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.

My aunt is a retired flight attendant.

On one flight a female passenger who was travelling with her young son kicked off royally at the other, male passenger in her row. She assaulted him and had to be restrained and the flight had to land to have her arrested.

The little boy was crying and the police were telling the staff how he'd have to be removed by social services when a man in the adjacent row chimed up that he was the woman's husband and child's father. And he was!

He had sat there motionless the entire time!

@Inaseagull pahhahaaa

I wished someone a happy birthday and they responded with something akin to "one year closer to heaven". For context she is in her early 30s. I asked her to elaborate and she literally meant she is counting down the years until her death and was looking forward to meeting her lord. The woman has a husband and two children and I just thought it utterly bizarre of her to think that way.

@Cowbells wear bed socks ?.

My mouth has dropped at several of these! Great thread

My 2 year old dd looked outside the window yesterday and shouted.. 'look mumma a ghost' so I replied 'oh yeah look at that' ... her reply ... 'a ghost dog, look mumma a dog and ghost dog,' she was very adamant, two of our old dogs are buried in the garden

@Inthewaysince82

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.

It might have actually been his pigeon.

My friend keeps racing pigeons and sometimes young ones go rouge and decide to party with a pack of wild ones and dont return home.

If she sees them wandering round town she can just go pick them up although usually she just removes their tag and leaves them behind because she says they are useless to race if they are going feral.

According to my DHs aunt he has committed a 'mortal sin' by marrying a non believer. We've been together 20 years, and what's more her own husband is also a non believer, they have the most hate filled, miserable marriage I've seen. Oh and Obama is a Muslim, Trump IS a good Christian man and Covid is the 'end of days' so we had better be prepared. And no, despite being a qualified nurse she hasn't had her Covid vaccine as it's 'pointless'. It's become less WTF and more 'What now' with her

A weekend away in a guest house. I was stood outside the front door prior to breakfast being served with a cup of coffee, admiring the view when another guest came out to smoke a cigarette.
She asked me if I was enjoying the weekend and I replied that I was and was she?
She replied, no not really, my husband can't get it up, he's got a dick like a lump lettuce.
To make matters worse, they were sat on the table next to us at breakfast, when her husband exclaimed ' nice sausage this '.
I could barely eat my breakfast for trying to stifle my giggles.
Who on earth announces to a perfect stranger that their husband ' can't get it up '???

@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!

If that had happened in a country where firearms were legal, I would be very scared!

Quite a few years ago a friend was on holiday in America. He went to a library to look for a certain book.

He searched for quite a while but couldn't find it, then a man appeared holding a book and said 'I think this is the one you're looking for'. It was

@StayAGhost

There was a mum on the school run that I used to chat with. Sometimes really friendly and chatty Other times a bit standoff-ish

Fair enough

One day I was chatting with her, walking down the path....then I saw her waiting with the other mums!

Yes, they were TWO separate people.

I've had this! Her twin sister used to help out with childcare and I'd be chatting away until we hit a point where she'd say "Oh, I'm not sure, you know I'm not Madeline, don't you? I'm Sue." Happened too many times! Both were lovely but sister more timid and not assertive enough to cut in as soon as it became clear I thought she was her sister.

Not my moment but a lovely little boy's moment. Ex dp used to have a wasp controller business and a neighbour asked if he could deal with a wasp nest in his eaves. So dp puts on his wasp suit and off he goes. I left with him the same time to get some shopping just to see an awestruck little boy of about 4 with his mouth wide open in dp's wake, pulling at his mums arm and squealing "Mummy its an ASTRONAUT!! A real ASTRONAUT!!!"

The look of amazement on his face still makes me smile to this day

I read a story about a man and his mother who migrated here from somewhere in Africa and lived on the same park bench for years. It was wtf because they had lots of offers of help but refused.

On the greyhound bus between LA and Vegas (in my young, less worried about being murdered days) there was a guy got on in a full smart fitted suit, teamed with plastic sliders and really dirty feet.

He kept answering the phone and chatting away, except instead of the phone it was his hand, made into a phone shape - thumb to his ear, pinkie to talk into.

