# Oddest thing or question you've had put to you lately: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854 "2011-07-04T23:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/1 "2011-07-04T23:16:59Z")
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but do you happen to have a robotic eye? No? How about mechanical eye parts?” This was 30 seconds into my first eye exam in a decade. Apparantly my eye broke the machine!\* \*(calcium deposits: I have ‘The Milky Way in there!’ was my last optometrist’s comment; this recent technician had no idea why the machine was completely freaking out readings-wise) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/2 "2011-07-05T05:42:02Z")
It never really gets old, but yet ANOTHER person asked me today if I knew there was a rat on my shoulder. Seriously? Do people have that happen to them accidently very much? Where do these people come from? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/3 "2011-07-05T06:00:07Z")
Did ya ever think about cutting them off? (my legs, that is) ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/4 "2011-07-05T06:07:43Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > It never really gets old, but yet ANOTHER person asked me today if I knew there was a rat on my shoulder. > > Seriously? Do people have that happen to them accidently very much? Where do these people come from? So… you walk around town with a… with a rat… on your shoulder? ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/5 "2011-07-05T20:14:00Z")
> [@VanillaGorilla](#): > > So… you walk around town with a… with a rat… on your shoulder? Sometimes. Mostly I sit on my front porch with a rat on my shoulder, enjoying the evening and sharing a little bit of wine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/6 "2011-07-05T21:05:59Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > Sometimes. Mostly I sit on my front porch with a rat on my shoulder, enjoying the evening and sharing a little bit of wine 🙂 Does the rat beg for the wine? Do you let him/her have any? My cats occasionally show interest in wine I’m drinking. I don’t let them have any, though, because it’s supposed to be bad for them. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-thing-or-question-youve-had-put-to-you-lately/587854/7 "2011-07-05T21:32:17Z")
> [@jamiemcgarry](#): > > Did ya ever think about cutting them off? (my legs, that is) Ok, I have to ask…assuming you’re mobility-challenged, why on earth would people think it’d be any better to just not have them there at all? Or are you just in possession of a pair of comparatively long longs that look like they forgot to stop growing? 😛 Either way…hope whoever asks that is joking 🙂 As to the rat thing, the ‘Do you realize that…’ about an obvious but unusual thing is just a funny/smartalecky/not-so-clever-apparantly way of starting a conversation about something which is never going to be got 'round to in any but the most clumsy way. 😛