What's the weirdest thing to happen to you in public?

[Xeen]

Weeelll? And I don't mean any kinda paranormal phenomenon type stuff. :-p

I think the weirdest thing that's happened to me in public actually took place quite a few years ago. I was with my dad at Fred Myers (just a regular ol' department type store). I was waiting on a bench infront of pharmacy for my dad to get done dealing his drugs stuff there. There was an older guy sitting on another bench that was next to me. He's sitting there... sitting there... suddenly he starts laughing, quietly.

I think nothing of it, thinking he saw something funny in a newspaper or was talking on a cellphone- whatever. Then he starts laughing louder and louder. I look up at him kind of at random, then he gets up GRABS my damn ARM and start shaking it and laughing at me/in my face. He does this for a few moments, then sits back down, STILL laughing, but quieting it down some.

This scared the livin' spit outta me (one reason why I don't get along well in public, I reckon'). There were maybe 3 or 4 people standing around but not one person noticed this man come up to this kid, grab her arm, shaking her and laughing at her. Not even my dad did anything about it O.o

As we were walking away (me, at a steady half-run), my dad said, jokingly, something along the lines of "He must have been laughing at how pale you are compared to him". He was a very dark black man and I was and always have been rather pale, so I've been picked on a little by the family for my paleness.

I don't know why I just started thinking about that just now, but I wanted to know if anybody else out there has been weirded out like that.

[Boogins]

... having two little old ladies run after me while I was walking Derby Street on a visit to Salem so they could have their pictures taken with a "real, live witch". I didn't have the heart to tell them I didn't live there. :bigredblu

[Xeen]

... having two little old ladies run after me while I was walking Derby Street on a visit to Salem so they could have their pictures taken with a "real, live witch". I didn't have the heart to tell them I didn't live there. :bigredblu
LOL! That's priceless. Did they get their pic? And how did they know you're a "real live witch"? You've got me curious now ^-^

[Yasmine Galenorn]

Oh gods, why am I telling you this?

Okay, went to a nude beach to hang with some other pagans (maybe that's not the best word for it *coughs*). We decided to tromp through the woods to this farmer's land where there was a boggy area and go 'mudding'...uh, IOW: go rub mud all over each other. We get there, get all muddied up, and then head back for the beach to go wash off. We stick twigs and leaves to our muddy bodies as we head back through the woods. I stop for a moment and end up getting separated from the group I was with. As I head toward the beach by myself, these two little old ladies popped out of one trail. They had missed the 'nude beach' boundary signs (by their obvious surprise), and now found themselves facing one very-round, long haired, woman covered with mud and leaves and twigs, wearing only a pair of boots (hey, the ground was covered with sticks and in some places, stickers).


:collapse: :collapse: :collapse:

Oh man, I had NO idea what to say. THEY obviously had no idea, either. Finally I just gave them a big smile and said, "Have a GREAT day!" and marched onward to the water. They stammered a 'thank you' and turned around...

I can just imagine what they had to tell their friends--I think it was more traumatic for them rather than me! :lol: :lol: :lol:

(and by the way, I ended up with 75 mosquito bites that day, that was the LAST time I did that!)

Yasmine :colorful:

[Radocs]

On my way to work one day, a month or two ago, I got into two accidents just trying to get there on the highway.
I got run off the road and into about 3 feet of snow... AAA drags me out, I make it about 20 yards down the road and get rear-ended. The AAA guy just pulled up and drug me out again.

Really bizzare.

[Klucky]

This may come as a shock, but I can't think of anything offhand right now!

I'll give you a raincheck on this...;)

-Klucky

[Boogins]

Oh gods, why am I telling you this?

Okay, went to a nude beach to hang with some other pagans (maybe that's not the best word for it *coughs*). We decided to tromp through the woods to this farmer's land where there was a boggy area and go 'mudding'...uh, IOW: go rub mud all over each other. We get there, get all muddied up, and then head back for the beach to go wash off. We stick twigs and leaves to our muddy bodies as we head back through the woods. I stop for a moment and end up getting separated from the group I was with. As I head toward the beach by myself, these two little old ladies popped out of one trail. They had missed the 'nude beach' boundary signs (by their obvious surprise), and now found themselves facing one very-round, long haired, woman covered with mud and leaves and twigs, wearing only a pair of boots (hey, the ground was covered with sticks and in some places, stickers).


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Oh man, I had NO idea what to say. THEY obviously had no idea, either. Finally I just gave them a big smile and said, "Have a GREAT day!" and marched onward to the water. They stammered a 'thank you' and turned around...

I can just imagine what they had to tell their friends--I think it was more traumatic for them rather than me! :lol: :lol: :lol:

(and by the way, I ended up with 75 mosquito bites that day, that was the LAST time I did that!)

Yasmine :colorful:

I have to admit... that's hilarious.

[Yasmine Galenorn]

I have to admit... that's hilarious.

Now it is, then it was...itchy and...well, yeah, it was funny, but very strange. Luckily, I'm not all that shy.

I've had bad weird and funny weird and I MUCH prefer the funny, even if it does come with the price of a little of my dignity! LOL...I wonder if they remember me even now, like I remember them? Talk about meeting a strange woman in the woods.... :)

Yasmine :colorful:

[Klucky]

Luckily, I'm not all that shy.

Obviously. :)

-Klucky

[Yasmine Galenorn]

Obviously. :)

-Klucky


HEY.... :lol: Just cuz I'm not above making a fool of myself....

~evil grin~ Hey, want some chicken wings for dinner, Klucky? ~grins~ Hmmm....BBQ sounds good.... :dinnertim

~Yasmine~ :colorful:

[~*Ginger*~]

ummm, ok...

