When was the last time you were shocked, confused or frightened by someone doing (or saying) something unexpectedly weird in front of you?
Example: I was standing on a sidewalk downtown, waiting on a bus and a man walked up to me, got right close to my face and started making loud nonsense noises (like ngyhaa mphhh wooo nya). Other people were watching me standing with no clue how to react.
Your turn
Once I was at a store and a random kid said to me "HIHIHIHIHI".
hehehe I love your enthusiasm.
Okay i was going to save this for later but... my best story happened just a couple years ago. I was in an auto parts store waiting in line to pay for my stuff. The line was full of greasy grubby men which is what one would expect in an auto store. Probably in the middle of working on their car. No problem. BUT BUT BUT....
when I handed the cashier my credit card, she looked at it for a moment and then.... she LICKED it!!!!! She licked my credit card, then wiped it on her pants, then ran it through the machine and handed it back to me. I was completely stunned. The next reaction was: eww eww ewww gross gross grosssss. Then I wondered if she cleaned everyone's credit card that way.
I left feeling like I'd been assaulted by a ninja surprise attack of nonconsensual weirdness.
I wonder how she would have reacted if I took the card back, and then licked it myself slowly while staring into her eyes.
Though I wouldn't of course. icky
A man got onto the bus last week with his little boy, who was about three.
After a while I heard the little boy say: "Dad, can I pick the snot out of my nose?"
The dad said "Shhhh! No, you can't. Wait until we get home and I'll give you a tissue".
Son: "But daddy, I want to get my snot out NOW!
ewwww lol. Guess this turned into a gross-out thread
I once had a random stranger scream abuse at me because I answered the phone at work with "G'day" instead of "hello". And after he'd finished screaming abuse, he tried to sell me a copy of his album. Creep.
I trot that story out every time old people start whinging about "young people all talk like Americans these days, back in our day nobody said 'hi' blah blah blah blah"
One day I was walking in the mall and this young man spat so close to me that I felt some droplets of saliva! I was so shocked that I didn't even get out any words and he didn't stay around to be told off for acting like such a grot!
I ordered a pizza one time when I felt really hungry and it wasn't yet time for me to take the bus home. I started to eat it from the outside and in as I wanted to save the best for last. I think it was in 1984 or so. Suddenly a stranger comes up and asks if he can get a slice of the pizza (I think he was some kind of schizophrenic drug fiend) but I didn't want to share a slice and started to walk away when he just grabs the box and starts shoving the pizza in his mouth saying "if I don't get a slice I take it from you". I didn't know what I should do...
What a twit! Well, we had all the kerfuffle about our current PM feasting on earwax in the parliament house. That was pretty weird but not as strange as some of these other things.
There is a man at my work whose bum should be registered as a deadly weapon (or at least that's what a lot of the ladies say). He would give Mick the master farter a real run for his money.
Bit scary to say the least. Oh, before Christmas, our director came to chat to us because he was a bit bored (I think). He told us he was planning to "moon" some people in the next nightclub he went to and he was sober when he said it. That really weirded me out.
A couple of weeks ago, I looked down at the feet of the lady who is the health and safety representative on my floor at work. It really weirded me out to see how her feet were crammed into narrow toed high heeled shoes and how evident it was that her feet were already quite damaged from doing that over a long time.
Owwwwww... that hurts just to read about. I totally don't 'get' pointy high-heeled shoes.
Speaking of clothes, we had a woman in our office once who seemed to think that dressing as a character made her that character. For instance, she went to a country music event so she got a cowboy hat and a bandanna round her neck and started acting like the world's biggest expert on/fan of country music, when two days earlier she couldn't give a rats about it.
I have come experienced some weird situations at work. Once I was with a family whose family member was dying - all very solemn and serious. I then walked across to another patient who threw a cup at me and told me to F*** off.
Another time I was tending a dying patient - another patient walked in to the room really angry telling me to leave her baby alone - she walked out in tears telling other staff members that I was hurting her baby. Weird but sad.
What is horrible - how do mean Shewhocan'tthinkofausernam?
I've got some weird stories... they didn't happen to me but they happened to my grandma and mom.
My grandma went to the corner store to buy something, and she was the only one in the store. And the cashier said, "come here... I have something to show you." and Grandma is like "uh no..." and the cashier says "COME HERE" and grabs my grandma by the arm and takes her to the back of the store. So then she was really freaked out and thought the cashier was going to kill her. So when they were in the back of the store... alone.. then guy grabs something off the shelf (which grandma thought was a knife) and he holds it up to her face and says, "Have you seen anything more beautiful than this??!?" It was a tomato.
Recently my mom and grandma were in a Walmart in a bad part of town, and of course my mom had to go to the bathroom. But the only bathroom they had was in the back of the store... which was creepy. So mom goes back there and into the bathroom; she was the only one in there. But then this person comes in (gender un-identified) and starts this weird laugh, "hehehe hehehehe." So mom is freaked out, so when she comes out of the stall this person says, "I am a female... hehehe hehehe You wanna see?" So mom ran out of there and got grandma and said, "LETS GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"