In July 1982 I took Amtrak to San Francisco. (I bought my tickets in the station in Los Angeles.) At one point the train was stopped on a siding so the southbound train could pass. I was listening to cassettes at the time; a conductor came by and asked what I was listening to on my headset; I handed him the index card, from the cassette box, that I wrote the song titles on. (I recorded favorite songs off 45s onto a blank cassette and wrote the song titles on the blank index card.)
The conductor took the index card and said out loud, “Let me go, I’m broke.” :o
Post here something funny–or embarrassing, or whatever–a person you didn’t know said to you or in your presence.
my son and i were crossing the street, the light turned yellow on us, and i shouted “Run, Daniel!”
a woman on the curb scowled at me, and when i got across, she informed me i was probably the worst parent she had ever met.
then she stomped off in a huff.
by the time i had scooped my jaw off the ground, she was gone.
i took me several minutes to figure out when i Shouted “Run, Daniel”…she must have heard “Run, Damn you”
I’m pink therefore I’m Spam
A strange woman once felt the need to come up to me and say, “Hi, skinny girl, I just lost fifteen pounds.” I was in my mid-teens, an age when most girls feel terribly humiliated about their bodies, and in my book “skinny” is not a compliment. What an idiot.
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[skulking] “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” [/skulking]
A complete stranger walked up to me at a party, wiped her finger across my upper lip (I have a mole/beauty mark) and said “My God, is that REAL???”…Well, if it weren’t, I would have had it smeared all over. Bizzare!
Zanta
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
Not enough and you’re gonna die…
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On a flight from the West Coast to the East Coast, a nice man handed me the gallon jug of distilled water (don’t ask)I had in the overhead compartment. He did comment, You know, you can drink the water here.
I had a total stranger on the bus ask if I’d had my lips “done.” (Yes, I am riding the bus because I spent my car payment on collagen…)I just said “no” politely, and she nodded and sat down further back.
But at least she didn’t ask if I’d had a boob job.
Catrandom, all factory parts
Does it have to be strangers? Once when my brother and I were kids our grandfather took us to Dairy Queen (big, BIG deal!) and we were driving home after. He’d bought himself a shake, and while drinking it his truck slowly eased off the road and into a ditch. My brother and I gawked at each other in bewilderment as the truck tilted sideways and the branch of a roadside tree came jutting through the window on our side. My grandfather shifted the truck into 1st, turned the wheels and vroomed back onto the road. Once we were on our way again he muttered “I’m gonna have to stop doing that.” WHOA!!! That’s become a bit of a family catchphrase whenever someone does something amazingly bizarre or stupid (such as after falling down a flight of stairs, etc.)
“There’s a snake in my boot!”
In college, I was walking with a lady friend of mine, and a stranger asked us what costume ball we were going to.
I was in jeans and a t-shirt, sporting a mohawk, she had normal hair and red lipstick. Nothing too out of the ordinary…
Nothing is so bad that it can’t get worse.
i am usually the stranger who says odd things to people.
i was shopping with my grandmother… actually, she was shopping, i was the pack mule.
well, i was heavily laden with large packages and bags. and i saw a woman pass us with an empty shopping cart.
i nudged my grandmother and said loudly enough to be heard by the woman…
“quick, gramma, you distract her i’ll steal her cart”
gramma was embarassed but laughed. the woman politely chuckled…then left in a hurry.
I’m pink therefore I’m Spam
In my prior life I lived in Hollywood, Florida. One days, I returned from work, parked my car out from of the house, and headed up the walk. When I got to the door, I heard someone shout “Hey Asshole.” Being an asshole and all, I turned around. Some guy had stopped his little blue pickup truck in the road and was yelling at me!? He told me to move my car or he’d called the police and have it towed. I yelled over him, “Hey, am I parked illegally?” He said yes, the policeman that guarded the hospital parking lot across the street yelled “No, and sir you should get another hobby.” I’m glad I am always friendly to police.
about six years ago, while delivering a pizza, a woman smiled and said to me “Merry Christmas”. I replied “Merry Christmas” to her, and smiled back.
It was March.
once i heard a woman scream “let me talk to the god damn mother fucking manager right now!”
this was in the popcorn line waiting to see toy story. what could make you that upset in the popcorn line?
We live in an age that reads to much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful–Oscar Wilde
My wife and I were out somewhere, and she was wearing some big earrings, and we noticed this woman walking toward us. She came up to my wife and shouted “OH MY GOD I JUST HAVE TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR EARRINGS!!!”. We thanked her and hurried off.
No, Voguevixen, it doesn’t have to be strangers. I thought the message you gave was pretty good! 
When I worked at Universal Studios’ theme park, employee uniforms were kept in Wardrobe; you picked up your uniform and got changed in a communal dressing room. Once I was getting changed at the end of a shift when this older woman, whom I only knew by sight, started shrieking, “Oh my gawd–a red brassiere!” I was wearing a red bra and matching pants, and she kept saying, “I never heard of a red brassiere before!” I wasn’t embarrassed, but I couldn’t help wondering what planet she was from. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a lingerie department that didn’t have an assortment of bras in different colors and patterns, along with white and beige.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
After a football game, my boyfriend and a few of his friends all headed over to Denny’s where we ordered dessert. When my huge banana split arrived, an old woman all the way across the restaurant looked at me and yelled, “How do you stay so skinny?” It was weird, to say the least.
Ok, this isn’t from a stranger (she happened to be my roommate at the time), but it’s pretty funny…
It was quite late, and I’d just come home from work (swing shift). I walk into the apt. and the light’s on in the kitchen. I turn the corner into the kitchen to turn it off, and there, sitting on the floor with her feet propped up on the refrigerator, is my roommate, chugging milk right out of the container. She stops chugging, looks at me sheepishly, and says, “I like to stick my feet in paint and walk up the refrigideezer.” I about choked, laughing so hard, and that image/moment is burned in my memory forever!
Another time, I’d come home from work and my roommate was already asleep in her room. I turn the TV on low to catch a little of the Tonight Show, and as I’m watching TV on the couch (I can see into my roommie’s bedroom from where I’m sitting), my roommate suddely sits straight up in bed and says, in a clear, loud voice, “I don’t want another hamburger!” Then she lays back down again as if nothing happened.
I’m tellin’ ya, I never had a roommate that was so entertaining!
StoryTyler
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
C’mon up and see me sometime.
“You don’t look Jewish.”
(Psssssst. Come closer so I can whisper the reason in your ear. Shhhhhhh, now don’t tell anyone because it’s my personal secret trick. It’s because I poofed my hair up really big to cover up my horns, you big freakin’ moron!)
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
After ordering the “monster triple burger” at a local burger joint, I wandered up to pay for it, just as the teenage girl was wrapping the burger. She hadn’t noticed me standing across the counter as she commented to her co-worker…
"Whoever ordered this must have a really big mouth…
I responded, “I sure do.”
Then she looked up to see me smiling at her, she turned five shades of red, and disappeared into the kitchen.
Wishing all you at the SDMB Happy Xmas and a GREAT 2000 and beyond!