🔍 What’s Your Weirdest Encounter with Another Woman in Public?
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Have you ever had a strange or bizarre interaction with another woman while out in public? Whether it was at work, in a shop, at a bar, or anywhere else, these encounters can range from hilarious to downright bizarre. Let’s share some stories and have a good laugh together.
### Share Your Stories!
Do you have a memorable encounter that stands out in your mind? We want to hear all about it! Here are some prompts to get you started:
1. Where did the encounter take place?
2. What made it so bizarre?
3. How did you handle the situation?
4. Did you end up laughing about it afterwards?
🤔 Don’t be shy, share your weirdest encounter with another woman in public and let’s swap stories! It’s always fun to connect over shared experiences.
This happened in January at the supermarket. Being 5’1 I do not reach the top shelves, I was waiting for the attendant to help me out when this man came from behind and picked the hair spray for me. I told him thanks, he just smiled and then this lady out of nowhere was accusing me of flirting with him. In her words she was saying lightskin women always think they could steal any man (I am not even lightskin). She was loud and it was so embarrassing. Till now I still feel offended.
I was working retail. This woman, about 20 years older than me, came into the store and started up a conversation – and she was one of those customers who wouldn’t let me escape for half an hour. She kept on asking odd personal questions, waggling her eyebrows at every answer I gave, and serving up the weirdest/most awkward innuendo I’ve ever seen or heard. It was bizarre and cringeworthy, and I had no idea what to make of her.
Finally my manager rescued me, gave me a small job to do, and reminded me it was time for my break. I needed the washroom, so I started to walk out, but this woman was still hanging around, stopped me at the door, and… legit asked if I’d like some _company_ in the washroom (with even more weird eyebrow-waggling). I was like “…uh, no, I’m good thanks?!”
I was so naive it took me about two years to realize what she was really asking, and I laughed out loud when it finally dawned on me.
Pike Place Market on my lunch break in summer 2023. Saw a topless woman skipping around, high af. She started skipping towards me and I asked if I could help her in anyway. She stopped and just intensely stared into my soul. I ripped my banh mi sandwich in half and held it up to her. She took it, plopped down on her knees and started chowing the fuck down. Then two dudes walked by and she started making sex noises and dry humping the air. Finished her sandwich and skipped away!
The weirdest was while at the gym, a woman started chatting to me which was kinda annoying because I was focussing on my workout. Then after a bit of small talk she just went on a transphobic rant, and saying how it’s annoying that tall women like us get accused of being trans, and that building muscles make people think we’re men.
I just kept trying to ignore her and wait it out until she finally moved on with her workout. It was really awkward and I was pretty scared since I am trans, I worried that she was trying to bait and scouting out to hate crime me 😬
I was out with my mom shopping, we weren’t interacting much, maybe this person watched our body language, but this lady walked up towards me and my mom and was telling me – super out of breath, she said she followed my aura or whatever? – that pretty much to get away from my family. They were so abusive etc, my mom was never going to accept me love me validated me properly, she’s never going to like the men I date etc. that I would do better not being around them.
My mom and I just stood there stunned.
A couple years ago when I was 19, I worked as a cashier. I start ringing out a middle aged woman and she randomly asks me if I’m married. I’m kinda surprised since I’m only 19 and look like I’m 16 but I figured maybe I reminded her of someone, so I laughed and said no.
She then got really excited and started talking about what a great match I’d make for her 24 year old son (who wasn’t even there btw). She went on and on about what a great wife and mother I’d make and how much her son would love me and how I was just his type. She didn’t seem to care what I wanted nor whether or not I’d like her son though lmao.
I was so stunned I didn’t even know what to say so I just awkwardly laughed and was trying to ring up her stuff as fast as possible. She started trying to get my phone number so she could have her son call me, but luckily by this point my manager had realized how uncomfortable I looked and walked over and whisked the woman out the door. She called over her shoulder that she was going to bring her son in to meet me in a few days. Luckily I never saw that woman again haha.
