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It’s not unheard of for random people on the street to say something, well… random. And whether they’re striking a conversation about something so out of context, no one would be able to crack the code, or yelling out something so inexplicable, it ought to leave everyone around noticeably perplexed, such strangers can range from somewhat amusing to downright scary.
All sorts of one-sided conversations with strangers on the street were recently discussed by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community, after the user ‘izzie4563’ started a thread about such encounters. Fellow redditors had plenty to share, so if you’re interested in reading their stories, scroll down to find their answers on the list below, and see just how weird and unexpected some exchanges can be.
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#1
Homeless guy on a bike after almost running into me rounding a corner:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
And fear and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
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Ace 1 year ago
Trying to work out how you'd know a random cyclist nearly running into you was homeless...
Cat Chat 1 year ago
I imagine there were signs, such a a sleeping bag and a large amount of personal property with them that the average random biker doesn't usually bike with.
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Sinkvenice 1 year ago
Years ago I was walking home from the shop and some lunatic who evidently took issue with my skin colour, shuffled right up to me and "KKK!" then shuffled off again.
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#2
A guy offered me 100 for my socks. I remained sockless for the rest of the day.
SuperChicken 1 year ago (edited)
I would've bought a pair of socks after getting the 100 bucks.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Too bad you didn’t have any stringed instruments with you. Then you could have provided him with socks and violins.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
A guy once offered me $100 to forge a letter saying he graduated from the Master's program that I administrated. He had lied on his resume and got caught by his current employer, so he thought the logical next step would be to try and get me to falsify a document for him. The best part is that he was the Director of HR! :) And no, I didn't do it. $100 cash wasn't worth my own job or my integrity. Now if he had offered me 6 figures I might have considered it....LOL!
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The important question is what color the socks were.
#3
"I'm dressed as a human today." I kept on walking by, but faster! What the hell does that mean?!
Clown fish 1 year ago
I heard two women having a conversation that skin was new to them. 😕
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
You took what I was going to say.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
It's why I don't leave the house much anymore - dressing as a human is EXHAUSTING.
Skara Brae 1 year ago (edited)
It just means they changed out of their bunny pajamas before leaving home.
Jocelynn Schreiner 1 year ago
Wouldn't be surprised if they did that purely to eff with people. Some people are just trolls and like saying s**t like that because they find it funny.
#4
Years ago a very, very drunk man unsteadily approached my friend and I in the street. He was squinting at his watch and closing one eye to try and read it. When he finally got to us he asked "Is it 10 in the morning or 10 at night?".
JB 1 year ago
Oh dear. Relating to this a bit too much. There’s been a few times in my hedonistic youth where I’d wake up at, say, 6 o’clock in the winter, and have no clue for several hours if it was still today or ‘tomorrow’ . Yeah, yeah, I know but students can party mid-afternoon and I’m a lightweight. My wristwatch and clocks were analogue, didn’t have a tv. The Internet was in its infancy, and mobile devices were the province of science fiction. Shout out to the communication devices of the original Star Trek… still waiting for holographic suites and teleportation. The point is, I had to wait hours to see if stayed dark or got lighter to figure out what day it was.
Kare Deter 1 year ago
I always just turned on the tv and judged by whatever was on at the time
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Fussy1 1 year ago
The correct answer is "yes", was my first thought as well!
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CanadianDimes 1 year ago
This is pretty much the reason I switched my phone to 24-hour time. I was really sick many years ago, fell asleep, and woke up at 5-something. I didn't know if it was am or pm. I switched and never looked back - it's amazing.
#5
Them: “Anyone ever told you that you look like Vin Diesel?” Me: “No” (I do not look like Vin Diesel) Them: “ Well, you don’t.”.
the sixthgirl 1 year ago
I had a guy lose his mind once because I looked exactly like Meryl Streep. I have a stubby nose and big brown eyes and a round face.
#6
A few hours after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks: "Lovely day for the first day of the Apocalypse, isn't it?".
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Seems like a lot of horrible things have happened on beautiful days...
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Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
To be fair, that's the kinda thing I'd say if the apocalypse did happen.
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TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
Hmm... well if the apocalypse is a very slow one then technically they're not wrong 🤔
Michael None 1 year ago
I wonder where this happened. Seems like something a sarcastic English granny would say but it's not spelled right. "Lovely day for the Apocalypse to start, innit"
Regina Holt 1 year ago
As an america, I love british humor and all ot the dialects.
