So why did she?
One Thanksgiving Day as my sister and I were out driving around, by the side of the road was a 4 foot high stuffed pink elephant. We went out, picked it up, and drove around with its head sticking out the window all day, then put it in a Salvation Army box at night.
I wonder who was the drunk that left the pink elephant by the side of the road.
I will never forget the time I had a staring contest with a cow.
The cow started it.
Back when I lived in my old apartment, my route to work took me along a very busy street in downtown Rochester. There was this one corner outside a large apartment complex where I was always seeing empty beer cans and liquor bottles.
So, one bright, winter morning, I was walking along to work, and I arrived at the aforementioned corner and happened to glance at the snowbank to my left. There, resting peacefully in the snow was an empty Smirnoff bottle and a package of Viagra.
up in MN, it gets cold. I mean bone-freezing cold. SO cold, that you feel warm.
I walked out of a CountyMarket (at the time, Cub Foods now) and saw 2 gloves frozen to a handrail outside. just frozen stiff, sticking straight up. weird…
Also, some weird shit that happens in the cold also, is the Fishing Extravaganza in Brainerd, MN, Gull Lake.
last year I saw some guy carrying a perch in his mouth (tail sticking out), a guy kiss an Eelpout (tradition) and some shirtless guys playing tackle football, on ice, with a sign up from the ice that read “Master Baiters” yea. we’re a wild bunch up here.
The kid who threw up the shoes (mental pic - some kid vomitting shoes) probably isn’t the one who owns them - think of a more expensive version of stealing the little kid’s lunch money.
I’m walking across campus at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, spot two elderly ladies with a map spread across the hood of their 937 feet long Oldsmobile–they’re obviously lost, I assume and are checking a UT or Knoxville map. As I pass, I notice that it is a map of the United States! I hate to say that I went on, not offering to help. If you don’t know what state you’re in, you’re either Dennis Hopper or too old to be driving.
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I read these to my husband and he laughed his head off…
“hey man, not my potato…”
anyhoo, he wanted to contribute what he felt was the oddest sight ever. Driving to work he witnessed the mayhem of a large broken jar of pickles. Whole dill pickles strewn across Ashland avenue…and he said he never thought a pickle could look dead, but that the scene was like a tiny, vicious mass murder.
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We’ve got a customer at my health food store who is a bit, um…eccentric. He spends a lot–but he’s always taking me aside to tell me how this or that employee is “against him”. About every two weeks he purchases 40 rolls of paper towels from us. I know enough about the guy to know he lives by himself and is unemployed–though he’s got money from somewhere.
Anyway, he only buys our high-end recycled paper towels because the regular ones in the grocery store “gave him a reaction”. What is this all about? Why nearly 80 rolls of towels a month?
Yeesh. Perhaps he’s a friend of the customer of mine who gets a whole case of KY jelly delivered every month?
Actually I saw a sign outside of a Mennonite church a few weeks ago that made me wonder. “If God Is Your Copilot, Switch Seats.” Huh? I was going to post a thread about this because I just cannot figure it out. God should be the pilot? Any ideas?
Hey, it’s Sunday. Maybe I’ll call the church & ask them!
Picture this:
My friend and I are on vacation alone, aged 17. We’ve all dressed up and heading for the pub. It’s about 9:30pm. We’re walking down the main street, and it’s dead quiet. Not a soul around, just us. So we’re walking, and talking, and laughing, as you do. Next thing this dog comes trotting down the middle of the road. In his mouth, he has an unopened bag of dog food. He trots right past us, and disappears around the corner. Where on Earth he came from, I don’t know. Ditto as to where he got the food, and where he was going. My friend and I stopped laughing, and looked at each other. “Did we stumble into a commercial?” I asked. “I don’t know, but that was pretty strange” she answered.
We walked the rest of the way to the pub without seeing anyone at all. It was a little bizarre.
I’ll have to add that at the time there were a series of commercials for dog food in which the dogs played all kinds of tricks to con people out of their bags of dog food. Perhaps the dog we saw just watched too much TV.
