30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things

It’s not unheard of for random people on the street to say something, well… random. And whether they’re striking a conversation about something so out of context, no one would be able to crack the code, or yelling out something so inexplicable, it ought to leave everyone around noticeably perplexed, such strangers can range from somewhat amusing to downright scary.

All sorts of one-sided conversations with strangers on the street were recently discussed by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community, after the user ‘izzie4563’ started a thread about such encounters. Fellow redditors had plenty to share, so if you’re interested in reading their stories, scroll down to find their answers on the list below, and see just how weird and unexpected some exchanges can be.

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Homeless guy on a bike after almost running into me rounding a corner:

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Razaelbub , Tadeu Jnr / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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153points

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wyngerd 5 months ago

Style.

39points

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things A guy offered me 100 for my socks. I remained sockless for the rest of the day.

CalendarAggressive11 , Min An / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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112points

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Selya_A 5 months ago

A win is a win

69points

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things "I'm dressed as a human today." I kept on walking by, but faster! What the hell does that mean?!

Ok-Thing-2222 , Hung Vo / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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110points

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flower petals 5 months ago

The lizard world is real... 🦎

50points

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Years ago a very, very drunk man unsteadily approached my friend and I in the street. He was squinting at his watch and closing one eye to try and read it. When he finally got to us he asked "Is it 10 in the morning or 10 at night?".

Candid_Zebra1297 , Marius Mann / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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107points

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Selya_A 5 months ago

I want whatever he had

60points

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Them: “Anyone ever told you that you look like Vin Diesel?”

Me: “No” (I do not look like Vin Diesel)

Them: “ Well, you don’t.”.

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104points

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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 5 months ago

Gotcha! 😀

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things A few hours after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks: "Lovely day for the first day of the Apocalypse, isn't it?".

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90points

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Stephanie A Mutti 5 months ago

It was a startling beautiful blue september day though.

42points

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Was walking my dog when a lady approached, leaned in close, and whispered, "They're listening through the trees," then just walked away like nothing happened. Haven't looked at an oak the same since.

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83points

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𝙻𝚞𝚗𝚊⋆𝚝𝚑𝚎⋆𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢 5 months ago

I knew I couldn’t trust those birches…

115points

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Many years ago while waiting outside a restaurant in New York City with my husband, his sister, and her husband, this lady came up to me and said "I love your coat, where'd you get it?"

After I told her I got it from a thrift store, she started excitedly saying stuff like "I think that coat is designer, you could probably sell it for a lot of money, I'd love a coat like this" etc., and the whole time she was grabbing different parts of the coat and examining them like she was appraising it or whatever, and then she suddenly just quit and walked off without saying another word.

I'm pretty sure she was just trying to distract me while she looked for my purse or searched my pockets or something but the joke was on her because I wasn't carrying a purse and my husband had everything in his pockets so there was nothing to take lol.

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Final score:

73points

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Hippopotamuses 5 months ago

Good spotting on your part.

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30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things I was walking my dogs, and this guy hesitantly passed us. Then he turned around and shouted, "YOUR DOGS ARE RACIST!" My dogs love everyone lol.

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71points

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glowworm2 5 months ago

Great, now I’m remembering that Dave Chapelle sketch involving racist animal actors.

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#10

"Today, more adults were spanked than children"

I kept walking.

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66points

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G A 5 months ago

That's some chat up line

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#11

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things In Long Beach, California when I was a teenager:
Old lady walking past: “Oh you must be a smart boy—your head’s so large you must have a lot of extra brains.”

I’m walking with a school friend down the street. A car stops in the middle of traffic and the driver, a middle aged woman, calls out, “Hey, are you two brothers?”
Both of us look at each other and wonder, even if we were, is she going home and announcing excitedly, “Hey I saw a coupla brothers today!”?

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Final score:

65points

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Colt Winkler 5 months ago

yep kidnapper confirmed

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#12

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Crazy homeless lady came up to me and in a deep raspy voice said "I've got bodies in my body".

syncpulse , MART PRODUCTION / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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62points

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Skara Brae 5 months ago

Pregnant with twins?