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Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago
Probably the kind of Lunatic whishing for the apocalypse because they'll be saved and only them or smth
Blake Worthington 1 year ago
McQueen: Mater you did not hit the twin towers Mater: Shoot, you don't remember, you was there too.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
Hehehehehehehehehe *carrying him to the top of the empire state building while still laughing* hehe byebye apocalypse man *yeet*
#7
Was walking my dog when a lady approached, leaned in close, and whispered, "They're listening through the trees," then just walked away like nothing happened. Haven't looked at an oak the same since.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
I told you those squirrels were up to something! They always get away...
Michael Largey 1 year ago
There is nothing to cry about! Those weeping will owe other people an apology.
#8
Many years ago while waiting outside a restaurant in New York City with my husband, his sister, and her husband, this lady came up to me and said "I love your coat, where'd you get it?"
After I told her I got it from a thrift store, she started excitedly saying stuff like "I think that coat is designer, you could probably sell it for a lot of money, I'd love a coat like this" etc., and the whole time she was grabbing different parts of the coat and examining them like she was appraising it or whatever, and then she suddenly just quit and walked off without saying another word.
I'm pretty sure she was just trying to distract me while she looked for my purse or searched my pockets or something but the joke was on her because I wasn't carrying a purse and my husband had everything in his pockets so there was nothing to take lol.
#9
I was walking my dogs, and this guy hesitantly passed us. Then he turned around and shouted, "YOUR DOGS ARE RACIST!" My dogs love everyone lol.
glowworm2 1 year ago
Great, now I’m remembering that Dave Chapelle sketch involving racist animal actors.
Mr.Li 1 year ago
Great, now I'm remembering the Dave Chapelle sketch with the white family called Ni***r
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I can boldly (and pigheadedly) state that dogs can never be racist or bear any other form of prejudice for that matter. They are just 2 types of dogs, trained & untrained. If you see anything resembling prejudice in a dog, look to its owner or trainer.
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
Also dogs can be a little sexist too. My dog prefers women...even though he was raised around a lot of very kind, dog-loving men. I have met several dogs who prefer men and acted aggressive toward me as a woman.
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
I've heard of people saying their dog, or someone's dog, is racist because of how they behave to certain people who happened to be certain races. I don't think dogs are racist, they just know how to trust and who to be wary of.
Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago
Why are you telling strangers what is in their heads? You most definitely are not inside anyone's head but your own.
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"Today, more adults were spanked than children" I kept walking.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
judging by the way some kids act these days, i can believe that is a true statement
#11
In Long Beach, California when I was a teenager:
Old lady walking past: “Oh you must be a smart boy—your head’s so large you must have a lot of extra brains.”
I’m walking with a school friend down the street. A car stops in the middle of traffic and the driver, a middle aged woman, calls out, “Hey, are you two brothers?”
Both of us look at each other and wonder, even if we were, is she going home and announcing excitedly, “Hey I saw a coupla brothers today!”?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Am a lifelong Southern Californian. Can confirm there are odd areas with odd people in Long Beach XD (it can be a bit of an artsy city)
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
An adult from a car I think- I’m likely just paranoid though. Before I got my hair cute I looked nearly identical to my sister
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#12
Crazy homeless lady came up to me and in a deep raspy voice said "I've got bodies in my body".
Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago
Too bad I've got antibodies in mine (they also attack my body, help)
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Reminds me of an episode on Untold Stories of the ER. A lady came in the ER, a bit mentally erratic. She kept saying she had worms in her. There were lesions all over her but the doctors kept finding them one by one after she would repeat that she had worms. There were earthworms in those. It was a revolting episode.
Ken Schubert 1 year ago
She's right. There are ten times more non-human microorganisms in your body than human cells.
#13
Once I was smoking a cigarette in a designated smoking area and some random lady came up to me screaming "HOW DARE YOU SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE IN FRONT OF ME DON'T YOU KNOW I'M A CANCER SURVIVOR".
Skara Brae 1 year ago
"You didn't survive. Welcome to hell, where people yell at random strangers."
