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Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

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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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EverythingisBlossom · 09/06/2021 14:47

I used to work for a company which had a lot of employee perks, like free membership of a very high-end gym and spa at a nearby luxury hotel. I used to go in the evenings when it was really quiet for a swim as I knew I would likely get the pool and hot tub to myself. One evening, I entered the changing room to find a very well dressed mother and daughter. I assumed they were guests of the hotel and using the facilities for the first time as they seemed confused. They asked me for help because they couldn't figure out how to lock their lockers. There were no keys but members and guests were given watches which were programmed for various functions including locking the locker doors - you just scanned the watch face against a sensor and it locked. I showed them how to do this but they still seemed dubious and worried about leaving their belongings. I went for my swim and didn't think anything of it.

30 minutes later, I returned to the changing room and found the same pair still sitting there. As soon as I arrived they pounced on me, saying that I had stolen the mother's shoes. I obviously denied this and was trying to be helpful, asking what had happened and had they alerted any staff. The daughter started saying that I had stolen the shoes from right under their noses while I was "tampering" with their locker, pretending to help them lock it. I reminded them that the locker had been closed the whole time and I hadn't touched it, only demonstrated the locking mechanism on my own locker. They started getting quite menacing, had me cornered and started pulling away my towel (I had just come from the showers) to "see what you've got under there". I somehow got dressed very quickly despite them both trying to grab my clothes to stop me putting them on, then they demanded that I unpack the contents of my bag to prove that the shoes were not there. I said I would gladly do this at reception in front of a staff member but not on our own, in the changing room with no one else present and no cameras. The daughter grabbed my bag anyway and tried to tip it upside down and I somehow managed to grab armfuls of my stuff and run out the door to reception where I started hysterically explaining the situation to the staff member there, while pursued by the mother and daughter who were yelling at her to call the police because I had stolen designer shoes. I was practically in tears and begged her to look through all my belongings to verify that I had no stolen shoes there (in truth I was utterly bricking it and starting to worry that they had somehow planted the shoes on me). The woman was very kind and just said, that won't be necessary and she was sorry for the trouble I'd encountered. She got another colleague to take me for a coffee to calm me down and then they gave me a voucher for a free massage plus a month pass for me to bring a friend.

They dealt with it so smoothly, as if they knew this pair and understood exactly what was going on, with no need to question me at all BUT if they were well known scammers or similar, why would they have kept up the pretence of demanding that the police were called when faced with a staff member. I have no idea what happened to them as I was led away for coffee. This was almost 18 years ago and still makes me think WTF

Marriedatfirstyear · 10/06/2021 19:34

@EverythingisBlossom, good grief, poor you. Thank goodness the staff were helpful. Weird people out there unfortunately.

FleetwoodRaincoat · 11/06/2021 20:52

The realisation that Scotland are in the Euro 2020 tournament!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 11/06/2021 20:55

Australia performing in Eurovision song contest

Ducksarenotmyfriends · 12/06/2021 07:18

I was on a bus once and an old lady got on with a large bunch of bananas. She peeled and started eating one, then started offering a bite of her banana to the people around her, stretching her arm across the aisle shoving the banana being quite lovely but insistent about it (think Mrs Doyle from Father Ted). Strangely, no one took her up on her half eaten banana offer.

DoTheNextRightThing · 12/06/2021 07:55

I was having dinner in Chesterfield a few years ago when I saw the X77 Glasgow to Ayr bus pass by the window. Just ever so slightly off course...

notsodimwit · 14/06/2021 06:40

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Alcemeg · 14/06/2021 10:07

@notsodimwit

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WTF?!

I see what you did there 🤣

notsodimwit · 14/06/2021 18:40

@Alcemeg...

eh? 🤔🤔

Alcemeg · 14/06/2021 19:20

You posted nothing but a full stop, which was a surprise that made me go "WTF" 😄 ... on a thread about unexpected things that make you go "WTF" 😉 Flowers

notsodimwit · 14/06/2021 19:40

Haha! 🤣 I didn't realise...was going to post but decided not too...don't know what went wrong 😁

Sweetpea1532 · 14/06/2021 19:40

Very clever @Alcemeg😂

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/06/2021 23:44

well we've just got back from A&E with DS4.

he came home with a swollen & bruised hand. he walked into & banged it on a door frame. they checked him out, then later he cycled home. his pinky knuckle was a bit sore initially but got more painful & swollen by the evening so I thought we'd better go & have it x-rayed in case there's possibly a hairline fracture or something.

well, he doesn't have that. he has a boxer's fracture across 3 fingers/knuckles (pinky to middle finger), he's in elbow length plaster cast & will need another x-ray in 72 hours to determine if he needs an operation 😱 WTAF???
I'm shocked.