We broke down for a time in the middle of the Nevada desert and knew we were going to be waiting a while for rescue, so many got off to stretch their legs and gaze at the desert that stretched around us to the horizon on all sides. Not a building to be seen. This guy wandered off and came back 10 minutes later with a takeaway McDonalds. Unless he had it concealed on his person all the time I have no idea where he got it from.

Lots of WTF's on that trip. I think about him often.

This is a great thread.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50211901

On a flight back from Prague a man next to me was dressed all in black and holding a rucksack that he opened and put between his feet. In it was a bag of iceberg lettuce (nothing else) and a book which he took out and read for the whole journey ... the book was illustrated with graphic pictures - the book was Skyjack (tells the story about crew members of a plane being hijacked)
The frequency of his toilet trips were alarming ... He never once looked me in the eye. I have never been so glad to arrive at Stansted !

A university friend told me about his best friend who insisted his girlfriend wear layers upon layers of skirts when they had sex, like 15 or 20 skirts: he liked to take them off, one by one, to get to ‘the prize’! 😂. Who would ever admit to that, best friend or not?!

Same university friend, was married, they both lived in a bed-sit type flat. They often had some creepy guy peeking through their letterbox late at night, watching ‘what they’re up to!’ Why oh why didn’t my friend do something about it?!!!

When I was at university, I lived in a shared house, we all had our own bedrooms etc. Some guy that I shared the house with (he lived there with his long-term girlfriend) used to come into my bedroom in the early hours after a night on the tiles, and say ‘hi, you’re so beautiful etc’. It used to freak me out so I put a bolt on my door and the door would often rattle early-hours with him trying to get in! He never remembered anything about it the next day, would greet me normally as a housemate etc.

I’m sure I can think of more examples...

We were travelling from an airport with friends and about to go through security checks. Random chatting as you do, and my friend ponders what you do about security scanners if you have a hook for a hand.

We proceed through security, sit down to have a coffee etc and about 20 minutes later someone comes through with a hook for a hand. I mean, seriously, what are the chances...!

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

a friend's cocker spaniel was a very fussy dog in terms of what he'd eat. he was a real pain to feed, turned up his nose at basic pet food and even certain treats.

he had, however, no problem with gobbling up a full, used condom totally out of the blue. 🤣
classic wtf moment I think!
she ended up missing a day from school to take the dog for lots of walks to catch the condom poo.
she was terrified her father would be the one finding it.

When I was a teenager I used to hide my condoms in the outside bin before bin day, and one day our Labrador stuck its head inside, got one out, and paraded round the house with it. Unfortunately my mum wanted to see what all the fuss was about and gave me "the Talk". I was mortified, that bloody dog.

When DD was 2 we used to take her for a walk through the local graveyard to see the squirrels which were plentiful. On one occasion she toddled towards a gravestone and appeared to be having a very animated conversation with herself. Nothing unusual in that, given her age. When we really listened to her she was saying, " no cry.....it be ok.....ahhhhhhh no cry......"

We found our squirrel fix elsewhere after that!

@butterpuffed

Quite a few years ago a friend was on holiday in America. He went to a library to look for a certain book.

He searched for quite a while but couldn't find it, then a man appeared holding a book and said 'I think this is the one you're looking for'. It was

Was it Derren Brown with the book?

I had an odd coincidence thing a few years ago. A new staff member and I were chatting in the office and she mentioned that her dad was adopted, but they had discovered his mother came from Scotland (as do I). They had traced her name but not contacted her or tried to. I asked where in Scotland, and it turned out to be a tiny village in the south west, which just happened to be where my mother was born and brought up. I had photos from my mum, and one of them showed this same woman sitting very close to her in a school photo. Really spooky. Sadly mum had dementia so we couldn’t ask her for any details of the mother, as she would definitely have remembered her I’m sure.

Two policemen trying to corner a large and pretty pissed off swan to get him off the main road.

Being disturbed during a snogging session in a park by a man with a litter-picker and a stocking over his head. He looked at us, said ‘ok then’ and moved on.

During a trip to Moscow I saw a couple casually having sex up against a wall on the underground platform. That was surreal.