Jeremy James 1 year ago
I was walking a coworker home one night and we stopped to smoke a cigarette outside her house. Some lady drove by and said, "Excuse me! Can you not smoke there? I live upstairs across the street and my cat has cancer!" This was near the beach and the wind was definitely not in that direction.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
If she doesn't wanna be around smoking, why tf is she in a designated smoking area?
FABULOUS1 1 year ago
I gave a homeless women a cigarette, and when I came out of the store she asked for another one. I told her no and she called me the N word.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
This is why it's okay to not give homeless people things, or anyone trying to bum anything off of anyone on the street.
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
As much as I am against smoking, it does make you look batshit crazy shouting at smokers who are not breaking smoking bylaws.
#14
A girl said to me very low "I found your wife cheating on you" I don't have a wife or girlfriend lol.
Dawn Woolley 1 year ago
Perhaps just a nasty person hoping to cause trouble for a complete stranger
Michael None 1 year ago
Plot twist: She was a time traveler trying to change the future because his wife cheating on him makes makes him lose his faith in humanity and decide to release the virus.
#15
I had a man come up to me and say “you smell like you’re on your period.” I was.
Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
I was in high school and my delusional stalker said, 'I can smell that you're in heat.' Couple things: I am now /obsessive/ about ensuring I smell good, and you can sucker punch me in the psyche if you tell me I smell... Aaand the guy actually believed I was a werewolf.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Maybe you are a werewolf. And so was he. That's how he knew you were in heat. Let's test this.... Have you ever accused your dog of doing something "doggy" - pee on the rug, chew on a table leg - and he gave you this hurt/offended "how could you even SUGGEST.. " look? Yeah, see, he didn't do it. You did, when you were wolfy.
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Some people have an over-developed sense of smell. I'm one, in some measure, and it's not always à blessing. I often can tell when à woman is on her period, but that's an information I keep to myself.
Kare Deter 1 year ago
Ugh yes, overdeveloped sense of smell. Not a blessing at ALL - news flash: this world stinks.
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imsouravmitra 1 year ago (edited)
I can smell when a woman is on her periods 8 out of 10 times. Smells a bit like "wet rust in iron". Please don't downvote me
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
If you are able to smell it, fine, but please don't come up and tell me. I already know.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
A friend of mine once told me that a mutual acquaintance one came up to her and told her that she was ovulating. And she actually was! How did he know? i cannot tell to this day.
Lee Stone 1 year ago
There's a woman that smells alzheimers with extreme accuracy. They tested her with t shirts worn by people with and without alzheimers. She was so accurate that several of the false positives were later found to have the disease.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I had one friend in high school who had a distinctive odor when she was on her period. I would have never mentioned it, but I sat behind her in a class and could always tell. She's the only one I've ever noticed that with thankfully. My theory is that is was the pads she used. I'm cursed with an excellent sense of smell. My family always asks me to check if food has gone bad or to find where the cat peed. I do sometimes wonder why others can't smell what I plainly can - especially when my mom claims her cat has NOT peed in a certain room. I think she's just gone nose blind to it.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I'm the same way at work. People would ask me to smell check the clothes when they get a whiff of something bad. (Thrift store). Everyone else keeps saying they can't smell anything or that their nose is plugged. I think it's an excuse to not have to smell something bad. Unfortunately I'm not of authority to decide what smells bad enough to get tossed. The supervisors just say it's smells like laundry detergent. But what kind of detergent makes clothes smell like puke?
Load More Replies... Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
Self-proclaimed dragon trapped in a human body as punishment by some deity. He was...unsettingly serious about this. Especially unsettling 'cause he thought I was in communication with the deity and influencing his fate.
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At a bus stop very early in the morning sitting next to a very old lady with—I s**t you not—a school clock hanging around her neck. She pointed it towards me and asked me what time it was.
G A 1 year ago
Senile old lady when I was a kid wandered up and down the road with an old wooden clock asking people for the time.
ERMAHGERD DINOSAURS 1 year ago
A lot of the gen Z kids apparently can’t read analog clocks. It sounds nuts, but I know at least 3. Don’t know how you get around but whatever
Breadcrumb. 1 year ago
I've worked with a few who can't read clocks but guess what..they all have cell phones with the time as soon as the screen is activated in their pockets. I prefer a analog clock but I'm just old now..I do use siri for a voice activated timer awhile baking.