Once after work, was waiting to cross the road and it had so much traffic. A random girl came to me and she was also staying to cross the road, outta nowhere she held my hand and dragged me across the road laughing. Then she just said bye and left walking to the opposite direction.
I once had a co-worker (who I barely knew) tell me completely unprompted that I looked athletic and like I would be a good sculptor. I am neither of those things.
I volunteered in a charity shop when I was 16 on a Saturday morning. There was an older lady who came in at the same time every week when I was working. She was always perfectly polite to my colleague but always seemed to be a bit cold to me, never made any kind of conversation if I served her at the till.
All was fine and normal until one day she walks into the shop, doing her normal browse around. I was tidying one of the racks she was looking through and we make eye contact and I smile.
Out of nowhere she shouts “I’ve had enough of you laughing at me, you are impertinent!” The rant went on for a while but my 16 year old introverted brain pretty much shut down in embarrassment. She announced on her way out she would not be shopping there ever again.
She was back the next week like absolutely nothing happened. Bizarre.
i work at a salad restaraunt. this perfectly nice woman declined a seasoning after learning it was from china because she “didn’t want nanobots in her food.”
also, at breakfast today, i witnessed a woman telling her ten-year-old male companion “my peace? is not for sale,” “like, if you hate me just say that—i would rather you say you hated me than be FAKE,” “everything i do has deep symbolism,” and other podcast-sounding things. i fear the boy will never recover.
and yes, i am in southern california.
Not directly to me but to my mom who was with me. We were at the grocery store when an old lady approached us and just stared my mom down she then says “I don’t know why but something tells me I’m supposed to hug you” and immediately pulls my mom into a huge hug. Weird but my mom hugged her back and when they let go the lady just walked off. Mom then starts sobbing. She says she felt like she was saying goodbye to her godmother. Later in the day we found out that her godmother had died that morning.
So, there I am in a Paris restaurant close to midnight, doing my usual friendly thing of smiling at strangers. Most people smile back, right? Not this American lady a few tables away. First, she hits me with a stern “Do we have an issue?” as her dinner arrives. Totally confused, I assure her we don’t. A little while later, our eyes meet again. I smile; she attempts one, but then frowns and snaps, “Do we have an issue?” I’m puzzled but again say no. She insists, “We do,” declaring my smiling super weird and very un-French. I’m like, “Well, I’m not French, but okay…?” And she goes, “You give me Russian vibes.” Just what?! My husband managed to smooth things over with her friend, they even clinked glasses, but I spent the rest of the night avoiding eye contact and overhearing her rant about how weird I am.
During the height of the pandemic, I walked into a grocery store I had never been to as a woman was walking out. I held the door open for her, she thanked me. Then I actually got a good look at her.
Instead of a face mask, she had a pair of little boys underwear over her face. And her eyes were poking out of the leg holes. She looked so incredibly ridiculous, but it felt like it would be weirder to say anything, so I just went in to find a bathroom so I could get the hell out of that city.
At the time, my family lived in the Southern part of the states at the time, in a big city. By this time, I’d been repeatedly told how my ‘Yankee’ habits were rude (not saying “yes ma’m/sir” etc.). So I had been breaking other rules I’d learned in Chicago and Brooklyn: don’t make eye contact with strangers.
I was at a Starbucks doing some studying when I broke this rule. While waiting for my drink, I met the eyes of a random very thin maybe pregnant (large round protruding stomach) lady in a super thin body con dress. She immediately started making deep conversation about her baby, her dreams for the kid, plans for the nursery, etc etc.
I just kinda nodded and hummed along. She seemed a little odd, with her eyes jumping around, especially with her outfit but I thought it was just the heat or maybe a fashion thing.
It was not. As she continued to talk, it became obvious she wasn’t all there when it devolved into a government conspiracy where the local NASA base had stolen her baby and incubated her with an alien fetus.
