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Sometimes, beingness is conscionable a large shot of WTF. I honestly thought I knew what to expect erstwhile radical were asked to stock the astir surreal and bizarre things they've witnessed oregon experienced, but alas. Here are immoderate of the astir WTF stories radical had:
1. "I was moving arsenic a cashier successful a tiny Pennsylvania assemblage town, and a dude came successful wearing a full-body chickenhearted costume. As I was ringing him up, I asked if helium was going to a enactment oregon was moving arsenic a mascot. He shrugged his wings astatine maine and said, 'Nah. Sometimes I conscionable consciousness similar a chicken.' Then helium walked retired with his soda and way mix."
2. "I was connected the second-highest level of a building, waiting for the elevator to spell down. The elevator doors opened, and I stepped successful to find a mini equine wearing reddish cowboy boots and a cowboy chapeau with a immense bosom shaved connected its butt. To this day, I inactive wonderment WTF was going down connected that apical floor."
—Ryan, Texas
3. "I was riding the metro successful Washington, DC, during unreserved hour. It was a hectic morning, truthful the cars were jammed — like, radical were pressed against the bid doors. I was waiting astatine the presumption to committee different enactment erstwhile I looked up and saw a antheral connected the bid making retired with the window. He was full-on French-kissing the model pane — it astir felt arsenic if I was intruding connected something. I don't cognize what was happening oregon wherever that feline was successful his head, but it was the strangest happening I've ever seen."
—Anonymous
4. "The strangest happening that ever happened to maine was erstwhile I was successful the Philippines, and a radical of excited women kept pursuing maine astir and asking maine if I was Natalie Portman. I said I wasn't (I privation I looked similar her), but they didn't judge me. They past asked if I was Jewish, and erstwhile I didn't accidental nary (because I am), they kept bouncing up and down, excitedly exclaiming that I was definitely Natalie Portman. They insisted connected taking a photograph of me, truthful I yet conscionable gave up and fto them. Now, determination successful the Philippines, there's a radical of radical showing disconnected to their friends and household a representation of a random British Jewish woman who is decidedly not Natalie Portman. I don't adjacent cognize if I spoke for the remainder of the time — I was truthful boggled."
5. "One time, I was flying from Indonesia backmost to the US and was seated adjacent to this feline who had a sandwich container afloat of peeled garlic. He ate the full container during takeoff. Then a fewer hours later, helium pulled retired a large artifact of Brie, divided it successful half, enactment immoderate raisins connected it, slapped it backmost together, and ate it similar a sandwich. It was truthful bizarre. At 1 point, helium caught maine looking and asked if I wanted some. Um, nary thanks!"
6. "I was sitting extracurricular a changing country successful a section store, waiting for my woman arsenic she was trying connected clothes. There was an aged antheral sitting crossed from me, and without breaking oculus contact, helium lip-synced the entirety of Whitney Houston's 'Greatest Love of All' portion winking and smiling astatine me."
7. "I sat down connected the train, and this feline took 1 look astatine me, whipped retired a sketchpad, and started scribbling away, glancing successful my absorption each fewer seconds. Whenever I looked implicit astatine him, helium angled his sketchpad distant and avoided oculus contact. When I looked away, helium was backmost to his drawing. At 1 stop, helium stood to get disconnected the train. By then, I was conscionable staring astatine him. He stepped onto the platform, turned around, and looked astatine maine consecutive successful the eyes with implicit seriousness. Just arsenic the doors are astir to close, without breaking oculus contact, helium raised the sketchpad for maine to see: He drew maine stark naked, lasting nether a thenar tree, with an perfectly massive, larger-than-life penis."
8. "Many moons ago, I worked successful retail. One time, a antheral came, enactment his backpack down connected the model ledge, and threw up successful it. Right into the bag. He past zipped his container up, enactment it backmost connected his shoulder, and walked off. I saw him bash the nonstop aforesaid happening 3 antithetic times, and truthful person my coworkers. It was truthful strange."
9. "It was sometime successful the aboriginal 2000s, and I was astatine a Starbucks, sitting by the beforehand window, enjoying my portion portion speechmaking and people-watching. After immoderate time, my attraction was abruptly drawn to a peculiar-looking fig coming down the street. As helium approached, I saw that helium was wearing a precise antithetic '80s-style reddish leather outfit. He went past the window, and I was completely, utterly shocked. He was walking astir wearing chaps."
10. "One autumn sunny greeting successful the mid-1990s, I was riding successful my brother's motortruck connected the freeway to Salt Lake City. We passed a sports car, and arsenic I looked down astatine the driver, I couldn't judge what I was seeing: The operator was a lone young man, possibly successful his 30s, and was wearing a integrative penis implicit his nose! He had some hands connected the steering wheel, and helium ne'er looked up astatine me. He was conscionable casually driving down the roadworthy with a penis hanging from his face! I would've been horrified if it weren't truthful funny. My member and I laughed truthful hard."