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“I like your left foot”.
SuperChicken 1 year ago
🤣I had to think about that for a second. Good one.
Load More Replies... Yettichild 1 year ago
Yeah, my left foot is the problem foot. I don't like it either.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Did you, though, or would it be considered comprised of nutrients and materials from your mother's body? And crafted by her uterus? XD
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I have a cute one. I went in 7-11 after work one time, still in my outfit that I wore to the office. And elderly man stopped me on my way out to ask me about my shoes. Which were from Payless. (A store where they sell inexpensive, but cute, shoes) He then complimented me on being stylish and sensible. It was so unexpected I almost didn't know what to say. Either he was just being nice, or he was a crossdresser and needed some new shoes. :)
ronniebeaton00 1 year ago
I'm reminded of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's "One Legged Man Auditioning for Tarzan" sketch. "I have nothing against your right leg. The trouble is, neither do you."
#18
Once had a stranger ask if I believed in time travel.
Ouss Ben Aziza 1 year ago
"I was told of your coming, hand me everything you have as it is what i required to fix the future ! Hurry we can still run out of time "
#19
I was smoking a cigarette outside of my first job when 2 guys walked by and asked if I wanted to be in a movie. It wasn't until years later that I read between the lines on that one.. Mind you, I was 18 and caught off guard, but EW MAN WTF.
Kare Deter 1 year ago (edited)
or worse, a snuff film (don't downvote me for something I didn't create actually existing, thanks)
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“Good thing you’re wearing a mask, it’s important to protect your respiratories, they’re putting 5G towers in here soon and you’ll really need to be protecting your respiratories” from some lady smoking and walking her ancient beagle after I told her the dog was cute.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
The 5G affects your *brain* not your respiratory system. Please get your crackpot facts right!
A pug with bananas 1 year ago
Well in the past smoking was considered healthy. And the fact that OP said it was a old lady makes me think smoking is considered ‘healthy’ in her mind.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
LMAO 😂 that's hilarious, but also kinda scary that there are so many people out there that are as dumb as that lady
#21
“Do you do MMA? You just have the kind of face that looks like it could take a punch”. - guy making my sandwich at Subway.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
“And your face looks like it’s taken a good punch. Several, in fact.”
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
Either it's a compliment, or he really wanted to punch you right then.
#22
A homeless person in Santa Barbara walked up to me and said " Christmas in July man!" But it was December 15th.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago
Were I worked we used to have Christmas in July. We're in the Southern Hemisphere.
ALittleKnownGoddess 1 year ago (edited)
Huh? Do you celebrate it with drop bears too?
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Do you want to see the elephants. Someone said this to me in the mall. It took years to find out what tf they were talking about. I looked at them all confused and they walked away. Later I found out they were trying to sell me acid. Oddly enough it was my exhusband as teenagers. I was talking about the odd time someone asked me about elephants at the mall and he started laughing. Not the only time we had run into each other when we were younger. Another time I was walking out of someone's house and we had a hey what's up moment and went about our business.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I'm usually pretty okay with terrible grammar and language but "Oddly enough it was my exhusband as teenagers." just... kills me XD I'm picturing OP's ex-husband composed of three teenagers in a trenchcoat.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
Ah, I was expecting the turn your jeans pockets inside out for the ears and provide the trunk yourself trick
JB 1 year ago
Howling with laughter here. I remember when that was popular and it didn’t occur to anyone that it was indecent or some form of harassment. I’m incredibly impressed at cultural progress; where millennials and younger have found ways to articulate concepts my generation (X) understood but groped hopelessly to describe lacking the concepts or language to do so.
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Living Example 1 year ago
Even if you only graduated from grade school you should know basic sentence structure. Perhaps that's my opinion only because I was in grade school in the early 50s. It seems a standard high school education back then would be comparable to a couple of years of at least a community college today. Of course that would depend somewhat where you attended school.
ronniebeaton00 1 year ago
If the question had been about a *white eared* elephant, then the guy would've turned out his trouser pockets, unzipped his flies, and whipped out his you-know-what.
