Do you attract weirdos?

languagenerd

As the title says, are you a magnet for weirdos/crazies/creepy people? I firmly believe that some people unknowingly give off a vibe that says "hey, nutters, come talk to me!".

I seem to attract all sorts of oddballs. From the guy who insisted on walking with me through my college campus at night and said he'd "have to adopt me or something", to the drunk woman who tried to clean my shoes for me after I'd walked across a muddy field, to the man who followed me to my workplace and offered to be my bodyguard, to the guy who hi-fived me yelling "Catholic warriors!" and ran off, to the junkie who grabbed my arm and demanded sexual favours (he didn't get any, by the way :pac:)... just to give a few recent examples.

Some of my friends get equal amounts of weirdos talking to them, but others find my encounters hilarious because nothing like that EVER happens to them.

So, are you a nutter-magnet? Or do you walk around unaccosted by the crazies who roam the streets? :pac:

Am also open to suggestions on how to stop these people talking to me!

wazky

No I don't attract weirdos at all.

I am one.

SimonLynch

Can I buy your nail clippings?

Seachmall

Are you a woman-type?


Don't think men typically have these problems, although I've met a few loonies while on drugs (both them and me).

languagenerd

Seachmall wrote: »

Are you a woman-type?

I am indeed. But not all the loonies I've met were men...

1ZRed

Takes one to know one, OP!

Femme_Fatale

I think people think they attract weirdos more than other people do - on the bus etc. But it happens to everyone.

whirlpool

I have a theory about this kind of situation: it's not that you're attracting weirdos, you're just more tolerant of odd people, and you don't give off hostile vibes when they're around you, where others might.

languagenerd

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I think people think they attract weirdos more than other people do - on the bus etc. But it happens to everyone.

You're probably right about that. But I have some friends who say they've never been talked to by any creepy or crazy stranger and who've never had particularly odd conversations or incidents of borderline stalking.

Maybe they're just better at ignoring them...?

Links234

Yeah, I seem to be a magnet for them

just the other day I was chatting to a friend outside a pub and some crazy woman with no shoes came up and just grabbed me, like giving me a hug :eek: I was freaked a bit and said that I didn't even know who she was, and she was blabbering about free hugs I was very uncomfortable and was squirming a bit and she started hugging harder saying "don't be shy, you're not shy, look at you with all your piercings, you're not shy!"

weirdo...

Ah I'm probably one of the weirdos! I'll talk to any aul eejit

Yeh though, people do seem to tend to talk to me for some reason.

Driveby Dogboy

I know you are but what am I?

Femme_Fatale

languagenerd wrote: »

You're probably right about that.

I don't mean it in a smart way btw, but I used to think I was a weirdo magnet, then I realised (admittedly through anecdotes only) that anyone else I spoke to on the subject felt the same way. Oddballs (bless 'em) don't discriminate I'd say.

Depends on the context too of course. When it comes to public transport, I don't think anyone is immune (that's what I'm referring to above). When it comes to online, probably depends on differing factors like how your personality comes across, whether there are pics of you, etc.

King George VI

Yeah I actually do attract weirdos. Maybe because my chat up line is "Hey, wanna come back to my basement to see my collection of dead bats?"

Culpepper

A lady driver overtook me on the M50 one morning, I was doing 120 and she just glided by in a SEAT Toledo, applying her make up for crying out loud.

I thought she was weird anyway, to be doing that like :eek:

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time,

I think the OP is not from Dublin but is living there.

There's a hulk load of weird people in Dublin and non Dubs just don't understand.

nocoverart

I'm quite attracted to weirdos. Does that make me weird?

Femme_Fatale

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I don't mean it in a smart way btw, but I used to think I was a weirdo magnet, then I realised (admittedly through anecdotes only) that anyone else I spoke to on the subject felt the same way. Oddballs (bless 'em) don't discriminate I'd say.

