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What is the strangest thing a complete stranger has ever told you?

bender

bender

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My sister's crazy neighbor told me conspiracy theories about Michelle Obama being a man during my nephew's graduation party. All because I live in Colorado. Trinidad, I guess.
 
Doom85

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Gorgyles

Gorgyles

Banned
I have a recording of the strangest thing a stranger has told me.

I worked at a church so schizos would sometimes call.
Their intonation is normal, but the content of their speech is nonsense.



"I'm with the institute of Albert Einstein"
"It's quite apparent... I'm on the moon"

My co-worker going "uh huh" still cracks me up
 
TheGreatMusashi

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I was walking out of a gas station in a very small, very rural town and was stopped by a guy in a pickup truck with the window rolled down. Our car was parked next to his, my wife was in the passenger seat and he saw me and called me over. He started asking how long we’d been together and stuff along those lines. After a few questions he proceeds to spend about 10 minutes detailing his ancestry back to the original Native Americans who lived in the area hundreds of years before. After this he reached it to his short pocket and pulled out a small, fake red bird and handed it to me. He said it was a good luck charm for young love or some shit. Normally I dismiss people or would have shut it down but I was transfixed by his general strangeness.

Still have the bird somewhere in storage, meth is a hell of a drug.
 
nush

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Winter John said:
I went home with some girl I'd met in a club. Afterwards when we were snuggling she said that she saw my face when she was giving birth to her daughter, and I was her real dad. I was like nuh uh lady.
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I've met this type of nutjob also. It was during a business meeting, well the after dinner part. She got the hots for my colleague and said something like to him. "I should have your baby, then when the baby is old enough I can marry the baby and he'll be just like you". I remember this woman even 10 years later was called Tilly, and that was one uncomfortable long business dinner because she kept coming out with random weird comments like that and even her own colleagues were side eying her while trying to remain professional.
 
MGHA

MGHA

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I once replied to someone's antics in a grocery store by reciting an applicable line of poetry and they replied by saying HUH?!
 
MastAndo

MastAndo

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I lost my virginity on a cruise ship. I was in my room messing around with this young lady I had just met in the ship's dance club an hour or so before, about to seal the deal and suddenly she goes "Hey, you're on TV". The room TV's played videos from the days events/excursions on a loop, and there I was, a star. It was a lot to take in.

My most unusual interaction with a stranger didn't involve any words at all. I was about 12 years old, walking home from school with 2 friends and this wide-eyed lunatic comes charging at me and just absolutely wails me in the stomach out of nowhere, kicks me in the ass while I'm hunched over, then runs off. He didn't shout anything cool like "sic semper tyrannis!" or "what's the frequency, Kenneth?", unfortunately - maybe next time.

Oh, around the same time, this monstrous brute of a preteen snatched my hat off my head one afternoon at recess. Didn't know the kid at all (hadn't seen him before and it seemed like he left the school shortly afterwards), so it wasn't in fun or anything. I chased him down to the middle of the school yard and he says "Want your hat back? Call me pimp daddy". No problem, I've done worse, but eventually he made me scream it a few times, which was peak humiliation. I wish someone had taught me you're supposed to slug someone in the mouth in situations like this. He did give my hat back though. Nice fellow, I wonder what he's up to now.

Oh oh, another time I was taking my lunch break at work, walking over to a deli to grab a bite. It was dead of winter in NYC and back then it snowed here, so the ground was slippery. Anyway, I stumbled a bit on a slippery patch of ground and suddenly this black lady shouts at me "What's with all these white people busting their asses?!" I had no answer for her.
 
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Artoris

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When I was a teenager, a man approached me and said life is like the world, it keeps going round and round then his friend turned up and said there is plenty of fish in the reservoir and I should try fishing there
 
jufonuk

jufonuk

not tag worthy
Overheard someone asking another person at a bus stop if they worship satan. Or a lady on the bus clearly unwell demand everyone stop talking while she claimed to be married to Robbie Williams She would also single out random teenagers and tell any couples not to have sex and become pregnant. Threatening to call the school of the kids.

i think she also then got annoyed because I got up to leave the bus at my stop and didn’t let her leave first. Even though there was no indication of her wanting to leave. Telling me manners that I should let older people off (her) even though i could tell I was clearly older ?!?

Was more entertaining weird than crazy.

Nothing beats NYC or LA though.

Homeless guy on the street in nyc

“Hey you got any change”

Sorry no

“Fuck you then” in a sort of why did I waste his time kind of way.

Guy on the bus in LA sweeting and gurning like mad But quietly and calmly. Got of his stop and continued to gurn and sweat while walking normally.

Bus driver carried on as usual
 
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mcjmetroid

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I Suppose not the strangest since it's becoming very commonplace these days.

But i had a friend of a friend tell me about her suicide attempts on the first meeting.

I was like? HUH what?
 