Once my boyfriend and I were at the store, and the only things we had to buy were four cans of Red Devil lye, and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
I could tell the register guy really wanted to make a comment, but he restrained himself until the last minute, when he was giving us the receipt.
“Uh…don’t get those confused, eh?”
We relented and told him what the lye was for. (We make soap at home.) He let out this big sigh of relief and said, “Man, I had NO IDEA what anyone could need four cans of lye for, but I had a feeling it couldn’t be good!”
Well, this was more gross than weird, but when I was in London in '97, I saw a guy walking across the road wearing nothing but a BLACK SPANDEX body suit. The worst part was that he could’ve stood to lose a couple dozen pounds.
Oh, speaking of church signs: There’s this church mear my house that always has the most crypic/cheesy messages, like:
God wants to be included in your vacation plans.
Ch_ _ch. What’s missing? U R!
And my favorite:
And all the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Couldn’t put humpty together again.
But the Lord can.
Thank Jesus.
The weirdest thing about this church was that one day, I was walking by, and there was this salami on the walk towards the steps.
A salami on the church steps. What?
Oooh, cool. I saw something the other day that was almost a Very Vaguely Creepy, and I’m still thinking about it.
There’s a construction site that I pass on my way to work. They demolished an old building. The day I walked by, the site was a pile of bricks and rubble from the old building, except right the middle, there was a piece of an interior wall that hadn’t been torn down yet.
In the wall, there was an interior door, although now of course, since the rest of the building is gone, it’s an outside door. It looked a bit like a bomb scene, with all the rubble, and then this small portion of the building still standing.
The Very Vaguely Creepy part was that someone had spray painted on the door, in huge letters: IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.
This looked so great, and neat, and disturbing that I brought my camera to work the next day, but it wasn’t there anymore. What, I am asking myself, WHAT will happen again?
OOO OOO I KNOW I KNOW!!! 
ok…there’s a few reasons that teenagers do this with shoes…
- It’s either a drug house or a gang member lives there…
- Someone died there (usually in some gang member fashion ie. drive-by shooting)
- (as it is in my neighborhood and i most of the rest of them i figure…) Kids got bored.
Some guys down the street from me made a kind of game out of it to see how long the shoes would last…they even replaced the laces when they wore through 
YoungGotti:
If I weren’t so lazy I’d write the most seething Pit thread about this stupid shit. However I don;t have the time for it. We’re not sitting at a table in your favorite bar dipshit…just share or keep your mouth shut. Cute little guessing games only work in realtime.
OK,OK. Scene: in an airport, waiting to get on a really long flight, in one of the airport cafeterias. This older fellow (maybe 60’s) had a big, I mean big, plate of bacon strips. Nothing else, just one dinner-sized plate piled about 6 inches high with bacon. He then proceeded to shake salt on the pile…and shake…and shake…and shake. Hubby and I started wondering if this was a practical joke in progress. Nope- he ate the whole plate.
This was almost nine years ago and I can still picture that guy.
My friends and I used to wonder if all of the strange things that happened to us or around us only seemed strange because we were under the influence of various narcotics, or if because we were constantly so high, we had altered some kind of balance in nature and these unexplainable things were drawn to us.
The one that still has us scratching our heads, is the time we found 2 cow heads along some unused train tracks. No trains, very little foot traffic, and no slaughter houses or farms within 3 towns in any direction. We’ve never been able to come up with an explanation that satisfactorily explained why someone transported them who knows how far, just to toss them off of a trestle.
Another time, along the same set of tracks, we saw a squirrel in the distance that was kind of holding an old brownish work glove. As we got closer, it dropped the glove and took off into the overgrown foliage. When we got to the glove, it was lying palm down with all of the fingers tucked under itself except the middle one. We still wonder what we did to tick the squirrel off so much.
Are you in Milwaukee? Perhaps it was me! 
I have done this before. I was out running errands and knew I had to do laundry when I got home. There is a laundromat 2 blocks from my apartment building. So on my way home, I pulled up in front of the place, ran inside to use the change machine and get my laundry quarters, ran back to the car, then continued home.
I don’t have a car anymore, but I do still jog on over to get laundry quarters.
Is that so wrong?