I was with a friend, we were all 'dressed' up.

I always wear my panties on the outside of my panty hose, cause I figure they help hold them up...

Well, we're walking along, and my backside feels like somethings rubbing it, so naturally I reach arond to feel my butt, nothing there...um nothing wrong.

It seems.

So we're still walking...

All of a sudden, I feel something at my ankles.

I look down, turn crimson, step out of the right side panty leg & kick to the left, my panties that have slipped down and fallen on the ground at my feet, into the scrubs along the side walk.
They totally disappear from site...

She asked, 'what was that'?
Me: Nothing.

We keep walking...

[Yasmine Galenorn]

ummm, ok...

I was with a friend, we were all 'dressed' up.

I always wear my panties on the outside of my panty hose, cause I figure they help hold them up...

Well, we're walking along, and my backside feels like somethings rubbing it, so naturally I reach arond to feel my butt, nothing there...um nothing wrong.

It seems.

So we're still walking...

All of a sudden, I feel something at my ankles.

I look down, turn crimson, step out of the right side panty leg & kick to the left, my panties that have slipped down and fallen on the ground at my feet, into the scrubs along the side walk.
They totally disappear from site...

She asked, 'what was that'?
Me: Nothing.

We keep walking...

Doesn't it help to know that we've all had really blush-inducing things happen to us? :bigredblu

Yasmine :colorful:

[Xeen]

Geez, Yas... I think I laughed my tail off reading that LOL

And, Radocs, that -IS- really strange O.o
I woulda been embarassed :)

[Xeen]

She asked, 'what was that'?
Me: Nothing.

We keep walking...
Heheheh... I love that "We keep walking..." bit. Did you go back to get your undies back? ^-^

[~*Ginger*~]

Doesn't it help to know that we've all had really blush-inducing things happen to us? :bigredblu

Yasmine :colorful:

For real!
Of course I have a strange sense of humor, so everyone wondered what I was laughing and giggling about all night long!

[~*Ginger*~]

Heheheh... I love that "We keep walking..." bit. Did you go back to get your undies back? ^-^


*cackles*
*shakes head*

[Rose Sunny Rionach]

Hmmm.. I think the weidest public experience I ever had was when I was a little kid of about 4 and my mom used to work at this nursing center. She used to take me to work with her. So one day, I'm just walking around minding my own business and this old lady in a wheel chair keeps following me. So I turn a few corners, take a few detours and she's still right on my heels. So, I'm pretty much freaking out now and I take off in a dead run and the woman just totally hauls booty in the wheel chair after me, the whole time she's laughing. This goes on for several minutes until finally I turn around and no ones there. No sign of her. Later I found out my mom had saw it and has been cracking up about it. Scared the hell out of me and Mom didn't do anything about it. Now, I try to stay away from nursing centers... still freaks me out.

[Nitefalle]

The year I went to U. of Denver, I noticed there was an older (middle aged) man who wandered around campus with some pretty hefty science books. I always just figured he was an older student, maybe even professor...well, one day I was walking towards the science building and he was walking away from it and as I pass him, I hear him muttering...."Did you take a shower today? Wash your testicles!" I did a triple take and was too shocked to laugh at first. I kept looking around to see if anyone else around me had heard him. He just kept muttering to himself and walking along the sidewalk, so I guess he's not a teacher, huh?

The other one is at my old grocery store where I worked, there was a very very large man who thought he was a Prophet. I think he was a delusional schizophrenic because he would talk to people that weren't there. He always came in once a month with his tiny 80 year old mother and they would buy TONS of groceries and he would try and give us his "writings" (weird photocopies from the paper with his weird writing all over it). Anyway, one day I was checking them out and he stood RIGHT on the other side of my little monitor, staring at me...his face was about a foot away from mine, literally. I could feel him watching me and was so creeped out, I just kept my head down and kept ringing, feeling like a trapped little animal someone was about to eat. Thankfully, after about five minutes, he got bored or something and finally moved away. THAT was weird!!!!

~N~

[Boogins]

LOL! That's priceless. Did they get their pic? And how did they know you're a "real live witch"? You've got me curious now ^-^

Must have been my pentacle, Aynjelah. And yes, they got some poor tourist to snap a picture of the three of us!

[dragonkin]

Hmmm, I think the weirdest thing that ever happened was when I was around 23. We were throwing a big birthday party for a friend who was turning 21 and had rented a banquet hall at a local motel. We decided it would be funny if we all wore trench coats and when we walked in yell "Happy Birthday" and flash him. I show up, go to the banquet room doors, fling them open, pull open my trench coat and yell "Happy Birthday". Welllll, I had gone into the wrong banquet room and had just flashed some poor guys 80something birthday party. There were only about 3 people in the room under 40. I said "oops wrong room, happy birthday!" and left real fast.

[Calyx]

Hmmm, I think the weirdest thing that ever happened was when I was around 23. We were throwing a big birthday party for a friend who was turning 21 and had rented a banquet hall at a local motel. We decided it would be funny if we all wore trench coats and when we walked in yell "Happy Birthday" and flash him. I show up, go to the banquet room doors, fling them open, pull open my trench coat and yell "Happy Birthday". Welllll, I had gone into the wrong banquet room and had just flashed some poor guys 80something birthday party. There were only about 3 people in the room under 40. I said "oops wrong room, happy birthday!" and left real fast.

