I looked for the thread on the most interesting car you’ve seen today, and couldn’t find it. FTR, I don’t care and do not require a link.
A short while ago, I was digging up some roots from my garden. While I was washing off the dirt from my harvest, I hear a heavy Diesel engine of the sort that powers heavy machinery, not cars or trucks. Some dude was driving a rather large asphalt roller down the street like he was out for a Sunday drive. 
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Anyone else have a WTH moment to share?
I clicked on this thread.
Had a cowboy come through town a while back in a small covered wagon being pulled by 3 small mules. He was going coast to coast.
A lot of “Rut Row” moments could also be “WHT” moments
Spent the morning splitting wood by hand (and using a Sven saw on the rest. I don’t have a chain-saw & forgot to ask for one in the $500 thread).
I only chopped a 1/2 a ring of wood, but somehow I broke the wood handle on my sledge-hammer while driving steel wedges through chunks of wood.
Its kind of funny to be typing here while stopping on occasion to pick another splinter of wood out of my hand. :o
One time I saw a group of guys downtown. One of the guys was giving a piggyback ride to a blow-up doll.
Also, one time I was walking up a street through my university when I was almost run over by a cart pulled by 4 horses plunging down the street.
There was a raccoon visiting the doghouse in my backyard early this morning.
Okay, the creepiest thing happened today.
I was in the office and heard faint ice cream truck style music. Like some kind of tinkly instrumental music. I leaned in closer to my co-worker’s purse, thinking maybe it was her phone or something, but no. It was definitely not. She wouldn’t have something like that as a ringtone anyway, just based on what I know of her. So I went to the window to see if there actually was an ice cream truck outside.
Where I work, it’s not only in a rural area, but tucked away on a dead end road. There’s very little traffic. Also, it’s November. So an ice cream truck would be a very unusual thing to see on the road. As soon as I got up to look, the music stopped. So I went back to my desk and a few minutes later, I heard it again. I went through pretty much the same routine- moving around trying to find the source (my co-worker was away from her desk and I was alone) and not being able to see or find anything.
When my co-worker came back to her desk, I asked if she had some kind of creepy ice cream truck music on her phone and she said “I don’t think so. But maybe, because I do have a message.” A minute or so later, it started up again, even more faintly. I asked her if she could hear it and she could. I doubt I’ll ever solve this mystery, but… it was definitely a WTH moment.
I thought maybe someone had planted an Annoy-a-tron on you, but ice cream truck is not one of its sounds.
I am in the Dominican Republic, so maybe this doesn’t count, but last week I saw a guy sitting on a mule pulling a travois or pole drag with woven baskets full of fresh coconuts, and he had a smart phone held against the side of his head!
A car pulling a tractor flying American flags just parked across the street from our house. There are no farms or fields in the immediate vicinity.
I live in a bottom floor condo in a small city but I always liked the fact that not 50 feet from my back door, the woods started and you can literally walk for miles on small trails without seeing another person or sign of civilization if you know the right path. My daughters and I went to take out the trash today and my youngest said ‘The woods are gone!’. I turned around and she was right.
Where there was once huge expanses of trees is now a clear-cut construction site teeming with heavy equipment. I have no idea what they are going to build there but it appears to be extremely large (many, many acres). It isn’t my land so I can’t complain and they did leave a tree break about 100 feet deep so won’t be obvious especially during the summer but the change is startling. The weird thing is that I have been here every night. I am just startled about how fast heavy equipment can move in and clear a previously forested area like it is a just a giant box of Lincoln logs.
I’d just go ahead and freeze. :eek:
The other day I saw two ducks deliberately* following a snake. I thought they were re-enacting a scene from one of the Redwall novels.
*They’d stop and start with its every move
How about parade routes?
Quitter. 
Love the juxtaposition. That would’ve made for one helluva photograph.
The only things I can think of that would qualify probably don’t since I saw them in Daytona during Bike Week. All bets are off when bikers and alcohol are combined. Altho the old guy walking around choking his chicken would be right up there. It was a rubber chicken and he was carrying it by the neck. Somewhere I’ve got a photo of him standing with me. Classy…
Could be something like what happened to me once. I was at my Mom’s house, mellowing out, having a cup of tea while everyone else was away doing some holiday stuff and I heard creepy tinkling music. Faint music and I couldn’t localize it. Sometimes it would stop and then start again. Wandered upstairs to check the various computers and radios and nothing was on. Wandered downstairs. I followed it all over the house. It took forever to realize that I had poured my tea into a novelty mug that played music and was activated by lifting the mug. The battery was flat, so it was playing very quietly which made it sound like it was far away, thus part of the difficulty in isolating the noise. The other part being that I am apparently very slow on the uptake.
This could almost be a vaguely creepy thread post…As children, my brother and i both heard, but never admitted it until recently, tinkling music in our bedroom late at night. This was pre-internet, electronic anything days. There’s a similar thread on Creepypasta and I think reddit…Anyway, has anyone else heard this?
I’ve posted this here before, but the last rental house The Other Shoe and I lived in had this same thing: faint, faraway music or sounds when nothing was turned on, no neighbors were making noise in front of open windows, etc. etc. It always sounded more like a distant television, and I swear once or twice it distinctly sounded like a Spanish-language soccer game telecast. We had a houseguest (well, couch-crasher) for a while and he heard it too. It was only audible when you were the only person in the house, though, which made it easy to dismiss or to assume one was losing a few marbles. But my late husband, our couch-crasher friend, and I all heard it independently, separately, and we had never mentioned it to couch-crasher when we found out he’d heard it too.
You know, I never thought about it till typing this all up now, but my husband passed away in that house. I wonder what occupants might hear in it now… (If it’s his TV sounds they’re hearing, it’s going to be a helluva lot of *Futurama *episodes and the Legend of Zelda music.)
Moving away from creepy back to WTF, I was skiing while mentally altered when I saw someone skiing uphill. I mean, he was doing exactly that: skis pointed uphill, pushing his weight into his poles upwards against gravity with all of his might. (Nonskiiers: if you have to get back up a slope, you either point yourself sideways and side-step, or you take the damn things off and walk like a normal human being. Not … this.) I know that’s what I was looking at (I wasn’t THAT altered!) but it was one of those moments when you think, “Wait, I’m the fucked-up one, but what the hell are *you *thinking?”