—Anonymous
11. "When I was successful precocious school, we went to a chess tourney successful Virginia. We were staying astatine a four-story hotel. As we were getting our bags from the car, a person nudged me, pointed to the roof, and said, 'Look astatine that!' On the extortion was a antheral dressed successful black, holding a katana, and lasting perfectly still, silhouetted by the afloat moon. My person and I joked that helium was astir apt immoderate bored worker who thought helium was a ninja. Well, the antheral did immoderate benignant of warrior shout, performed immoderate fancy swordplay with the katana, past ran and jumped headfirst disconnected the roof! Now, the broadside of the edifice had a steep, grass-covered hill, truthful it wasn't the worst spot to onshore — but 4 stories? Headfirst? We were freaking out."
12. "I was retired doing immoderate buying erstwhile I abruptly saw immoderate lad dressed arsenic a clown riding connected 1 of those tiny small motorbikes. He was zooming astir portion astir 10 unit members were chasing him. Meanwhile, everyone either didn't attraction oregon didn't look to notice. The clown was going truthful accelerated that erstwhile helium tried to crook a corner, helium crashed into a shelf. I felt similar I was the lone 1 paying attention; different radical were conscionable casually stepping done the wreckage and taking the items they needed disconnected the shelf."
13. "It was the mediate of the summer, and I randomly heard Christmas songs being blasted outside. I looked retired the model and saw what could lone beryllium described arsenic Santa's sleigh racing down the thoroughfare with a monolithic stereo attached. Standing connected the sleigh were 4 guys, beers successful hand, shouting and singing along."
14. "One time, 4 wholly bare men ran past maine portion carrying a immense blown-up banana betwixt them. Like, it was astir apt the size of a canoe. Yeah, I'm not definite what that was about."
15. "I was astatine a farmers market, and determination was a antheral who had a stall that sold, arsenic advertised, Jamaican jerk chicken. Well, a pistillate adjacent to his stall started screaming astatine him and everyone nearby, 'This feline is simply a fraud, and truthful is his chicken! He's not Jamaican! He's Nigerian!'"
16. "I was getting a haircut, relaxing successful the chair, and letting the barber bash his thing. Suddenly, the constabulary stormed into the barbershop and arrested my barber mid-chop! WTF?"
17. "When it was pre-COVID, I worked successful a engaged area. One afternoon, I went retired for a coffee, and arsenic I was waiting astatine the intersection, a antheral connected roller skates abruptly appeared successful beforehand of a immense enactment of cars. He was holding up astir apt 4 lanes of traffic, past helium proceeded to gracefully effort what looked similar an crystal skating routine."
18. "This was conscionable a truly weird series of events. One time, I was doing a barroom crawl. About 7 oregon 8 bars in, we got to this truly rough-looking one. This feline came in, and I noticed helium was wearing a pirate chapeau and had a parrot connected his shoulder. As helium ordered his drink, the parrot was repeatedly shouting a drawstring of curse words. Nobody said anything, truthful I assumed this dude was a regular oregon something. Well, I bought my drink, went into the brew garden, spotted my friends astatine the table, and saw determination was a Shetland pony lasting adjacent to them. So, yeah: A pirate, a profane parrot, and a pony."
19. "I saw a antheral autumn down a mates of steps connected the escalator. He stood up from the fall, gripped his umbrella, and started beating the escalator with it, shouting, 'ARSE! ARSE! ARSE!' To this day, my spouse and I inactive accidental 'ARSE! ARSE! ARSE!' if thing goes wrong."
20. "My spouse and I got a small fluffy Pomeranian during lockdown, and she had an uncanny quality to find breadstuff whenever we took her retired connected walks. During 1 week successful particular, she was uncovering a afloat portion of breadstuff each clip we took her out, and we'd person to yank it from her rima and transportation on. Well, connected the past time of the week, she recovered different portion of breadstuff arsenic usual, truthful we snatched it from her and continued walking. Suddenly, not adjacent a fewer seconds later, what does she person successful her mouth? A TORTILLA."
21. "In the UK, during COVID lockdown, you were lone allowed to spell extracurricular to workout for a abbreviated magnitude of clip per time to effort and curb corruption rates. That is, of course, unless you had a favored that needed walking, which would let for much clip retired of the house. Well, that regularisation led to immoderate absorbing interpretations of what was considered to beryllium a pet. In my town, each day, determination was a dude who walked a fully-grown pig, collar and all."
22. "I was pissing successful a pub urinal erstwhile this feline walked in. He saw that the lone stall successful the bath was occupied, said, 'I can't clasp it in,' and dropped his pants to instrumentality a crap successful the urinal close adjacent to me. When helium was done, helium pulled his pants up and walked retired without saying a word. I was perfectly speechless."
23. "I kid you not, I legit slipped connected a banana peel. So, my kid and I went to my parents' house, and my kid started eating a banana. The peel was connected the table, and helium was waving his arms erstwhile helium saw me, which caused the banana peel to spell connected the floor. I decidedly didn't spot it. I was walking past the table, trying to get into the kitchen, and slipped connected the peel. I fell down precisely however it happens successful cartoons. It was truthful comical, it didn't consciousness real."
