Page 26 | Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

FuckingFabulous · 2021-05-25T17:14:54+00:00

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]

PinguTheLion · 02/06/2021 14:47

@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.

@RosaLuxemburgwasright wait what?! There's two Flintoffs?! Definitely did not know that 😳

inappropriateraspberry · 02/06/2021 15:09

@PinguTheLion No, that's the point, they're the same person! His nickname is Freddie as in Flintstone.

PinguTheLion · 02/06/2021 15:12

@inappropriateraspberry ohhhhhh ok now i feel stupid 😂

ReginaTheEvilQueen · 02/06/2021 19:29

If its any consolation @PinguTheLion i had no idea either! Id never heard of an andrew flintoff 😂 ive only heard of a freddie flintoff 😂

SchadenfreudePersonified · 02/06/2021 20:01

Sorry you doubt me , it is a true story, and she was perfectly convinced that that was the reason for the castor oil. Hammersmith Hospital if anyone wants to verify it!

I thought Sheba was talking about the birthing mother being an alumunus of tha famous university of stupidity, viques

SkodaKodiaq · 02/06/2021 21:04

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

when I met one of my kids's friends' dad for the first time (as in we were being introduced) I said "nice to finally meet you, I don't think I've seen you on the school run" he said "yeah, I've not been long out of prison"

Don't be so judgmental

YesPleaseMary · 02/06/2021 21:14

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll the chicken shouter, this wasn’t in north Wales by any chance was it?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 02/06/2021 22:06

@YesPleaseMary

Indeed it was! Is he infamous for it? We lived there over 20 years ago when we witnessed it!!

gingganggooleywotsit · 02/06/2021 22:13

Back in the 90s as a teen, I had a male friend with a really eccentric mum. They lived on the top floor of a really rough council block, mum was always a bit out of it and had a collection of lighters and bongs in a display cabinet lol. Anyway she was always talking about how she invented punk and that Malcolm mclaren had stolen her ideas (!) she would rant and rave about it. She said she still had some famous friends from her punk days, and that boy George was one of her close mates. I just thought she was a drug addled nutter tbh. Anyway one evening I popped over to see my friend and there was Boy George sitting in the tiny kitchen having a cup of tea with my friend’s mum 😆 could not believe my eyes!

WeatherwaxOn · 02/06/2021 22:13

Another, less pleasant one.

Years ago I worked at a large corporate, which was quite multicultural and had some staff who worked short-term in London, far from their usual offices in Hong Kong, Germany, America, India, etc.

Waiting for a bus to get the to the station (to get into work) and a woman comes out of one of the nearby houses. She started going on about the bus not being on time. It was, we were 10 minutes ahead of the due time.
Then she started on some sort of rant, "All these bus drivers are foreigners these days. Don't speak hardly a word of English. Like them Chy lot you see at the takeaway. One driving license between them, Mr. Ying Tong Whatever."
I tried to ignore her but she carried on.
"And as for the rest of 'em coming over here. Them muslim lot - all those Ps wanting us to do Islam. And the N-Ns, but you don't see many of those around here thankfully. It's good isn't it?"
Trying not to lose my temper I just said to her, "I'm off to work. My boss is one of those Ps, and for the record, my Brother-In-Law is a N-N*. It's racists I have a problem with."
She gave me evil looks the whole bus journey into town.

TopBlogger · 02/06/2021 22:15

Can't find the post from last week, but am I the only one still wondering who the famous world renowned actor is with the facial 'thing', whose sister worked with the poster? 🤔😁

TopBlogger · 02/06/2021 22:17

What was Boy George like @ginggan?

gingganggooleywotsit · 02/06/2021 22:22

He seemed lovely and just said “alright?” I was so shy when I was a teen, I didn’t know what to say and hid in the other room!! He left 5 mins later very smiley and normal said nice to meet you. My friend’s mum acted like nothing had happened. It was all a bit surreal!

Ormally · 03/06/2021 00:17

@mrwalkensir

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

Oh wow, I would love it to have been a swift!

LibbyL92 · 03/06/2021 00:49

I was on holiday in Tunisia back in 2014 and sat next to this woman on the plane, spoke the whole way there. Anyway a year later I was on the plane to Marbella and the exact same woman was sat next to me again. Around a month later I was on the train with family going to Margate. And who gets on the train?

We’ve decided to keep in touch now 😂

YesPleaseMary · 03/06/2021 08:37

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll It was a friend of mine at uni! It’s the punchline to a joke which I’m afraid is a bit now. He first told it in the middle of a crowded street in Chester... then in the society of which we were all members of... then it sort of became his thing for a bit.
I used to work on the chicken counter in that supermarket (which has since turned into a Morrison’s) and would text all my student friends when it was reduced chicken time... happy days!
My friend is mostly completely normal and sane btw.

SeptemberGurl · 03/06/2021 10:34

A few years back I met an old college friend/acquaintance in Heathrow, we'd totally lost touch, but she looked very much the same (not the same for me sadly!!).

Waiting in T2, we chatted and I walked towards her departure gate area. She then introduced her husband who was nearby. I didn't recognize him, but I knew the name very well. He'd be named in relation to a series of campus rapes (but was not convicted). A classmate of mine was involved and I 100% believe her, without any doubt, and I know a lot of the details. I was totally shocked, and still find it hard to believe they are married.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/06/2021 11:24

@YesPleaseMary

Wow - we must have been at the same uni at around the same time! I wonder if we know each other?!