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#13

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Once I was smoking a cigarette in a designated smoking area and some random lady came up to me screaming "HOW DARE YOU SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE IN FRONT OF ME DON'T YOU KNOW I'M A CANCER SURVIVOR".

thunderball500110 , Zamaie Chinye / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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61points

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Skara Brae 5 months ago

"You didn't survive. Welcome to hell, where people yell at random strangers."

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#14

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things A girl said to me very low "I found your wife cheating on you" I don't have a wife or girlfriend lol.

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60points

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Dawn Woolley 5 months ago

Perhaps just a nasty person hoping to cause trouble for a complete stranger

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#15

I had a man come up to me and say “you smell like you’re on your period.” I was.

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59points

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Sinnsyk Jakte 5 months ago

I was in high school and my delusional stalker said, 'I can smell that you're in heat.' Couple things: I am now /obsessive/ about ensuring I smell good, and you can sucker punch me in the psyche if you tell me I smell... Aaand the guy actually believed I was a werewolf.

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#16

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things At a bus stop very early in the morning sitting next to a very old lady with—I s**t you not—a school clock hanging around her neck. She pointed it towards me and asked me what time it was.

marcosbowser , Eder Pozo Pérez / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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59points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 months ago

Flavor Flav's mum?

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#17

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things “I like your left foot”.

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53points

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Hippopotamuses 5 months ago

As long as its not "I'd like your left foot"

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#18

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Once had a stranger ask if I believed in time travel.

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52points

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

“Julius Caesar asked me that just yesterday.”

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#19

I was smoking a cigarette outside of my first job when 2 guys walked by and asked if I wanted to be in a movie.

It wasn't until years later that I read between the lines on that one..

Mind you, I was 18 and caught off guard, but EW MAN WTF.

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52points

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Ace 5 months ago

A porno, you mean?

28points

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#20

“Good thing you’re wearing a mask, it’s important to protect your respiratories, they’re putting 5G towers in here soon and you’ll really need to be protecting your respiratories” from some lady smoking and walking her ancient beagle after I told her the dog was cute.

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50points

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ॐBoyGanesh 5 months ago

Another “frequency” post!

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#21

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things “Do you do MMA? You just have the kind of face that looks like it could take a punch”. - guy making my sandwich at Subway.

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47points

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Dumb teenager 5 months ago

guess it's a complement???

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#22

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things A homeless person in Santa Barbara walked up to me and said " Christmas in July man!" But it was December 15th.

chickenfrietex , JÉSHOOTS / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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47points

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Rosemary 5 months ago

This was just a joke. Probably a nice sunny day (I live near Santa Barbara)

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#23

Do you want to see the elephants.

Someone said this to me in the mall. It took years to find out what tf they were talking about. I looked at them all confused and they walked away.

Later I found out they were trying to sell me acid. Oddly enough it was my exhusband as teenagers. I was talking about the odd time someone asked me about elephants at the mall and he started laughing. Not the only time we had run into each other when we were younger. Another time I was walking out of someone's house and we had a hey what's up moment and went about our business.

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46points

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Babs Ishkabibble 5 months ago

Oh please, dear God, help people make proper sentences.

66points

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#24

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things I was walking home and this older woman was walking towards me, as she got closer, she started snorting and spat a loogie nearby. She then turned to face me and said "Here's a gift for you from the above". It was the most unexpected thing ever

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44points

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Skara Brae 5 months ago

At least it wasn't a bird flying over your head.

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#25

Not on the street but at work one time a patient pulled out a bobble head of Gandhi and when I asked him why he has that he said “I don’t know I’m just from California”.

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43points

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

Gandhi-themed merchandise is hard to find most of the year. Of course at Christmas you can get gandhi canes.

5points

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#26

Kneel before Zod…(I was wearing a Supes t-shirt).

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42points

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Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 5 months ago

At least it was somewhat relevant...

