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Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

709 replies

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. Confused

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HeidiHighLow · 28/05/2021 21:05

I’ve posted about before at the time we were all WTAF but now I’m older I just think it’s so incredibly heartbreaking...
In Skegness on a night out and we see a heavily pregnant girl about same as we were at the time around 18.
She was being loud and lairy obviously drinking. She dancing around and pretty drunk and this was early doors around 7pm. We were a bit 🤔 but went on with our night.
By midnight we ended up in a nightclub with sweaty wall and sticky carpets all kind of grim.
There was a bit of gathering in the middle of the dance floor we went over to have a look and there was the pregnant girl pole dancing. Then she stops grabs the nearest bloke tries to snog him after he declines she starts taking kit off.
At this point bouncer should kick her out.
Now thinking about her and how vulnerable and messed up she was I wish I would have reached out to her. Hope she was ok and the baby was ok.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 28/05/2021 21:07

@Thisgroupneverceasestoamazeme

🤣
talking about funerals youand reminded me of me making riends go wtf

talking about how many kids we might like I said I like the idea of 4.
One of them asked me why and I had this image of the Queen Mother's funeral so I replied: "because I'll need 4 pallbearers to carry my coffin"
😳

Impulse control is not easy for me🤣

Lavender2018 · 28/05/2021 21:10

I was driving on the motorway behind a van when a mini type car joined the carriageway from the slip road. The van accidentally pulled into the inside lane, forcing the mini onto the hard shoulder which was on a high bridge. It was really scary so I decided to take note of the vans reg. number and by luck the number was easy to remember as it was made up of my initials, my sons age and was also the same year as my car.
The following day there was a bomb blast in the city centre just a few miles from where I lived and on the front page of the local newspaper was a photo of the van that was on the motorway the previous day!
It was totally destroyed except for the registration number which was still intact!
I contacted the police but they said I was mistaken and that the van was bought from an area that was a hundred miles from where the motorway was. I also told them the reg of the mini on the motorway so they could check my story,but again they said I was mistaken!
To this day I know what I saw and stand by it.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 28/05/2021 21:14

A friend's son was playing for a country dance evening and I went along to support him. It turned out to be a very small affair with 12 dancers in all, of which 7 were men, all much older than me.

We'd all held hands in a circle for the next dance when the guy to my left turns to me and says "I'm sorry my hand is wet, I just spat in it!" Disgusting! Problem was, if I'd gone to wash my hand there and then everyone would have waited for me to return. I ran as soon as I could and avoided him for the rest of the evening!

Lavender2018 · 28/05/2021 21:15

What I’m getting at is that the driver of the van was responsible for the blast!

mrwalkensir · 28/05/2021 21:15

Ormally Springwatch the other night was explaining that swifts prefer white feathers to line their nests...

oohyoudevilyou · 28/05/2021 21:27

A middle aged woman was gardening on one of the allotments next to ours. She suddenly bent her legs outwards, pulled up her skirt to knee level and just pissed on the ground. It was a very long wee and noisy too, but she stood there pissing for about 20 seconds, and made no attempt to hide it. Bloody weird.

Heartofglass12345 · 28/05/2021 21:31

I was in the town in Tenby once, and there was a pigeon on the road. A van came around the bend and ran it over, the pigeon popped. It sounded like someone popping a massive plastic bag or something. Poor thing!

RosaLuxemburgwasright · 28/05/2021 21:54

This is not so much a wtf as a "you're an idiot" and related to the suspected identical twins.

I spent a long time thinking that identical twins, Freddie and Andrew Flintoff played for the England cricket team.

Fruityfriday · 28/05/2021 21:56

@ Colouringaddict That made me cry, I really do hope your Nana’s mum came to take her home

OhGodNotThisAgain · 28/05/2021 22:09

I was sitting on a park bench when 2 swans and their 3 cygnets climbed out of the pond and came and sat on the ground within a metre of me in a semi circle around me. I consider myself a swan whisperer now.

LadyOfLittleLeisure · 28/05/2021 22:11

@RosaLuxemburgwasright

This is not so much a wtf as a "you're an idiot" and related to the suspected identical twins.

I spent a long time thinking that identical twins, Freddie and Andrew Flintoff played for the England cricket team.

Me too!
Structuredsward · 28/05/2021 22:13

Crikey Muddypuddles Flowers

cricketmum84 · 28/05/2021 22:16

Walking along Skegness beach. Saw a lady with a buggy walking past us. Inside the buggy was a giant lop rated rabbit!

