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For 1 crushed oregon another, we've each had that infinitesimal wherever we think, "I request to get retired of here." So erstwhile u/Archiveadq asked r/answers, "What is the weirdest happening you’ve seen wrong someone’s location that instantly made you realise, 'I request to get retired of present close now'?" We thought we'd stock the apical responses.
1. "Went to a enactment colleague's spot (unannounced) to driblet disconnected immoderate docs."
"They lived successful your modular three-bedroom suburban location with a precise tidy beforehand garden. I rang the doorbell, and she instantly invited maine successful for beverage and immoderate cookies (she had conscionable baked them, and the odor wafted retired of the beforehand door).
They person 3 kids nether the property of seven, and some parents enactment full-time. The location was immaculate. You could execute country successful the toilet. The kitchen/living country looked similar a show home, nary kids' toys successful sight, and I thought the canine was astir to connection maine slippers and a pipe, wearing his small bow tie.
The kids were sitting successful beforehand of a turned-off TV, the oldest was speechmaking a publication to her younger siblings, with gentle classical euphony playing successful the background. The kids stopped what they were doing to accidental hullo to maine ('Hello, Sir'), past went backmost to their book. I was served beverage connected the backmost veranda, which was surrounded by an immaculate, country-style small garden. She apologised for the mess, arsenic she didn't cognize I was coming. I instantly came to the decision that these radical were immoderate benignant of freaks, aliens oregon serial killers, and rapidly got retired of there, backmost to my messy, out-of-control shithole."
2. "Was doing doorway to doorway sales. Walked into a biker pack den. There were blades and guns each implicit the walls of this den. As soon arsenic I walked successful to this place, the euphony stopped, everyone stared astatine me. I wasn't trespassing, I was invited successful by 1 of the pack members. I noped the fuck retired of there."
3. "I bash existent property photography, truthful I'm successful a batch of houses. You would beryllium shocked astatine however galore radical person what I telephone 'Creepy Doll Rooms', which are usually spare bedrooms filled with dozens and dozens of dolls. I person taken capable photos of these rooms that I've considered making a java array book."
4. "A feline I visited. I needed to unfastened a bundle and asked for a weapon oregon scissors. By tribunal order, helium wasn't allowed to person these successful the house."
5. "I met a feline astatine his condo for our archetypal date. He precise proudly gave maine a circuit of his home, which included a postulation of afloat size coffins. The astir ornate 1 was astatine the ft of his bed. I flew retired of determination arsenic if my hairsbreadth was connected fire."
6. "Went to a girl's flat aft a date. She had a truly cute canine that kept pursuing maine around."
"I asked her what his sanction was.
She said, Kevin.
I laughed and said, That's a comic sanction for a dog.
She looked confused.
That's my ex-boyfriend's name. He died past year.
Then she looked astatine the canine and whispered, 'He came backmost to me.'
I didn't adjacent decorativeness my drink."
7. "I was employed arsenic a location cleaner. I was dusting and determination was a furniture wherever I was picking up each point to dust. I was mindlessly doing this portion listening to a podcast. I past realised the dense happening I had picked up, dusted and past enactment down was a manus gun. I was truthful confused. For context, I don’t unrecorded successful a state wherever weapon ownership is communal and I had ne'er handled a weapon before."
8. "Slept implicit astatine a friends, their canine crapped successful the country and they sprayed Febreeze connected it and near it."
9. "Went sportfishing astatine a water astir an hour's thrust from wherever I live."
"Set up my transportation and structure and started casting. Wasn't catching anything, and a feline walked implicit to spot however I was doing. He started chatting, and helium said that the food spell brainsick for dried earthworms. He said helium had a bucketful successful a compartment astir a 10-minute locomotion up the elevation and had a lawsuit of beers arsenic well. He asked if I'd springiness him a manus carrying the beers down to the lake, and he'd stock them and springiness maine immoderate bait for the food arsenic well.
Walked to the compartment and went in. The room was astatine the back, truthful I walked down a hallway to get to it. Glanced done an unfastened doorway and saw 1 of those large woody chairs with leather restraints connected the armrests, seat legs and wherever your caput would be.
Sprinted retired of that cabin, down to my car, threw my rods successful the backmost and near everything other by the h2o arsenic I burned rubber distant from there."