Definitely taught me not to keep trying to be polite by smiling when I made random eye contact with strangers.
I was at a bar with my ex. I picked a few songs on the jukebox, and we just sat talking.
When Careless Whisper came on, this lady yelled “WHO PLAYED THIS SONG??”
I said it was me, and she said she was going to kick my ass. We laughed about it, then I went to the bathroom. She followed me, and was stopped by my ex as she walked in. She was literally going to kick my ass. lol
She really hated that song.
I was getting rung up by a woman at a large department store and she randomly started telling me that she had a large mass in her abdomen that turned out to be her own twin, it had teeth, hair, bones and a partially formed face and body. She probably just needed someone to talk to because she was traumatized, but I was like 16 at the time and didn’t know how to help other than just say wow that’s crazy!
I was walking around my college campus when someone came up to me and said “omg curryp4n! It’s really you! How have you been?? Anyway let’s get together soon.” It’s been 10 years, I still have no idea who she is and I never saw her again.
A few years ago before I met my amazing husband and got married. I was at a fancy after work bar with some friends for a company thing. I’m a brown woman, average height, have been told I’m extremely attractive. Anyway, I was getting a lot of attention from the men. Talking, chatting blah blah blah. This tall, modelish looking blonde white woman, who was clearly watching and hating all night, comes up to me, looks down and says “why are you even here? You don’t belong here, go back to where you came from” some folks near me heard and made a stink. She left. The entitlement and audacity of some white women toward woc.
It happened at work for me. It was my first job at 17 on a call center, and we were going through training at the time. This happened 11 years ago now.
They had us build a fake product, and we made a silly party package that included food and whatnot we were meant to try and sell it to fake clients who were played by other coworkers. For some reason, the names and contents that were put in our product were wildly misogynistic. I thought it would be funny if we did the same, but for women, just a lot of silly party names aimed to make us laugh, you know?
She flew off the handle, man. She went into a misogynistic rant about how women will never want these ‘impure’ services and that this fake product was aimed at men only, that women will never be the same as men and we would never be equal and only inferior.
It threw me off guard super hard. I only stared at her in silence and said, “Okay? Nobody asked, ”
She stayed quiet in her seat, fuming after that
The rest of the group also heard what she said, and when we were presenting out product, some of the women raised their hand to say they were interested in the same packages we had but aimed at women.
My coworker huffed and crossed her arms and never said anything again for the rest of the training. It still shocks until today. The rant was so out of place, and she was a very well-educated girl, the same age as me, who was studying robotics of all things.
A girl once asked if she could touch my eyelashes. I refused ofc.
we were kids, but still idk it just made me uncomfortable.
I was 13 eating lunch with my little sister, dad, and stepmom at some little restaurant. At that time I was learning how to do makeup and honestly I was getting good at it but I was probably wearing a little much. In the middle of eating, some lady who was probably like 45 comes stomping up to us, points at me and says “how old are you?” I said “13..” she throws her hands in the air and stomps away saying “kids these days look too fuckin old for their age”. Everyone at the table just froze bc wtf was that?? I still have no idea why she felt the need to do that. It sure was embarrassing for me though.
I was only 23 at the time but I went to a bar for Halloween night. I was separated from my friends but I danced with another girl. She kept saying I was so beautiful, holding my hands, and pulling me in for a kiss. I would have enjoyed myself (she was really cute) if it weren’t for her boyfriend holding her waist while we were dancing and staring at me with this slight smirk. I think I almost got strung in a 3P because they were guiding me towards the exit. Fortunately some friends pulled me away, I sobered up real quick
I have a big tiger sleeve on my thigh. I was at a bar with my friend, we were sitting bar rail and drinking. This drunk middle age woman comes up and just starts petting my thigh saying “good kitty”.
She was genuinely surprised when I turned and looked at her. She jumped, said “oh” and walked away.
So, I barely get to see my sister as we both stay in different countries.
This year I was able to finally save up enough and take some days off from work to go see her.
