# Odd interaction at the 24 hour store **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554 "2024-04-20T18:15:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/21 "2024-04-21T00:06:44Z")
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/22 "2024-04-21T05:08:36Z")
I agree that their altered state is the primary explanation, with the addition that you and your shirt are largely irrelevant. I think the boyfriend was laughing at the girlfriend’s words and behavior. She could have said literally anything to anyone, and he would then react to the fact that she was so high she didn’t know what she was doing or saying. In other words, it’s not “I can’t believe _that blue shirt_ would be seen as nice,” it’s more “I can’t believe _she reacted_ so weirdly to a blue shirt.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/23 "2024-04-21T09:04:55Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > > [@by-tor](#): > > > > They also seemed high on something. > > You answered your questions very near the beginning of your story. Yep. Check the date of this occurrence. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/24 "2024-04-21T11:09:11Z")
Sounds like 'shrooms to me. Uncontrollable laughter over the dumbest shit right as it kicks in. Went camping one time with a bunch of friends. Some of us ate a fistfull of shrooms while our other friend ate some acid. We all came up at pretty much the same time. The girl on acid was having a bad time and begging for help. And the four of us on shrooms, though we understood her pain, could do absolutely nothing but laugh histerically (tho not necessarily AT her). In the end, we all had fun and no feelings were hurt. Ymmv. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/25 "2024-04-21T11:53:38Z")
@by-tor : you realize this all took place on a holiday, verdad¿. I’m not religious, but I am spiritual, and as such I was out celebrating. Lots of laughs here. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/26 "2024-04-21T15:27:28Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Sounds like 'shrooms to me. Uncontrollable laughter over the dumbest shit Marijuana can do that too. Speaking from experience. And can also (as can some other drugs) make utterly ordinary things look extraordinary. – which, admittedly, might just mean that the stoned/high person’s actually paying them attention, instead of automatically thinking ‘seen lots of that before’ and ignoring them. (There is, of course, a Pratchett quote; but I’m not going to hunt it up right now.) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/27 "2024-04-21T19:17:22Z")
_With_ you is how I see it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/28 "2024-04-21T19:21:02Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I have to wonder why you would care at all about an interaction like that. They seem to have gotten under your skin a little. Perhaps, but to me he just sounds “WTF?” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/29 "2024-04-21T19:32:14Z")
I hope so, that would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/30 "2024-04-21T20:00:54Z")
> [@by-tor](#): > > What is your take? What would you have said if you could think that fast? I agree with all who said they were high and likely laughing due to some private joke that had nothing to do with you. If you really wanted to reply, though, you could say in a pleasant manner something like “I like your bipedalism.” That might have short-circuited the private-joke laughter due to extreme confusion. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/31 "2024-04-21T20:43:12Z")
Or it might have left them utterly helpless from laughter, on the floor gasping for breath. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/32 "2024-04-21T21:03:19Z")
If so, the person who put them there would clearly be the one-up winner of the interaction. “Sowing confusion” is underrated as a conversational strategy, I always feel. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/33 "2024-04-21T21:39:39Z")
One other response for the “lighting fast on your feet” crowd: “Say, how 'bout I buy each of you a couple of Hostess cherry pies?” [![](https://www.hostesscakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HST_PIE_Hero_Cherry_Cut.png) ](https://www.hostesscakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HST_PIE_Hero_Cherry_Cut.png) BAM! Buddies for life. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/34 "2024-04-21T22:26:41Z")
I know from experience that you can lose it due to something that has little or nothing to do with the person who sparked it off (I’m thinking of the time I dissolved into uncontrollable laughter during a session with an obsessive tax preparer named C.U. Mehta). He might well have felt insulted, poor fellow, but it couldn’t be helped. And I wasn’t on any mind-altering substances. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/35 "2024-04-21T23:28:23Z")
> [@by-tor](#): > > Shit, I am fine with being square looking. Last I heard, it was Hip to Be Square. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/36 "2024-04-21T23:42:20Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > They have been extinct where I live since Covid. Everything is closed at the latest 11PM. > Except for gas station convenience stores. > You are lucky. I’m in Chicago, and I can’t remember how long its been since I saw a 24-hour grocery. Most of them have been gone since before COVID, even, at least in my neighborhood. 7-Eleven is about as close as you’ll find these days. (I’m sure somewhere else in the city there may be one or two, but I’ve long missed 24-hour groceries. I feel somewhere mid-2010s, maybe even early 2010s, they started disappearing.) ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/37 "2024-04-22T00:01:33Z")
Was this near Scarborough Faire? I have it on good authority that magic mushrooms grow wild there ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/38 "2024-04-22T03:25:21Z")
How is it someone named after a rock song questions this interaction? Can you please ask for a name change to something like “BoomersAreCool…Really”. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/39 "2024-04-23T11:10:19Z")
Moderating > [@wguy123](#): > > How is it someone named after a rock song questions this interaction? Can you please ask for a name change to something like “BoomersAreCool…Really”. Please comment on the content, not the commentator. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554/40 "2024-04-23T11:25:29Z")
> [@by-tor](#): > > What is your take? What would you have said if you could think that fast? I would have done exactly what you did. I would have said “thanks” and kept moving towards the safety of my car. LOL [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-interaction-at-the-24-hour-store/1000554.md?page=3)