Was the 'joke' to do with trying to sell said chicken to somebody whose circumstances supposedly necessitated shouting the entreaty to buy?

I'm very glad to hear that your friend turned out relatively normal in the end. I've spent the last 20 or so years worrying that he might have travelled back in time and become this man (Bob)....

DailyMaui · 03/06/2021 12:14

Ooh I've loved reading all these.I have a few...

I once went on a very last minute trip to India. I booked a flight to Goa on the Thursday evening, was at the Indian Embassy on Friday morning to get a visa and on the plane Friday night. I walked out of Goa's airport doors and bumped smack bang into my sister... I had no idea she was there too!

When my son was just about two and a half years old a good work friend - I'll call him Jake - died in really tragic circumstances. At the time we all thought it was suicide. It was incredibly upsetting. After a day of me feeling really miserable my son came over to me and said "Jake is here mummy." I remember just staring at him and he then repeated "Jake is here mummy! Say Hello!" So I said hello and my son then carried on with "he's okay now mummy. He's happy. He's going on a boat to the island so he wants you to know that he's happy now." He then turned away and carried on playing.

A few days later I was at work and speaking to the person sorting out Jake's funeral (he was estranged from his blood relatives - work friends were his family). I told her about my son and she went white - in Jake's will he had asked for his ashes to be taken to a tiny greek island to be scattered and you could only get to it by small boat. Only herself and one other person knew.

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FuckingFabulous · 03/06/2021 12:37

@DailyMaui

Ooh I've loved reading all these.I have a few...

I once went on a very last minute trip to India. I booked a flight to Goa on the Thursday evening, was at the Indian Embassy on Friday morning to get a visa and on the plane Friday night. I walked out of Goa's airport doors and bumped smack bang into my sister... I had no idea she was there too!

When my son was just about two and a half years old a good work friend - I'll call him Jake - died in really tragic circumstances. At the time we all thought it was suicide. It was incredibly upsetting. After a day of me feeling really miserable my son came over to me and said "Jake is here mummy." I remember just staring at him and he then repeated "Jake is here mummy! Say Hello!" So I said hello and my son then carried on with "he's okay now mummy. He's happy. He's going on a boat to the island so he wants you to know that he's happy now." He then turned away and carried on playing.

A few days later I was at work and speaking to the person sorting out Jake's funeral (he was estranged from his blood relatives - work friends were his family). I told her about my son and she went white - in Jake's will he had asked for his ashes to be taken to a tiny greek island to be scattered and you could only get to it by small boat. Only herself and one other person knew.

Wow, that's so comforting that your little boy said that to you! Stories like that make me have a bit more faith that we don't just cease to exist when we die, which is one of my biggest fears!

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OoofBaBoof · 03/06/2021 12:58

I have so many of these!

When DS was born, DH was sent a paternity test kit in the post. We asked all of our friends if they'd sent it as a joke which we wouldn't have found especially funny but would see why some of them may have and nobody admitted it. We weren't angry or anything just needed to know who sent it. Nobody has ever admitted sending it 6 years later!

DH's best friend from school and I have a really strangely linked past despite growing up over an hour away from each other.

-My cousin married her cousin when I was 7, she was 10 and we were sat on the kids table and she told me her friend was a boy and I was naturally disgusted because I thought boys were disgusting.

-My best friends mum married her uncle (different side of the family) and I went to the wedding as a 17 year old and she ended up going the bar for me a few times. DH actually came to pick her up later that night!

-I did some temp work for an agency. One job was for 3 weeks while they waited for the new person to start. That happened to her. I was then sent to another company to do a different role again while they waited for the new person to start and I was actually replacing her.

-My sister got engaged to her housemates brother. They broke up because this friend had walked in on the brother in bed with another housemate and she ended up telling my sister.

-She worked for my aunt and we didn't realise until my aunt had an anniversary party and when DH and I arrived we saw her getting out a taxi.

-Her mum worked for the local council supporting nurseries and she came out to the setting I was working at and helped me get it ready for an inspection. It was only when the mum saw a picture of my DH that we realised I knew her daughter.

I used to see the same girl everywhere when I was in college. After a while it got a bit strange, I'd notice she would have the same bag as me and the same clothes and my friends started to notice she was everywhere. One day she went in to the hairdressers my college friend worked at and ended up telling her as she got her hair washed that her name was my name, she was going out with my boyfriend, she worked where I did and that she was studying the course I was on. That may have been her name and maybe her boyfriend had the same name as mine but she definitely didn't work at the same place and the college course had a small number of students on and we worked with the older students and she definitely was not on that course. I ended up leaving after my first year in college so didn't see her around any more but that was a bit of a moment.

Shannith · 05/06/2021 21:24

@PinguTheLion (that's the name of one of my cats - well, Pinguthecat!

No - it's just the one Andrew Flintiff, NN Freddie

I had to google that when the PP posted it to check.

MNHQ

HebeMumsnet · 07/06/2021 10:43

We've had a few nominations for this thread to go into Classics so we'll move it there now.

Marriedatfirstyear · 09/06/2021 10:48

Where do I find the thread in classics please?

yourestandingonmyneck · 09/06/2021 11:11

@silverbubbles

I had a boyfriend in my twenties who told me that he had upset family friends when he was young. Apparently he had tipped their daughter upside down and filled her up with salt..................wtf?

I don't understand this. What did he do?