#weird encounters

[nash-lostatsea]

what on earth

anyways they were awesome and I enjoyed playing w them

[quinnsanestuff]

about a year or so into my physical transition on christmas i went on a nightwalk to escape from drunks, i walked for a few hours as usual, waiting for them to go to bed, it was like 3 or 4 at night, the streets were super empty and dark and in one of the backstreets a man, clearly drunk, staggered around, he saw me, pointed at me, and walked over

he put his arm around me, called me brother, asked me where i was from, if i lived here, and if i had a nice holiday, that he immigrated here and didnt really celebrate christmas in his culture but liked having a few days off to spend with his family, then he gave me a hug and wished me well

it was such a stark contrast to how i was used to being treated by men during my night walks before id transitioned that i didnt even have time to be scared

[thesmilingfish]

It was pouring rain and I was walking from my car to the grocery store when I was stopped by a little old lady wearing a bright pink raincoat pointing at the fire station across the street and said “the flag is at half mast”. I looked and thought for a moment and said “maybe President Carter passed away.” She looked at me with bright eyes and told me I might be right and rushed off into the rain.

Spoiler alert: he had not. Now I wanna know why the flag was at half mast.

[ariane-giudice]

As I was about to pull out of my company's parking lot today for my lunch break, I met a wild boar!

He (not that I actually tell if it was a girl or a boy) was strolling along the little side road the company is located on, continued through the ditch for a little bit and then proceeded to cross a main road while the traffic light was green - a happy coincidence, I might add, because he certainly didn't stop to check. At a leisurely jog, he continued through another company parking lot, where I unfortunately lost sight of him.

The one time I see something exciting had to be when I couldn't reach my phone to take pictures, of course. Let me tell you, I was very happy to be inside my car, he was pretty big!

In all the decades I've lived here, I've never seen a boar, let alone in town! (It is a relatively small town surrounded by woods, and I know that there's all kinds of wildlife there. But it was literally the middle of the day!)

So, that was my exciting moment of the day, which I wanted to share with the world. (The gif is just for illustration purposes 😊)

[rays-of-gold]

weird encounters with men i’ve had in this past week

i got asked my age followed after i didn’t answer and left

got told (while with my brother) ‘that i’m going to buy this [arcade game] and put it in my house’ while he moved closer to us

an older gentleman asked me how were supposed to reach the top shelf [for water at walmart]: this one didn’t creep me out and i felt like i was talking to my grandpa so i didn’t mind this one, but still weird because i was alone

(id like to make note that these happened on a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday)

i guy asked for my number (this never happens so i’m going to consider it as “weird”)

[primarybufferpanel]

Close Encounters Of The Alien Dancing Karate Dentist Kind

I can’t remember if I ever told this story here. And it was just brought to mind. So.

When I went to Wasteland Weekend the first time in 2016 I drove back in a rental RV with faithful co-pilot/lancer @fuckyeahisawthat​ It was sunday late afternoon. We just had 4 days of the most amazing, surreal, exhausting event of my life, and I struggled to sleep the entire time because I was jetlagged and it was cold at night, so reality was already being a bit weird for me. I think we were still in our Wasteland clothes? Or halfway there anyway.

Somewhere between Palmdale and San Fernando I desperately needed a coffee stop and we turned off highway 14. There was a very short turn at the end of the offramp. We ended up in the most surreal strip-mall type place where everything was closed except for the world's tiniest burger drive-through. Just a small blocky building with a window on one side to take your order, and then you’d drive around to the window on the other side, where probably the same person would give you your order.

We parked and got out because I needed the driving break. There was nobody else there. There was one of those plastic toddler swingsets, swinging slowly, creaking in the wind. This sign was visible across the road:

We marvelled over the karate dentist that dances in action.

We went to the order window of the little food place. There was an incredibly pretty girl at the counter, the kind of face/appearance you associate with magazines. I ordered a latte. Then I changed my mind because I remembered ice coffee existed, and asked to change to that. The girl had a LOT of trouble understanding my order change and we just... stared at each other noncomprehendingly. I'm an ESL speaker so maybe I was just.. incomprehensible?  That isn't usually an issue unless I'm very drunk or half unconscious though, and I think @fuckyeahisawthat​ was also puzzled. But, I was also out of it enough to need help operating my small change. American coins, man. Feh.

So it COULD be that I was exhausted and out of it. Or it could be that she was an alien put there for some reason and had no idea what she was supposed to do at a tiny burgerplace drive through window. The whole place had that feel of ‘Wasn’t here yesterday and won’t be here tomorrow’. I never could find it on a map afterward.

Here’s a photo of the food place. On the right, the drive through order window. On the opposite side, the collection window.

We’ve since taken a different route to Wasteland to avoid hairy traffic points, but I feel it’s probably best not to try to find this one again anyway. I don’t know what that alien was there to accomplish but I hope they succeeded. 

[bladethewolfartist]

I hope we meet again Mr Unicorn man

today on weird encounters I met a very magic man. 

I was done getting some food from the shops and waiting for my mum to finish a work meeting since she was my lift back home when I was sitting on a bench and this 73 year old man sat beside me.

He smiled and asked if I was lost to which I answered I was not and he asked if he could show me something and asked if I liked pink,purple or yellow. I said purple and he asked me to hand over my phone and laughed when he saw the apple logo saying something about how the creature loves apples.

He then put a foam sticker of a unicorn head on it laughing and smiling and talked to me about how he bought them at a pound store for like a hundred a pound and hands them out to strangers who look lost or confused so they will always remember the funny man who gave it to them.

He had this great sense of humour and was just so wise I am pretty sure he was an ancient god who just liked to chat with people.

whoever you are Mr unicorn man... you are my new inspiration in life

[purralyth]

on january 31st while waiting for a bus i was confronted by a crunchy-looking soft-spoken man that did not smell of weed (actually he smelled like. tap water) but he absolutely looked stoned out of his mind. when he talked to me his head was directly in front of the sun and his skin was as cold as marble and he knew things about me that he had no reason to know and listen, i am not religious, but all i can believe is that jesus woke up from a 2019 year old slumber to talk to Me