Thanks for making me bust out laughing this morning, DK! I just about sprayed orange pulp all over my monitor! :lol:

[Yasmine Galenorn]

Hmmm, I think the weirdest thing that ever happened was when I was around 23. We were throwing a big birthday party for a friend who was turning 21 and had rented a banquet hall at a local motel. We decided it would be funny if we all wore trench coats and when we walked in yell "Happy Birthday" and flash him. I show up, go to the banquet room doors, fling them open, pull open my trench coat and yell "Happy Birthday". Welllll, I had gone into the wrong banquet room and had just flashed some poor guys 80something birthday party. There were only about 3 people in the room under 40. I said "oops wrong room, happy birthday!" and left real fast.


ROFLMAO...okay, now *I* can laugh at somebody else instead of just blushing! Hee hee...too funny! :lol:

Yasmine :colorful:

[Ben Trismegistus]

This is your standard New York moment. It's the first thing that comes to mind.

I moved to New York when I was 22, and after living here for maybe 6 months, I was getting my lunch in an Au Bon Pain, when who should walk by the window but Jesus Christ.

White robe, sandals, crown of thorns, and dragging a cross. But here's the kicker: no one wants to be dragging a cross through the streets of New York at midday, so, ingeniously, he had wheels at the bottom of the cross. Pretty good thinking, I thought.

Now, here's what makes it a true New York moment - I was the only one who reacted. Other people in the restaurant looked up, noticed Jesus, and looked back down at their meals. Just another day in New York City.

[Yasmine Galenorn]

This is your standard New York moment. It's the first thing that comes to mind.

I moved to New York when I was 22, and after living here for maybe 6 months, I was getting my lunch in an Au Bon Pain, when who should walk by the window but Jesus Christ.

White robe, sandals, crown of thorns, and dragging a cross. But here's the kicker: no one wants to be dragging a cross through the streets of New York at midday, so, ingeniously, he had wheels at the bottom of the cross. Pretty good thinking, I thought.

Now, here's what makes it a true New York moment - I was the only one who reacted. Other people in the restaurant looked up, noticed Jesus, and looked back down at their meals. Just another day in New York City.

I think the Jesus-guy gets around...we had one when I lived in Olympia (WA), he used to wander around town dragging a cross...don't think he'd figured out the wheels part of it though.

Yasmine :colorful:

[Ouroboros]

This is your standard New York moment. It's the first thing that comes to mind.

I moved to New York when I was 22, and after living here for maybe 6 months, I was getting my lunch in an Au Bon Pain, when who should walk by the window but Jesus Christ.

White robe, sandals, crown of thorns, and dragging a cross. But here's the kicker: no one wants to be dragging a cross through the streets of New York at midday, so, ingeniously, he had wheels at the bottom of the cross. Pretty good thinking, I thought.

Now, here's what makes it a true New York moment - I was the only one who reacted. Other people in the restaurant looked up, noticed Jesus, and looked back down at their meals. Just another day in New York City.

what the...Ben you certainly are a weirdo, what's wrong with Jesus wheeling a crucifix down the streets of manhattan?

Have you even been in manhattan at night? lol - the freaks certainly come out then.
crap I'm one of em!

:X

[Ouroboros]

here's a freaky place I check out once in a blue in manhattan, sure it's weirder than jesus strolling down the street : http://www.vampirefreaks.com/pics/batcave/

[Avalon]

I actually have a picture of Jesus Guy somewhere, Ben. He was right outside our bus when we went to see Rocky Horror Live. :D

[Ouroboros]

I actually have a picture of Jesus Guy somewhere, Ben. He was right outside our bus when we went to see Rocky Horror Live. :D

:lol:

[Sowelu]

here's a freaky place I check out once in a blue in manhattan, sure it's weirder than jesus strolling down the street : http://www.vampirefreaks.com/pics/batcave/
Awwwwww Ouro...you really DO like that Blues Clues backpack I got you for your birthday!!!!
:lol: :smoke: ;)

[Antoninus]

Hmmm, the WIERDEST thing? The wierdest thing ive ever SEEN was about a year ago. Theres a guy who lives down the street, REAL nutjob, he used to work for a fireworks company. Anyways me and a couple friends were hanging out infront of someone's house on the lawn, the guy's house was about 2 houses down on the other side of the street. It was a warm night, not too much action. The guy opens his garage door, not a real eye-grabber. After about maybe...20 minnutes, we saw a little light from the garage and it looked like a flame. We didnt get too excited about it, the guy's job used to be pyrotechnics so we figgured he was testing a home-made batch. 5 seconds later, this HUGE sheet of flames just BLASTS out of his garage, it got pretty far, didnt last very long but DAMN it was cool. We jumped up and ran over to his house, the whole inside of his garage was black and there was half a wooden table against one wall. He built a metal blast-box in the far corner of the room and he came out of that and he just yelled "IT WORKED!!! IT F***ING WORKED!!" We were like "ooook...exit stage left...." I think all those years of working with chemicals has kinda warped the upstairs woodwork.

[Sowelu]

Hmmm, the WIERDEST thing? The wierdest thing ive ever SEEN was about a year ago. Theres a guy who lives down the street, REAL nutjob, he used to work for a fireworks company. Anyways me and a couple friends were hanging out infront of someone's house on the lawn, the guy's house was about 2 houses down on the other side of the street. It was a warm night, not too much action. The guy opens his garage door, not a real eye-grabber. After about maybe...20 minnutes, we saw a little light from the garage and it looked like a flame. We didnt get too excited about it, the guy's job used to be pyrotechnics so we figgured he was testing a home-made batch. 5 seconds later, this HUGE sheet of flames just BLASTS out of his garage, it got pretty far, didnt last very long but DAMN it was cool. We jumped up and ran over to his house, the whole inside of his garage was black and there was half a wooden table against one wall. He built a metal blast-box in the far corner of the room and he came out of that and he just yelled "IT WORKED!!! IT F***ING WORKED!!" We were like "ooook...exit stage left...." I think all those years of working with chemicals has kinda warped the upstairs woodwork.
Man, I bet that kinda "blew" you away eh????:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Ok, no more coffee for me this morning.

