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.

Had a bad dream that my brother died but I couldnt find out which one, i have 3. I woke very upset but tried to put it out of my mind. I phoned my mam later that day, she sounded upset, apparently her brother had just died

@Pals812

Went for coffee with a new‐ish friend. We met and walked about a mile to a coffee shop, got coffees and sat on a bench outside the cafe chatting away. Guy with a dog comes by and asks if we can hold it for him whilst he nips in as he doesn't like tying it up. I agree and take the dog's lead whilst guy goes into the cafe. Friend: Do you know him?..... Me: Who, that guy? No! He just asked us to look after his dog. Friend: Is it your dog? WTH!!!!! 🤯

I don’t get it

playing I spy with DS2 (aged 4), who was standing on the bed in his pyjamas while DH & were still lying down.
DS2 chose the letter W.
DH and were wrecking our brains but couldn't guess the word so finally gave up and asked him to tell us.
DS2 :"Willy! it was willy!"
Me: "aha. but you know the rules are that it has to be something that everyone can see"
so he pulled his pants down and with a huge grin victoriously shouted "well, now you can!"

🤣

Can't find your post again but it's to do with the van explosion and mini. Police were probably trying to keep some information out of the press so as to catch the rest of the terrorist gang.

@LadyOfLittleLeisure

Children can do what they want until aged 7. Staff don't interact with them at all, just leave them to play.

Staff meeting every morning involved standing in a large circle around a candle holding hands.

Headteacher regularly got his banjo out (not a euphemism ) and expected us to dance around the maypole barefoot.

I lasted 4 days.

I travelled around America in my gap year 25 years ago and while waiting for a greyhound bus in Chicago, I saw something that I've never forgotten.

I was sat on my rucksack at the side of a sloping bus station when a small stream of water started weaving its way towards me. As I shifted out of its path, I followed the stream to its source and saw a well-dressed lady in her 50's standing, clutching her handbag but pissing as she stood. Aghast and compelled to watch, she then took a casual look around, flapped her skirt and out dropped a lump of shite and rolled away down the slope.

She got on the same bus as me.

Never forgot that.

@MintyMabel

and DS4 couldn't sleep because "mummy, my feet were too cold yesterday"

When DD was 3 she told us she couldn’t sleep because her pyjamas weren’t working.

That is too cute!!!! 🥰

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[quote FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop]@Pals812 are you in South West Scotland? The first one may have been my exBIL and his (now ex) girlfriend. They did exactly that a few years ago!

If it was, in her defence he was an emotionally abusive POS and she acted in the only way she could without either breaking down or thumping him. He'd been berating her at the checkout for the 'extravagant' things she bought - bubble bath and dark chocolate - and called her an ableist name that I won't repeat on here. She reached breaking point.

Of course he told everyone the story of what a 'psycho' she was in the supermarket, leaving out the bit where he pushed a vulnerable and heavily pregnant woman who'd just recovered from HG to the edge with his nastiness. [/quote]
@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop, No I'm in England and often think about whether she's left him, same as the other lady and a few others I've witnessed.

Great to hear she managed to leave your ex BIL, and glad she had people like you on her side who could see through his bs.

@Furries

Stood outside Liverpool Street station and a guy walked past with an eagle sat on his arm - wasn’t a sight I expected to see.

Obviously found out after that they’re employed to disperse the pigeons in the station - what a cool job!

@Furries apparently hospitals that have helipads employ Hawks or Falcons for pigeon control!

@runoutofgoodusernames

I'd be ok with free play until 7 but not interacted with

Wow at the other stuff I'm not even sure I'd last 4 days!!

YanTanTethera, Manzana.
I had a Siamese cat who used to eat wool. More than once, he stole a visitor's knitted glove from their jacket pocket and ate the fingers. He also chewed scarves, jumpers, anything he could lay his paws on. But only pure wool never mixed fibres.

[quote Confusedandshaken]@StayAGhost

My DH attended the same barbers for over 40 years. The barber constantly called him Pete even though that isn't DH's name but his much older brothers who emigrated when DH was very young so hadn't set foot in the barbers for decades. When he was young DH had been too shy to correct him and so it continued.

Eventually a school mum acquaintance of ours started working in the barbers. She was there one day when the barber called DH Pete. She commented on this saying ' I thought your name was Alex'. DH confessed that his name was Alex but the barber had called him Pete since he was 10 and he'd never corrected him. The barber thought this was hilarious. He couldn't stop laughing and said to another customer "Did you hear that Jimmy, I've been calling this fella Pete for his entire life and he never put me right.' There was a bit of an awkward silence and the customer said 'I never wanted to say it, but actually my names not Jimmy!'[/quote]
Now thats hilarious!!

