I’ve always wanted to participate in one of these “strangest thing you ever seen/did/found” type threads, but never had anything to contribute. Until today.
I was at the grocery store, and saw an elderly couple outside, dressed in the typical casual clothes you’d expect any elderly couple to be wearing, as if they were riding a golf cart around a retirement community in Florida. Except they weren’t getting into a golf cart, or motor home, or any sort of car you’d associate with old people.
They were getting into a super-stretch limousine. The FRONT seat, mind you. (I tried looking in the back seat, but the tinted windows made it hard to see anything. I think it was full of luggage.)
Hmm, I guess this doesn’t seem so strange now, after the fact. But it was pretty darn surreal. Anyone care to add their stories?
Buster Keaton wearing a Sari. (Not in person, thankfully.)
And apparently a couple of years ago, when the 30th anniversery of the movie “Night of the Living Dead” came around, my Dad saw a group of people dressed as Zombies lurching about the University campus in celebration. (Though it was sometimes easy to confuse them with the usual group of moaning rag-tag people lurching about the campus. But the Zombies were carrying fewer paper bags from liquor stores.)
My wife just got a Miata and last week we were driving on a freeway in Memphis. As I pulled up next to a limo I noticed a young kid leaning out the window. He yelled “Nice car” as we passed. Again it may not seem strange now, but at the time it was really a weird experience.
Smelled something strange as I walked up the stairs out of the train station. When I got to the top I went around the corner to see…
Two guys in their mid-50’s, standing in the middle of a busy downtown sidewalk. One of them was naked from the waist down, the other appeared to be wiping the first one’s ass and legs. I didn’t care to get a more detailed view of what was going on.
Like the other 500 people on the sidewalk this morning, I kept walking, bought my morning coffee, and continued on to my office.
I feel guilty for laughing so hard at this, but it was so funny at the time:
I’m sitting in a car stopped for a light at an intersection. On the sidewalk, two guys approach each other at right angles. One is blind, using a white cane. The other is in a powered wheelchair moving at a pretty good clip. There is a tall hedge between them. I was at an angle where I could see them both; they were unaware of each other.
It was just so inevitable, and seemed straight out of a Monty Python skit. They smashed into each other and went tumbling into the hedge. They were getting up and sorting themselves out when the light changed and I left.
The car repair business at the end of my street exploded once.
I was at home waiting to hear back from a job interview when I noticed flames licking the back of the building a few doors down. Apparently one of the mechanics had accidentally started a fire; when the fuel tanks for the welding gear started going up the fire brigade abandoned the street and we had to move out for a few hours.
I’ve also watched a 1950s-era military fire engine deliberately crashed onto a roundabout down at the other end of my street (for the filming of a drama series), and while at the Farnborough Air Show some years back I was in the crowd when one of the engines on a Russian An-124 cargo plane exploded.