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.

Why would you post this @SomethingToldTheWildGeese?
Just makes everyone else upset too. I really wish I hadn’t read this. 😕

@mybrainhertz

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

But looking at the one on the right, you can tell by the position of his ears that he is pissed off

couple more:

On full commuter bus, in busy 6 lane street downtown, I glanced out to see the huge van next to was being driven (if you can call it that) by someone playing a trombone. A full sized trombone. I carefully squeezed myself as far away as possible, as their vehicle was weaving all over the place.

On a cross country flight, in first class. Regular commute and often saw same people coming and going. This time a man came to sit next to me. It was winter, and chilly so for the first part of the flight I had my legs up (reclined, with footrest) and covered with a blanket. When it warmed up, I pushed the blanket aside. I was wearing a skirt suit, modest length, and fishnet tights. Nothing flash about me, honestly.

From the corner of my eye,, I saw my neighbor did a double take as soon as I pushed the blanket away. His head went up to my face, down to legs, back up and back down. I pretended not to notice, and continued reading my book. Needless to say I was hyper aware, but ignored him. Two hours go by, he's had a couple or 3 drinks, and he finally says "Excuse me. Ahem." Was wearing headphones, so could pretend not to hear him at first, but then acknowledge him once he leans slightly into me, so that I cannot ignore him. "Yes?"

"Can I touch them?"

"sorry?"

"Can I touch them?"

Pointing at my legs. I could have shriveled up. I quickly put my seat upright, covered myself as much as possible with the blanket, and turned my entire body away from him. The next hours were excruciating.

WTF?

I went to see a friend who was living,temporarily, in a hotel. The owners had decided to also take in homeless youngsters. I was standing looking out of the kitchen window and a woman wondered past with a naked dude, with a collar and leash and gimp mask on.
I'm all for live and let live, but there were vulnerable teens there. I made the charity, who was placing the kids there, aware of this incident and also told them of the bdsm barn.
I have never laughed so much, he was overweight and was not well endowed. I also wished for a bucket of eye bleach.

@2018SoFarSoGreat

couple more:

On full commuter bus, in busy 6 lane street downtown, I glanced out to see the huge van next to was being driven (if you can call it that) by someone playing a trombone. A full sized trombone. I carefully squeezed myself as far away as possible, as their vehicle was weaving all over the place.

On a cross country flight, in first class. Regular commute and often saw same people coming and going. This time a man came to sit next to me. It was winter, and chilly so for the first part of the flight I had my legs up (reclined, with footrest) and covered with a blanket. When it warmed up, I pushed the blanket aside. I was wearing a skirt suit, modest length, and fishnet tights. Nothing flash about me, honestly.

From the corner of my eye,, I saw my neighbor did a double take as soon as I pushed the blanket away. His head went up to my face, down to legs, back up and back down. I pretended not to notice, and continued reading my book. Needless to say I was hyper aware, but ignored him. Two hours go by, he's had a couple or 3 drinks, and he finally says "Excuse me. Ahem." Was wearing headphones, so could pretend not to hear him at first, but then acknowledge him once he leans slightly into me, so that I cannot ignore him. "Yes?"

"Can I touch them?"

"sorry?"

"Can I touch them?"

Pointing at my legs. I could have shriveled up. I quickly put my seat upright, covered myself as much as possible with the blanket, and turned my entire body away from him. The next hours were excruciating.

WTF?

Ewww, creepy leg guy!!

Made me remember when I was a 16 year old trying on some red strappy heels in Barrett's. It was the year 2000, and so typically they had plastic jewels or diamanté on them and I really wanted some that were plain. So I was trying on loads and looking in the mirror. I was wearing a short denim skirt and I clocked a bloke sitting on the stools and watching me. He noticed and came over and said "sorry, but are your feet size seven??" I said "yeah, why?" He explained that he was purchasing a surprise outfit for his girlfriend as he was taking her to the theatre and asked if I'd try on a pair of shoes while he held the dress up to make sure they didn't make the lower legs look short, which was apparently something she hated. I, being a fairly compliant kid and thinking that was dead romantic went "ok, sure" and slipped on the pair of black stilettos he chose and stood there while he suddenly whipped out and held up a very obviously old slithery satin and black lace negligee type garment. I was feeling very wtf at this point, but literally had no idea what to say! He fixed his eyes on my feet and said, very deliberately, "Now. Take. Them. Off...... go on. Just step out of them. Take them off and tell me where you got your nail polish. Do you paint them yourself? Could I paint them?........"
And I'm just standing there utterly aghast and struck dumb! Suddenly, a very overweight security guard with a crackly radio loomed in the doorway from the street and said "Oi!! Away from the lass!!" And the guy bundled up his dusty nightie and literally fled while the security guard wheezed and muttered into his crackly walkie talkie and got completely unintelligible messages back.

