Your Strangest Interaction With A Stranger

[LobsterFeng]

Have you ever had a time where someone you've never met before says or does something totally random to you? Like today when I was at the store I got a hug from a man I never met before because we both happened to be wearing <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_New>Brand New t-shirts.

Anyone else got stories like these?

 

[Suarga]

People are surprisingly normal to me, relative to how people are on the internet, where I spend most of my days.

 

[the spud]

This one dude walked up to me, says, and I quote, "Do you work at subway? Cause I just got a five dollar footlong."
I don't think he was really homosexual, I think he was joking, but he could have gotten into some real trouble if it happened to someone not as well humored.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=512K3-B22GI

I find that oddly hilarious.

 

[Slanzinger]

I was getting on a tram in Germany last night, and someone to my right just goes "Hey Gandalf! Gandalf!"
I look around "Yeah you. Is this tram going to the main square?"

Back in England I get told I look like all sorts of people in pubs (James May, Alan Davies, a couple others - it's the hair, see left). Gandalf is a completely new and incredibly perplexing one for me.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

This one time a random stranger started talking to me and my friends. He asked us if we knew what the human body's strongest muscle was, and then he kept talking. He even told me that I should commit awful acts of debauchery with one of the friends I was with, despite her having a boyfriend. A very strange person indeed, and I do hope I never see him again.

 

[fletch_talon]

It was dark, I'd just finished work (so around 8pm) was riding my bike to meet some friends (I wasn't quite 18).

A bloke pulled up in his car, leaned out the window and asked:
"Do you know where a guy can go to have a good time?"

I said no, I wish I had told him to get fucked and then rode off, but instead I just stood there when he asked:
"Are you homosexual?"
No.
"Bicurious?"
No...

Then he drove off.
I still consider myself an idiot for giving him the time of day. I'm just glad I had the common sense not to be too close to his car (I think I was on a traffic island while he was parked on the side of the road). I just have a tendency to be too polite for my own fucking good.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

One time, a drunk lady on the bus told me she wanted her kids to grow up to be just like me.

I was proud.

 

[LobsterFeng]

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[Yokai]

A man on the bus once asked me if I had ever shaved a woman before. I gave him the eyebrow and promptly exited the bus.

On a less creepy/more awesome note, there was a small brush fire at a bus stop the other day. It had gone underground and was smoldering around the base of the bushes. The only people there were me and a 70-year-old Vietnamese man, so we spent five minutes stomping it out. When the old guy got tired, he sat down on the bench and stoically pointed with his cane at patches of flame that sprung up so that I could stomp on them. I managed to put it all out, and when I did the guy nodded to me and applauded. He never said a word.

 

[the spud]

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Thanks!

What did you think of that gorilla?

Crazy stuff, huh?

 

[Greatjusticeman]

I remember walking into Little Caesars to grab a pizza.

A thuggish looking guy walked out and asked if I had any cigarettes. I said no. Then he offered me some pot, which I also declined.

He was real nice about it, but it was just odd.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I remember when I went to Reynosa, Mexico about a year ago. I was walking with my group, and a prostitute walked up and propositioned me. It was odd. She wasn?t unattractive, but I, for obvious reasons, declined. She then flashed me her breasts and walked off.
Strangest 45 seconds of my life

 

[Stasisesque]

Way too many to list, so I'll go with my most recent one.

Sitting on a train during rush hour (morning), obviously inebriated man in his early 30s I'd guess approaches me, says, "Hello alternative lady," shakes my hand, asks if I know where he could get a drink (train does not have a buffet car) and wobbles off down the aisle after I apologise I do not.

 

[Ambi]

There was this quiet emo-ish kid a few grades below who I thought was cute. We exchanged smiles a few times as if we were friends before we talked. We happened to be in a group together for something and I asked his name, and then a short time later we (him, my close friend and me) had some kind of "deep and meaningful" conversation and he went on about how his dad left and how he doesn't have talents. Now he's bigger and taller than me and loud and mean to people (mostly sarcastically). I introduced him to one of my best friends and they fought like kids literally straight away and I filmed it.