#24
I was walking home and this older woman was walking towards me, as she got closer, she started snorting and spat a loogie nearby. She then turned to face me and said "Here's a gift for you from the above". It was the most unexpected thing ever
Final score:
44points
Greg Baughman 1 year ago
I was yard saleing with my (now ex) mother in law. We were walking down the driveway to get to the garage where the sale was. This old lady (70's? 80's?) was walking from the garage towards us. When she gets up close, I hear her say "My, you're a tall glass of water, ain't ya?" and as she passes me by... grabs my a*s. O_O
#25
Not on the street but at work one time a patient pulled out a bobble head of Gandhi and when I asked him why he has that he said “I don’t know I’m just from California”.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Gandhi-themed merchandise is hard to find most of the year. Of course at Christmas you can get gandhi canes.
#26
Kneel before Zod…(I was wearing a Supes t-shirt).
#27
I was trying to rush to class and a guy popped out from behind a pillar and told me that I look like a female Skrillex. I got the distinct impression he had been waiting for me.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
I was teaching at an inner city school once, and this kid just jumps out into the hallway and goes, "I'm Amish!" It was so random 😂
#28
I was walking to my car and a guy stopped his weed wacker to say, "you look comfortable." Then winked at me.
Oddball 1 year ago
I was in the Miami airport waiting for my GF flight that was late, way late. It was around 1am and I fell asleep in a chair at the gate. I was rousted out of my nap by a guy asking me "Do you have time to talk about our Lord and savior Jesus Christ?" Still groggy I said "Sorry man I don't speak English".....the guy said "Oh, sorry" and walked away....That was 48 years ago and I still remember it and laugh.
JNDauterive 1 year ago
Talk about rude! I would have been so pissed to have been woken up for that.
#29
I want to lick your toes.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Yeah, BP actually nailed the stock photo for this one XD
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If someone paid me enough, I'd let 'em lick. I can always wash the ick away from my feet - the money would wash away the ick from my mind. 😂
Mallory Morrison 1 year ago
There used to be a guy in my city who would ask people if he could lick their shoes. I'm pretty sure he moved though.
#30
Give me milk to drink.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
When I was very, very young, a stranger gave me milk to drink. She told me her name was “Mom”.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
pointing past them... "will you look at that!" and hoof it the other direction towards people.
#31
Many years ago. I was waiting in line at the grocery store. A attractive woman told me she was going to un-alive the Queen. I live in the Midwest USA.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I sincerely hope she did actually say "unalive" and that the word doesn't just exist in the minds of BP censors
Clown fish 1 year ago (edited)
Yes she would have said unalive it was posted on Reddit and you can't write kill, murder, die, dead
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“Wanna muffin? Here, I promise I didn’t poison it.”.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 1 year ago
What the evil queen probably said about her apple, but apparently the OP is smarter than Snowwhite
Clown fish 1 year ago
Who says they are smarter? They might of only lived because a prince kissed them 😂😂😂
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#33
Is your dog for sale? I’ll give you £50 right now. I said no. He increased the price. I said no again and then ran away. I was like 12.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
I was the same age when someone asked me the same thing. She was rare, and my stepdad of less than a few months had recently sold off the rest of the litter. One of his customers saw me playing with her in our yard and asked if he planned to sell her too. He answered "No, it's her dog, so it's not my choice either way." They actually started at $500, and gradually worked their way up to $2000. But I was there when she was born, so she was my baby, and the first big, meaningful gift from my new dad.
#34
Dude walked up to me and my girlfriend and just yelled "NEW YORK CITY!!!!" then kept walking. We don't live in NYC nor did we have NY apparel on.
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 1 year ago
Wow. Things I haven't thought about in 30 years, lol. Very, very solid reference.
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"I have some genuine Sasquatch leavings I'd like to sell to you!".
Regina Holt 1 year ago (edited)
The leavings were found under that bridge. Two for one.
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"Are you interracial?" ... I look like Woody Allen and Carrot Top made a love child.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Mine, too - the result is aggravating my migraine. 😄
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
Maybe they thought red heads are a different race? My brother is a pale strawberry blond and someone once asked if he was albino. :)
#37
I was in an Argos once waiting in line and an old fella walks over to me and starts telling me how Putin isn’t as stupid as America thinks and something about Kissinger that I don’t actually remember, I just remember googling who Kissinger was after that day. I live in Ireland and this was in 2019. There was no reason to bring this up.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
I don’t think America thinks Putin is stupid. I don’t think anyone in the world thinks Putin is stupid.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I agree. I think we generally agree he's a sociopathic arsehole, but not stupid.