My son is a natural comedian, loves making people laugh and has excellent comic timing. I was in the supermarket with him, he was 2 so sitting in the toddler seat of the trolley.

I realised I had forgotten to pick something up further back in the aisle, so said to him “Littlebear, I am just going up there to get sugar, back in a sec!”

Turned to walk away, to hear him suddenly belt out, in tune, “All by myself... don’t wanna be all by myself!” to the astonishment of several other shoppers!

@Bananalanacake

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

Or they are fans of racing driver Jensen button

I was on the train going home from work one evening and was sitting alongside a young couple who were talking quietly and intently.
At least, that's what i thought. On reflection the guy was doing most, if not all, of the talking.
The train pulled into a station and the young man got up to leave.
As he did so he said really loudly to the woman 'well, if you die in the night tonight and you haven't accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour you will burn in the fires of hell for all eternity.'
The poor woman looked absolutely shocked and the carriage fell silent. WTAF!
I now wonder if they knew each other at all and she had just been targeted by some kind of fanatic.

Mine is very sad and if I’d known sooner maybe I could have helped.

We have been friends since we were 12. I’m godmother to 2 of her children and she was like the sister I always wanted. I’ve found out recently that since mid 2000’s she’s allowed a known pedophile who she married knowing what he was,to molest her youngest daughter from the age of 4 (she’s about 17/18) now. Her ex hubby and my first goddaughter contacted me recently to tell me what had happened. To say I’m shocked and saddened is an understatement. I had fertility issues and she once offered to be a surrogate for me. It’s like losing a family member but the kids must come first. I wish I’d known 😔

Went on student visa as a student to work in the US, and worked in a kids summer camp. After the camp finished, I was asked by one of the parents whose kids I got to know, if I'd be available to be a child-minder/helper with them as they moved unpacked in a new house.

They were very wealthy, and a nice couple. Their kids were really nice. So I spent 6 weeks with them being a general helper as they settled in to a new area. As a poor struggling student, I was shocked at the amount of money they could spend.

The wft moment was in my last week there, was when one of their new neighbors (whose kids I'd looked after a few evenings too) asked if I'd be available to join them for a threesome before I left, "paid of course". I said no I was in a relationship (I was not), and they gave me a lovely/expensive gift leaving .. I've often wondered how much they were willing to offer :)

On Wednesday this week parked outside a leisure centre waiting for it to open when 2 cars parked in either side. 2 women got out one about 30 the other in her 70’s . The older lady started talking really loudly saying she’d been on plenty of fish dating site and didn’t really want to be with the person she met for a date but they’d slept together on the first date and he had a massive c’’k and was excellent in bed and she couldn’t stop coming . I was a bit jaw dropped just because she was pretty much shouting from the rooftops then the younger women said she couldn’t find anyone in POF as they were all idiots. I guess I just wasn’t expecting that .

@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.

Um. what?!?

Just a horrible discussion or are you now afraid?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4256377-Kill-me-and-feed-me-to-the-pigs

Here’s the full thread @FuckingFabulous.

On a bus in Dublin on the top deck.
Stopped at traffic lights,looked down in to a car.
And a woman wanking a man off.

@ThatWriterInTheCorner

I had the very weirdest school meeting ever when I went to a briefing session about an overseas History trip my DD was going on. The first thing that happened was that I was given some leaflets by two lovely, helpful sixth-formers, who then very inconsiderately turned out to be proper grown-up teachers. While I was still reeling from that, the Head of History walked onto the stage and started talking. And she looked and sounded exactly like a woman I've worked with quite a few times, who is not and has never been a History teacher. She had the same face, the same voice, slightly different hair, but basically The. Same. Person. Like they'd hired the same actor to play two different parts in my life and were hoping I wouldn't notice.

She must have noticed me gawking like a yokel because after a while she said kindly, "Do you know my twin sister by any chance?"

None of this was in any way okay. Teachers should be a minimum of my age or older, and they should never, ever turn out to be the surprise identical twins of people I know from a completely different context.

@Colouringaddict

My great nan was in a care home. She was 98 and I had gone in to see her, as I was leaving I said to I'll see you tomorrow nana” “Don’t bother love, my mother is coming tonight, I won’t be here tomorrow, she came yesterday but I had to tell her to go away because you were coming in to see me today”. I just thought she had dreamed it.... she died that night.

Colouring that us so touching

A lady i was talking to at a breast feeding support group announcing her son was called Nigel!
Each to there own when it comes to names but I remember the awkwardness in the room. No one knew what to say afterwards.