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.

My dad and I were walking along San Diego harbour once when he stopped and said “oh hello Bill!” It was a man he worked with. Neither knew the other was going to be there.

Same holiday we were in a tiny diner in the middle of nowhere out in the Arizona desert. Mum worked as a lithographer (decorator) in the pottery industry. The coffee cup they put down in front of her was from her factory. The real WTF moment came when she turned it over to prove her point and on the back was her number. She’d decorated the cup.

(Each lithographer is given a number which is removed before firing so that ware can be checked. Occasionally they slip through and get fired on. They should then be declared seconds and only sold in the factory shop. This had slipped through)

@viques

A woman was telling me that when her children were born it was customary to be given a dose of castor oil and an enema. I asked her why and she said in all seriousness “ Well the castor oil is to grease the baby’s head to help it out” she was also of the opinion that vitamin supplements were of little value during pregnancy since she had never taken them and had had easy births, whereas her sister, who had taken vitamins through her pregnancy , had a much harder labour.

My Aunt was given a dose castor oil before her second DC was born and he came out too fast. The doctor was furious with the nurse who had administered the oil as my aunt nearly died. This was in the mi 60s.

[quote ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]@viques

seems like another alumni of the University of Midwives Tales and Other Random Bullshit[/quote]
One can never sufficiently underestimate some people's intelligence!

A pupil of mine, about 14 years old had had a class where the effects of smoking were discussed, one being that babies could be born smaller. The girl thouight this was a good thing, it would hurt less, so it made sense to smoke!

@JustPoppingToWaitrose

Caster Oil causes diarrhoea and the action of the bowels helps contractions to start.

Doesn’t grease the baby’s head though!

@Occitane

Years ago, I was living and working in Germany. The German people were very nice, all seemed very hard-working, serious and professional, not really into jokey stuff.

I walked into the bank one day, not realising it was Karneval, and honestly thought I was dreaming. They were all working as usual but it was decorated for a beach party. They were all dressed in shorts and beachwear, they had palm trees, paddling pools, sand, some of them were playing with a beach ball. My face was like this:

Loved living in Germany, we once had a Karnival day in the primary school, the Head was dressed as a rocker, with chains round his waist etc. The new Colonel decided that day to come in the register his children. Men had to be on their toes at the start of Karnival, on Altweibernacht, the women were allowed to cut of their ties as a symbolic gesture, of what I can't imagine! OH lost some really lovely ties when he forgot.

@butterpuffed

Quite a few years ago a friend was on holiday in America. He went to a library to look for a certain book.

He searched for quite a while but couldn't find it, then a man appeared holding a book and said 'I think this is the one you're looking for'. It was

I can imagine circumstances when I could have done that when I was a librarian!

I used to work at a language school in another country.

I fell out with the scheduler one day and went out with some friends and acquaintances that night for a few beers and bitched a bit about him.

Next morning, I went into the language school to start work and saw the scheduler there, white as a sheet.

One of the acquaintances from the night before had come into the language school very early and had tried to garotte the scheduler with some wire because I had slagged him off. Not even particularly badly. Luckily another teacher was there to pull him off. No charges were pressed. I was 😮 and the poor scheduler was so distressed.

Another time at the end of term, we took the students out for drinks in various bars around the city. I heard that one of the teachers had bitten the finger of a student and then told him he was now HIV +Ve. 😮

The British abroad.

In London in the 70's, I was in an area I didn't know well & popped into a sweet shop. The guy behind the counter didn't ring true (think of a stereotypical big, hard crim) & he seemed a little taken aback that I'd walked in. I thought the best thing to do was to pretend I thought everything was normal, so I asked for a quarter of this & that. He didn't know where anything was but went along with it. I bought my sweets & left, not knowing if I'd just been served by someone who was doing the place over.

Just remembered another one.. Late at night in Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Pre me having a mobile phone. As we were driving home from the cinema about 10.30pm we saw a man walking down the street with a balaclava over his face with the eye holes cut out. Couldn't ring the police till we got home.. Often wondered what he was up to!!

There was a blond boy in DS’s year at primary school - bright yellow blond - with lots of freckles. Mum had the same colour hair.

