Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
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.”
Yep. Check the date of this occurrence.
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.
@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.
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.)
With you is how I see it.
Perhaps, but to me he just sounds “WTF?”
I hope so, that would be nice.
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.
Or it might have left them utterly helpless from laughter, on the floor gasping for breath.
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.
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?”
BAM! Buddies for life.
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.
Last I heard, it was Hip to Be Square.
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.)
Was this near Scarborough Faire?
I have it on good authority that magic mushrooms grow wild there
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”.
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I would have done exactly what you did. I would have said “thanks” and kept moving towards the safety of my car. LOL