During lockdown I was jogging my usual route and passed someone walking in full plague doctor getup. Thinking “that’s kinda odd” I turned the corner and almost ran into a lady rollerskating backward entirely in the nude. I live in Florida and see weird shit somewhat frequently but that particular run stands out in my mind.
Oh I can explain this: You were born with a destiny that doesn’t make sense anymore because the gods had to make some changes to the timeline. Sounds simple enough but some people have actually been given theirs or someone else’s prophecy so now they have to make it happen… Somehow.
To resolve this situation they often have to come up with clever solutions to make sure the prophecy still happens in a way that the (new) timeline can handle. Such as “experiencing plague” and “getting caught rolling with a naked woman in public”.
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Walking on Dartmoor one cold, gray and rainy winter’s morning.
A young man in a sodden T-shirt and shorts emerged out of the mist on the same moorland path I was on. He was carrying a tesco carrier bag with a ram’s skull sticking out and what looked to be the spine stuffed into it.
Sheep die out there all the time so it was probably a chance find - but walking in what were difficult conditions so poorly dressed, but with a carrier bag…? I still wonder what he was going to do with his prize.
Oh, and that time when I drove around a corner to find five pirates pushing a horse and carriage up a hill. (It was a themed wedding and the horse was slipping on the way to the reception so the followers got out of their cars and helped push - but it earned a second glance)
A dude sun bathing naked in a public park. I live in ABQ if you know you know.
Junkie sleeping on a street on his face and chest, legs hanging over him in an arc having his shoe heals next to his ears.
In 2008 at about 22:30 waiting for some people after a meal in a deserted South African shopping centre, a man on a Segway rounds the corner towards me then disappears in to the distance.
My friend on acid walking into a building and then making the absolute loudest most evil sounding laugh imaginable that echoed throughout the entire area
A few.
I was in San Juan once and, walking back to my cruise ship, saw a van jump a curb, slam into a police vehicle, and then the driver hopped out and jumped off the pier into the ocean.
The first time I visited Los Angeles and saw literal garbage piled 2-3 feet high on public sidewalks. In the days after I saw the tent cities. (I’m from Kansas City, where garbage is very well managed and tent cities are a rarity.)
I once saw a very tall, dark shape in the woods getting chased by cows. It might have been Bigfoot. It might have been a bear or a deer that reared up on its hind legs. It was too far away for me to say for sure.
Your first one reminds me of something that happened awhile back. I was at a donut shop staring out the window when a scruffy dude in a pickup truck slammed into a traffic light, tipping it over across the street.
Now as it happens, said donut shop was a watering hole for police officers (yes, the stereotype is real), and about a dozen buff uniforms trotted out within seconds. The guy climbed out of the truck and tried to light a cig and it fell out of his mouth as he saw them rushing up.
Would cows chase away a threat? Genuine question because I am curious. I can’t imagine it.
Cows also tend to be very curious. If you walk into a pasture and start doing something weird then most of the cows will usually run over to see what you’re doing.
It could have just been a person running through the woods and the cows were running after them to see where they were going.
I honestly don’t know. That’s just what I saw. Maybe they were running from it.
LA is aggressively overrated from everything I’ve heard. NYC prices,
Kansas CityIndianapolis infrastructure, Manilla tidyness. The weather is nice, I guess.Having lived here for ~10 years after ditching Iowa, I hate that this is the takeaway people have. I wouldn’t live anywhere else in the US.
Which parts do you really like?
Hey now, don’t knock our infrastructure. KC’s in good shape and we even have free public transportation.
My bad. Uuuuh… Indianapolis infrastructure, according to a quick search. Speaking of cities that get bomb reviews…
Haha, it’s all good.
Yeah, that’s about right from my experience
Greenville, NC in a Walgreens, around 2013. A man who looked like, or could well have been Gary Busey, in a leather jacket, in a pile of talcum powder on the floor, was picking up handfuls of powder and snorting them.
Heading to work one morning in the car after a heavy snowfall. I started at 9 so it was a bright sunny morning. Before hitting the main road I see a woman in the distance on the side of the road wearing a long blue dress. As I get closer I see her not even wearing a jacket, holding her dress up awkwardly out of the snow and taking huge steps through the foot deep snow. It was Emilia Clark (or someone who looked exactly like her) in her full ass Daenerys blue dress trudging through snow running for a bus stop and laughing her ass off at people like me gawking at her.
It was probably a year or two before they filmed the last season and I’m certain they didn’t film it here (they do film a lot of other series here though), so I’m assuming they were doing photoshoots nearby and she had car trouble due to the snow.
Two things really stand out to me.
I saw a unicyclist swerve and nearly wipe out avoiding a lamp post that he didn’t notice because he was looking at his phone.
I saw a goth dwarf scramble for safety in a service station forecourt because an oblivious woman was driving straight at him.
A bus that couldn’t get over a small incline because of fresh snow on top of ice and had to be pushed by the passengers and pedestrians. It’s odd because it happened in Europe in a city where buses are particularly well-maintained.
Grown adult shitting on a sidewalk. Hooray SF.
Similar SF story, down at Fisherman’s Wharf, during COVID, two people on the sidewalk just getting it on lol.
Walking through a cemetry at night, with 8 friends.
A tree ahead starts violently shaking its top branch then stops.
We all continue walking past the tree, which is around 6m high. All examine the top of it to see no person or animal up there.
Agree it was weird.
It was shaking too much to be a cat or bird. No wind at the time.
I’m sure I’ve seen weirder shit, but right now all I can think of is a literal truckload of bread. I mean a pick-up truck full to the brim with bread just loosely tossed in the back. I do not mean bread packaged in cases. WHY.
It was in a parking lot at a Walmart.
Contaminated batch. Missing screw on the dough mixer after filling the ovens? Replace the screw and dump the batch. Probably sold for next to nothing to someone with pigs.
You’re probably like about the pigs. Technically it was in the metro of a large midwestern city, but it was what I would call the outer edges of the metro and farmland wasn’t far.
Spotted this week. Every available space was just baguette
Was it a Baguetti?
2017 Baguetti Farinador