I was waiting at the airport When her friend came to pick me up whom id never met. With a lot of convincing I left with her and reached my sister’s place. My sister had left a message for me saying it was a boyfriends birthday so she was out for that and didn’t show up for three days. Now this whole country was new to me and I didn’t even know where to buy basic grocery items from.
But obviously one has to figure these things out. Her friend was there to help.
On the third day, when she returned she told me that we are having a barbecue for her friends and that’s a good way to introduce me to her group. The only problem was my sister only bought alcohol. So I went shopping and made the food while she sat in her room. Her boyfriend and friend taught me what and how a barbecue is done.
While doing so we all got along well, meanwhile my sister had fallen asleep in her room. As the guests arrived, we all got to talking and got along pretty well.
Every five minutes I would go up to her room and knock but she wouldn’t respond. When everybody started getting chatty and the volume increased, my sister came stomping in.
She was absolutely mad at me for trying to seduce her boyfriend and at her group for not stopping me . She made a big ruckus and told me I had to leave.
The whole attitude of the barbecue changed.
Was in Costco with my fiance and nephew. We sat down to eat some cheap hotdogs. Anyhow, a woman came up with a creepy wicked smile and asked how I was. I asked her if I knew her and she didn’t say anything. Then she started snapping the straps on the back of my dress and I told her to stop touching me. My fiance and nephew were confused. They thought maybe I knew her. The entire time throughout the altercation, she had this large creepy smile spread across her face. I finally stood up and told her to get the fuck away from me. She said “well that’s what I get I guess” and walked off.
Scared the shit out of me
I was about 25 or 26 hanging out at a local bar with friends. Two older women in their 50s and 60s sat at our table and had some drinks. One woman glared at me up and down and said “must be nice to be young. Bet your boyfriend doesn’t get Whiskey Dick, does he? He actually fucks you,” and I just sat there not knowing what to say. She was obviously bitter at her age and angry that I was young. She brought up my age several times that evening, telling me “just wait until you’re old. Men won’t even look at you anymore.” And I’m like lady I’ve been SA’d by multiple men since I was a kid, I can’t wait for them to stop looking at me.
I went to see a local theatre production of *Waiting for Godot*, which (if you don’t know) is an absurdist comedy.
I kept laughing when things in the play were funny, as one does when seeing a comedy, and the woman in the row ahead of me kept turning around to look at me judgmentally whenever I laughed. It was really weird.
Then, at intermission, she *came up to me* and said something like (sarcastically) “You sure seemed to be enjoying yourself!” and I just smiled brightly and said, “Yep, it’s such a funny play!”
She and her friend left at intermission and didn’t stay for the second half. lol 😆
I saw my boss staring at me out of the corner of my eye, and then when I made eye contact said, “I bet you were insecure as a teenager”. It was so bizarre and out of nowhere that I just had to laugh. It was in front of a good number of colleagues, too!
I used to play roller derby in the early 2000’s and there was this chick that would come to our bouts and get all riled up. She would always go to the after parties and be drunk and try to pick a fight with me. It was so so bizarre. She went from super fan 🤩 to scary 👺 several times! I always wonder about her—was she jealous? Attracted to me? What the fuck was up with that?
I worked in a popular bedding store in Australia. This older Irish lady came in one day and asked for my help, she was extremely drunk. She said her sister at home in Ireland had died and so she’d gone to the pub and drank all her money away and didn’t know how to get home. She was in tears. So I took her to the taxi rank, felt assured she could give directions to the cabbie and gave her $20 to get home. I assumed she was an alcoholic but at least home safe?
Next day, I’m back work and she comes in. She hands me back $20.00 and thanks me, says she learned her sister had died and had in fact drunk all her cash away.
She apologised but was very matter of fact about it.
I still appreciate you can be an older person, who seemingly has their shit together, but everyone now and then, life throws you a tragic curve ball and you end up spending all your money at the pub. And it is possible to pick yourself back up and repay people with dignity.