[Xeen]

Hmmm.. I think the weidest public experience I ever had was when I was a little kid of about 4 and my mom used to work at this nursing center. She used to take me to work with her. So one day, I'm just walking around minding my own business and this old lady in a wheel chair keeps following me. So I turn a few corners, take a few detours and she's still right on my heels. So, I'm pretty much freaking out now and I take off in a dead run and the woman just totally hauls booty in the wheel chair after me, the whole time she's laughing. This goes on for several minutes until finally I turn around and no ones there. No sign of her. Later I found out my mom had saw it and has been cracking up about it. Scared the hell out of me and Mom didn't do anything about it. Now, I try to stay away from nursing centers... still freaks me out.
Spooooky O.O

[Xeen]

Did you take a shower today? Wash your testicles!"

Thankfully, after about five minutes, he got bored or something and finally moved away. THAT was weird!!!!

~N~
Gives me the giggles AND the willies. :hehehehe: :spaceman:

[Xeen]

Hmmm, I think the weirdest thing that ever happened was when I was around 23. We were throwing a big birthday party for a friend who was turning 21 and had rented a banquet hall at a local motel. We decided it would be funny if we all wore trench coats and when we walked in yell "Happy Birthday" and flash him. I show up, go to the banquet room doors, fling them open, pull open my trench coat and yell "Happy Birthday". Welllll, I had gone into the wrong banquet room and had just flashed some poor guys 80something birthday party. There were only about 3 people in the room under 40. I said "oops wrong room, happy birthday!" and left real fast.
Oh my. I would have fainted from embarassment ^-^

[Ouroboros]

Awwwwww Ouro...you really DO like that Blues Clues backpack I got you for your birthday!!!!
:lol: :smoke: ;)

:X

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Hey here's somethin weird I can share. My brother, his friend, and my ex and I were at Jones Beach here on Long Island, NY. It was pretty crowded on the boardwalk, we were close to the lifeguard chair by the beach shore alone, and my brother and his friend lit a joint.

I looked straight up into the sky, nighttime, lots of stars, was gettin sentimental about it and the like and all of a sudden I saw what appeared to be a shooting star - so I point up and say "Hey! Look a..." and with that the shooting star slowed down and started to zig zag about.

I sorta couldn't comprehend what in blazes I was watching at first. Everyone was looking at me wondering why I'm so exasperated. The zig zagging slowed down, and the blip of light started slowly travelling north west sort of blending almost with the other stars in the sky.

I pointed it out, explained what happened, my brother and his friend couldn't see it, but my ex saw it slowly moving after a while and explained it looked like a satellite or like a plane that was really high up but without blinky red or blue lights. From the speed of the thing on arrival, I'm just going to assume it was a UFO. It didn't blaze in like a shooting star, and it was sailing from the north west sky to where I was viewing directly at Zenith in under a second.

[Xeen]

This is your standard New York moment. It's the first thing that comes to mind.

I moved to New York when I was 22, and after living here for maybe 6 months, I was getting my lunch in an Au Bon Pain, when who should walk by the window but Jesus Christ.

White robe, sandals, crown of thorns, and dragging a cross. But here's the kicker: no one wants to be dragging a cross through the streets of New York at midday, so, ingeniously, he had wheels at the bottom of the cross. Pretty good thinking, I thought.

Now, here's what makes it a true New York moment - I was the only one who reacted. Other people in the restaurant looked up, noticed Jesus, and looked back down at their meals. Just another day in New York City.
Whoa. I'm tempted to visit, now.:colorful:

[Xeen]

here's a freaky place I check out once in a blue in manhattan, sure it's weirder than jesus strolling down the street : http://www.vampirefreaks.com/pics/batcave/
I'd have to say the Jesus guy is weirder. *nodnodnod*

[Xeen]

:X

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Hey here's somethin weird I can share. My brother, his friend, and my ex and I were at Jones Beach here on Long Island, NY. It was pretty crowded on the boardwalk, we were close to the lifeguard chair by the beach shore alone, and my brother and his friend lit a joint.

I looked straight up into the sky, nighttime, lots of stars, was gettin sentimental about it and the like and all of a sudden I saw what appeared to be a shooting star - so I point up and say "Hey! Look a..." and with that the shooting star slowed down and started to zig zag about.

I sorta couldn't comprehend what in blazes I was watching at first. Everyone was looking at me wondering why I'm so exasperated. The zig zagging slowed down, and the blip of light started slowly travelling north west sort of blending almost with the other stars in the sky.

I pointed it out, explained what happened, my brother and his friend couldn't see it, but my ex saw it slowly moving after a while and explained it looked like a satellite or like a plane that was really high up but without blinky red or blue lights. From the speed of the thing on arrival, I'm just going to assume it was a UFO. It didn't blaze in like a shooting star, and it was sailing from the north west sky to where I was viewing directly at Zenith in under a second.
I saw something like that before.

I was at camp. Man I hate camp >.<
But anyway... we were doing something around the campfire, I don't know who noticed it first, but we all eventually ended up watching these lights floating above the far off mountains. There or 2 or 3 or more (I can't remember, this was ages ago, gimme a break). Weeellll... the camp counslers all said they were helicopers and planes.

*ahem*

I'm sorry, but helicopters and planes do NOT zig zag around each other at top speeds like they were speed dancing. Those guys were NOT our doing. *nodnods*

[Ouroboros]

I saw something like that before.