28points

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#27

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things I was trying to rush to class and a guy popped out from behind a pillar and told me that I look like a female Skrillex. I got the distinct impression he had been waiting for me.

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38points

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Annabel Again 5 months ago

Well do you?

8points

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#28

I was walking to my car and a guy stopped his weed wacker to say, "you look comfortable." Then winked at me.

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34points

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Oddball 5 months ago

I was in the Miami airport waiting for my GF flight that was late, way late. It was around 1am and I fell asleep in a chair at the gate. I was rousted out of my nap by a guy asking me "Do you have time to talk about our Lord and savior Jesus Christ?" Still groggy I said "Sorry man I don't speak English".....the guy said "Oh, sorry" and walked away....That was 48 years ago and I still remember it and laugh.

51points

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#29

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things I want to lick your toes.

AloneMedicine8981 , Polina Zimmerman / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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34points

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Selya_A 5 months ago

Eeww…

22points

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#30

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Give me milk to drink.

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29points

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Dumb teenager 5 months ago

Well did you get them milk?

12points

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#31

Many years ago. I was waiting in line at the grocery store. A attractive woman told me she was going to un-alive the Queen. I live in the Midwest USA.

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19points

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Bob Brooce 5 months ago

It took her a while, but I guess she succeeded.

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#32

“Wanna muffin? Here, I promise I didn’t poison it.”.

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19points

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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 5 months ago

What the evil queen probably said about her apple, but apparently the OP is smarter than Snowwhite

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#33

Is your dog for sale? I’ll give you £50 right now. I said no. He increased the price. I said no again and then ran away. I was like 12.

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18points

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Hippopotamuses 5 months ago

That would have been very disturbing at that age.

13points

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#34

30 Times Strangers Passing By Said The Weirdest Things Dude walked up to me and my girlfriend and just yelled "NEW YORK CITY!!!!" then kept walking. We don't live in NYC nor did we have NY apparel on.

Shykneeheiny , Danya Gutan / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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17points

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Matthew Savestheworld 5 months ago

Were you wearing anything related to Pace Salsa?

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#35

"I have some genuine Sasquatch leavings I'd like to sell to you!".

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Hippopotamuses 5 months ago

.... and a bridge.

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#36

"Are you interracial?" ... I look like Woody Allen and Carrot Top made a love child.

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16points

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Al Fun 5 months ago

The rendering part of my brain is working hard on building that face now.

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#37

I was in an Argos once waiting in line and an old fella walks over to me and starts telling me how Putin isn’t as stupid as America thinks and something about Kissinger that I don’t actually remember, I just remember googling who Kissinger was after that day.

I live in Ireland and this was in 2019. There was no reason to bring this up.

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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 5 months ago

I don’t think America thinks Putin is stupid. I don’t think anyone in the world thinks Putin is stupid.

12points

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#38

What’s the frequency, Kenneth??

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 months ago

REM song. Cracking one at that.

10points

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#39

“I like your hair, can I have it?”.

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16points

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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 5 months ago

"Oh, thank you! I like your teeth, can I have them in return?"

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#40

Was getting fuel at a gas station. Guy proudly swaggers over to me and says, “I know you seen my blue truck.” There was no blue truck.

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15points

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LauraDragonWench 5 months ago

"Only fair as I know you seen my red boots."

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#41

Literally yesterday was with my bf looking at the tech gadgets in walmart and this dude comes up to us and asks us if we believe in God, and that we are God's representation of Adam and Eve on Earth made to God's likeness

he then went on a spiel while looking up bible verses on his phone until my bf and i politely interrupted him and walked away lmao.

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15points

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Skara Brae 5 months ago

"Excuse us, we have to go find the apples."

22points

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#42

I crossed paths with an older man in the grocery store and said "excuse me". He gave me a wild-eyed look and said "Caca!". I peaced out of there and went over to my husband. The word of the day after that was, of course, Caca!

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15points

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Anna Ekberg 5 months ago

He was calling you shît? Caca in spanish means poo or shît.

