Mum asks 'WTF just happened' after exchange with stranger at playground

"She said 'Ah, Chlamydia' to my four-year-old then just walked off."

A woman has taken to a parenting forum to recount a recent "WTF" interaction she had with a stranger in a park. 

"I was in the park with my four-year-old daughter today and she became fascinated with a ladybird she found near the path," the mum begins her post on the Mumsnet forum.

"We were standing by the side of the path as my daughter let the ladybird crawl over her arms and hands."

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The bizarre comment a stranger made in the park

At that point, a lady went past with a little kid of a similar age and was looking over, so the mum said jovially, "We've got a ladybird!"

She added, "I'm not sure why I said that really, but I felt the need to explain... upon which this woman sort of sniggered and went 'ah... Chlamydia!' and then just... went on her way."

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Since Googling it, the mum said she learned that ladybirds carry "all sorts of STIs that transmit to other ladybirds and not humans."

"So I guess that's what she meant. But at the time, I was like, 'What the actual f*ck?' Who even says that to a kid?!"

The mum then asked the forum if anyone had any other similar stories of "batsh*t interactions with strangers."

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Commenters share their strange interactions

And stories they had, with one woman sharing, "Was out with my dog and picking up her poo... a lady stopped to tell me not to bother as it would break down naturally. I was on a busy, narrow paved footpath..."

Another shared: "An elderly couple came up to me on a train and told me I was an absolutely disgraceful young woman and my mother would be ashamed, then got off. I was baffled and am still unsure to this day what I had done to deserve it."

"A few years ago I was in a coffee shop, reading on my Kindle, and a random woman spontaneously had a go at me because I had a slightly more expensive model of Kindle than she felt was acceptable. She was genuinely irritable with me for spending my own money on something she personally didn’t feel was worth it. Total stranger," a third wrote. 

But this was the worst: "I was in a sauna and a man came in, sat down and said, 'It smells a bit stale in here, is that you?' I just left."

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Originally published as Mum asks 'WTF just happened' after exchange with stranger at playground