Learning sign language. The teacher is deaf but is brilliant at getting us to understand her and a really good teacher. She has some facial disfigurement.
There is a guy in the class. He’s had a cochlear implant fitted as he is going to lose his hearing so is learning to sign too.
On a break, when the teacher is out of the room, he declares that he knew her before this class and has been to her house but her husband asked him to leave when he overheard him talking to other guests about “you know, how her face looks funny”
WTF?!
I mean, having been ejected by her husband because it’s a despicable thing to say once, at any time, never mind in her own home when you are an invited guest -why repeat the shitty thing you said? Who even thinks like that?

My DP lived in Bath years ago and I asked him if he had seen Shit Wig Man. It rang a bell but when I read out to him about the PP who lived in Walcott Street and he was around that area he said yes he remembered him too.

@ParvaAvis

A university friend told me about his best friend who insisted his girlfriend wear layers upon layers of skirts when they had sex, like 15 or 20 skirts: he liked to take them off, one by one, to get to ‘the prize’! 😂. Who would ever admit to that, best friend or not?!

Same university friend, was married, they both lived in a bed-sit type flat. They often had some creepy guy peeking through their letterbox late at night, watching ‘what they’re up to!’ Why oh why didn’t my friend do something about it?!!!

When I was at university, I lived in a shared house, we all had our own bedrooms etc. Some guy that I shared the house with (he lived there with his long-term girlfriend) used to come into my bedroom in the early hours after a night on the tiles, and say ‘hi, you’re so beautiful etc’. It used to freak me out so I put a bolt on my door and the door would often rattle early-hours with him trying to get in! He never remembered anything about it the next day, would greet me normally as a housemate etc.

I’m sure I can think of more examples...

My brother once worked with someone who claimed he had no need for a girlfriend as he could give himself blow jobs (Foot up on the bathroom sink and bend over,bro said) I really don’t want to know what they where chatting about for that to come up but my bro worked there for about 10 years and said this chap never had a girlfriend but he did seem to spend a lot of time when he popped to the loo…

Years ago, ds had been asking for a dog for quite sometime. I was watering the front garden and had both the front and back doors of the garage open, which led into the back garden.
So there I am watering my hydrangeas when out of nowhere a dog flies past me through the garage into the back garden.
I go to investigate and find a dog hiding in a shrub in the back garden, as I’m shouting of my husband to come see another dog comes flying through my garage!!!
DS was beyond excited thinking all his Christmas’s had a come at once.
Thankfully we were able to swiftly find all the owners that evening. But it was a real WTF moment.

Years ago in my old house I was sitting at a table in the study upstairs, idly staring out a window which overlooked the car park of a block of flats next door. It was a quiet afternoon. A nervous-looking man came out to his car, opened the boot and started shuffling stuff about. Then he quickly looked around to make sure no one was about, then got inside the boot and closed it behind him! About 10 minutes passed then he got out again, pretended to shuffle stuff about a bit more and then went back indoors.

@Friendofdennis

Walking through a crowded shopping centre I failed to get out of the way of a fast approaching mobility scooter because I have a bad hip and couldn’t side step. The woman just rammed into me and I ended up lying across her shouting Stop! as she continued to motor along until I fell off her.

So sorry OP but this made me laugh out loud...

@Grizalda

Two policemen trying to corner a large and pretty pissed off swan to get him off the main road.

Was it for The Greater Good the greater good. ?

😂🤣😂

Mines rubbish but I finally have something to add, I was driving along once and saw a man and tied himself a tight rope and was just walking along it all casual 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh actually, I know somebody that called their daughter Linda, but didn’t want her to get called lin, so she named the next daughter lin???? Not understanding her logic AT ALL. The next one had a mundane name and eventually changed it to something totally bizarre and made up. They’re an odd family

[quote GabsAlot]@CrazyCatsAndKittens thats really not good for the cat to eat as its main food will make it ill[/quote]
Tell me about it, but if you say anything she gets upset because in her mind it's not her fault. Then she gets stressed because people are attacking her and no body understands how hard it is for her. She's right. I don't get it. I think generally speaking after a few days, the cat will have forgotten about the Dreamies and will happily eat normal cat food.

i have to admit, when we stopped working together, I deleted her from Facebook.

NC as mine is outing as I’ve told a lot of people.

Summer 2007 and me my friend were both pregnant, she was very near her due date and we decided to go for a walk one afternoon before the school run to see if we could get things moving for her. We live in a small village, a few shops, quite rural. We’d didn’t go far, just a couple of miles into the next village and then back to ours where we sat on a bench on the village square before school pick up.

There were a few people walking around, noticed a man looking in a window of one of the shops but thought nothing of it. All of a sudden these two dark saloon cars come speeding along, flashing lights, all full of men who jump out, shove these hats on and start pointing guns and shouting at this man, ‘hands up’, ‘get on the floor’ etc, they grab him and are gone.

We just sat there like, WTF? Nothing like this ever happens here! There was never any report in newspaper of anyone being apprehended, no one ever knew anything, all very random.

@DeusEx

Why would you post this *@SomethingToldTheWildGeese*? Just makes everyone else upset too. I really wish I hadn’t read this. 😕

Apologies! It gave me such a shock...

