into the car. That’s when DH shakily told me the other DH was a naturist and the entire conversation had been about nudist camps attended, magazines read etc..

Poor DH! Instead of a nice, friendly chat, he’d spent the most embarrassing evening of his life, squirming and evading all future invitations to join in the fun

@RedactedTaeFeck

My best friend in primary school used to wank off her dog because he liked it... We drifted apart in high school so no idea what became of her.

OMG how revolting! Didn't you say anything to her about it?

@SailingBuddy

I had a colleague, who seemed completeing rational. Normal chit chat around the office for years. He was an analyst and highly educated. It was the week after the London marathon and the weather had been rubbish in the lead up to the day but the sun had shone on the day of the marathon. I said how lucky it was and he said "well it's not luck, it's worth too much in tourism for it to have been raining". I must have looked as confused as I felt, so he explained how the government made sure that the weather was good for big events so as not to lose out on the tourism money that the events brought in.

I went back to my desk and told another colleague what he had said...and she agreed with his point of view! She said that the govt also made sure there was good weather for William & Catherine's wedding.
I can't understand how two well educated people could think that!

They do it in China apparently - move the clouds away for special events.

Another one for thinking two people were one. Lovely week at a small ski hotel in France. Had various conversations at the front desk and during dinner with the owner, thought his lack of any memory of our previous conversations was due to the slight language barrier. On the day of check out, I realised my mistake when two owners appeared to thank me for our stay. Brothers but by no means identical.

These are fab.

@CustardySergeant

"once I left my pushchair on the pavement; strapped kids in car, walked on the road side of the car, got in and walked off."

You got in the car and walked off? Had you bought Fred Flintstones old car?

HOWLING

@Locationlocationfan

I had an odd coincidence thing a few years ago. A new staff member and I were chatting in the office and she mentioned that her dad was adopted, but they had discovered his mother came from Scotland (as do I). They had traced her name but not contacted her or tried to. I asked where in Scotland, and it turned out to be a tiny village in the south west, which just happened to be where my mother was born and brought up. I had photos from my mum, and one of them showed this same woman sitting very close to her in a school photo. Really spooky. Sadly mum had dementia so we couldn’t ask her for any details of the mother, as she would definitely have remembered her I’m sure.

why would dementia stop you asking?

Childhood memories are the last to go, dementia is memory failing backwards from the current period of time.

When my nana had severe dementia I use to listen to her tell stories from her teens constantly but she couldnt remember 10 minutes ago or yesterday or even that her children where adults (she would wander round looking for my dad who she though was still only about 5 year old) she knew we where family because we 'looked familier' but had no idea who we where.

Smudge I saw this too! Only thankfully, this bloke didn't kill the pigeon there & then, but he made off around the corner with it. I did think he was going to take it home & eat it.

When I was in my late teens, my mum was driving us back from a concert late at night, and I spotted a person lying down on the pavement. In a rare moment of chivalry, I got her to stop the car, and went to help. The guy woke up, said he felt ok. I asked where he lived, and he looked up, pointed to the house right next to the pavement, found his key, thanked me and headed inside. I’m pretty sure neither he nor I had any idea why he thought he’d take a nap on the pavement!

Had he dropped his key down the drain?!

or was he scaling the north face of the Uxbridge Road

StayAGhost 🤣🤣

@JustPoppingToWaitrose

About 30 years ago, I was walking over a zebra crossing and there was a woman in front of me with two small children walking behind her. They were a boy and girl of about 2 and 3. Absolutely beautiful children. I felt a warm feeling in my heart looking at this family and imagined them as a proud mother duck with her little ducklings.

Until the woman turned round and shouted: “how can I fucking cross the road with you pair of c*nts?”

it wasnt my mum was it!! haha!

Another dead bird one.
Driving up to our house, a pigeon was sitting on something strange-looking. Once I'd parked, I went to look, but as I got closer the pigeon flew off carrying the strange thing with it, then settled about 15 feet away. This happened a couple of times before it finally flew away altogether, leaving the thing behind. It was the headless corpse of another pigeon . . . DH says they mate for life . . . sob . . .

@shreddednips

When I was a kid, my younger sister used to predict animal deaths.

We went to visit some friends and they had a cat- young cat, no health problems so no reason for her to think anything would happen to it. About a week later she was suddenly crying inconsolably saying that she was sad because fudge was dead. Next day, friend rings- fudge hit by a car

Not long after, she came home from school saying her best friend's rabbit had died. My mum saw her mum the next day and said so sorry about your rabbit. The woman was confused and said no, the rabbit is fine. Next day she rings- rabbit eaten by Fox in the night

My sister was probably about 5, stopped doing it soon afterwards and has shown no signs of clairvoyance since!

I could predict accidents up until about 5 too (I mean I would describe an accident 10 minute before it happened even if it was happening somewhere else and I had been given no details of the people or place), freaked my nan out and no one could explain it but then it just randonly stopped too.

I have no clairvoyant powers.

[quote SunshineCake]@Cowbells wear bed socks ?.[/quote]
Bed socks don't stop your feet being cold. They help of course, but may not be enough.
Hot water bottle does, but I was cold in bed the night before last and the last thing I wanted to do was get up to make a hot water bottle.

Everyone at the play group where i used to take my daughter were very friendly apart from one of the mums, she preferred to sit on her own and pick her nose behind a book then eat it. I kid you not !!!

@JustJoinedRightNow

In my early 20s, hanging out in Soho opposite a stage door waiting for my friend to come and meet me. Standing there minding my own business and a guy about the same age as me walks up right to me and karate kicks at my face - his foot stopped about one inch from the side of my face - takes his foot back down and saunters off. I was like wtf just happened, looked around and no one else had seen it. That was really weird.

Oh my god. When was this? Because I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me, though walking through Covent Garden to the theatre I worked in. Must have been 2004... it was so, so weird.

Hawkins001 is right. Well OK, the William & Kate's wedding weather theory is obviously totally wacky, but look at the Lynmouth flood tragedy of 1952
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My sister did a teacher training placement in a rural primary school in France as part of her Uk teacher training. She was shadowing a teacher out there and helping out with the class.

One day they had show and tell, where all the little kids brought something in to admire and they all passed it around the semi circle of chairs to look at.

One child brought in the gun from the farm at home. They showed it to the class then they all passed it round to look at. Then they passed round the shot. Everyone was acting like it was a totally normal thing to bring in, and my sister was just sitting there in horror thinking “there’s a gun in the classroom! There’s a gun in the classroom!”