Weirdest thing you have done
The weirdest thing I've done in private falls into the TMI (too much information) category
In public... I don't know, there were so many weird things. Just recently, I had an embarrassingly weird chat. I hit the salad bar at a supermarket, and I know from experience that the lids of the plastic bowls for the salad won't stay on right if you transport them in a shopping bag. Especially not during a bumpy bike ride. I had meant to buy some scotch tape to secure the lids, but forgot about it while I was in the shop. I didn't want to go back in there with my bags lest they'd think I had stolen something, so I went to the nearby post office instead, which also carries adhesive tape.
When I got to the counter, the clerk made a cheerful comment like "Scotch tape! Great choice. Always good to have." I was startled and didn't know what to do. He had not told me how much I owed him, so I wasn't able to complete the transaction as planned. I could have just given him a 10 Euro bill, but he seemed to wait for me to say something in return. On a bad day, this would have sent me into a panic attack, but I was feeling pretty good for a change and thought I'd give this small talk thing a try that everyone is raving about. I tried to come up with something witty or at least halfway sensible to say, but what do you reply to a comment like that? After a painfully long pause, I eventually blurted out "um, yes, I need it for a salad".
He looked at me like people usually do when I open my mouth, i.e. with an expression that seemed to say "oh sh*t, I'm dealing with a crazy person". I should have just shut up and thrown some money onto the counter, but I felt the need to explain myself and rambled something like "erm, I mean, I just bought it. Over there. They have these... erm... these little bowls. The last time I bought one it made a total mess. I mean, in my bag. That's why I need the tape". I stuttered on like that for a while and just couldn't snap out of it, until he interrupted me with "oh I'm sure it will all work out just fine, don't you worry about a thing, that will be 2.79 then, good luck with your salad". I don't think I will try myself at social chit chat again anytime soon
Last edited by CrazyCatLord on 29 Jan 2012, 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
This week? I took part in an exorcism.
Not that weird really, I'm sure other kinds of people do them all the time, and very sensible too.
What is weird? I think my life is weird, but quietly so. It's not a riot of weird. It's low key, chronic weirdness.
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One time, my mom was fussing at me for... idk, something involving the kitchen and spaghetti. So, to get her to quit fussing, without saying a word I got out a bottle of ranch dressing, and filled up a glass with it, and proceeded to drink the entire thing. It worked, she quit fussing and just stood there with her mouth stuck mid word The strangest thing to me was how easy it was to drink ranch dressing, it was a bit like drinking a... I'm not shore what it was like drinking, but it went down easy
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Not that weird really, I'm sure other kinds of people do them all the time, and very sensible too.
What is weird? I think my life is weird, but quietly so. It's not a riot of weird. It's low key, chronic weirdness.
really did it work
were you able to get the ghost out of the person
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