@mam0918
She was really drunk. I also went to a comedy show where a drunk guy threw up on the row in front.

Can we clear some things up around cloud seeding?

It is possible. You fly above a cloud and drop something like sand or salt or chemicals and it makes the raindrops group together enough so that they fall.

But

1. it is really hard to predict how and when it will rain, it is an inexact science. Get it wrong and you might make it worse! At best it clears the current clouds from above your town.
2. It doesn't really work for rain associated with weather fronts, which is most of the rain in the UK. This is because the weather front constantly makes more clouds and rain. The action of the wind circling and rising up and through another layer of air makes a constant supply of new clouds and rain. So if a good low-pressure area is coming in on your wedding day, it is extremely unlikely that you would be able to seed the clouds with the right timing to get the rain to fall and no more rain to accumulate and fall later.
3. It is incredibly expensive to do
4. The people who get rained on because you seeded the clouds might have something to say about it, and sue you because their event/day etc got spoilt. Rain doesn't fall on just your house!
5. People might would definitely object to getting sand/salt/chemicals sprayed over them

also, that link to the Lymington floods, even if there had been cloud seeding going on, the floods were due to a mix of factors, including the fact that the ground was already saturated. The volume and timing of the rain were just more than is likely in a cloud seeding experiment.

@OddDay2007

NC as mine is outing as I’ve told a lot of people.

Summer 2007 and me my friend were both pregnant, she was very near her due date and we decided to go for a walk one afternoon before the school run to see if we could get things moving for her. We live in a small village, a few shops, quite rural. We’d didn’t go far, just a couple of miles into the next village and then back to ours where we sat on a bench on the village square before school pick up.

There were a few people walking around, noticed a man looking in a window of one of the shops but thought nothing of it. All of a sudden these two dark saloon cars come speeding along, flashing lights, all full of men who jump out, shove these hats on and start pointing guns and shouting at this man, ‘hands up’, ‘get on the floor’ etc, they grab him and are gone.

We just sat there like, WTF? Nothing like this ever happens here! There was never any report in newspaper of anyone being apprehended, no one ever knew anything, all very random.

What sort of hats?!

@Clawdy

One night years ago we heard a commotion and yelling outside our top floor flat. Looking outside, in the dark, we saw a man on the ground being punched and slapped by two other men. DH opened the window and shouted" Get off him, I'm ringing the police! " One of the men looked up and growled "We ARE the f*ing police! "

A very similar thing happened to me. A few years ago, I was in bed, DH was in the bathroom, when I head him fling the door open and bound downstairs shouting 'don't come outside, Saskia!'. Of course, I did go outside, and found DH in the garden, waving his phone at three fighting men, and saying he'd phoned the police. You've probably guessed, two of the men were the police! The third man was some lowlife who'd been caught trying to break into a care home, and had attempted to escape by jumping fences across back gardens.

Shamelessly place marking. Love this thread!

I once saw a girl sneeze in a shoe shop, and cornflakes* came out of her nose, suspended in two long strings of clear snot, that hung from her nostrils, until she snorted and the whole lot shot back up and in again.

*I can't verify that they were cornflakes, but that's exactly what they looked like to me.

@notacooldad

Probably about 15 years ago me and Dh were in a town centre pub on a busy weekend. There was no where to sit so we were stood at one if those high tables where you can have a tall bar stool. I looked around to see if anything was coming free and I noticed a bloke and woman sat down. She was staring straight in front if her expressionless and he was sucking on her breast. As the place was packed and mist people were stood up I don't think many, if anyone else noticed. I posted on here about it and someone suggested that she may have been a prostitute and he was fulfilling a fantasy. I thought it may have been a partner that was been controlled ( when I reflected in it later. Either way it shook me up and I feel bad that I didn't intervene.

"Bitty!"

I love this thread. Some minor WTF ones from me:

• Worked at airport. My colleague and I were stood at our counter watching passengers walk past through the main thoroughfare (? Just a big open hall) when we saw a kid, about 10yrs old, break into a run then launch himself forward so he just slid smoothly on his belly for about 15m... then he calmly got up and carried on walking. Parents walking behind him didn’t even blink.
• On bus going past a police station where a very small group of (what looked like) protesters were stood outside, one playing a full sized didgeridoo.
• There’s a Shit Wig Man in South Manchester, I had the misfortune of sitting a couple rows behind him once and oh my god... It was incredible and so, so awful.
• Used to have hair down past my waist. Once stood waiting at traffic lights near my street when I felt someone stroking my hair - but not indiscreet/gentle stroking, like full-on proper combing fingers through it. I turned around expecting to find it was a mate trying to wind me up but to my absolute shock it was a complete STRANGER, a young guy smiling at me STILL touching my hair and asking if it was all real. I said yes, while slowly moving away, and after we had crossed the road I watched him walk up the street leading to a probation office. I didn’t leave my hair down for a while after that.