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.

Told this before, many years ago we went to Scarborough for the day, stood looking out over north bay, Hurricane jet started swooping low over the beach and water, close to the castle. Suddenly he did a loop, but went straight into the water. Everyone just froze.
Then we met a guy taking a bear for a paddle.
Weird day.

@elp30

GUN LIST!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
brilliant

On Monday I was walking along a very wide, quiet pavement. I came to a junction and stepped to one side to press the crossing button when a very loud squeaky voice squealed "Gerrout of me way'. I jumped, stepped to the side and coming up very fast behind me was a very small, very old lady on a mobility scooter. It's lucky I moved fast because there is no way she could have stopped in time to avoid me. She was wearing a face mask so all I could see of her was a hat and and her eyes. I pressed the crossing button and as we waited I said to 'A please would have been nice'. Her eyes twitched from side to side a few times and then she gabbled 'Oh shurrup you' and took off on her scooter at breakneck speed. It was so unexpected I laughed out loud.

I saw her later whizzing round the covered market but I kept well out of her way. She might not have missed me the second time.

When I was about 12, I was in the car with my mum and sister. We came across a bloke hog tied by the side of the road wearing only his boxers! We untied him and offered him a lift but he declined. It was a birthday prank apparently.

once I set off with a friend to go to Portsmouth.
ended up in Oxford.

I took the wrong exit without realising and not being British I had no clue it didn't dawn on me until we drove for roughly right amount of time but there was no sea or signs to Portsmouth anywhere.

I worked with a well-educated woman, early 30s, who was obviously intelligent and had never been anything but normal in every way.

One day we were talking about space and how she just couldn't get her head around it at all - I get it, it's difficult to imagine. She then said she didn't think anyone had actually been to the moon - fair enough, I've known conspiracy theorists, we all have our little idiosyncrasies. But the reason she struggled to understand all of this was because she thought we live on the inner surface of a hollow planet, that we are sealed within the crust of the earth! She then did realise and accept that for her whole life she'd completely misunderstood the universe and her mind was well and truly blown!

on my wedding day while still at home my dad got a phone call that my grandma won't be able to come because she was in as bad shape.
dad was listening intently while we just stood there frozen with worry waiting to hear what on earth had happened, would she be gonna be ok or was she dying?!

then I saw my dad's face going red, he swore and slammed down the phone.

My grandma couldn't come because she went to get her hair done and her regular hairdresser had called in sick. cue her throwing a massive tantrum, calling everyone shit, storming off then calling my uncle that she wouldn't come and will have a bath instead.

[quote ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]@elp30

GUN LIST!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
brilliant[/quote]
We are carers for a sweet little 93 year old lady and she is quite open about having “A Haunting List”

@LouLou789

🤣

that remind me of the story of a very old lady who would sleep in a coffin instead of a bed just to be practical in case she died in the night

she made the news. I can't remember if it was in Hungary or England.

@roundtable
WJudging by the fact the literally didn't bat an eyelid to him actually choking next to them I doubt they did, FIL used heimlich as a last resort as between shoulder blades and hard patting on his back did absolutely nothing it was such a large ball of pasta. The boy seemed fine with his ice cream before we left but yeah, as I said I often think about him he would be in his later teens now.

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

When my dad all of a sudden started hounding my mum, outbof the blue trying to terrorise her out of her own home, and they both ended up being arrested, and my mum lived with us for 6 months from that day, and now lives in a council house. We were a pretty uneventful (for want of a better word) family until that point. It all happened so suddenly, and was a complete whirlwind that turned everyone's lives upside down.

Apologies if you've already answered this, because I am literally responding as I read through the thread, but.......did you ever find out wtf was up with your dad??

@elp30

I worked in a department of 25 people for a newspaper publisher. We all had our personality quirks but who doesn't?

One day, we were very close to a deadline but we couldn't find a particular advertisement to be included in the paper (obviously, this was the dark ages where you physically created the advertisement, got it proofread before being placed on a page to be photographed and plated). We dropped everything to look for this advertisement for at least 20 minutes. It finally dawned on us that a woman I'll call, "Ann" had gone to lunch and maybe she had the advertisement somewhere in her locked desk drawer. We had ten minutes before the deadline and Ann still had 40 minutes of lunch break so our boss took his master key and opened her desk drawer.

He just wanted to take a quick look but instead he found a very large stack of papers that were dated (this was May so it was a huge stack!) and on them had a running commentary on every single one of us and what we may have done that particular day to annoy her. She had a "numbered list" of people who were that days worst offenders. She called it her "Gun List".

One thing was really weird (as if this wasn't enough) was that one name was missing on those papers and that was "Mary" who sat next to her. However, under the stack of papers was a notebook titled, "Mary" and it was basically all the reasons she hated her and hoped something tragic would happen to her! She had one with the name of her husband too. Yikes! It was very much a WTF moment!