Depends on the context too of course. When it comes to public transport, I don't think anyone is immune (that's what I'm referring to above). When it comes to online, probably depends on differing factors like how your personality comes across, whether there are pics of you, etc.

I don't think it came across smart at all :P stop being paranoid ya freakin weirdo

I reckon you're dead right.

Hownowcow

I agree with the earlier poster regarding public transport. At one stage in my life I seemed to attract individuals who wanted to share with me the contents of the brown paper bags from which they were drinking.

I also had an incident one morning, about 7.15am, at the bus stop where and individual with a large sliced pan over his shoulder (I have no idea why and did not ask) tried to start a fight with me.

wazky

I don't about other forms of public transport but I have never seen such a collection of weirdos as I have in bus stations, its like a Mecca for mad people.

Vincent Vega

I seem to attract boring 'normal' people.
Those who think, talk and act alike and look toward the majority opinion in deciding how they feel about any given thing.
I am the weirdo.

Ave Sodalis

I seem to attract weirdo's quite a lot too OP. Have recently made new friends, I warned them but they dismissed it as everyone does... that was fine until the realized the extent of it... and I don't mean the funny strange people... I mean the ones that have me quite fearful for my safety

1ZRed

whirlpool wrote: »

I have a theory about this kind of situation: it's not that you're attracting weirdos, you're just more tolerant of odd people, and you don't give off hostile vibes when they're around you, where others might.

It feckin pays to be intimidating!

titan18

Sometimes, but I'm one of them, but giving off I'm in a bad mood vibe works aswell. I don't drink though, I do find that drunk people are more tolerant of weirdos, or weird behavior, on nights out.

wazky

wazky wrote: »

I don't about other forms of public transport but I have never seen such a collection of weirdos as I have in bus stations, its like a Mecca for mad people.

Train stations are the same I think. I was waiting in a train station (not in Ireland) for a friend during the summer, I got a coffee and sat down, straight away two drunk homeless dudes started chatting to me. One spoke french, the other was Algerian and spoke a little English - we chatted for ages about all sorts of shyte, the algerian dude translating, me trying to use my pathetic few words of french. They insisted on buying me a coffee - when does that happen? that a homeless person offers to buy you coffee? :pac: I love that sorta thing though

languagenerd

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I don't mean it in a smart way btw, but I used to think I was a weirdo magnet, then I realised (admittedly through anecdotes only) that anyone else I spoke to on the subject felt the same way. Oddballs (bless 'em) don't discriminate I'd say.

Depends on the context too of course. When it comes to public transport, I don't think anyone is immune (that's what I'm referring to above). When it comes to online, probably depends on differing factors like how your personality comes across, whether there are pics of you, etc.

Don't worry, I knew what you meant!

Yeah, public transport is a minefield for that sort of thing. I could write a book about happenings on the Luas, and I reckon most 'normal' people could. But just walking down the street?

My workmates thought I was exaggerating until they saw it first hand a couple times. Now they think it's hilarious (especially that guy who followed me back to work...).

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time,

I think the OP is not from Dublin but is living there.

There's a hulk load of weird people in Dublin and non Dubs just don't understand.

No sorry, I'm a Dub and have always lived here I meet a lot more weirdos in Dublin than anywhere else though - I've spent a lot time travelling around western Europe and never met anyone even half as crazy over there!

mattjack

languagenerd wrote: »

As the title says, are you a magnet for weirdos/crazies/creepy people? I firmly believe that some people unknowingly give off a vibe that says "hey, nutters, come talk to me!".

I seem to attract all sorts of oddballs. From the guy who insisted on walking with me through my college campus at night and said he'd "have to adopt me or something", to the drunk woman who tried to clean my shoes for me after I'd walked across a muddy field, to the man who followed me to my workplace and offered to be my bodyguard, to the guy who hi-fived me yelling "Catholic warriors!" and ran off, to the junkie who grabbed my arm and demanded sexual favours (he didn't get any, by the way :pac:)... just to give a few recent examples.