10. "Was installing an adjustable furniture successful the location of this... individual... who lived astir 2 miles down a backstage roadworthy not acold from the city. The location and gait looked alright, albeit cluttered with macabre plot art. The location was decorated similar an aged cottage. The chamber was filled with scale-appropriate papier-mâché figures of cryptids, each facing the bed. There was nary TV, and the lone airy came from a tiny array lamp successful the other country of the room."
11. "A melted crystal pick cone adjacent to the toilet. Idk what it was astir it, but it got me."
12. "No furnishings successful the surviving room, conscionable a enactment plaything hanging from the mediate of the ceiling."
13. "I was gunna spell to the gym with my manager from GNC. He fto maine successful and whipped retired a ace pipe. I conscionable left, wasn't astir to reason with idiosyncratic precocious connected crack."
15. "Stick with maine connected this one: I was a missionary successful Hong Kong. My spouse and I knocked connected the doorway of a tiny location connected a distant island. A long-haired antheral opened the doorway and beckoned america to travel in. He offered america a spot astatine his java array and prepared a portion for us."
"He turned immoderate euphony connected that was… REALLY weird, but truly cool. It was similar a premix of stone and rotation and animal/forest sounds. Only, it was connected immoderate benignant of unthinkable dependable system… the euphony seemed to beryllium each astir us. What I mean is, erstwhile a vertebrate would caw, it sounded similar the vertebrate was connected the station of my ain chair. It sounded similar the euphony was unrecorded and the set was each astir us. It wasn't large astatine all… it was conscionable precise present.
We had a fewer sips of our drinks retired of politeness and prepared to speech to him astir our message. Before we could, helium said thing like: 'You person travel with a message, but I americium the 1 who volition stock a message: I americium the spider, and this (gesturing astir him) is the web you are present in.'
Just then, the music, not the drink, felt… not intoxicating, but altering.
We got retired of determination arsenic accelerated arsenic we could. But to this day, I privation to spell backmost and perceive to that euphony successful that house."
16. "My fellow astatine the clip and I were location hunting. In my city, it is customary to person amusement houses connected a Sunday, truthful I had planned a full batch successful an country I was funny in."
"At one, the cause told america she had a caller 1 down the street, truthful caller it wasn't listed yet. Her hubby was determination present if we wanted to person a look.
We had a look round, and the hubby asked if we'd seen the vino cellar nether the eating room. (He was excessively aged to hazard the stairs.) We went down.
It was a acheronian country with a flickering airy bulb. There was a bare factual seat on the walls. There was an aged TV successful the corner. In the mediate was thing that mightiness person been a table, covered with a cloth. I lifted up the cloth, and it was a leather-covered massage bed. I looked up. At the 4 corners of the massage bed, hanging from the ceiling, were chains.
Next happening I knew, I was astatine the gate. I consciousness similar I flew retired of there. Afterwards, we fto the cause cognize that it wasn't a vino cellar and that she should cheque it retired earlier showing it again."
17. "When I was a small kid, we went to sojourn a relative we didn't spot excessively often. Us kids were playing hide-and-seek, and my member was hiding successful a wardrobe."
"When I recovered him, I saw this achromatic dress. The adjacent day, I wouldn't halt talking astir the dress, truthful I showed my mum. She stopped dormant successful her tracks, called my dada into the room, and we ended up spending the nighttime astatine a edifice earlier driving home.
Years later, I recovered retired it was a KKK chapeau and robe. We ne'er saw that broadside of the household again, but arsenic an adult, I did a Google hunt and recovered that beauteous overmuch the full household was either dormant oregon successful situation for committing immoderate horrible crimes."
18. "A feline I went connected 1 day with told maine helium collected 'weird' objects. On FaceTime, helium showed maine immoderate of the objects: a Bob Ross bobblehead, a screaming goat pillow… thing truly 'weird' per se. (Keep successful mind, I'd known this feline for years.)"
"So I decided to conscionable him astatine his location earlier meal because, again, I knew this feline and had ne'er been creeped retired by him.
I stepped into his location truthful helium could drawback his keys and wallet, and there, connected his 'weird' shelf, I saw a jar with thing successful it that looked similar a long, squiggly tube. He noticed maine looking astatine it and got excited. He proceeded to drawback the jar disconnected the shelf, tally implicit to maine and say, 'This is the BEST point successful my collection! It's a quality belly button! I knew a person of a person who was having it removed and begged them for weeks to springiness it to me. They yet got bushed of proceeding it and conscionable GAVE it to me!'
That nighttime ended precise early."
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