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.

A decesed neighbour of mines son walks humans about on leads I saw his name in the paper he had been arrested

In my early 20s, hanging out in Soho opposite a stage door waiting for my friend to come and meet me. Standing there minding my own business and a guy about the same age as me walks up right to me and karate kicks at my face - his foot stopped about one inch from the side of my face - takes his foot back down and saunters off. I was like wtf just happened, looked around and no one else had seen it. That was really weird.

@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.

I wonder if that was your future self in some weird space time continuum blip?

On honeymoon, DH and I were on a trip to the jungle. One evening we were sat eating dinner with another family- silent husband, bookish child of around 10, and the wife was some sort of very eminent academic from Venezuela, very well-read and charming.

As we got stuck into our food, the MOST ENORMOUS palm-sized mega-hornet lowered itself into our vision like something from Apocalypse Now, and came to rest on the plate of the wife. It had a gigantic stinger, twitching away, probably as hideously poisonous as everything else in the jungle.

She didn't bat a eyelid, didn't even pause her conversation on Venezuelan politics or break eye contact, but plunged her fork into the creature's back and calmly and slowly sawed its head off with her steak knife. Which she then wiped on her plate and carried on eating and chatting. We were awestuck. They make 'em tough in Venezuela!

Sat on a train once at a table seat with a middle aged woman opposite me. Hadn't made any conversation, then a few hours in she rustles around in her bag, pulls out a box of tampons and smacks it down on the table in front of me looking at me in the eyes. I didn't really know what to do so I smiled awkwardly and tried to look away. The next thing I know, she is opens the box, which is not filled with tampons but a couple of sandwiches she had obviously made that morning. She proceeded to eat them, the whole time looking at me with a smirk on her face as if she wanted me to ask why she wasn't using a lunchbox

@Inaseagull

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On a train last week, and a guy sat down on opposite seat carriage, and initiates conversation (why me….!) I was polite at first until it turned out he was a rabid anti vaxxer and apparently if you have the vaccine you can put a magnet on your arm and it will stick as there is mercury in it…. Luckily he got off at the next stop as I was ….. err, wtf….

I was volunteering for my daughter’s kindergarten ( ages 5&6) class. The teacher asked me to do a little group circle where each child shared how their weekend went. This adorable little girl replied “ Well my daddy went to jail. Which is so funny as my mummy is the one who usually goes!”.

The lovely teacher took over after that. She later assured me the school was aware of the child’s family history and was keeping an eye on it.

I was working in a primary school and we had some uni student teachers in our class. One brought out a bottle of vodka from her bag and offered it around in the staff room at lunch. Another locked herself in a supply cupboard in a classroom to have a cigarette, thinking no one would notice. Both are now teachers though...

Years ago, I was living and working in Germany. The German people were very nice, all seemed very hard-working, serious and professional, not really into jokey stuff.

I walked into the bank one day, not realising it was Karneval, and honestly thought I was dreaming. They were all working as usual but it was decorated for a beach party. They were all dressed in shorts and beachwear, they had palm trees, paddling pools, sand, some of them were playing with a beach ball. My face was like this:

Having lunch in a nice place in Bristol. A couple of women come in with young children, the children are playing but quiet, women are chatting, all very normal.

Small boy climbs under the table, puts his hands backwards round a table leg and pie up, "Mummy, could you tie me up?"

Mummy just said, "not now dear" and carried on chatting to her companion.

I had a colleague, who seemed completeing rational. Normal chit chat around the office for years. He was an analyst and highly educated. It was the week after the London marathon and the weather had been rubbish in the lead up to the day but the sun had shone on the day of the marathon.
I said how lucky it was and he said "well it's not luck, it's worth too much in tourism for it to have been raining". I must have looked as confused as I felt, so he explained how the government made sure that the weather was good for big events so as not to lose out on the tourism money that the events brought in.

I went back to my desk and told another colleague what he had said...and she agreed with his point of view! She said that the govt also made sure there was good weather for William & Catherine's wedding.
I can't understand how two well educated people could think that!

Just remembered another one. My DM's cousin's daughter was getting married. We are not close, they live a long way away and hardly ever see them. My FIL saw the wedding invitation, and saw the name of the husband-to-be. He said it was strange, because years ago, when he was in the forces, he had lived in the Far East, and the little boy in the house next door to him had the same name. It turned out it was the same person.

@SailingBuddy

I had a colleague, who seemed completeing rational. Normal chit chat around the office for years. He was an analyst and highly educated. It was the week after the London marathon and the weather had been rubbish in the lead up to the day but the sun had shone on the day of the marathon. I said how lucky it was and he said "well it's not luck, it's worth too much in tourism for it to have been raining". I must have looked as confused as I felt, so he explained how the government made sure that the weather was good for big events so as not to lose out on the tourism money that the events brought in.

I went back to my desk and told another colleague what he had said...and she agreed with his point of view! She said that the govt also made sure there was good weather for William & Catherine's wedding.
I can't understand how two well educated people could think that!

Because if you research it, there have been programs that modify the weather and the tech has been in development since the world wars

Because if you research it, there have been programs that modify the weather and the tech has been in development since the world wars

I think we've found another one...

I think there's some truth in that! When we were getting married I read about the option for a cloud blaster (cost £10,000!!!) to make sure there were no rain clouds in your area.

Joining in with the bird-related wtf-ness. Both of these happened on the busy main shopping street of a large Northern city.

Similar to @smudgemylife I saw an older man sitting on a bench feeding the pigeons. Quick as a flash he reached down, grabbed one and placed it into a cardboard box at his side. Got up, walked off with the box under his arm. No one batted an eyelid.

Same street, a few months later, I wandered out from work at lunchtime to find a man sitting on a different bench, can of pop in one hand, some sort of hawk perching on the other. No one seemed to think it was at all unusual.

There is some theory behind it, but no evidence it has ever worked. I have heard the north Koreans or Russians use it so their huge parades are dry

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster

SailingBuddy

The USSR used to. sort of, do this for the May day parade.

Basically you take a plane up and throw out some powder, similar to fine sand, this makes the clouds 'heavier' so they rained in the suburbs but not on the parade.

Weather machine was in a Kate Bush video, so it must be true.

Oh God, LOADS. Def a few with totally normal people suddenly revealing themselves as massive racists :(

I'm from Oxford. One day I was going about my business and walked past the Radcliffe Camera only to suddenly be surrounded by classic cars and people dressed like they were from the 1920s. Honestly thought I'd been caught in a timeslip until I walked round the other side of the building and saw the cameras. They were filming Brideshead Revisited.

A similar thing happened to my Friend's mum. She was driving past Magdalen College and suddenly, clear as day saw Oscar Wilde and almost crashed the car. It was Stephen Fry filming Wilde. Not a camera to be seen though, he was just mooching about in costume.

My DF was in the Merchant Navy during the war and his cousin was in the Royal Navy. Some time in the early 40s he was in Hong Kong harbour and a steward approached him asking if he had a cousin in the RN as he didn't think the name was common. They had a beer together in port.

It was his cousin, they'd spent their holidays together with their grandparents in Norfolk. They spoke once on the phone about 1969 as if they'd only just seen each other, but never did again.

Another one about pigeons......
My uncle was born in rural France and during the war was in the RAF. He used to lay snares over all the aerodromes to catch rabbits and his comrades like it when he was there as they ate better. Recently, during spring a fat male pigeon seeing his reflection in the doublee glazing thought the reflection was another pigeon and flew into the window stunning itself. The same thing happened to us, we left the pigeon, it came to and flew off. The one at my uncle's wasn't so lucky. Over 90, quick as anything, he went out, wrung its neck, gutted it and put it in his freezer!

@Inaseagull I'd love if that was true!

@SailingBuddy China use weather modification already and have done for decades!

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/03/china-vows-to-boost-weather-modification-capabilities