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Cindi Antrobus 1 year ago
Maybe the man live in the past, I work with dementia patients and a lot of times we are in different years than they are it might be 2024 for you but for them is 1940's during WWII
#38
What’s the frequency, Kenneth??
#39
“I like your hair, can I have it?”.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 1 year ago
"Oh, thank you! I like your teeth, can I have them in return?"
Clown fish 1 year ago
Can I have your left foot? I only like left ones ? Lol
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hockeygorl 1 year ago (edited)
someone said that to me… actually she said “i’ve fed u now can i have ur hair??” prolly as a joke but still also abt the feeding me she was giving samples at cosco
#40
Was getting fuel at a gas station. Guy proudly swaggers over to me and says, “I know you seen my blue truck.” There was no blue truck.
#41
Literally yesterday was with my bf looking at the tech gadgets in walmart and this dude comes up to us and asks us if we believe in God, and that we are God's representation of Adam and Eve on Earth made to God's likeness he then went on a spiel while looking up bible verses on his phone until my bf and i politely interrupted him and walked away lmao.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
"Excuse us. We were just on our way to buy a pet snake" 🐍
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One time a friend and I were walking to my car. I told her to hurry up, because I saw them coming. She let them engage her in conversation. I'm sitting in the driver's seat just annoyed. I then hear my friend say that she is comfortable with her religion. I immediately yell "Hail S A T A N!!!! That pretty much ended the conversation.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
No. No, he doesn't. It's offensive and rude to proselyte to random strangers. Have whatever beliefs you want to, but don't shove them down other peoples' throats.
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I crossed paths with an older man in the grocery store and said "excuse me". He gave me a wild-eyed look and said "Caca!". I peaced out of there and went over to my husband. The word of the day after that was, of course, Caca!
#43
"I have $55 and a bottle of rum, is that enough to rent you for an hour?" He was homeless...
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
It’s never ok to imply someone is a sex worker unless they tell you or show you they are. I can’t even remember how many dozens of guys offered me money in exchange for my “company” when I was way too young.
Jeremy James 1 year ago
When I lived in Los Angeles, I learned that I could never stand still for too long without someone trying to make an offer. I could be waiting for the bus to work at 7AM on a Tuesday. It didn't matter.
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#44
"My sister stole $17 million from me and hired six cops to kill me. The Aryan Brotherhood and MS-13 are protecting me until I can hire a lawyer to sue my sister and get the money back." This woman had been sleeping in a doorway across from my previous place of employment for at least two years before she told me this, repeatedly refusing to stay in a shelter unless the temperature was below zero.
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
That's sad. I mean, a lot of these indicate mental illness, temporary or otherwise, of some kind, but two years living in a doorway and refusing offers of help...
Dragon mama 1 year ago
What is paranoia to us is the literal truth to an unwell mind. Probably felt safer where she was. Considering what shelters are like, she likely WAS safer, for a different reason.
Load More Replies... Regina Holt 1 year ago
Sad but true, a very large portion of the homeless (and incarcerated) have mental health issues.
#45
Not to me but I saw a homeless person in the crosswalk walk directly up to this group of passing girls and burp in their face.
Papa 1 year ago
My guess is mental illness might have had something to do with it.
Load More Replies... #46
There was an injured pigeon on the floor and some woman came up to me and my mate and asked us to stamp on it to put it out of its misery (fyi we did not).
#47
Lady started going off about how she’s working with the CIA doing deep undercover investigation on people who were gang stalking her.
#48
I had a guy come up and start rapping at me, he then tried to sell me a mix tape.
Skara Brae 1 year ago (edited)
It's like a live commercial, but you have no mute button. (You cover your ears, I guess)
#49
I was wearing a T-shirt that said Ugly Kid on the front. And some middle aged fella stopped me and said - I bet you weren't an ugly kid 🤨.
#50
A homeless dude once called me a "police-a*s white boy" as I walked past him.
#51
I was eating Ramen one night at 7-11 and some dude walked over to scratch a lottery ticket told me his a*s will get f****d tonight if he doesn’t get it right this time. Then he just walked away after.
#53
My husband had somebody asked him where he could get a labotomy when he was at the pharmacy. He said you need a doctor first.