Another one we went to Scarborough for a day trip when youngest DD was a couple of months old. I was breastfeeding so I had stayed in the car to quickly feed her while DH and eldest DC went to the beach. An old guy in a fishing jacket (think I know what you did last summer) came and stared in the window of the car as I fed her. Omg so freaked out!!!

cricketmum84 · 28/05/2021 22:16

*lop eared rabbit!!!

SingleMamaG · 28/05/2021 22:33

My aunt was in hospital in labour and some of our family all waited outside the double doors to the labour room she was in, excitedly anticipating the new arrival. I was about 12 years old and a nurse rushed past us through the double doors and I saw my aunt laid on the bed and then saw a lady sat in the corner, with grey hair. I didn’t think anything of it and a year later at the babies birthday party I asked my aunt who the lady was in the corner, with grey hair and a shawl and she said there wasn’t a lady in the corner! It gave me chills!

SingleMamaG · 28/05/2021 22:34

Went to the farm the other day with my toddler, sister and her two babies and we saw a man dressed up as a woman pushing a maxi cosi pram with a dolly in it, had a nice changing bag too

OhGodNotThisAgain · 28/05/2021 22:38

I was walking out of Tesco and in front of me were a mother and her son (about 10 years old) she was already ripping packets and boxes open before she was even out the door. She shoved a box at the boy and told him to eat it. He asked what it was and she said, “it’s an eclair, you twat.” Who force feeds eclairs to their children?!

In Warsaw, there was an adult man wearing a child-sized Eeyore T-shirt. I know it’s not that weird but I still remember it years later.

AlexCabot · 28/05/2021 22:40

@Heartofglass12345

I was in the town in Tenby once, and there was a pigeon on the road. A van came around the bend and ran it over, the pigeon popped. It sounded like someone popping a massive plastic bag or something. Poor thing!
We did this on the way to East Midlands Airport once. Pigeon came out of nowhere, hit the car and popped. Feathers everywhere, lovely start to a holiday!
Mamanyt · 28/05/2021 22:42

LOL, years ago, a friend's idiot teenage brother was visiting an uncle on his farm. Being an idiot teenaged boy, he thought to himself, "HEY...calves will suck on ANYTHING!" Yes, they will, and HARD! I do not know how cows tolerate it. At any rate, by the time they heard the screams and pried the calf off, he was black and blue from belly button to mid-thigh, and hip to hip.

And then there was my ex who pissed on an electric fence.

Heartofglass12345 · 28/05/2021 22:50

@AlexCabot that was me finding out the hard way that they popped when they get run over Sad not a good start to your holiday lol
Not so much wtf but it was a surprise! Another time in Tenby we were in the Tesco in the town and about to walk out when a fire engine went past and started spraying everyone with water, the peope who lived in the flats above the shops were throwing water out the windows and people were driving past throwing water at everyone. No idea what that was haha!

intheenddoesitreallymatter · 28/05/2021 22:50

@PuddyMuddles4

You mean like me reading a whatsapp chat yesterday where my DD and her friends were discussing killing me and feeding me to the pigs? That kind of WTF moment? Yeah.
I’m so sorry but having read your thread that made me laugh out loud.
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petridishmystery · 28/05/2021 23:01

Not especially exciting but I was telling this to someone at work earlier - years ago I was sat on a bench eating lunch when in front of me two people who came from opposite directions stopped to chat - turns out they were co workers, one heading back to work from lunch and one heading out. After a quick chat the woman says to the man “oh, I needed £5 for lunch so I took it out your desk - that’s alright isn’t it?” He spluttered and stammered and then before he could say anything she walked off but I would have loved to have known if anything came of it, because it was so clearly NOT ok, this guy looked absolutely shocked and horrified that this woman had gone into his desk - obviously didn’t have quite the close relationship she thought! One of those random moments I still remember sometimes!

Once at a family party my mum popped out for a smoke and saw a gimp walking down the road! It was 4 in the afternoon and it’s a small peaceful town so not something you’d be expecting to see! It was a man on his stag do. Posed for some pictures because mum knew no one would believe her when she went back in.

Ohtheplacesyougo · 28/05/2021 23:09

I have a photographic memory and I remember going to the theatre, and a few weeks later saw a lady on the tube who was sitting in the same area as us. I asked her if she had enjoyed the production. She looked at me as if I was from out of space! I told her she’d been in the theatre the same night as me and I remembered her being there with her husband. We had an enjoyable chat but think she initially had a WTF moment....