They are different. Yours is for things you’ve seen recently. This is for things you don’t see often. None of my examples above was seen very recently, and have never seen since, so I certainly don’t see them every day.
Unfortuantely not recently, but I came around a corner in Prague once and a Gestapo officer and a couple of German soldiers were standing around an antique Mercedes smoking. Time slips – where one is breifly unsure if one has slipped into a different time period – were frequent events when I was living in the Czech Republic. In this instance, the Nazis in question were actors in one of the many films they make in Prague. It was very unsettling, however, knowing the history of the city’s occupation in WWII.
Back in college I was the cause of serious WTF? moments for folks when I was walking along a busy street with what appeared to be a 15-foot-long thick marble column on my shoulder. It was part of the set for Othello, and was a marble-ized large heavy-wall cardboard tube that they ship oriental carpets in. The stage painters did a particularly good job with it. We were taking some of the set’s transportable elements to a nearby park for a special open-air performance. People driving down the street nearly wrecked their cars when they saw me.
Ex-Taliban stand-up comedians.
eta - Ignore me, I should have read the last line of the OP.
And I should have edited the previous post. D’oh.
If I’d been quick enough, that is. Tut! I’m just digging myself in deeper!
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Well, the context makes it less weird. I work in a Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Home, and one of our ladies was feeling pretty feisty yesterday. She also called the activities nurse a stupid fat cow, declared the Torah to be ‘‘lies, all lies told by this awful lying rabbi!’’ and threw a chair.
I think it was last weekend I was driving to work and a life size Tyrannosaurus Rex was blocking two lanes of traffic. On my way home the T-Rex was gone, but a Triceratops took its place.
I did come up on a very large woman flying down the road, she looked like she was about 3 inches off the road and moving about 15 mph.
When I got closer I could see the teeny tiny scooter she was sitting on.
Yeah, that’s much less weird.
I honestly can’t think of a single thing I’ve seen that I would call a WTF.
… I should point out that I used to work right near where Ringling Bros had their trailer park, and I know exactly when they’d walk the elephants through the tunnel into Manhattan.
I love this city. But I’ve seen men climbing the NY Times building (it’s tempting, it really is.), someone who looked like Queegqueeg (Not just the tats, everything), a Trabant parked in the back of a pickup truck, the entire roster of the WWF in suits, including Andre the Giant, and Crystal Pepsi.
It’s not that nothing surprises me, it’s just that this is The City. We got it all here. Including farms.
Years ago, when I used to run a restaurant, I was returning from some store with my pickup full of stuff. Due to one-way streets, I could see there was a single parking spot available right in front of my store, but I had to drive around the block first. So I whipped out my phone and called in, asking my counter to run outside and hold the spot for me, if she could.
About a minute later I came around, and there was a life-sized cardboard cutout of Carlos Santana standing in the middle of the spot. There was a Wherehouse next door to my restaurant, so I figured that’s where it came from, but still - what the hell? No way there was enough time for my counter to run next door, ask if she could take one their displays, etc., etc.
I turned out that right after she’d hung up the phone some customers came in, and right then one of the workers from the Wherehouse was walking by with the cutout on his way to the dumpster. So my counter yelled out the front door to the Wherehouse guy “save that parking spot!”, so he plunked down the cutout and went back to his store.
Girl with a Band-Aid - on her neck. :eek:
You’re thinking vampire? I’m thinking hickey or pimple cover-up, or maybe she went medieval on a skin tag.
I work next to the YW women’s shelter. Unfortunately, I see women in various states of bandageness almost on a daily basis. That shelter is across the street from another soup kitchen kind of place that seems to cater to mostly men. That corner provides a lot of WTF moments.
Not weird, just amusing: A sign on a used car lot here in Portland: Bank Repose!
Two cowboys riding down a seedier stetch of Hollywood Blvd one morning. Later saw it appear in a tv commercial- US Bank or something… The cowboys didn’t need to be riding down that stretch or any stretch of street since the commercial only referenced cowboys and not them being in an urban enviornment.
A driver wearing a fullface gasmask speeding down the freeway… the craziest thing, a friend in Seattle had told me a year or so earlier that he had seen the same thing. Apparently there’s some guy who drives from Seattle to LA…wearing a gasmask.
On I-820 here in Fort Worth:
Old people car (Crown Vic, or somesuch). With fancy rims and low-profile tires. Driven by a very little old lady. With a complete plastic skeleton sitting in the back seat.
(At least I think it was plastic)
I just saw a bloke in a Santa hat and a pair of red speedos skateboarding down one of the main streets of Sydney.
So? My Father spent WWII there, and my Grandparents got Christmas cards from the family he boarded with that had Spring flowers on them.
You guys are weird.
When I was a child I once saw a man in a Wile E. Coyote suit sitting in the passenger seat of a compact car, parked in front of the Handy-Way.
I think his partner was inside buying him cigarettes. He had that look.
The most recent WTF moment I’ve had was last summer. I was waiting on a street corner for the lights to change so I could cross the street. As I waited, a car pulled up slowly and took a right, curling along the corner I was standing on. I didn’t get a look at the driver, but saw the passenger clearly for a few seconds; it was enough to make my heart skip a beat. The passenger’s skin was a pale yellow, and seemed very moist. Their head was covered in gauze, as was their right arm. The passenger had rested (her, his?) head against the window and was slumped over, seemingly quite limp. My guess was some kind of burn victim, or some terrible skin condition. The hospital is only about a mile away, but I sure as hell would have been driving faster had my passenger looked like that!