#54
“Hey baby are your toes painted”.
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athornedrose 1 year ago
took a shortcut through an alley i knew i really shouldn't at 3 in the morning between xmas and new years. a person with altered mental status slid out from behind a dumpster and was like "hey baby, do you need a biiiiig, stroooong, man?" i said "nah, i'm good, thanks", and he just goes "THAT'S RIGHT BABY! NO YOU DON'T! YOU DON'T! NEW YEAR, ALL YOU! YOU GOT THIS!" full volume, all enthusiasm. it made me feels so good about myself, i gave him a couple bucks and told him to keep safe out here. still makes me smile
Jeremy James 1 year ago (edited)
I was walking through an alley on my way home from work. It was late, no one was around, and I was loudly whistling, "If I Only Had A Brain." Suddenly, this man comes stumbling out of a parking structure and gives me his best Scarecrow dance. I gave him a few bucks for lifting my spirit.
JB 1 year ago
Standing at a bus stop, roughly ~20. Guy in a BMW screeched to a halt. Got out, exclaimed, “It must be fate! Have dinner with me.” I politely replied, “Sorry, no, I have a boyfriend”. I occasionally wonder if my life would have been wonderfully changed. Mostly, when I recall the incident, I’m grateful I said, “No”.
JNDauterive 1 year ago
Ever since I read about the serial killer that had a handcuff set up in his console, I’ve given major second thoughts to ever getting in a car with a stranger.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Was sitting at a cafe in Valetta having lunch with my colleague. Random woman comes up and asks my colleague if she can have a chip. Takes a chip and goes away seemingly happy. Comes back about 5 minutes later for another one. [chip being a French fry for those wondering]
Me 1 year ago
This happened to me many years ago. And on a side note, I'm a natural red head. Right after I turned 18 I moved to Flagstaff, AZ. The very next day I was standing in my open garage with a few friends when an older Navajo man (heavily intoxicated) wandered across the parking lot towards us. He grabbed my arm and started pulling me away. Then he said very seriously, "I am going to take you. I'm going to braid your hair and I'm going to scalp you". My friends had to step in to get him to let go of me and leave. Fun times in Flag.
ShellsBells 1 year ago
"Hey, little girl, wanna see some maggots?" I was doing an ER rotation at a level I trauma center. Stepped away from the trauma bays to go to the regular rooms. A homeless, repeat visitor had severe gangrene in both legs and he was advised several times he'd need his legs amputated. He'd come in, get the maggots pulled out, get his legs cleaned up as much as possible, then take off. Everytime the nurse who was chosen to clean his legs pulled out a maggot, you'd hear her scream behind the closed door.
Lee Stone 1 year ago
Those maggots were doing good work cleaning up all the dead and diseased tissue. You just have to get them before they burrow in and pupate. We didn't use them for debridement often, but man were they good at it (and gross). Hospitals use the tiny ones and you have to count them one-by-one when you're removing them. Trust me, you haven't questioned your life choices until you've chased a tiny off-white wiggler around a white sheet with a pair of cheap plastic tweezers.
Load More Replies... Cat Chat 1 year ago
I was excited to be able to finally be able to purchase an R rated movie ticket on my own. Took my sister to watch Nightmare on Elm Street IV. There was hardly anyone else in the theater, but the guy a few rows back suddenly exclaimed "I told you not to talk to me in public because nobody else can see you and it makes me look crazy". It was obviously a mentally ill homeless guy, so we did our best to ignore it as he continued to converse with what seemed like an invisible alien. But afterwards he seemed to keep trying to follow us to my car. So we pretended we forgot something back at the theater and needed to go ask about lost-and-found. The manager distracted him long enough for us to leave unfollowed.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
A woman in the subway scared me (and others) by freaking out and shrieking at me, “YOU HAVE A BLACK AURA! LOOK! SHE HAS A BLACK AURA!” It was that day that I realized that not everyone who speaks to you is okay and that we didn’t necessarily inspire them to say what they say; some people have mental illnesses causing them to say things, and there’s not actually anything wrong with you!
ronniebeaton00 1 year ago
Going for my train home after a comic con in Glasgow, I'm wearing a Star Trek uniform, I've got a Star Trek teddy bear in my arms, and some random lady grabs my sleeve and asks if I work in the station.
