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.

@sashh

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.

I am sat in bed and seriously spat my coffee out laughing at this ! Ha ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣

@roundtable well it's better off than being dead!

I have not really had many WTF moments tbh, only one I chuckled about was a very dainty sweet little old granny who when i was doing a ECG on, had do not resuscitate tattooed across her breasts! She clocked my face and smirked!

@Hawkins001, the logical, intelligent partner you described is an abusive twat. Of course his behaviour doesn't help the relationship. It's not meant to. It's designed to make himself feel superior and to denigrate the woman.

I used to work behind a bar when i was in my early 20s. Was used to being chatted up but once this creepy man who made my skin crawl has been in a few times I would guess in his late 60s. He came in and gave me a photo of his new puppies and said his address was on the back and I could come over any time and the puppies need a mother. I was like WTF, lucky the landlord overheard and told him to stop this kind of behaviour or he would be kicked out.
Anyway about a month later I was admitted to hospital and guess who the Porter was who came to take me to x ray. I said I needed the toilet and quickly went and found a nurse who send one of the male student nurses with me. The Porter never said a word

[quote mathanxiety]@Hawkins001, the logical, intelligent partner you described is an abusive twat. Of course his behaviour doesn't help the relationship. It's not meant to. It's designed to make himself feel superior and to denigrate the woman.[/quote]
Eh?

@SteveArnottsCodeine

My husband had a barber for a couple of years who seemed normal but then one day just lost his shit at a group of kids outside hanging around. He came back in and said he hated kids and if he had his way would have them assessed aged 12 to see if they needed to be sterilised to avoid teenage pregnancies. My husband just laughed nervously and then found a new barber for his next haircut DH is a teacher too so after dropping his sterilisation bombshell the barber then started saying he didn’t know how DH did the job as kids are awful etc. Sounded totally mad.

This reminds me of my racist hairdresser. She was really good at cutting my hair but had worked in several hairdressers across town despite being young. She was telling me about her evening out and a person tried to dance with her but she hadn't noticed at first that he wasn't white. She glassed him when she realised then ran off.

She then started talking about how excited she was about her pregnant sister and the new baby as if glassing non-white people was completely normal. The hairdressers got rid of her that week.

@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.

Oh this is so sad. Did your family ever get to the bottom of why your Dad turned like this? Did things ever resolve themselves?

Sweet old lady who told me once about how she enjoyed abusing her bedridden husband after years of DA. I thought she was joking about him even if it was a bit too dark humour. She told me she got her revenge. I don't know how she meant it.

@PammieDooveOrangeJoof I have a thousand question 😂

@RedactedTaeFeck

My best friend in primary school used to wank off her dog because he liked it... We drifted apart in high school so no idea what became of her.

OMG how / why / when did you discover this?! That poor girl.

@CrazyCatsAndKittens

I know a woman whose cat only eats Dreamies. She said she tried to make him eat other cat food but he bullies her, so every month, she buys a massive box of Dreamies on Amazon and the cat had a pack morning, noon and night. I said it must cost a fortune but she played it down and said it wasn’t that much. I just thought it was utterly bonkers!

This is actually really bad for the cat as Dreamies are not a complete cat food. The cat will be missing out on essential minerals and vitamins and will potentially get very sick.

I've had a few in my time.

I used to use the M6 and M6 Toll quite a lot. I've had to stop while the police caught swans.

I once saw a car pulling a trailer with a spitfire on it, the wings had been taken off but it was definitely a spitfire.

My carer was having a nap at his place and was woken up by someone letting themselves in via the balcony. My carer lives on the fifth floor.

Apparently the visitor had jumped out of a flat higher up and managed to catch the pigeon netting on his balcony.

Years ago, living in the Middle East, we ordered a pizza for delivery. After ordering it, I said to my husband, “wouldn’t it be terrible if the delivery driver had an accident and died on the way to delivering your pizza? You’d feel guilty for the rest of your life.”

A while later, DH got a call on his mobile telling him that our pizza would be late as the delivery driver had had an accident so they had to send another pizza with another driver.

I was distraught. I decided to raise some money for the poor guy’s family then rang the pizza company to tell them. They thought it was hilarious and told me that the delivery driver was fine, had fixed his bike and was already back on the road.

My friend is quite hot on educational experiences for her kids. She travels with them, takes them to workshops, buys science kits, uses the library, and has loads of art supplies. She's very Christian; I'm an atheist.

She mentioned taking her children to our outstanding local history museum sometimes, though it was against her better judgement, just because they loved it so much. I asked what she meant about it being against her better judgement. "You know... dinosaur skeletons and stuff like that." I looked at her blankly and asked whether the kids were scared of the skeletons. She said no, her kids loved everything in the museum, but her husband didn't approve and she also felt the museum was problematic.

It took me a few more goes before I twigged that she disagreed with the museum's claims that some of their artefacts are millions of years old, when the Bible tells us that God created the Earth much more recently than that. I think her sect teach that all dinosaur fossils are fakes.

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

once I left my pushchair on the pavement; strapped kids in car, walked on the road side of the car, got in and walked off.

