Strangest encounter with a stranger?

[elevenspowers]

Today I went to the cash point outside Tesco and a man walked in front of me diagonally and we almost clashed and so I moved back (assumed he was walking to the entrance) and he just stared at me.

He was on the phone talking, with his back to the cash point, staring at me carrying on his conversation. So after about a few seconds I was like “are you using the cash point” - he responded yes but then still carried on his conversation. I was just like 😬 ok ….

Probably not that weird, but it’s fresh in my head.

You will find this very strange as I felt at the time...

On a night out with workmates, I was fairly drunk by the time I was waiting for my bus home, when a person, let's say a man dressed in overtly women's clothing top and short skirt and fishnets and wore make-up had to ask me "can you stub a (lit) cigarette on me, please?" I couldn't believe what I had heard correctly and had to ask to repeat the question. He said it again and I staggeringly felt in disbelief he had to ask me to do that to him. I had to ask why on earth is he asking me this. He said he's not had anyone who was able to do so. I said it isn't normal to be asking a total stranger this and that I couldn't do it to him as it wasn't right. He was most insistent and I had to repeat myself that it was crazy for him to ask people this. I said one day, he could ask the wrong person and he could get humiliated or get bashed for it. I was so concerned for his welfare that he needed to be told this. I also advised to get therapy and to speak to his GP for his uncontrollable urges.

It certainly sobered me upafter that. I had thought what became of that guy in the end.

Tis a true story...

Took the kids camping in Devon for a few days and managed to burst a tyre trying to avoid another car when turning into the campsite. Spare was soft so changed it and limped to our pitch. Spoke to the farmer owner (lovely man in his late 60s) who told me to pop down to the farm the next day and he would blow the tyre up.

So drive down the next day and the air line was in a barn, drove in and he pumped it up. Radio 2 was playing in the background and when he was finished with the tyre he asked me to dance! Ended up waltzing round this barn - very surreal but a memory I treasure! (He was an excellent dancer!)

Bought some reading glasses in Poundland! I had my cataract operation on Thursday, and while my distance sight is quite good, I need something so I can read (I am/was very shortsighted) I have to wait 4 weeks before my optician can do a check-up, but these glasses are helping at the moment.

Obviously not helping to post on the right thread...

The other day I was in Tesco walking down the bread and cereal aisle. There was a man walking towards us who looked completely normal, until he suddenly turned and smacked a box of cornflakes with his fist. He left a huge dent in the cardboard, then leaned back on the trolley handle and walked on as if nothing had happened. DH and I were a bit shocked and scared so we didn't react when we walked past him, but he stared at me aggressively as if daring me to ask him what it was all about. When we turned into the next aisle we started sniggering but it was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen anyone do!

I was on the Elizabeth Line the other day and a man walked slowly the length of the train in one direction, then the other, playing Beatles songs on a harmonica.

He wasn't asking for money, he was just... sharing his music with us.

Strange but beautiful strange.

It felt like being in a film.

When I was a student, a man much older than me came and sat opposite me on a train and told me he’d fallen in love with me. It was so creepy I couldn’t wait to get off that train.