Some of my friends get equal amounts of weirdos talking to them, but others find my encounters hilarious because nothing like that EVER happens to them.

So, are you a nutter-magnet? Or do you walk around unaccosted by the crazies who roam the streets? :pac:

Am also open to suggestions on how to stop these people talking to me!

I knew we clicked , you remembered me.
I've made you a cake from toenails and wasps.The wasps are mine , dunno who owns the toenails though.

Legs.Eleven

I never get approached by weirdos since moving to Spain. Dublin is jam packed full of "characters" and I only realised to what extent since moving here. Probably has something to do with our shoddy public healthcare compared to here though, which isn't great. *wonky face* :-/

Fluorescence

Yeah a fair bit. If they're benign oddballs who add a bitta humour to the day, I have no issue with it. Junkies harassing me in town/bus-stops etc not so much.

I was upstairs on the 40 last year while a bunch of kids were messing around. One of them stole his mate's runner, ran up to the front of the bus past where I was sitting, threatened to dangle the shoe out the window, changed his mind as he spotted me and instead shoved the foul-smelling yoke onto my nose and ran down the bus roaring laughing. That was probably the least eventful journey I've had on the 40 (or 78a as it was back in the day :pac: ).

If nothing else, they make for amusing tales :P

justforlaugh

I would really love to meet a really sexy weird woman

mad turnip

I love being a weirdo you get so many odd comments made about you, its gas.

Rasheed

My friend does. Just like flies to youknowwhat. She's a psychiatric nurse and I think she just had that kinda non judgemental patient face.

I can't be dealing with weirdos I have enough of them at work.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Yeah I think so, although maybe that's cause I'm a bit odd myself and birds of a feather and all that.

I once stormed out of a hotel one Friday night about 4am round temple bar, phone less, after a row with the boyfriend at the time. After marching through it and down the quays and back up college green, this guy falls into step with me, asking if he could walk with me and making small chat. I was like a bull anyway, so stomped up around again with him following me. Decided I'd go to the Internet cafe that was open on the quays, cause it was cold. Guy walked in after me, and asked if he could sit with me. I said no. My boyfriend happened to pass by, in a taxi and seen my big head and came in for me, brought me back to hotel. We went for Chinese next day, and there's your man, sitting across from us haha

Vito Corleone

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Weirdo is such a relative term nowadays I don't know what you mean.

Your relatives are weirdos?

Ilyana 2.0

I don't really, being cursed with a chronic b!tchface has its perks.

My friend is a magnet for loopers though. This one lady used to sit near her on the train everyday, slipping her notes signed off with 'The Goose'. A well-meaning lady but utterly bonkers.

topcatcbr

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Your relatives are weirdos?

If you don't know who the weirdo in your family is. Then it must be you.

Czarcasm

If you can't spot the weirdo, it means you ARE the weirdo... something like that

I do seem to be a bit of a weirdo magnet though (I'm a guy btw, majority of weirdo magnets here seem to be girls), but like Rasheed says- I do seem to have that sort of face that says my ears are open for business.

They'll usually spend about five minutes with me before I start freaking them out, unintentionally of course, but it's usually because I'm probably far more friendly to them than maybe they're used to, I'm a go with the flow kinda guy that takes his social cues from other people, so if they get funky, the way I see it, it's ok for me to get funky too!

I met a fellow boardsie for lunch the other day and she told me I talk A LOT. I do when I'm comfortable. It's not intentional

cupcake83

Yes! It's almost humorous...

cupcake83

Czarcasm wrote: »

If you can't spot the weirdo, it means you ARE the weirdo... something like that

I do seem to be a bit of a weirdo magnet though (I'm a guy btw, majority of weirdo magnets here seem to be girls), but like Rasheed says- I do seem to have that sort of face that says my ears are open for business.