About an hour later I needed something from the boot, realised I left pushchair, but it was gone.
the next day I went to see a friend for coffee. halfway through our chat I mentioned about the pushchair incident.
he went:"when was this?
me: "yesterday afternoon"
him: "where and what time?"
me : "just after 3pm on xyz road, near the corner. why?"
him: "because I was walking past that spot around 3.45pm and saw two police officers checking it and putting it in their car!"

long story short I called them, yes, it was my pushchair, I picked it up the next day.
they took it as potential evidence, because an abandoned pushchair could've been connected to a child abduction case!😱

I read this wrong the first time and thought you’d left the pushchair with children still in it. I was reading the rest of the post not understanding why you were so blasé about losing your kids!

Friend swore that she remembered one year when Good Friday fell on a Saturday and then got really angry & defensive when called on it.

After a night out in Central London, I was on a night bus to Brixton. Alone. I was quite tough and used to getting around by myself in those days and not easily frightened..
But that night, I was sat downstairs of the double decker when a man in a costume got in. It was a some sort of tight military costume, red and black, as you would see the royal family wear. He had a silver sword hanging off his belt and a full black face cover on like a spiderman. Like you just wouldn't see his face at all. He also wore gloves. He stood in the middle of the downstairs bit by the back doors, clearly showing off, as if enjoying everyone being scared of him. It was about 3am and he didn't look drunk, didn't seem dishevelled or anything suggesting he was coming back from a costume party.
I was properly freaked out and thought HD might pull his sword out and decapitate someone. I think I ended up leaving the bus way before my actual stop. At 3am! In Brixton! I was that freaked out..

Daughter and I went to Thailand on a holiday. Got a taxi at the airport, knowing it was at least an hour trip to our hotel, but it was only mid-morning, so not a problem.

However, on the way the driver had to 1. drop some money off to his son 2. stop to get some fuel for the car 3. stop to get some food for himself 4. stop to get some coffee, as he hoped some caffeine would wake him up!

An hour into our trip - and google telling me we were only half-way there - I noticed his eyes starting to droop and thought "surely he's not falling asleep??" - he was - so I told him to pull over and get in the passenger seat so I could drive. AND HE DID!

Even tho I had never been to Thailand before, my daughter used Google to direct me and before we got to our hotel, he woke up and said he was good to go again!

At university I was sharing a flat with some friends who had already lived there a year or two and had one of the other girls' old room.

They'd all gone out to watch the Superbowl and I'd gone to bed. No idea what time this was, but I woke up to my bedroom door being opened. This guy walks in and lifts up the bottom of my duvet to look at my feet, before putting it back down and wandering out. I sit up thinking "WTF" and then he comes back in, stares at me without saying a word, and walks off again. I vaguely recognise him as a friend of the girl who's room it used to be, so I get out of bed and follow him.

He goes into the kitchen, straight to the sink, unzips his trousers and starts peeing. In total shock, I just left the room and went back to bed, wishing I had a lock on my door...but thankfully he didn't come back in.

The girl who's friend it is said they used to have a bit of an on-off relationship and he probably thought she was still in the same room. She was mortified about the sink. He'd always seemed nice and polite when I'd met him in the past...

...and I still have no idea how he got in.

Mine would have to be driving on a dual carriageway towards nearby countryside and a horse comes running out so I have to swerve to avoid it and break heavily. A police car then comes up chasing horse which jumps over central reservation and down the other side of road. About two minutes later same police car is hurtling down other side of road, I presume trying to catch horse though I don’t know how. I have someone from out of town in car with me who is also WTAF. Get to clients and tell them what happened only to be told oh yeah that happens quite a lot round here.

@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!

Maybe they’re talking about cloud seeding? Happens a lot in Dubai to make rain. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

@smudgemylife that reminds me of a time when we had just checked into an apartment hotel set in a beautiful nature reserve (not UK). Went upstairs and found a native bird in one of the bedrooms. Spent a while trying to coax it to the window but eventually calmed the complex manager to ask for help. He duly arrived, managed to get hold of the little bird then stunned us by breaking its neck and dropping it in the bin!!

Another M6 Toll one, I was just turning off the roundabout to go down the ramp onto the motorway, when I met a car going the other way, fortunately on the hard shoulder.

That's the second time I have encounter a car in similar circumstances, I was getting off the motorway, the car in front of me had probably got off at the wrong junction but instead of going over the road bridge turned round and started down the off road the wrong way. I was able to block the car and flash lights.

@SaskiaRembrandt

A woman I used to work always seemed really lovely, until one day as we were leaving the office she remarked, 'I hate those bastards!'. I was a bit perplexed because we were the only ones there, so asked what she meant, at which point she gestured towards a group of pigeons then ran over to them waving her arms and shouting 'fuck off, fuck off!'. This was an adult woman in a Laura Ashley dress!

My late DP and I were visiting my DS and staying in a hotel on the seafront. After a few too many ciders, DP was manhandling me back to the hotel when I announced loudly that I didn't like sigeons and peagulls. DP laughingly asked what I had said and I replied that I hated pigeons and seagulls. He then explained what I had initially said. At DPs funeral DS gave one of the eulogies and told the congregation (Baptist Chapel) a slightly watered down version of the story!

Having lunch with a visiting BiL at a central London restaurant, when across the road we saw at least half a dozen blokes, all perfectly dressed up and bewigged like Joanna Lumley in Ab Fab. There must have been a ‘Patsy’ convention somewhere - it certainly livened up our lunch!