Really strange experiences?

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As I was relating the cost of my ambulance ride after a tubing trip in this thread, I got to remembering the ambulance ride itself, which was a really odd experience.

So… tell us your really weird experiences and situations. Eerie, plain weird, or just unbelievable stuff!
Now for my ambulance ride; not that it’s THAT weird, but it was certainly odd enough…

After an eight hour tubing trip in New Braunfels, the bunch of us went out to eat at a local Mexican joint. After waiting an unusually long time for our food, and eating a stupid number of chips, I start feeling cold. Really cold. Which is weird, because I NEVER feel cold. After a little bit, I start feeling queasy, and apparently am looking really pale, which is starting to unnerve my girlfriend (now wife). So I get up to go blow chunks, and get about 2 tables away, when I start getting really light headed, and decide to lay down so I don’t faint. I laid down on an empty table, and think to myself “This is weird… I hope it goes away”.

Cue freaked-out girlfriend and the rest of our friends, who cluster around me, and call an ambulance, over my protests that I’m ok, I just felt light headed, etc…

The ambulance shows up, they load me in, and off we go. Somewhere along the way, they start trying to put an IV in the back of my hand, but have trouble, because my blood pressure is extremely low, like 80/40 or something. I’m still fully conscious, and after about a minute of this paramedic digging in the back of my hand with the needle, my blood pressure goes back up a little, and I blurted out with “Are you fucking done yet?”, which shocks my girlfriend, because she thinks I’m on death’s door. The paramedic got the IV started in the crook of my elbow, and as he’s taping it all up, he says “Excuse me.”

At that point, he leaned over me, and started barfing his guts up into the little stairway in the side of the ambulance. My girlfriend starts petting the back of his head, and I’m laying there, wide eyed and baffled. After he finished his projectile vomiting, he finished up with the taping, and we got to the hospital.

After all was said and done, there wasn’t even anything wrong with me. I’d had a “vaso-vagal response”, and just almost fainted. They said it’s pretty common among people who’d spent the day on the river and that they see 4-5 people a day with the same thing.

[NinetyWt]

Did you ever find out why the paramedic got sick?

[Mr_Buttons]

If we’re sharing messed up stories, I suppose I have one.

I work in a bar. About 6 months ago i went into the bathroom stall to take care of some business. It’s 2PM on a Sunday, so you wouldn’t expect anything crazy to take place. I’m working on leaving my organic footprint in the toilet stall when i hear this guy walk in.

Guy walks into the bathroom, and I guess he saw himself in the mirror. He then proceeds to start screaming at himself in the mirror. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?”. “IT’S 2PM ON A SUNDAY AND LOOK AT YOURSELF, YOU’RE FUCKING WASTED!”.

This was like a 200 lb, 22 year old guy full of rage/testosterone/ and alcohol [What a great match!:dubious:] As soon as I heard the dude screaming at himself, I yanked up my feet so he wouldn’t notice shoes in the stall. I’m a pretty little dude, I didn’t need the guy redirecting his anger at me.

After he finishes up yelling at himself in the mirror, he gets on the phone. He then rings up a friend w/ his cell phone, and asks him if he wants to go halves for a bag of meth. Yeah, meth, exactly what you need when you’re so smashed you’re yelling at your mirror image in a public bathroom.

I guess the friend agreed, because he called another guy and lined up the purchase of $60 worth of meth. After yelling at himself in the mirror another sentence or two after lining up the drug deal, he went out the bathroom.

I was kinda stuck sitting there for a couple minutes, didn’t want the drunk frat boy to see me walking out right behind him after he just lined up a drug deal right in front of me. Wound up coming out and the guy had left right after he got out of the bathroom apparently.

That’s certainly an experience I won’t be forgetting any time soon.

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Never did hear why the paramedic got sick- the driver said something about them having eaten at Sonic and it not sitting well with either of them, but I don’t know if that was it or not.

[Karyn]

I was running a nonprofit during the first Bush administration and one day I went out to get the mail and there was this thick, fancy embossed envelope with the return address of the White House. I opened it up and there was a note in it to the effect of 'Although we appreciate your hard work we won’t be naming you as one of our Points of Light* this year". I thought WTF? I never asked to be any such thing and here is this president that I don’t even like sending me unsolicited insults in the mail. I was completely baffled, not to mention irritated, and I told one of my Board members about it. He laughed uproariously and told me that he and the mayor sent in the application as a joke because they knew that if I ever won that I would blast the administration on national TV. I have to admit that it would have been a lot of fun to do something like that.

• For younger people, the PoL thing was a push to get people to volunteer for the things that they had just cut the funding for.