IDKFA

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
In March last year I was sat in the train from London to Bath and somebody had left a copy of the Telegraph newspaper on the seat I sat in. I needed to take a break from a screen anyway so made use of the free reading material.

At one stop a group of men got on the train and walked past my seat. One of them noticed what I was reading, quickly grabbed a handful of the paper, scrunched it up, called me a "fascist piece of shit" and casually walked on down the aisle with his two buddies.

I looked up for a second, then flattened out the paper and proceed to carry on reading.
 
jufonuk

jufonuk

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IDKFA said:
In March last year I was sat in the train from London to Bath and somebody had left a copy of the Telegraph newspaper on the seat I sat in. I needed to take a break from a screen anyway so made use of the free reading material.

At one stop a group of men got on the train and walked past my seat. One of them noticed what I was reading, quickly grabbed a handful of the paper, scrunched it up, called me a "fascist piece of shit" and casually walked on down the aisle with his two buddies.

I looked up for a second, then flattened out the paper and proceed to carry on reading.
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Reminds me of a train journey I had From central london. Just sitting on an empty train. Then this guy sat near me. Somehow. The conversation turned to tv shows (maybe he just blurted it out most probably) and the guy insisted he was the voice actor for the English dub of the TV series monkey. Claiming there was a remake coming it was big budget etc. Thinking about it more it was either his claim it was the best ever cgi budget thing or really violent etc and full of sex. (This way before GoT) the more he went into details the more I was like

Bruce Willis GIF


He kept showing me his “acting” skills by saying things like “trippytaka” and making motions to call for the cloud.
Quoting random lines. Sing the old series theme tune. If memory serves making the instrumental sounds himself. Needless to say. it didn’t sound professional at all.

I didn’t know how to react. So I think I just sort did the “ok wow cool” reaction.

I think he knew I didn’t believe him.

He kept insisting and even gave me a dvd. For free saying I should watch it.
Even when I did the I got no money for it. But he kept insisting. Telling me I should watch it and he didn’t want money. He seemed insulted by this notion. When I was like err ok. He seemed to calm down.
He got off the train before me. when I eventually got home I thought ok. Sure why not. And out the DVD on.
Turned out to be a random Chinese documentary. All in Chinese. The guy was English.wtf?!? The only thing I could think was he picked it up in China town in london.
 
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Jsisto

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nush said:
I've met this type of nutjob also. It was during a business meeting, well the after dinner part. She got the hots for my colleague and said something like to him. "I should have your baby, then when the baby is old enough I can marry the baby and he'll be just like you". I remember this woman even 10 years later was called Tilly, and that was one uncomfortable long business dinner because she kept coming out with random weird comments like that and even her own colleagues were side eying her while trying to remain professional.
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What the fuck lol
 
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Days like these...

Have a Blessed Day
jufonuk said:
Reminds me of a train journey I had From central london. Just sitting on an empty train. Then this guy sat near me. Somehow. The conversation turned to tv shows (maybe he just blurted it out most probably) and the guy insisted he was the voice actor for the English dub of the TV series monkey. Claiming there was a remake coming it was big budget etc. Thinking about it more it was either his claim it was the best ever cgi budget thing or really violent etc and full of sex. (This way before GoT) the more he went into details the more I was like

Bruce Willis GIF


He kept showing me his “acting” skills by saying things like “trippytaka” and making motions to call for the cloud.
Quoting random lines. Sing the old series theme tune. If memory serves making the instrumental sounds himself. Needless to say. it didn’t sound professional at all.

I didn’t know how to react. So I think I just sort did the “ok wow cool” reaction.

I think he knew I didn’t believe him.

He kept insisting and even gave me a dvd. For free saying I should watch it.
Even when I did the I got no money for it. But he kept insisting. Telling me I should watch it and he didn’t want money. He seemed I suited by this notion. When I was like err ok. He seemed to calm down.
He got off the train before me. when I eventually got home I thought ok. Sure why not. And out the DVD on.
Turned out to be a random Chinese documentary. All in Chinese. The guy was English.wtf?!? The only thing I could think was he picked it up in China town in london.
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You ever stop to consider he gave you the wrong dvd? Guy sounded legit you should have gotten an autograph.
 
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OZ9000

Banned
Someone told me to have a blessed day. HOW FUCKING DARE HE.

nush said:
I've met this type of nutjob also. It was during a business meeting, well the after dinner part. She got the hots for my colleague and said something like to him. "I should have your baby, then when the baby is old enough I can marry the baby and he'll be just like you". I remember this woman even 10 years later was called Tilly, and that was one uncomfortable long business dinner because she kept coming out with random weird comments like that and even her own colleagues were side eying her while trying to remain professional.
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Lmfao. This has got to be the best post in this this thread.
 
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StreetsofBeige

StreetsofBeige

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At a restaurant, a bunch of us were ordering steaks and the people at my table (not me as I'm fast) were holding up the server as they were undecided bickering at each other what to get and how to have it cooked.

The server said:

"Eat for yourself. But dress for others".

