What's the most random thing to happen to you?

scotty_irish · 19-06-2011 11:39AM #1

Since I moved to Glasgow last October my life has jumped from random event to random event. My first day here, I went into a sandwich shop and an old friend was working behind the counter.

I went to the pub last Friday, found a piano on the street on my way home. Weighs as much as a baby elephant and it took me three days to get it home, but I now have a piano in my sitting room.

Oh and four months in Glasgow and the main street is shut to traffic because of my building

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12401660

Tis but a brief summary of the randomness of my life lately, a lot more random and weird **** has happened to me since moving here.

So AH, what's the most random thing to ever happen to you?

galwayrush · 19-06-2011 11:42AM

Conception.

Kells... · 19-06-2011 11:44AM

Inception

melb · 19-06-2011 11:44AM

A kick in the face.

Sea Sharp · 19-06-2011 11:46AM

A face in the kick.

bob the bob · 19-06-2011 11:48AM

Young people seem to think "random" means unusual, weird, quirky.

UD hits nail on head:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=random

scotty_irish · 19-06-2011 11:51AM

bob the bob wrote: »

Young people seem to think "random" means unusual, weird, quirky.

UD hits nail on head:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=random

1. i'm not that young.

2. i'lll go with the oxford dictionary on this one:
"informal odd, unusual, or unexpected"

3. can't believe i'm using the oxford dictionary in AH!

Crann na Beatha · 19-06-2011 11:52AM

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Feckfox · 19-06-2011 11:57AM

Those events were certainly unexpected.

Mr.Crinklewood · 19-06-2011 11:58AM

Men keep coming into the petrol station where I work and ask for new lightbulbs for their cars.

spunkymunky · 19-06-2011 01:18PM

scotty_irish wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12401660

Very random in the first picture when you click the link. Look at the 1st thumbnail of the smoke. Looks like the marshmallow man from ghostbusters waving

scotty_irish · 19-06-2011 01:27PM

spunkymunky wrote: »

Very random in the first picture when you click the link. Look at the 1st thumbnail of the smoke. Looks like the marshmallow man from ghostbusters waving

never noticed that, and I've looked at those pics a lot!

19-06-2011 01:28PM

sorcha came over to mine yesterday and it was omg loike so random

NotExactly · 19-06-2011 01:29PM

Veles wrote: »

Getting asked for my autograph in Kildare town...

Who did they think you were?

metamorphosis · 19-06-2011 01:32PM

In a very small town in upstate New York a few years ago, cycling down a forest trail with a friend, middle of nowhere. Pasty white skinned guy and an Asian woman stop us and ask how many miles it is to the end of the trail. Guy asks where I'm from, turns out to be from the same city (Limerick). Though it was pretty random.

mikemac · 19-06-2011 01:34PM

Some man rang me on the mobile shouting abuse and demanding to speak to his daughter. This at 20 minutes past midnight
And he was going to come around and batter me. Demanding to know my name and why was I with his daughter.

Seems his teenage daughter was staying with some boyfriend they didn't approve of. So the parents were angry and worried.

Wait, wrong number :rolleyes:

Didn't get an apology either :mad:

efb · 19-06-2011 01:36PM

44

damagegt · 19-06-2011 01:44PM

I was going for a walk in gougane barra forest in cork on a sunday morning with all my family when about an hour in to the walk we find a massive dildo in the middle of the path.Strange to say the least.

Augmerson · 19-06-2011 01:45PM

scotty_irish wrote: »

I went to the pub last Friday, found a piano on the street on my way home. Weighs as much as a baby elephant and it took me three days to get it home, but I now have a piano in my sitting room.