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#43

"I have $55 and a bottle of rum, is that enough to rent you for an hour?" He was homeless...

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14points

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ॐBoyGanesh 5 months ago (edited)

It’s never ok to imply someone is a sex worker unless they tell you or show you they are. I can’t even remember how many dozens of guys offered me money in exchange for my “company” when I was way too young.

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#44

"My sister stole $17 million from me and hired six cops to kill me. The Aryan Brotherhood and MS-13 are protecting me until I can hire a lawyer to sue my sister and get the money back."

This woman had been sleeping in a doorway across from my previous place of employment for at least two years before she told me this, repeatedly refusing to stay in a shelter unless the temperature was below zero.

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14points

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Ace 5 months ago (edited)

That's sad. I mean, a lot of these indicate mental illness, temporary or otherwise, of some kind, but two years living in a doorway and refusing offers of help...

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#45

Not to me but I saw a homeless person in the crosswalk walk directly up to this group of passing girls and burp in their face.

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Dumb teenager 5 months ago

why are some people like this

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#46

There was an injured pigeon on the floor and some woman came up to me and my mate and asked us to stamp on it to put it out of its misery (fyi we did not).

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14points

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Lil Miss Hobbit 5 months ago

Was it in misery though?

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#47

Lady started going off about how she’s working with the CIA doing deep undercover investigation on people who were gang stalking her.

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14points

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Hippopotamuses 5 months ago (edited)

She's forgotten the First Rule of Fight Club......

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#48

I had a guy come up and start rapping at me, he then tried to sell me a mix tape.

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13points

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Skara Brae 5 months ago (edited)

It's like a live commercial, but you have no mute button. (You cover your ears, I guess)

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#49

I was wearing a T-shirt that said Ugly Kid on the front. And some middle aged fella stopped me and said - I bet you weren't an ugly kid 🤨.

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S Mi 5 months ago

I kinda love that tbh

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#50

A homeless dude once called me a "police-a*s white boy" as I walked past him.

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Selya_A 5 months ago

Where you one though?

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#51

I was eating Ramen one night at 7-11 and some dude walked over to scratch a lottery ticket told me his a*s will get f****d tonight if he doesn’t get it right this time. Then he just walked away after.

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#52

"You look like Finch from American Pie if he was taller and on steriods".

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#53

My husband had somebody asked him where he could get a labotomy when he was at the pharmacy. He said you need a doctor first.

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9points

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

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#54

“Hey baby are your toes painted”.

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Skara Brae 5 months ago

"No, they are stained different colors like Easter eggs."

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athornedrose 5 months ago

took a shortcut through an alley i knew i really shouldn't at 3 in the morning between xmas and new years. a person with altered mental status slid out from behind a dumpster and was like "hey baby, do you need a biiiiig, stroooong, man?" i said "nah, i'm good, thanks", and he just goes "THAT'S RIGHT BABY! NO YOU DON'T! YOU DON'T! NEW YEAR, ALL YOU! YOU GOT THIS!" full volume, all enthusiasm. it made me feels so good about myself, i gave him a couple bucks and told him to keep safe out here. still makes me smile

DoubleDoubleTiredAndTuckered 5 months ago

That turned out... way more wholesome than I thought it would be. Love that story!

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Jeremy James 5 months ago (edited)

I was walking through an alley on my way home from work. It was late, no one was around, and I was loudly whistling, "If I Only Had A Brain." Suddenly, this man comes stumbling out of a parking structure and gives me his best Scarecrow dance. I gave him a few bucks for lifting my spirit.

JB 5 months ago

Standing at a bus stop, roughly ~20. Guy in a BMW screeched to a halt. Got out, exclaimed, “It must be fate! Have dinner with me.” I politely replied, “Sorry, no, I have a boyfriend”. I occasionally wonder if my life would have been wonderfully changed. Mostly, when I recall the incident, I’m grateful I said, “No”.

JNDauterive 5 months ago

Ever since I read about the serial killer that had a handcuff set up in his console, I’ve given major second thoughts to ever getting in a car with a stranger.

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