I was at camp. Man I hate camp >.<
But anyway... we were doing something around the campfire, I don't know who noticed it first, but we all eventually ended up watching these lights floating above the far off mountains. There or 2 or 3 or more (I can't remember, this was ages ago, gimme a break).

Camp Counselor: "You saw nothing."
(X-Files music begins)
:shaker:

[Epona44]

But just before the New Hampshire primary John Kerry came to visit our office. He was meeting with our management staff.

Just before he went into the room to talk to them, he came into our newsroom where I was working alone, grabbed a tissue out of a box and blew his nose.

If he gets elected, that will always be my memory of him.

:seehearsp

[Antoninus]

Well, to follow up on someone who said "once in a blue manhattan" I have annother little story to add. A few days ago was our school's football game against our local rival, Valencia High. Now everyboddy gets psyched about these games and people sometimes do some....unusual things to pump other people up. A guy came walking by our group at lunch, dressed in a cheerleader's uniform. He also wore high-heeled shoes and carried a purse. Now, to quote someone prior to this post, I dont know what was stranger, the fact that he DID it, or the fact that almost NO ONE even so much as batted an eyebrow. The fact that a GUY was sucessfully walking in HIGH HEELED shoes shouldve been enough for a few ooohs and ahhs

[menolly]

A few years back, I had a boyfriend who lived in London. Being the thoughtful and fantastic (also modest :lol: ) girlfriend I am, one day I travelled the 100-odd miles to visit him in the pub he worked in. I walked in like it was a normal thing, sat down in front of him at the bar and ordered a drink. He was really surprised to see me, and we talked for a while until he had to go serve some other customers. While he'd gone, a *very* drunk man whom I had never seen before comes up to me at the bar and starts pointing at me and saying 'It's you!!!' He did this for about a minute before he wandered off again...
Apparently the guy was a regular in the pub, and when asked about it the next day he had no memory of it whatsoever... Still, it made me laugh :)

[asamananara]

Most of my "weird public experiences" occured years ago while
working overnights at a 7-Eleven. I don't know what it is
about those places, but they seem to attract strangeness like
moths to a light. One night a well-dressed man with an eye
patch walks in, stops in the doorway, and walks back out.
Then in again, and out. This goes on for about 3 minutes,
when he eventually decides that his best bet is walking in
backwards. He comes up to the counter, places his briefcase
next to the cash register, and just stands there, humming.
After a while, he leans in real close to me, and whispers:
"Are they still following me? Have they come inside?"
I assure him that that we're quite alone.
"They want to put things in my secret places," he confides.
"What kind of things?" I venture.
"SECRET THINGS!" he screams, his eye fixed upon the briefcase.
Now I had just read Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus" trilogy,
a few months previous, so I figured I'd play along with his
paranoia.
"Hey buddy," I say, "You seem like you're on the level. Maybe
you can help me."
He leans even closer, straining over the counter, and turns
a cupped ear towards me.
I ask: "Who are the illuminati, and why do they keep following me?"
In one swift motion, the man whips his head around, jumps back,
begins frantically clawing at the sides of his face, and begins
howling this weird mantra: EYeee eyeeEE woooo muga wooo muga"
He grabs a couple of Slim Jims from a display, and holds them
as a cross between himself and I, and starts shaking... I thought
he was going to pass out. Then he moves the eye patch from
one eye to the other, and squeeks "you... know... about THE
ILLUMINATI????". Not waiting for an answer, he slowly backs
out the door, still warding me off with the slim-jim cross.
Strangeness. He never came back for his briefcase, which
stayed where he left it until morning when my boss came in.
She decided to open it, looking for some ID or something, but
it was empty except for a few old candy wrappers, neatly folded
into little squares.
Man, I loved that job. lmao

[Antoninus]

This isnt really too wierd, just funny :D

My dad was the assistant manager of a Vons for YEARS. One day this old woman comes in, starts muttering to herself, re-arranging things on the shelves into wierd piles. My dad sent someone over to talk to her, she stopped for a little while but started doing it again. This went on a few more times and the store finally calls the police because they thought maybe the woman was out and not on meds or with who she was supposed to be. So the officers show up and they slowly lead the woman out the front door or the store, her mutting and blabbering nonsense. One of the officers asks her, "Ma'am, do you have a car somewhere here?" The other officer adds without missing a beat "Or a spaceship?"

[Xeen]

Okay, Asamananara, that's got to be the weirdest thing of all time... it sounds like something a couple of my high school buddies and I would do, though ^-^

That's just... bootiful.

[Ouroboros]

Most of my "weird public experiences" occured years ago while
working overnights at a 7-Eleven. I don't know what it is
about those places, but they seem to attract strangeness like
moths to a light.

*AHEM* I happen to represent that moth! :flamer:

Well, also there's like five 7-11's within walking distance of my house...

[Ouroboros]

This isnt really too wierd, just funny :D

My dad was the assistant manager of a Vons for YEARS. One day this old woman comes in, starts muttering to herself..

Sounds like "Shell Shock" - in the movie "Clerks" this chick talks to Randall and Dante at Quick Stop about how school counselors just flip out once in a while and do things like looking for the perfect egg in a carton of eggs.

[Sylvan]

I was 13. It was my birthday. My family had to go to Boston to bring a church friend to get a passport or something. So we're walking down the street when this elderly woman, obviously pretty destitute, comes towards us. One, I'd never seen a homeless person before. Two, she didn't have her shirt buttoned up and most of her elderly chest was exposed. Three, the church we were in was *very* sexually repressive, so even my own body was a source of guilt and shame and weird curiosity.

She caught me staring.

And proceeded to scream at me the whole rest of the time we were walking towards her, and when she passed, kept on yelling, and kept at it after we'd passed.