You just took a piano you found on the street? Do you often take things in this manner? Plenty of cars parked out on the street, do you take them too? Anything that isn't nailed down?

scotty_irish · 19-06-2011 01:48PM

Augmerson wrote: »

You just took a piano you found on the street? Do you often take things in this manner? Plenty of cars parked out on the street, do you take them too? Anything that isn't nailed down?

i live in the west end of glasgow, people leave furniture on the street the whole time for others to take. that's where the couch im siting on came from. and my oak sitting room table with 8 chairs. and a massive mirror. and one of my coffee tables. and a ladder(that was stolen but i needed it to break into my old flat, but i gave it back, i swears). it was outside a building which was being refurbished, at ten at night, clearly for the taking, lots of other furniture there too. and it took my three days to get home, the owner could've easily got it back if they wanted.

anyhow, i'm off the belt out a few tunes on my severely out of tune piano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqOJv0bAA-U (not me unfortunately)

McFoxy · 07-07-2011 01:56AM

A couple of years ago, I was in a B&B and an american woman asked if she could take my picture, because I have red hair and was eating a full Irish. Pretty strange

More to come..

Latchy · 07-07-2011 02:18AM

Thread has come along just at the right time ( just before I head off to bed ) and don't think it's the most random thing to happen in my life but certainly the most recent as it only happened yesterday .

I was walking out of a store in the city centre when a female friend came walking in my direction so as you do , I said '' Hi Ann , how things '' ? .

So this 40 odd year old womon slows down ,looks over at me with a smile /quizzical look on her face on her and again I said ' Hi Ann ' ? ...but she's still looking at me smiling and confused . I realised she wasn't Ann but was so uncanny like her that even up close she looked like Ann .

So the woman explained who she was , we both laughed at my error and went our seperate ways .

Then aproxx 2 minutes later I turn the corner and who is only facing me ?............the real Ann . :eek:

So I'm explaining to her who I've just seen and we are both in knots laughing .

Mistaking somebody for somebody else happens to us all but to have the real person show up a minute or two after has to be one of the oddest things to ever happen to me .

07-07-2011 02:39AM

I was walking down the road the other day, and I turned into a pub!

Jess16 · 07-07-2011 03:06AM

I was queuing at the drinks tent at Oxegen last summer, shooting the breeze with my friends when the guy in front of me starts bangin on about it being nothing more than a culchies day out to his mates. Being a proud country girl and 4 beers the better, I basically fired off some retort about the wonders of my home county. "Don't I know he says, I used to go out with a girl from there" The girl was my sister!!

ColeTrain · 07-07-2011 03:40AM

A few years ago my mate was driving me home after a few spliffs, was around 4am. The two of us were pretty stoned and there wasn't a car in sight. All of a sudden we see this massive object in front of us.
As we got closer I said "is that a boat??" Turns out it was indeed a boat being transported - big one too that practically took up the two lanes of the road. We had some laugh driving behind it. It was like it was hovering on the road. Not that random but was very funny at the time given the time of night and our state of mind

Chuck Stone · 07-07-2011 03:46AM

I was walking down the street once and just as I was about to cross the road it started to rain.

MrStuffins · 07-07-2011 03:46AM

I think it's time the Irish Government started a campaign to ensure the people of Ireland actually know what the word random means.

Also, bumping into an old friend someone who knew someone who used to go out with a friend's sister's auntie is not rando, it's called coincidence!

Jess16 · 07-07-2011 04:05AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

I think it's time the Irish Government started a campaign to ensure the people of Ireland actually know what the word random means

Why? Meanings are arbitrary so words convey meaning in whatever way they're most commonly used and interpreted. People achieve very effective and colourful communication using colloquialisms all the time. Life would be very dull without them

Needler · 07-07-2011 04:38AM

bluewolf wrote: »

sorcha came over to mine yesterday and it was omg loike so random

And where was Fiachra in all of this??

MrStuffins · 07-07-2011 05:04AM

Jess16 wrote: »

Why? Meanings are arbitrary so words convey meaning in whatever way they're most commonly used and interpreted. People achieve very effective and colourful communication using colloquialisms all the time. Life would be very dull without them

"Random" is not a colloquialism, it's a word being misused! There are already pretty appropriate words for all of these things being said, try using them instead of shuffling words like cards in a deck!

Fago! · 07-07-2011 05:06AM

Got jumped on and beaten half to death once.

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