Makes sense to me.
 
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Woggleman

Member
I lived in NYC for eight years so I have a ton of examples but the weirdest one was some guy in a bathroom asking me to smell his armpits to see if he smelled. He did but I told him he smelled fine just to get him out of there. Another guy came up to me and knew my name, my family and all these details about me and claimed he was an old friend but to this day I have no clue who this guy was.
 
Grildon Tundy

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Member
When I was in line at a locally-famous ice cream place on vacation, a resident Florida Man came up behind me and started a conversation with me and my friend. I quickly turned away and my friend, who's much nicer than me, continued talking to him.

Within two minutes we learned his brother was in jail for possessing illegal content involving minors and he offered the advice to "just look up cartoons if you're into that sort of thing".

Man, I just wanted some ice cream.
 
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ÆMNE22A!C

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Woggleman said:
I lived in NYC for eight years so I have a ton of examples but the weirdest one was some guy in a bathroom asking me to smell his armpits to see if he smelled. He did but I told him he smelled fine just to get him out of there. Another guy came up to me and knew my name, my family and all these details about me and claimed he was an old friend but to this day I have no clue who this guy was.
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I'm somewhat jealous.
 
ÆMNE22A!C

ÆMNE22A!C

NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
Grildon Tundy said:
When I was in line at a locally-famous ice cream place on vacation, a resident Florida Man came up behind me and started a conversation with me and my friend. I quickly turned away and my friend, who's much nicer than me, continued talking to him.

Within two minutes we learned his brother was in jail for possessing illegal content involving minors and he offered the advice to "just look up cartoons if you're into that sort of thing".

Man, I just wanted some ice cream.
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Awkward icecream experience 4 life yo
 
fran.fernandez

fran.fernandez

Member
“You are like Mickey Mouse” and people around the guy agree, even the girl I was dating.


Im white Latino but my grandparents are Europeans (German and Spanish)
 
BadBurger

BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
When I was a teen, there was a crazy guy in my area who used to walk miles across town almost every day in a cheap black suit, holding a bagged lunch. He would randomly walk up to people and tell them bits of odd, almost certainly made up trivia, or tell them the future. One day myself and some friends were sitting in this old park in the center of our neighborhood when the guy walks up and starts his routine. Everyone was used to it, so we just sat and listened, giggled, asked him to clarify things, whatever. Before he leaves he looks me in the eyes real serious like and says "April 15th. Be very careful young man. April 15th".

So weeks go by, April 15th is fast approaching, and I realize this crazy dude got in my head. I start worrying about what will happen.

Of course April 15th came and went with nothing special happening, but I find that amusing whenever I think back on it.
 
ÆMNE22A!C

ÆMNE22A!C

NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
BadBurger said:
When I was a teen, there was a crazy guy in my area who used to walk miles across town almost every day in a cheap black suit, holding a bagged lunch. He would randomly walk up to people and tell them bits of odd, almost certainly made up trivia, or tell them the future. One day myself and some friends were sitting in this old park in the center of our neighborhood when the guy walks up and starts his routine. Everyone was used to it, so we just sat and listened, giggled, asked him to clarify things, whatever. Before he leaves he looks me in the eyes real serious like and says "April 15th. Be very careful young man. April 15th".

So weeks go by, April 15th is fast approaching, and I realize this crazy dude got in my head. I start worrying about what will happen.

Of course April 15th came and went with nothing special happening, but I find that amusing whenever I think back on it.
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It nestled in your mind man. Maybe he got the year wrong.....

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Husky

Husky

THE Prey 2 fanatic
First thing that comes to mind is when a mentally ill guy told me to be careful, and that he didn't want me to get run over (I was on a bench like forty feet from the road). Said something about how it wouldn't make him happy, no it wouldn't.

Okay okay, just remembering this one guy who flirted with me really hardcore at a bus stop. The strangest parts were when he offered for me to make myself more comfortable, and gave some examples of how I could do so, such as letting him put his arms around my shoulder, or resting my head on his lap. Near the end of our talk, he gave a hypothetical of how if someone approached me with a gun, he'd step in front of it and say "you wanna shoot him, you have to shoot me," then continued by telling me "because that's what I do, I protect the people I love."
And oh man, he kept repeating that he would never do anything to hurt me. I never told him I was uncomfortable, if anything I was flattered, but his constant reminders that he would never hurt me were definitely the biggest (of many) red flags.
 
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gow3isben

gow3isben

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Not strangest but the greatest comment I ever received from a stranger was from a nurse while getting my blood drawn just after college:

“You men and your big, veiny…forearms”

I had just started working out for a year and I still think about that sometimes.
 
Tams

Tams

Member
Nothing much.

Once had Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' recited to me as I came up for air at the end of pool by the old woman in the lane next to me though. In Japan.

Turns out she was the widow of the old mayor who'd pretty much gotten the town built-up after the coal mine closed, including that swimming pool.
 
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