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.

Keep going puts kettle on

I work in a school and the only time I’ve done a wtf at a child’s name is when I heard we had not 1 but 2 Alan’s moving upto ks2.

First day on my new job
They put me on the drive thou window to hand out food/drinks
Id been there an hour when 4 young lasses (id have said in their 20's) started doing cartwheels just past the drive thou bit on the grass verge
All of them where naked bar their shoes

At work the other day I had a bloke kick off doing track and trace as the csa where trying to catch him to cough up for his 18 kids!
(Judging by the state of him id have been hard pushed to say that one woman would have gone near him let alone up to 18)
If he gave me his details they'd find him-finally got his details out of him and as he left he spat 'if Boris finds me-im going to make you cough up for them' and stomped out
It had been a long day and I was like 'wtf?'

@smudgemylife

Not quite what you asked for, but here goes...

At a gorgeous park, warm summers day, sun slowly beginning to go down and sat eating ice creams facing the lake. Literally the perfect end to a lovely day.
Sat on a bench by the lake was a little old man who we'd seen wandering around the park earlier, throwing crumbs from his sandwiches to the birds.
He ended up surrounded by a ridiculous amount of pigeons, he even held out his and and one jumped up and began eating the crumbs directly from his hand.
It was so sweet and surreal, I was totally transfixed.
Then, in a flash, he grabbed the pigeon in his hand and snapped its neck!!! Stood up from the bench, casually dropped it into the bin next to him and wandered off.

Honestly the most mental thing to ever happen to me.

Years ago we were on holiday, beautiful afternoon and we were watching people fish off the harbour wall. Amongst them was a tiny little girl, probably no older than three or four. Beautiful little child.

She had her own rod and suddenly became quite animated as she'd caught something. DH and I were watching her enjoying her excitement. She reeled in a fairly large mackerel, removed it from the hook and then, with all her might, smacked its brains out on the harbour wall, then tossed it into a nearby basket. It was so funny from this small, sweet child, completely unexpected and it's stayed with me all these years.

Jensen is a popular surname in Denmark, maybe one of his parents is Danish.

@AlanThePig sorry but I let out a laugh at this
That's exactly how it felt! This lovely, gentle little old man whod been shuffling along at a snails pace and waving at small children was suddenly so agile as to snatch a pigeon out of the air and wring the poor sods neck.

I had a leavers' party with my uni classmates at my house.
A friend of mine asked if she could borrow some scissors, so gave her a pair without a thought. she had a new dress on so when she headed to the bathroom I assumed she forgot to cut out the label or something.

she emerged quite a while later with a new, very short haircut she'd just given herself with a pair of nail scissors.
she didn't do a god job at all

Placemarking because I love threads like this 😁

Shamelessly placemarking. Brilliant thread!

Great thread!
Nothing comes to mind atm except a very large number of "small world" examples. One is quite outing and involves two purple from two continents getting married that we knew separately and had heard about each fiance but not realised they were the ppl we knew!

^"people", not "purple"

The opposite of you, OP.
I knew a young teacher I used to meet regularly at netball matches, on training courses, saw in town and would stop for a chat etc.
It was FOUR YEARS before I discovered the reason I saw her so often was that 'she' was identical twins, both teachers, in separate local schools. They shared a house and a wardrobe so looked really identical, but it turned out everyone knew there were two of them except me.

I used to like to sit on a certain seat on the bus. it wasn't reserved for special needs or anything, I can't even remember the attraction now.

on one journey home the bus was almost empty, with most seats available. cue an old woman getting on and standing over me, demanding I give up my seat.
I said "I'm sorry, I won't. Please pick another seat."
To which she opened her mouth wide, pushed out her fake teeth and started twirling them around with her tongue to scare me off.

Good thread - that pigeon thing is really creepy.

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I used to like to sit on a certain seat on the bus. it wasn't reserved for special needs or anything, I can't even remember the attraction now.

on one journey home the bus was almost empty, with most seats available. cue an old woman getting on and standing over me, demanding I give up my seat.
I said "I'm sorry, I won't. Please pick another seat."
To which she opened her mouth wide, pushed out her fake teeth and started twirling them around with her tongue to scare me off.

Yuk!🤢

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I used to like to sit on a certain seat on the bus. it wasn't reserved for special needs or anything, I can't even remember the attraction now.

on one journey home the bus was almost empty, with most seats available. cue an old woman getting on and standing over me, demanding I give up my seat.
I said "I'm sorry, I won't. Please pick another seat."
To which she opened her mouth wide, pushed out her fake teeth and started twirling them around with her tongue to scare me off.

That is hilarious 😂

I was at hospital for a late pregnancy checkup, and the woman before me, also heavily pregnant had just gone into the doctor's room. I was sitting in the waiting room next to her husband, and we were just exchanging small talk, when he said " The worst thing for me is not being able to shag....." I was so shocked, I sat in horrified silence. When his wife came out of the doc's room, I looked at her and thought "You poor thing. "

Many many years ago, I was about 26, but innocent, I was at the gym using a machine looking out of the window at the lovely view of a large public square. Quite a quiet evening and I started seeing groups of about 5 or 6 people in differing fancy dress. So 6 Mario's would pass, then 5 cowboys etc. Just group after group after group, no "normally" dressed people at all. I could not figure it out at all. Got dressed and went to the bus stop. The only people around were these groups and I was starting to freak out that I was in the Truman show, I don't know. Got on the bus, hoping it would be full of 'normal' people, no, more fancy dress. I had to ask "why are you all dressed up?" and the guy said... "Why aren't you?"

Last year, the seemingly perfectly sensible and rational friend who casually dropped the fact that he believed vapour trials from planes are mind controlling chemicals that are being dropped on us...DH and I didn't really have a response to that!

I was in my last job for three years and I shared a bank of desks with a lovely woman in her 60s. We grew really close, talked about personal issues and I considered her a friend. She was quiet, kind, generous and her main priority in her life was her young grandchildren.

One day she was telling me about something that had happened over the weekend and, out of the blue, she said something so disgusting and horrifically racist about her neighbour I can’t even repeat it. I was stunned into silence. I wish I’d challenged it at the time but it was so sudden I wasn’t sure what had happened.

I distanced myself after that.

Trails not trials. Sigh. If they were called trials I can see why it might sound a bit suspicious!

does making a tv reporter go "wtf" count?

I'm Hungarian. My friends and were practicing a dance called "Palotás" for a show, it's very traditional, see costumes on photo.
We just had our dress rehearsal and were going to a dance practice and obviously talking about it. We didn't even see the tv crew doing interviews (not live, thank fuck!) and so when the reporter showed a mic under my nose and asked what I thought about Palotás I started going about how I love it and it's brilliant and what a coincidence because we've been practicing a lot...
she looked properly flummoxed. she was working for a news segment discussing a politician called Palotás.
🤣🤣

excuse typos, I was rushing as my phone is about to die and I didn't want to lose my post!

Friend of mine used to work in a video shop years ago, she told me she had this really nice woman, a regular customer who would always chat to her, seemed lovely etc but one day my friend pointed to a new release and recommended it, there was a black couple on the front and the women said no I don't want that one, I don't watch films with black people in them Friend walked away in disgust, the woman never came back.