24. "I utilized to enactment arsenic a bid conductor. One Friday night, I was moving 1 of the past trains, and determination was a mates that boarded. While I was walking done the train, I noticed that the mates had locked themselves successful 1 of the tiny bathrooms. I asked them to travel out, and erstwhile they did, the miss had her manus clamped implicit her mouth. When I asked what was wrong, her fellow said that 2 of her mendacious beforehand teeth got flushed down the toilet. Mind you, the bid had been successful work ALL DAY, and that toilet was filthy! But she persisted successful putting her fingers down the small spread to hunt for her teeth. The teeth were stuck, truthful I deed up the exigency instrumentality cupboard and recovered immoderate bungee clips, reasoning they'd work. Thirty minutes later, the teeth came flying retired of that filthy spread connected the extremity of the bungee clip. What happened next, I was not prepared for. The miss simply ran the teeth nether the descend tap...AND PUT THEM BACK IN HER MOUTH."
25. "My woman and I were leaving the Guinness Storehouse successful Dublin, and past a baguette conscionable fell from the entity and landed close successful beforehand of us. A baguette. In beforehand of the Guinness Factory. So weird."
26. "In the aboriginal '90s, I was taking the subway to a gig erstwhile I saw this disheveled-looking fella eating a tin of peaches, conscionable tipping the tin into his mouth. The bid lurched, and the guy's solid oculus popped retired and landed successful the tin. Without a infinitesimal of hesitation, helium reached into the tin, fished retired the eye, wiped it connected his coat, past shoved it backmost into his oculus socket."
27. "I erstwhile went to the section leisure halfway for a bully dip successful the swimming pool. A pistillate I'd ne'er seen earlier decided to halt adjacent to maine and archer maine astir her fellow who 'licked her shingles.' Before I could determine if that was immoderate benignant of caller euphemism, she whipped fractional of her swimsuit disconnected and showed maine her rash. That was specified a weird moment, due to the fact that what the existent hellhole conscionable happened?"
28. "When I was successful Australia, I saw a pelican scoop up a chihuahua into its mouth. The leash was hanging retired of its rima portion this lady, whom I assumed was the owner, tried to bushed the pelican with her purse. It was VERY surreal."
29. "Many years ago, I utilized to enactment nighttime shifts astatine a information halfway that was surrounded by houses and faced a medium-sized car park. It was astir 4 a.m. connected a Wednesday, and retired of the bureau window, loads of car lights came rolling astir the corner. It was a radical of large-ish SUV-type cars, and my contiguous thought was that I missed an assignment successful the calendar oregon something. However, these 4 large cars pulled into the car parkland connected the other side, and immoderate lads got retired and started hooking up wires betwixt the cars. I was intrigued, truthful I conscionable sat backmost and watched arsenic they connected immoderate AV kits unneurotic — speakers, amps, etc. It took a mates of minutes, and past BOOM! Music started playing and disco lights were shining everywhere. I crap you not, abruptly determination was a 20-person mini rave."
30. "My granddad was adamant astir not wanting a hearse erstwhile helium died. He had his ain concern and loved aged trucks, forklifts, and the like. So, erstwhile helium did pass, helium was driven to the cemetery successful the backmost of a pickup truck. People connected the thoroughfare couldn't judge it — hell, I couldn't adjacent judge it. One woman, who was walking, was staring truthful overmuch successful that she walked consecutive into a lamppost. We couldn't incorporate our laughter successful the cars."
31. "I emotion Americans, but they are immoderate of the weirdest radical successful the world. My dada worked for an American company, truthful we utilized to spell implicit to the US a batch for these 'corporate getaways.' One time, we were astatine a edifice eating dinner, and a begetter and lad conscionable came and sat down with us. Just joined america astatine our array similar we were champion friends. The lad was possibly six oregon eight. I was confused, truthful I said thing like, 'Can I assistance you?' The dada past said, 'Yeah, my lad wanted to beryllium with the Europeans for dinner!' It was truthful strange, but I wasn't adjacent mad, due to the fact that the dada had balls arsenic large arsenic melons to conscionable brazenly articulation a random household for a repast to marque his lad happy."
32. Lastly: "I was down successful England for a friend's wedding. All of the large hotels were ace expensive, truthful I ended up booking astatine a B&B. At astir dawn, I heard a quiescent dependable outside, cycling done each curse connection successful the dictionary. Unable to afloat spell backmost to sleep, I spent the adjacent fewer hours successful and retired of consciousness, trying to marque consciousness of it all. Once I got packed up and acceptable to leave, I noticed an aviary, and wrong was a parrot. The parrot looked maine dormant successful the oculus and said, 'You fucking bastard.' Mystery solved!"
Alright, that's capable net for today. If you've ever witnessed oregon experienced thing truthful bizarre that you inactive don't cognize precisely what happened, we privation to cognize astir it. Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon you tin anonymously taxable your communicative utilizing the signifier below!
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