I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

My mom still brings it up because she thinks it was funny. :(

[Pesha]

This is true.....I was at a gas station and a man walked up to me grabbed my breasts and shouted .....Hey are those real.!!! I slapped him and the police were called by the manager who saw it happen.

BB
DS.

[MerrisHawk]

I love my dad but there are days.......

While out driving around one night looking for my idiot brother he happened to spot a couple of Honey Buckets on the side of the road. He stopped the truck, told me to go grab the tow chain out of the back. It never occured to me that a fifty-something dad-type would get a wild hair........his idea was to drag the potty box into the middle of the intersection at the top of the hill and then sit and watch as people drove by.

Next thing was at the grocery store....... It's after ten, dad and the brother wandered off while I was picking out feminine products. I made my choice and headed over to find them. I hear my dad's voice.."Incoming!", and a loaf of bread comes sailing over the aisle. My brother comes racing around the corner in a mad rush to catch it. He misses so he pulls a box of cereal off the shelf and puts the bread in its place. "Incoming!", and the cereal goes up and over.
Just once can I turn invisible? Please?!
I turn and make tracks for the checkout so I can hide in the car. No such luck, they both catch up with my dad yelling "Where you going'? You don't wanna leave without us do ya?"

The latest.....dad driving the beat up old truck and me riding along. The light turns red and we pull up next to a shiny new car full of twenty-somethings with a loud stereo, backwards hats and neon. Dad checks it out, the kid driving gives him the punk sneer. He looks at me, turns on the oldies station and turns up the volume. Then he starts tapping his foot and the brake pedal, making the truck bounce. He gives the kid a big smile and procedds to copy the kids posture and turns his hat around!!!!
Green light, the kid speeds away. Dad keeps doing it.

I love my dad I love my dad I love my dad..........

[Ouroboros]

The latest.....dad driving the beat up old truck and me riding along. The light turns red and we pull up next to a shiny new car full of twenty-somethings with a loud stereo, backwards hats and neon. Dad checks it out, the kid driving gives him the punk sneer. He looks at me, turns on the oldies station and turns up the volume. Then he starts tapping his foot and the brake pedal, making the truck bounce. He gives the kid a big smile and procedds to copy the kids posture and turns his hat around!!!!
Green light, the kid speeds away. Dad keeps doing it.

I love my dad I love my dad I love my dad..........

:foh: I wish I had a dad

[MerrisHawk]

I'll time share this one...I get him during the winter, you get him in the summer when he's all active.

I forgot one......while he was in the Navy he went to get his equator tattoo. He was blind drunk at the time and his buddies added a little something extra. Now dad seems to take unseemly delight in going shirtless when the kids are around. That way everyone can see the "Sweet" over the left nipple and "Sour" over the other.

LIke I said, for the summer he's yours. :smoke:

:hugz:Ouroboros :hugz:

[Ouroboros]

I'll time share this one...I get him during the winter, you get him in the summer when he's all active.

I forgot one......while he was in the Navy he went to get his equator tattoo. He was blind drunk at the time and his buddies added a little something extra. Now dad seems to take unseemly delight in going shirtless when the kids are around. That way everyone can see the "Sweet" over the left nipple and "Sour" over the other.

LIke I said, for the summer he's yours. :smoke:

:hugz:Ouroboros :hugz:

With ME??? :crazyman:
He might not wanna go back to his old life :lol:

[points to mcdonalds dumpster on fire]

[Lady Jade]

The weirdest thing, 2 things that ever happened to me in public...

First, when I was about 16 and out shopping with my sister and one of her friends, we came out to the car to leave and the guy in the car next to us was naked and , um , masturbating.

Second, in the same town many years later, my daughter and I were shopping at the local Salavation Army and there was a man laying on the floor watching my young daughter perusing the clothes racks (he was in the changing room in the chidren's department) also, um masturbating.

Am I a magnet for this type of activity? LOL!!!!

[Ouroboros]

Here's a weird one, I was just minding myself masturbating in public - and this woman comes by all exasperated about it and drops her shopping bag. :crazyman:

j/k Lady Jade :)

Ok a real one: There was some traffic once while driving in the snow, to work, some years ago. Major Road, lots of commotion. With a closer glance, I saw the wreckage - and none of it made sense...

There was two telephone poles, with like a few feet in between them, and an old boxy car on its side, squished in between them. The two poles were squishing the car relatively at the cabin, and the roof was squished in - it looked like the only possible way the car could have made it's way in between the poles without damaging them severely (they were standing pretty tall and fine) was if the car was like dropped by a helicopter sideways in between the poles...

Lotsa strange accidents in NY I s'pose

[WynterWynd]

I would love to thank you all....I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!:rotfl:

Lets see, when I was little (like 2nd grade) I walked smack-dab into a telephone pole, because I was talking to my friend who was walking across the street....and fell flat on my ass!:foh:

When I was 17, I dressed up my boyfriend for halloween....as a girl. We went to a party and didn't walk in together. Then I got to sit back and watch a whole bunch of my other male friends try to pick up on my boyfriend:lol:

I've had a man maturbate in front of me in a laundromat:rolleyes:

When we drove long haul, we stopped at at a truck stop for lunch...I went tear-assing into the buliding cause I had to pee. Well 99% of all 76 truck stops are set up the same ( I guess they want to make you feel like you've never left the place....your always right 'here') But not this one....oh no! I went rip-roaring right into the mens room.....ran into a stall, did my business, and then had one of those Bugs Bunny moments hit me:hrmm: As I tried to peek under the stall:fpeek: I'm thinking.... Damn...that womans got big feet?? And who left the water running?? Then I realized what I had done:bigredblu And evrytime I tried to get out of my stall another man came in.....I finally just 'bit the bullet' and walked out past them all:D

[Nighthawk]

VB OMG.... :lol:

[WynterWynd]

I just remembered another one.....that I wish I would forget!