Sweetpea1532 · 15/06/2021 00:04

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I'm sorry, but I can't let this pass without comment...
Sounds like DS4 is a "chip" off the ole blockGrin

Sweetpea1532 · 15/06/2021 00:07

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba I'm actually really sorry DS4 has gotten hurt..his injury sounds so painful.. he needs to come up with a better story as to how he actually broke his knuckles, though.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 15/06/2021 00:17

[quote Sweetpea1532]@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I'm sorry, but I can't let this pass without comment...
Sounds like DS4 is a "chip" off the ole blockGrin[/quote]
🤣

We are deciding between fighting with sand sharks or saving a baby from a fire.

Sweetpea1532 · 15/06/2021 00:33

Oh,baby in a fire, of course!
See attached photo of when DH swam into a sand shark in 6 foot deep water....everybody will know that can't be the sort of injury one gets from an encounter with a shark!

Sweetpea1532 · 15/06/2021 00:34

@AlCalavicci
I'm sure you've got something to add to this thread!Grin

ChocolateCakeYum · 16/06/2021 16:42

Loads but two stick out right now:

  1. I grew up in Canterbury. It’s a huge tourist city, insanely busy and full of posh types. One day walking to school along part of the city wall near the shops a very clean and well to do looking business man in a pin striped suit squatted down besides the local Wilkos and took a huge dump (there was a toilet less a 20 metres away). Soon a bunch of Japanese school children began passing through as I was scarpering. They thought his pooping next to the shops was hilarious and started taking pictures. After the man had finished his huge dump (no he didn’t wipe) he picked up his briefcase, took out his mobile phone and told whoever was on the other end that he’d be in the office in 5 minutes. He carried on like nothing had happened!

  2. University this time. A house mate and I were sitting in the lounge one day watching TV when this big arsed pigeon flew into the window and broke its neck. Anyway, knowing there was nothing we could do we went back to watching TV. Some time passes and we decide to check on the pigeon and it’s not there. We both proclaim it’s a miracle and the bird has come back to life via angels (usually I’m more practical and don’t believe in such nonsense, neither did she). We go outside with smiles on our faces to thank god or whatever and that’s when it hits us: it wasn’t a divine intervention that had moved the pigeon, it was a cat and they were tucking in to large snack! Not sure what came over us. We looked at each other, shrugged, laughed and went back to the TV!

PussGirl · 17/06/2021 13:33

I was once walking along a footpath flying a kite as I went - one of those small, soft pocket box-kites that fly really easily.

I'd walked for a couple of miles with it flying high, in front of me.

Suddenly I noticed a field of cows ahead, all of them gawping up at the kite, not frightened, just curious - they looked ridiculous Grin

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FuckingFabulous · 13/07/2021 10:02

Just got another one! A knock on the door. These days, it's normally Amazon or the postie dropping off something I bought on eBay. I got up and opened it. There was a woman there, who immediately said "close the door! I'm trying to take a picture." I clocked the package on the doorstep so......Ok. Thinking 'Don't knock til you've taken your picture then'. I stood by the door waiting for her to go and she didn't. Then I heard her say "JeeeeeSUS!" And she sort of yelled "you can open it now!" I did, feeing utterly bemused, and she took a photo of me in my dressing gown bending down to get the package she'd left on the doorstep. Then she turned around and stomped straight across the grass, trampling my lavender plants! There's a path! It was a very wtf moment.

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tiktoknewbie82 · 13/07/2021 10:26

@OoofBaBoof

I have so many of these!
  1. 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!
  1. 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.

  1. 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 HmmShock moment.
I really struggled reading this one, I'm just not getting most of the scenarios you listed even though I've read it through about 3 times. Maybe it's just me though. HmmBlush
undertheglassceiling · 13/07/2021 12:37

I wrote about this in a dedicated thread.

When my new boss told me he finally felt he had broken the glass ceiling. Make, white, straight, 30s. Just like every single one of the bosses who went before him.

Being passed over (once again) for a job I didn’t even know was briefly vacant - despite being more experienced and educated than he is - I was struck completely dumb by the nonsense of that comment.

He, however, was not and gushed about how proud he was of himself as he smiled from ear to ear.

undertheglassceiling · 13/07/2021 12:38

*Male, not make

BelleClapper · 13/07/2021 14:45

Last year dh and I were in a pub, I nipped out for a cig. I came back and he was in a conversation with a stranger. The stranger had approached DH and said oh, you’re Belle’s husband, I recognise you from her Facebook profile.

Turns out he was someone from a different school that I’d had a snog with when I was about 15. He’d obviously spent a fair bit of time in the last 26 years looking at my SM, I checked and we have three mutual friends, none of whom I ever interact with (old school friends).

He then stood up and totally face planted onto the floor, obviously very very drunk.

Just completely WTF.