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Innocynce
Oct '23

As the title suggests: name some awkward, weird and even crazy times you've had to experience or are just now realizing "Dude, that was weird!!!!"

While I'm starting this, my event is really tame:
There was this Hardees restaurant that seemed decent right? But it went from "we need to go there again!" To "Is this even a fast food place?" In a couple of months.

And a couple of years ago, it cemented that it was just taking space. Me and my siblings went there only to find out that the grill is broken, and the employees would do everything in their power not to serve food of any kind. They simply showed up to get paid and talk.

But before realizing that; I was there for a milkshake..of which they had none. But the girl offered something else instead: she opened a fridge that was out in front and poured me a large cup full of some mysterious juice from a unmarked jug and asked did I want to try it? Being kinda chill back then, I shrugged and took that as a replacement... I didn't check into what it was nor ask why it was in a mystery jug instead of being inside the soda fountain or wherever they get anything from... It's not the weirdest thing in the world, but that happened BEFORE I knew that place basically had no food in it and/or they were refusing to serve it... So what was that fruity drink? I've no idea, but I'm alive now so it's whatever​:sweat_smile:

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NickRowler
Oct '23
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When the circus came to town it would be hosted at my school because it had a large sports arena. They fenced off a section of the parking lot for the performers. I used to try to caught a peak of the elephants. I think at one point, they ended up putting more screens to block people from doing that. I remember once trying to get to class and having to stop to let a group of show ponies pass. They were small, about the size of a baby horse.

vapidink
Oct '23

A car crashed into the wall of my apartment building, but I live upstairs and the shop beneath was closed. There were so many looky-loos in the bedclothes and bathrobes, lol.

thepenmonster
Oct '23

I have a number but this one is probably the most dramatic:

Shinmoedake erupted off and on for the first few months of 2011. If you look closely at the city the ash is falling on you'll see my apartment. I do have my own photos of it but it would require digging through my film negative archives. The ash tore my lungs up and gave me bronchitis. Thankfully my boss was sane and didn't make me come into work until I was better.

I did have to use my vacation days though. That sucked. I was planning to go to Tokyo that summer.

Most people forgot it happened because, well, this happened that March...

I was too far from Tohoku to feel any of the earthquake, and too far in land to get a tsunami evacuation order. I didn't know anything happened until I got home from work and my FaceBook was filled with desperate pleas from people to tell them I was okay.

Nugtown
Oct '23

The other week we were sitting in at a restaurant one lazy afternoon with only two other groups there. One of those was a couple who tried to somehow include me in his conversation 15 feet away, and the other was some poor old lady who looked like it could be his mother trying to have lunch with her son who looked totally zomb'd out on xannies. That guy was just saying anything and everything and he was slurring pretty bad.

Emalie
Oct '23

A month ago there was an earthquake in my country of 6.3, the last time something like that happened was in 1996. Only one person died, but it was because they made a terrible decision out of fear. I had never experienced a scare like this.

KSlinger
Oct '23

When I was 19, I trained as a first responder. We got to scenes before ambulances did and helped how ever we could. I was on-call one night, parked in a layby when I recieved an incident code I didn't recognise. It meant 'purple'. When I arrived, I realised it was called 'purple' because that's the colour people turn when they're well beyond saving. Needless to say I didn't attempt CPR.

That was a weird time. Now I work for the city council and police dealing with evidence and that doesn't even touch on the crazy I've dealt with.

sleepykuya
Oct '23

Kinda strange, kinda scary I guess! I just moved, so my friend and I decided to go out for the night and walk around, decided to get street food around midnight, sat in the parking lot of some store and ate. However, there was a man in a mask from Scream (Ghostface?) that approached us/the door to the closed store and just kind of stood there….menacingly. Apparently, it’s been a recent “thing” :sob: we dipped as soon as we saw him, thankfully

allisoncandraw
Oct '23

I guess this would count as several events...But I have pretty frequent instances of deja-vu. I've told my friends about it and they are often surprised at how often I have it. It happens maybe once every 1-2 months? Sometimes more?

It's really intense when it happens too. There have even been times where I've been able to predict what will happen next because I swear I've been in that moment before. Weird stuff. Not sure why it happens.