They'll usually spend about five minutes with me before I start freaking them out, unintentionally of course, but it's usually because I'm probably far more friendly to them than maybe they're used to, I'm a go with the flow kinda guy that takes his social cues from other people, so if they get funky, the way I see it, it's ok for me to get funky too!

I met a fellow boardsie for lunch the other day and she told me I talk A LOT. I do when I'm comfortable. It's not intentional

Usually when someone gets funky that's my cue to run lol, you're a brave soul!

Ficheall

Deleted User wrote: »

when does that happen? that a homeless person offers to buy you coffee? :pac: I love that sorta thing though

I ended up sitting in Eyre square playing music with a homeless guy years ago, and afterwards he offered me a cigarette, then booze, and then money. I declined. Bizarrely, I bumped into him again in Bundoran a few months later and he offered me money then too. Maybe I looked a bit scruffy.

Links234

also, often when myself and my girlfriend are out having a drink together, we get some really weird creepers approaching us. some of them can be... special.

I remember one time this guy plonked himself next to me at the bar while herself had gone to the shop for something, he couldn't seem to take the hint I've no interest at all, so luckily she comes back and I give her a kiss. well the guy just bolted upright and stormed out, even left his pint after him.

delthedriver

Yes, an absolute magnet for weirdos.

On planes, trains, restaurants, I attract some weirdo who wants to tell me about their lost dog, themselves, or whatever.

Perhaps I have a friendly face, which makes people want to talk to me.

My wife blames me for responding to them, indeed she says that I talk to everyone. Perhaps I am the weirdo

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

I ended up sitting in Eyre square playing music with a homeless guy years ago, and afterwards he offered me a cigarette, then booze, and then money. I declined. Bizarrely, I bumped into him again in Bundoran a few months later and he offered me money then too. Maybe I looked a bit scruffy.

That's class!

That's what life's all about sure, meeting different people and having the chats

cupcake83

Most of my encounters aren't with the homeless but with the opposite sex lol. I don't even want to tell a few of my stories about creepy "normal" men who approach , because nobody would believe me if I did lol or maybe they would?

IvaBigWun

Ive attracted some nutjobs over the years but from my experience crazy girls are always the demons in bed :pac:

delthedriver

cupcake83 wrote: »

Most of my encounters aren't with the homeless but with the opposite sex lol. I don't even want to tell a few of my stories about creepy "normal" men who approach , because nobody would believe me if I did lol or maybe they would?

I'm all ears....... of course I would believe you;)

Carry on.............:D

Czarcasm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's class!

That's what life's all about sure, meeting different people and having the chats

Exactly! I'm normally a neurotic bag of nerves on the inside and I look reserved on the outside, but then if I instantly click with somebody I'd wear the ears off them! I'd have a lot of homeless friends with the voluntary work I do and some of them are gas, I can kinda let myself out a bit more, whereas in a business environment and I even noticed this today when I was writing an e-mail earlier on- I'd to be SO formal and really think about what I was saying and how to say it in "business speak", whereas with weirdos I feel much more relaxed!

I'm kinda like that on boards too, I can tend to cut loose a bit in AH, then in other forums I tend to be much more reserved

Czarcasm

delthedriver wrote: »

I'm all ears....... of course I would believe you;)

Carry on.............:D

Fcuk me, it's like you read my mind! :pac:

IvaBigWun

MMmmm weirdos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQPHxTUgzI

delthedriver

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Ive attracted some nutjobs over the years but from my experience crazy girls are always the demons in bed :pac:

Sure had my share of crazy girls in my life. Nice........:D

cupcake83

Czarcasm wrote: »

Fcuk me, it's like you read my mind! :pac:

I'm almost too embarrassed to talk about it really. I had a guy (stranger)come up to me at a social gathering and ask me out of nowhere after the usual hi how are yas ,dead serious if I liked to dominate men in the bedroom. I was like wait ,what? That's just one time. Lol