athornedrose 1 year ago
took a shortcut through an alley i knew i really shouldn't at 3 in the morning between xmas and new years. a person with altered mental status slid out from behind a dumpster and was like "hey baby, do you need a biiiiig, stroooong, man?" i said "nah, i'm good, thanks", and he just goes "THAT'S RIGHT BABY! NO YOU DON'T! YOU DON'T! NEW YEAR, ALL YOU! YOU GOT THIS!" full volume, all enthusiasm. it made me feels so good about myself, i gave him a couple bucks and told him to keep safe out here. still makes me smile
Jeremy James 1 year ago (edited)
I was walking through an alley on my way home from work. It was late, no one was around, and I was loudly whistling, "If I Only Had A Brain." Suddenly, this man comes stumbling out of a parking structure and gives me his best Scarecrow dance. I gave him a few bucks for lifting my spirit.
JB 1 year ago
Standing at a bus stop, roughly ~20. Guy in a BMW screeched to a halt. Got out, exclaimed, “It must be fate! Have dinner with me.” I politely replied, “Sorry, no, I have a boyfriend”. I occasionally wonder if my life would have been wonderfully changed. Mostly, when I recall the incident, I’m grateful I said, “No”.
JNDauterive 1 year ago
Ever since I read about the serial killer that had a handcuff set up in his console, I’ve given major second thoughts to ever getting in a car with a stranger.
Load More Replies... Robert T 1 year ago
Was sitting at a cafe in Valetta having lunch with my colleague. Random woman comes up and asks my colleague if she can have a chip. Takes a chip and goes away seemingly happy. Comes back about 5 minutes later for another one. [chip being a French fry for those wondering]
Me 1 year ago
This happened to me many years ago. And on a side note, I'm a natural red head. Right after I turned 18 I moved to Flagstaff, AZ. The very next day I was standing in my open garage with a few friends when an older Navajo man (heavily intoxicated) wandered across the parking lot towards us. He grabbed my arm and started pulling me away. Then he said very seriously, "I am going to take you. I'm going to braid your hair and I'm going to scalp you". My friends had to step in to get him to let go of me and leave. Fun times in Flag.
ShellsBells 1 year ago
"Hey, little girl, wanna see some maggots?" I was doing an ER rotation at a level I trauma center. Stepped away from the trauma bays to go to the regular rooms. A homeless, repeat visitor had severe gangrene in both legs and he was advised several times he'd need his legs amputated. He'd come in, get the maggots pulled out, get his legs cleaned up as much as possible, then take off. Everytime the nurse who was chosen to clean his legs pulled out a maggot, you'd hear her scream behind the closed door.
Lee Stone 1 year ago
Those maggots were doing good work cleaning up all the dead and diseased tissue. You just have to get them before they burrow in and pupate. We didn't use them for debridement often, but man were they good at it (and gross). Hospitals use the tiny ones and you have to count them one-by-one when you're removing them. Trust me, you haven't questioned your life choices until you've chased a tiny off-white wiggler around a white sheet with a pair of cheap plastic tweezers.
Load More Replies... Cat Chat 1 year ago
I was excited to be able to finally be able to purchase an R rated movie ticket on my own. Took my sister to watch Nightmare on Elm Street IV. There was hardly anyone else in the theater, but the guy a few rows back suddenly exclaimed "I told you not to talk to me in public because nobody else can see you and it makes me look crazy". It was obviously a mentally ill homeless guy, so we did our best to ignore it as he continued to converse with what seemed like an invisible alien. But afterwards he seemed to keep trying to follow us to my car. So we pretended we forgot something back at the theater and needed to go ask about lost-and-found. The manager distracted him long enough for us to leave unfollowed.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
A woman in the subway scared me (and others) by freaking out and shrieking at me, “YOU HAVE A BLACK AURA! LOOK! SHE HAS A BLACK AURA!” It was that day that I realized that not everyone who speaks to you is okay and that we didn’t necessarily inspire them to say what they say; some people have mental illnesses causing them to say things, and there’s not actually anything wrong with you!
ronniebeaton00 1 year ago
Going for my train home after a comic con in Glasgow, I'm wearing a Star Trek uniform, I've got a Star Trek teddy bear in my arms, and some random lady grabs my sleeve and asks if I work in the station.
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