Random Conversations with Strangers

kerry4sam

Today right I was at this location and this fella walks in after me. It's a place I frequent but never seen him before but he must be a local.

Starts talking about water & the charges; informed me of a local well nearby where I could get water if I can't drill for my own well I was sitting down with a bottle of water, that was it!
Now I have a habit of chatting away to just about anyone really and not know who they are most of the time but this guy took the biscuit today.

Proceeded then to talking about
~ the flouride in the water and how dangerous it is for our health;
~ gave me a name up look-up of someone involved with a company in Silicone Valley in the USA and they're developing this anti-aging pill to reverse aging. All we have to do is remain healthy for the next 10-years while they create it;
~ how he's almost finished creating this 'device' to generate his own electricity and
~ once he does that, he will be cutting down his ESB wires outside his house (criminal damage) and 'They' can all go after him. Apparently he has plenty of friends so he'll be okay.
^^^ It was at this point when an elderly couple that I know, seated behind me stood up & left :eek:
I had't a bulls-notion who he was or what he was going to say next so I stood up and started walking the other way. Just left it by telling him to enjoy his evening.

Phoned the local station to inform of this guy & his plans to cut the ESB-wires outside his house (sign stating CCTV in operation to they could recognise him from that) to be informed by a jolly Guard that there are a few like him in the area. I'd only a description of him but nothing else. Heard a car start up after he walked out though but got no reg and I wasn't going out after him & letting him see my car-reg, though maybe he had already.
It's weird that he spoke of a location also that happens to be in my home-town.
Just a strange vibe from him. Never heard a car pull up. There were other cars when I arrived but I saw who was in those,unless he was with one of them. Just so random & strange for me. He would not have walked in, in the distance involved, by the time I drove in to when he walked in after me. Must've been somewhere in the carpark when I pulled up
Just so Random & Strange!

When was the last-time you'd a Random Conversation with a Stranger,
kerry4sam

Specialun

What a grass

Dave0301

Was walking down the street one day and was stopped by a young lad to be told "don't worry, God loves you very much."

I asked him how Santa Claus felt about me.

End conversation.

Shannon757

Whenever you are waiting, hospital,bus stop,whatever and tell your life story to a total stranger only to be told their life story and find out you both know many of the same people.

Mr. Incognito

As a Kerryman myself every town at home has one of those characters.

Where are you from?

Just dont engage.

Justice4Adolf

Jesus, he hasn't even finished inventing his Device and you're shopping him to the cops.
He might never get the DEVICE up and running. Which means he won't need to cut the lecky cables. While you're at your location every day enjoying your meditative quiet he'll by crying in his prison cell.

B@stard.

Youngblood.III

And you actually believed me when I told you all that......

mad m

New X-files movie is coming out soon.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I don't mind chatting to stranger's once I can get a word in edgeways. If they're just looking for an ear to bend and interrupt me if I reply then I don't even try and be polite, I just walk away.

One More Toy

Bang bang, she shot me down, bang bang, i hit the ground bang bang this thread bores me

chopperbyrne

Many years ago on the 77A from Tallaght into town I overheard a fantastic junkie conversation.

Junkie A is on his phone trying to arrange a place to collect his gear.

Junkie A: "I'll meet you at the big statue on O'Connell Street near Parnell Street yeah?"

Junkie B keeps talking over him.

Junkie B: "There's no statues on O'Connell Street."

This repeats several times until Junkie A gets pissed off and tells Junkie B to shut up.

Junkie B repeats: "There's no statues on O'Connell Street."

Junkie A: "What do you mean there's no statues, what are they then?"

Junkie B proudly states: "They're monuments."

Everyone else on the bus breaks into giggle fits.

Move forward about four years and the 77 has been merged with the 27 to make one super ****e route from Darndale to Jobstown.

I'm waiting at the bus stop in town for the 27 back to Tallaght and a random former junkie starts talking to me.

It's random small talk until he asks me if I knew who Sonic Youth were. I told him I did.

He then tell me: "Well I used to run with them when they were touring and they called me 'The Negotiator' because whenever anyone had taken a bit too much and decided they could fly, I was sent in to talk them down."

Then he hits me with this one:

The Negotiator: "How many statues are on O'Connell Street?"

I'm ecstatic. I've either found a now reformed Junkie B or The Negotiator is the man who has been educating Tallaght's junkies for years.

I proudly reply: "None, they're monuments!"

He's taken aback, he's lost the battle, but not the war.

The Negotiator: "Ha ha good man, but there is one, the Virgin Mary in the display box."

But he's not done, this guy's like ****ing Gollum now.

The Negotiator: "How many gardens are on O'Connell Street?"

I knew about the rooftop garden on the GPO, but I let him have his moment and feigned ignorance. He was delighted he'd caught me out.

What a man.

Dublin bus junkies and The Negotiator, life would be far less interesting without them.

Jotunheim

I was on duty today and some random stranger called to tell me a story about some fella who might cut off his own electricity supply. Weirdo. I couldn't get him off the phone quick enough.

Fear Ciarrai

Who is random and strange!

TallGlass

Would you call someone you know as a friend or just a stranger, because you know there name are they a stranger?

Banjo String

Just be glad you don't live in Reno OP.

I shot a stranger there once. Just to watch him die.

Schwiiing

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Dublin bus junkies and The Negotiator, Dublin would be slightly less feral without them.

fyp

_Tombstone_

I can't believe you rang the Guards OP, Seriously. I don't know who is stranger, you or him.

Can't believe it.