Strange Encounters

donfers

I've had plenty of them.

The most disturbing was when I was in madrid in some Casino and an old guy started following me around, then into the jacks, then out of the jacks and then he made a crude sexual gesture when I eventually asked him what did he want. I shudder to even think of that incident but at the same time am a bit flattered by his obvious interest in me.

Public transport is great for meeting weirdos too, plenty of people have sat down beside me and told me their life stories with no encouragement at all from my end...and then ferrys are also great for meeting the freaks. On one occassion what seemed like a rather drunken or drugged out guy and his attractive female friend for some reason decided to befriend me on a long cross-channel trip which included an encounter with some presenters of sky news asia where drunken drugged guy proceeded to break every taboo in the book with them but somehow had the charm to get away with it....I turned down their offer of a stayover and went on my way.

Another time on Madrid metro having stayed out all night and returning home with friends on the 6am metro, two Spanish female teenagers overheard us and wanted to practise what they considered was their educated levels of English but the conversation was the most surreal I've ever heard in my life and you'd swear their entire English language education came from the book "Random sentences in English that don't really make sense and that you'll never use". they said things like "We know a guy who has made all the sauages in the world" and "This train drives like a fast tree in space". They didn't really understand why we could barely contain the laughter.

The weirdest recent one was at a bus-stop...some large german middle-aged women started banging on about her history as an athlete to me and how she used to go jogging every day and then showed me her thighs and demonstrated some stretches to me. I was as bemused as I was horrified but as usual was my polite courteous self throughout the whole thing and immensely grateful to see the bus eventually show up.

loads more....there are plenty of people out there who aren't bound by the norms of social convention and the world is all the richer and more insane for them

Have you met any strange people? Boards beers is the obvious answer but try to be more creative than that

Sykk

Walk across O'Connell bridge to the North side, it is there that you will truly encounter the strangest of the strange.

When I found out Terry wasn't a plumber in the traditional sense... Awkward.

AnonoBoy

My life has been a bastion of banality so no, no strange encounters here.

bijapos

^ They all sound like bog standard continental Europeans to me. A curious folk.

altairscreed

Sykk wrote: »

Walk across O'Connell bridge to the North side, it is there that you will truly encounter the strangest of the strange.

Ye seen some drunk hairy homeless dude dancing on O'Connell bridge a few years back with a sign that said "IM HOMELESS AND NEED MONEY FOR BOOZE" thought that was pretty strange and also quite hilarious the crazy fecker

flanum

altairscreed wrote: »

Ye seen some drunk hairy homeless dude dancing on O'Connell bridge a few years back with a sign that said "IM HOMELESS AND NEED MONEY FOR BOOZE" thought that was pretty strange and also quite hilarious the crazy fecker

thats been knocking around the internetz since the internetz began..

recylingbin

Got home from a club at 7a.m.
Decided ro stay up until the supermarket opened to buy some booze.
My friend and i headed down anyway. Just before we reached the supermarket, this old guy asks us if we'll give him a hand carrying a mattress from the bed shop we were passing to his van, which was parked outside.
We were happy to oblige. We got to the door of the shop, which was shut. I turned around to inform the old guy of the bad news. He picked up one end of an imaginary mattress, asked us to grab the other end and away we went to his van. Careful now, lads, says the old lad, there's fragile stuff in here. We went through all the motions of placing the mattress in the back of the van - I even bopped my head off the roof.

I still, to this day, expect to see myself on some Dom Jolly show in the future.

Weirder still was some ould one in the supermarket, same morning, telling us all about eggs - 20 minutes she talked about them.

we'llallhavetea_old

arrived into school one morning (i was about 9 or 10) and there was kids kickin cows eyeballs around the yard.

Dman001

Was sitting on a bench one day and this man tried to convince me life was like a box of chocolates, then started to tell me his life story. That little scamp has done and being through a lot of crazy stuff.

Riddle101

Not as strange as some stories on here. But I was at the a bus stop in Rathmines, and as i was waiting on the bus. Then this old guy starts shouting POLAND, POLAND, POLAND!!!! and he does this walking down the street. I couldn't help but laugh

Novella

Once upon a time, I was innocently walking down the street when I noticed a man walking towards me, staring at me. I was a bit freaked out and when he reached me, he stopped me and said, "You have taken me back about thirty years, you look so much like a woman I used to... er... date."

Turns out he'd fucked my mom.

KevinVonSpiel

I met Jesus (******) in St. Stephen's Green one Wednesday afternoon, he was all blah blah blah & I wasn't that impressed... bit of a downer actually.

El Siglo

I was leaving Tramco a few year back in a rather inebriated state, not looking the best and rather disorientated I stumbled upon a rather 'scruffy' individual:

Me: "Excuse me, you couldn't tell me where Waterloo Rd. is?"
Stranger: "Yeh, you go down that road there and take a left and then walk and take a right and go up that road where that young lad was stabbed."
Me: "Oh right, thank you very much."
Stranger: "Are you drunk?"
Me: "No."
Stranger: "Are you a Gaurd?"
Me: "Oh God no."
Stranger: "Do you have any drugs?"
Me: "No, I'm sorry."
Stranger: "Have a good one!" [walks away laughing]