One day we are all at the mal, the whole fam damily, snooping thru stores and what-not. Well I was dressed comfortably, in sweats (hey, it was cold...ok) and my darling hubby gets the brilliant idea to pants me!

Can ya see where this is going?

Well, he grabbed alittle more than just my sweats, and lets just say...there was a full moon in the mall that afternoon!:bigredblu

[DarkDancer]

I seriously must get out more....

[Chanda]

One that always makes me laugh was the time I was walking out of a public bathroom at an airport. As I opened the door this little kid runs in (maybe 2 years old). Very cute and VERY fast on his unsteady little chubby legs. Anyway, I hold the door open wider expecting to see a mother following right behind. After a couple of seconds when no one comes in, I look around to find a blushing father, mouth wide open in startlement.

"Was that your baby?" I ask. I get a silent yes nod in response.

I go back in and catch the runaway baby, who decides I am trying to murder him and screams accordingly till he finds himself back in his very grateful fathers arms.

Now the reason why I laugh is the look on the fathers face, he was just so lost for words. :) You had to see it...

[Ouroboros]

Ok, another weird tale to lend is prolly more spiritual or the likes but this year on Leap Day I took 2 hits of LSD while crashing at my friends house in his psychadelic style basement. Most of the time I saw these eyes over everything, surfaces, the cieling, my skin, everywhere, all looking around in complete wonder. At some point I could see through my body - as if it was transparent as a window, like the eyes were part of me and I could generally see anywhere I truly wanted to in this state.

I saw the sun peeking through an unstickered portion of the basement door, and I looked at the beam. I closed my eyes and could literally see the sun before me in all it's brightness. Then this (http://www.thecreativegeek.com/~wyrm/images/call/Angel-LoQ.jpg) appeared in front of the sun.

The next thing, when opening my eyes I saw those same eyes but rotating around all over all surfaces in a sort of infinite tunnel. Then upon closing my eyes I saw something like this (http://www.thecreativegeek.com/~wyrm/images/call/eyegasm-LoQ.jpg) circling inside my eyelids.

The next phase was generally seeing demons and angels all in the same realm, without the fear of polarity like things such as good and evil. When the sun was about to set and my trip was starting to fade, I drove myself home and saw to the west the sunset and clouds sort of forming that angelic being I first linked.

I'm definitely not promoting drugs or anything, but certainly some would agree this was a weird experience. Of course depending on your perception of "Weird."

[redthewitch75]

One morning on my way to work, whilst at a stoplight, this lady gets out of her car behind me and comes up to my window and proceeds to tell me how I am going to hell right along with my gay friends. I had this window clingy thing of the gay-pride flag that said I Love My Friend. Uh...ok. That's so nice. Considering I believe in fire and damnation. I tell ya....people are so bothersome.

[CleftOfLight]

i did get oral ounce at my bank by this cute bank teller in the bathroom.

[Thor]

Oral in the zoo once

[ArKane]

One weird thing that always happens to me is that I get called a man. I'm serious. It makes me laugh. I was walking along the footpath about two weeks ago when I passed these two girls [about 14] trying to look cool and sauve and pretty. Trying to impress the 'cute guy' coming their way. You know how it is. Anyway I'm walking along the footpath decked out in my usual atire of black leathe shoes, socks, jeans, belt, collared shirt and leather duster and sunglasses and I walk pass them and they start whistleing and calling out to their friends to see the 'sute guy'

I continue walking and this one girl yells out "How about a good time" and I turn around, pull down my sunglasses and wink at her and say "Well I'm free now if you want" and continue walking.

All I heard for about 10mins after that was "She's a girl"

Well duh.

:lol: :lol:

I'm not even going to go into the naughty [and illegal] things I have done with my ex's in public. I'll save you all some sanity.

I've had a man masturbate next to me at a train station. Some girl mastubate in her car next to me at the lights and all sorts of weird things.

What's wrong with going into a guy toilent and using the pee-troths? or the toilets? If you gotta go and woman take to long. I'd rather go in there then piss my pants.

[Thor]

having a bird drop something right on my glasses, and once i got an erection in a crowded train...........

[SimDug70AD]

1988- A friend and I were on a bus going to san francisco. I lived in Kansas at the time, and do again now. We had just crossed the border into Colorado and the old lady seated in front of me turns around and gets up on her knees on the seat and glares at me for an hour or so.

Finally, as we were pulling into a stop, she says, as loudly as she could: "ARE YOU RIGHT WITH GOD????". I didn't answer, just let it go. After the stop, she changed seats, and didn't bother me again.

Always a new experience, riding Greyhound.

[Ouroboros]

Well, I s'pose it's not weird but certainly funny:

After the 4th of July, I went to 7-11 and saw some box sitting on top of a pay phone - a 100 shot saturn missile battery! I looked around, no takers, swiped it!

Later in the evening we decided to light it off by this persons bedroom we didn't like. I noticed the fuse was practically gone - I s'pose the people who were setting it off at 7-11 didn't realize they were supposed to take it out of the box before lighting the fuse...