The advertisement was not in her drawer, btw.
Someone who was in the hall said Ann was on her way back and we all scrambled to put her desk contents back together and pretend we hadn't seen that desk of weirdness!
She came back early because the advertisement jacket with the advertisement had fallen in her handbag and she found it when looking for her purse to pay for her lunch and she knew the deadline was looming. Weirdly, we didn't seem too bothered about it and our boss thanked her for bringing it back and told her to take a full hour for lunch, no probs. The man must have been freaked because he was always in her "Top 5".

She was a quiet person who was always very nice to everyone but from that day, we all stayed well clear of her!

Fucking hell!!!

Getting a taxi to an antenatal appointment with ds1. The taxi driver started out seemingly normal, asking questions about where we were going and why etc etc, nothing out of the ordinary.
Suddenly he started talking about the new recycling laws and how pointless they were. Ok... bit weird but tolerable until he started proclaiming at the top of his lungs, ‘let’s just let the planet dieeee, that’s what we need to do! Kill the planet’. At this point his driving becomes really erratic and I start to worry.
A few minutes into his kill the planet speech and he sees a very slightly overweight woman waiting at the traffic lights. It went from bad to worse. He then started up on with, ‘Thats how we fix the planet, we eat all the fat people. Let’s just send them all to the top of a hill and roll them down, all there fat jiggling everywhere’. In between all of this he was laughing manically to himself.

I have never in my life been more excited to see a hospital and get out of the car. Me and dh have never forgotten it!

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba & @LouLou789

I lived in Texas in 1995 (when this happened), and the "concealed gun bill" was still being debated in the Texas Senate floor and was passed as law on January 1, 1996.

You can then understand that there may have been something really unnerving about that "Gun List".

The "Haunting List", I can totally get behind. 😜

[quote ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]@LouLou789

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that remind me of the story of a very old lady who would sleep in a coffin instead of a bed just to be practical in case she died in the night[/quote]
That’s brilliant!

I was friends with a religious lady. One day we were talking about a news story (a massive natural disaster in which thousands and thousands of people died) and she said it was God’s punishment for not being Christian. I asked what about the Christian people who’d died and she said it was their fault for holidaying in a non Christian country. I was gobsmacked.

Traveling in Hungary. Took a heritage train to a quaint little town where there was a traditional market going in in the square. Lots of the older women dressed in flowing skirts and loose blouses. One, carrying bags of vegetables, stopped suddenly a meter or two from me in an oddly wide stance. A few seconds later, a strong stream of urine hit the ground beneath her. She maintained her position for a moment after the flow stopped then continued on her way.
I’ve thought of her several times this year when public facilities were shut and I was considering going out and further considering whether to wear a long skirt!

One evening one of my flat mates called out to me to come look at something on tv, it was a documentary about sex fetishes and some local sex clubs. Anyway she says, wait there was a guy who works in insurance like you. She then says that’s him pointing at the tv, all I could see was some guy in a gimp mask being led around like a dog at this sex club. A few minutes later there is a shot of him talking. It was the guy I sat next to at work. He was really graphic about his fetishes, even being strung up by rings he had pierced through his body. We were in different teams but the only thing separating us was a 1inch partition. The next morning I didn’t know where to look, my computer was constantly lit up with memes by everyone else at work I didn’t know where to put my face. I’d only just gotten over coming into work after the Christmas party to find someone’s bra hanging from the light fixture above my desk.

As a student nurse 40 years ago. A woman's dh , a very professional looking guy about 50, was visiting dw and newborn.
The mum had sore nipples so was using a nipple spray before feeding.
When the baby pulled a face the df commented and the nursery nurse explained to the df that it was the taste and he should try some.
Before she could spray his hand he had leant over and licked his wife's nipple.
Nursery nurse and I gave each other a wtf look!

@Anyoldnameshoulddo

I was friends with a religious lady. One day we were talking about a news story (a massive natural disaster in which thousands and thousands of people died) and she said it was God’s punishment for not being Christian. I asked what about the Christian people who’d died and she said it was their fault for holidaying in a non Christian country. I was gobsmacked.

Omg reminds me of one. Not quite like yours. There was a little religious clique of girls in one of my jobs, all very young, sweet girls and very church orientated. One day I walked out of the ladies and there were 3 of them stood in a circle praying, I did oppss sorry didn’t mean to interrupt kind of noises and they said it’s ok, we are here praying for you. They apparently followed me to the toilets and set up a prayer vigil while I was reliving myself. I didn’t really know what to say other than, great thanks, saves me doing it 🤨

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.

@elp30

thanks for background info.
totally different light, extra wtfs awarded!