Years later it came out that he was a redhead & his mum had dyed his hair as she didn’t like it

It made sense once I knew as I’d never thought his skin tone matched his hair, but couldn’t work out why. There were never any roots showing as she did it weekly

Oh @JudgeJ that reminds me of a tv programme I watched years ago about pregnant women having to be healthier. Every week they had one who drank too much, one who was overweight and one who smoked. Every week the one who smoked dropped out of filming. The one that stuck with me was the one who said she thought the smoking was good for the baby because She was 'making it's lungs work harder so they'll be stronger'

Just thought of another. Having a cup of tea in a northern seaside town some years ago, I noticed an elderly couple enjoying tea and cake at the next table.

They were sharing a set of false teeth, each having a bite & then passing the teeth across in a napkin for the other to have a go

Just horrific but weirdly fascinating!

These two cats are arch enemies. Quite why they are happily sitting next to each other is a mystery.

I was at the doctors today waiting for an appointment when a man came in to aks for a repeat prescription, the receptionist was really pushy about what for and even when she had the name of the drug she wanted to know what it was used for. The man said quite clearly Erectile Dysfunction and then spent the next five minutes insisting he hardly ever needed it. I think he was trying to say that his penis was not that dysfunctional but it just came across like he was hardly having sex. I felt for him tbh... But was struggling to look uninterested (thank goodness for face masks)... Oh and then a little old lady appeared out of the toilet and announced to the receptionist that it was all blocked because someone had been "pooing" in it.

Starting to think I might apply to be a doctors receptionist! Seems fun... Oh unless they're the ones that have to sort out the toilets!!!

A bit different but I work with a woman whose brother is a world-famous actor. Like, super famous.

They share the same surname and she’s often mentioned his first name to me many times but I’ve never put two and two together. I’ve been working with her for 5 years.

Also, he has a particular physical feature that he’s well known for and she has the exact same so I have no idea how I didn’t put that + first name + surname together.

Im constantly WTF at myself for not getting this. Everyone else in work knows and thought I was just very nonchalant about it.

@whoami24601

Oh *@JudgeJ* that reminds me of a tv programme I watched years ago about pregnant women having to be healthier. Every week they had one who drank too much, one who was overweight and one who smoked. Every week the one who smoked dropped out of filming. The one that stuck with me was the one who said she thought the smoking was good for the baby because She was 'making it's lungs work harder so they'll be stronger'

I remember that series. There was one who ran a pub in my town who was supposedly on there because she couldn't stop having a couple of drinks, but we suspected it was to get publicity for her pub.

here's a double-tap wtf story:

DH, aged 35, discovering that meat = flesh/muscle (because he overheard me explaining it to DS3 or DS4). wtf at himself for never clocking that.

me, wtf at him. he cooks all the time, he does Christmas lunch every year, how did he never realise it?!

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

here's a double-tap wtf story:

DH, aged 35, discovering that meat = flesh/muscle (because he overheard me explaining it to DS3 or DS4). wtf at himself for never clocking that.

me, wtf at him. he cooks all the time, he does Christmas lunch every year, how did he never realise it?!

What had he thought it was?

@LKnope

it wasn't like he thought it was something else.
he said he just never thought about it. he didn't understand how he never realised it either!🤣

@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.

That's brilliant, made me laugh out loud!

I was once in bed, quite late at night with the window open because it was warm out.
Overheard two fellas outside discussing their plan to rob the shop up the road (shop would be closing in ten minutes so I suppose they thought the till would be full).
I knew that the police probably wouldn't get there in time so I phoned the shop and suggested they locked up early.

They did and after a half hearted attempt to get in the wannabe robbers legged it.

I got a lovely bottle of wine from the shop owner next time I went in!

just remembered another.

got on the metro with a friend.
we stepped inside quickly to allow a dude behind us to get on before doors got shut.
but he just stood on the platform, stared at us and about 5 secs before the doors shut he pointed at us and yelled "and you go the fuck back inside your whore mothers!"

he pointed at us and yelled "and you go the fuck back inside your whore mothers!"

How totally bizarre!!!

Got my WTF moment right now. Who thought this was the right thing to write on a bathroom bin liner ????