Once I was at this cafe in New Zealand in search of internet. My dad and I walked in and the guy offered us good coffee and internet for $2, which was pretty nice. I did my usual forum checking and everything, and then had a look around at all the activist propagnda and music stuff and quotes everywhere and there was a local death metal band playing out the back room (I was too shy to go in though) and the guy was a vegetarian and everything. I thought it was a pretty nice place, and the guy was really nice, so I left a slightly exorbitant tip in the jar thing or whatever it is. Later he walked up to us and said he had some sandwiches to get rid of and asked if we wanted them for free. That was nice.

I get crushes on strangers sometimes. When I was fifteen, I came back to the spot I was sitting at the school library and the older guy I liked had sat down in it and was looking through my notebook (not my school book, just a notebook I carried) and asked my friends if the Frankenstein novel next to it was what I was reading. I got really nervous and slowly walked past my intended destination with folded arms and shakily fiddled with my clothes, not really knowing what to do. That was really awkward.

There are a few more. Yes, I'm not good at connecting paragraphs.

Have you ever had a time where someone you've never met before says or does something totally random to you? Like today when I was at the store I got a hug from a man I never met before because we both happened to be wearing <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_New>Brand New t-shirts.

Anyone else got stories like these?

That is adorable. Maybe I should wear more band shirts, haha.

 

[KafkaOffTheBeach]

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh you and the other dude/chick/whatever have made my day with that little golden video.
Really.
Judge the state of my day as you will...

OT: I don't really remember that many strange encounters, honestly, although I know I've had a few.
I hailed a cab for Ian Rankin once, though.
And Terry Pratchett once told off my mother for being too eloquent.

 

[Zyntoxic]

I was sitting by a café with a friend eating icecream when a man in his 50's walks up to us ans says

"God praise us all"

my friend gets startled an looks at him

"What?"

and the man leans forward and again says

"God prais us all. you see we are all important to god"

Me and my friend are confused and try to explain that we are not really into religion but the man shakes his head at us and explain he is a priest and it is his duty to inform us about god and that in the eyes of god we are all equal and loved.
By this point I realize he seems kinda drunk so I ask him

"sir, are you drunk?"

He straighten up and winces

"there is nothing wrong with aclohol, it is just you swedes that sucks at handeling their liquor. Italians, like me, on the other hand, we are great at handeling our liquor"

then he looks around him self seeming paranoid all of a sudden.

"you know last week, in the news paper it wass all about that guy who got kicked to death by som idiots"

he then pauses and looks at us fo a while and leans in and pats him self over the jacket and wispers

"I don't wanna get kicked in the head by any idiots, so I have a gun"

me and my friend freez up and give eachother a look and I slowly nod to the drunk, armed priest and says that it was pleasant meeting him but that we had to get on our way and we hurriedly got as far away from the guy as we could

 

[aPod]

Im usually the one making people feel uncomfortable.

I like riding in elevators... facing the group of people back to the doors. Have you ever noticed how people really just don't want to anything with people in elevators? Anyways, that's always good fun.

 

[Biosophilogical]

On my first (second?) day of uni, two older people (for university, so probably late 20s early 30s) come up to me, in a crowded place (for which my adrenal glands are very thankful) and go "Hey, you a first year?" (They also had that crazy-hobo look)
"Yeah"
"What course you doing?"
"*my course*"
"Oh, my friend here is a third year *course*"
"Cool"
"So, where having a Bible study group-"
"No thanks. But thanks anyway"
Then I walked away as slow as I could make my freaking-out legs go.

It sounds less creepy in text, but the way they looked, and the way they just picked me out of the crowd and started talking to me ... it freaked me out, in a kind of "There really isn't a bible group, mwhahahahaha *various nonconsentual horrors*" kind of way.

EDIT:

Im usually the one making people feel uncomfortable.

I like riding in elevators... facing the group of people back to the doors. Have you ever noticed how people really just don't want to anything with people in elevators? Anyways, that's always good fun.

I've done this while I was out with friends (mainly to embarass them). My brother got his tradie and a couple other apprentices to do this because he wanted to show them the group mentality by pranking a new apprentice with it. Basically, they all faced the back when they got in, and when the new guy walked in, he looked around, then faced the back as well.