First attempt was sour, we tried the cigarette timer method, no dice! We return to examine the box, and decide to try paper instead. We sneak away slowly and as we get to the front yard... (FWEEEEOWP BAANG! FWEEEEOWP BAANG! FWEEEEOWP BAANG!) We start bookin all the way back to the car, you could see/hear the show for miles

From what we gathered later, the kid woke up in a severe panic thinking he was in vietnam or something. :rotfl:

[Druchii]

One humourous:
I met and got the autograph of Weird Al Yankovic in a Country Kitchen restaurant about 6 years ago, here in Warrensburg Missouri. His whole band was with him, I think I was the only who knew who he was and gave a damn. :lol: It was great though, nice bunch of guys and really funny.
One not so humourous:
Having a gun pulled on me. I have neven experienced time slow like it did then, and I never wish to relive that particular moment.

[Élistariel]

This happened over the summer last year. I was helping my greatgrandparents (Granny and Pa) and grandmother (Gran) with a yardsale. I had a little card table with some my old books on it. Well, a friend of Granny's had come by with his um, mentally handicapped relative/friend. While Granny and the guy are talking, the other guy is staring at me. I just smile, trying to be nice. Then he walks up to me, put his fists up like he's going to box. He walks around me a few times, making boxing movements, and dodging me. Mind you I was just sitting there with the "get the hell away from me grin". Then he runs off, and I think "Thank you LORD!" (as in lord and lady). So I go back to my notebook, that I had been using to keep track of what I had sold. Then I sense something, I turn around, and he is ALLUPINMYFACE. I was like "Holy mother of Gaia!" startled the crap outta me. :hairraise Thankfully my Gran needed help with a fern. I tell ya those ferns can be really heavy during the summer :lol: So I put the fern in the garage. I look out from behind the rack of clothes in there to see if the guy is gone, no such luck. So, I had to hide behind the coats until they left. :hehehehe:

Another one, happened at the beach during during the preteen/early teen years. I don't recall when exactly. My friend and I had gone to the beach, and were swimming at the swimming pool of a hotel right the beach. The manager would always let us go in, unless up to a certain amount of people were there. There weren't too many, so we went in. We go swimming, yada yada yada. After about 10-20 minutes or so, this little kid swims up to us, and asks "Are you the one?" my friend asks, "The one what?", kid: "nevermind" and swims off. :wtf:

And yet another one, happened sometime last year at a Goodwill. I was walking around the store, when I noticed this little 3/4 year old boy following me around. He told me the washing machine was broken and walked off. :huh: Okie dokie...

I've also had some kid in line at a K&W hug my leg, then look up to see that I wasn't "Mom". :lol:

[PeleRising]

ok... the weirdest thing that ever happened to me in public... picture this... i had taken my daughter who was 7, as well as my sister and her daughter (5) and 2 sons (both 2) to a park in a nearby town. My sister was driving her car and i was in mine with the girls. After we played for some time (or i should say the kids) we decided it was time to go. So we all loaded up in the cars...and pulled up to a stop sign that led onto a very busy main street. There were cars parked on both sides... so it was a bit hard to see oncoming traffic... i kept pulling ahead a bit further just to see around all the cars. When the coast appeared to be clear... i turned right onto the road and saw to my horror a man in one of those motorized wheelchairs coming right at me. He was in the middle of the road.. in my lane... and although i put on the brakes immediately...i still tapped his wheelchair, i had reacted so quickly that his chair didnt even move really... didnt tip over nothing. I just hadnt seen him... his flag that is supposed to be on that kind of wheelchair was missing... I was so scared that i had hurt him... and I was horrified... i started crying and i was shaking. I told the girls not to move... got out of the car kind of unstably... (if that is a word) I was shaking so bad i could barely stand. I went over to the man and he and i just looked at each other. My sister came running up to see if we were both ok, and in the distance we could hear sirens. Next thing we knew... 2 firetrucks, an ambulance, a police car and a emergency response team were there ( im really not kidding). It was a mess... both the man and i were perfectly ok...but there were so many emergency personnel.. they checked him out... checked me out... checked out his chair and my car...they could see he was fine but they were worried about me... i was breathing really hard and shaking... they had me sit down and put my head between my knees... which was really really hard. See i was 8+ months pregnant... due for my c-sect in 3 days... I could hear two of the emergency ppl talking... they were saying how they didnt know what to expect when they got the call that a very pregnant woman hit a man in a wheelchair. Both the man and I were ok... but that is something to this day i havent forgotten... and indeed it was the weirdest thing to ever happen to me. :bigredblu

[Xeen]

Well, I s'pose it's not weird but certainly funny:

After the 4th of July, I went to 7-11 and saw some box sitting on top of a pay phone - a 100 shot saturn missile battery! I looked around, no takers, swiped it!

Later in the evening we decided to light it off by this persons bedroom we didn't like. I noticed the fuse was practically gone - I s'pose the people who were setting it off at 7-11 didn't realize they were supposed to take it out of the box before lighting the fuse...

First attempt was sour, we tried the cigarette timer method, no dice! We return to examine the box, and decide to try paper instead. We sneak away slowly and as we get to the front yard... (FWEEEEOWP BAANG! FWEEEEOWP BAANG! FWEEEEOWP BAANG!) We start bookin all the way back to the car, you could see/hear the show for miles

From what we gathered later, the kid woke up in a severe panic thinking he was in vietnam or something. :rotfl:
Oh god... that was so mature :-p

[Ouroboros]

Oh god... that was so mature :-p

There's much you can learn from a child.

Edited to add:

That same kid, we got again like a month or so later. We used to give him the nickname "Condom" like years ago. So we decided to get a condom, unroll it, get some watery mayonaisse in there and slop it onto his front door handle.

Then we called him from a pay phone a town away and let him a voicemail in a different accent, "Beware, the Condom."

The next day we saw an online rant about how these other people weren't allowed back at his house because they disrespect his front door with used condoms, believing it was really a condom, but from these other people!

:rotfl: