What do people say out of the blue when they randomly come up to you?

[SuperSabin]

Do you all ever have those moments were you're at a public place (I.E. Library, book store, restaurant, grocery store, etc) and while you're doing something, all of a sudden someone walks by and either asks you or tells you something right out of nowhere?

I had one like that the other night, I was at a book-a-million killing some time before the showing of The Avengers starts, reading a PC magazine. An elderly lady was walking along the magazine isle that I was in so I stood up from the seat I was in to give her room to pass through, she noticed an advertisement I was looking at which had a picture of an asian guy rocking out. Next thing that happened, she pats me on the shoulder and says: "I knew Tony Hawk, I knew him since he was a kid." after that she walked off.

I was pretty confused about what just happened afterwards, in my head i'm like "what?".

If any of you have stories to share, I'd love to hear them!

[Pete]

One time I was buying beer at the supermarket with one of my friends, and this black dude comes up to us and asks us "Big Bear or Hurricane?", referring to different brands of 40's. We both go "Hurricane", which prompted a big smile. He said "You niggas are smart, wanna buy some crack?" after introducing himself as Black Rob. We said "no thanks" and he said "aight, but remember if you ever wanna party, just ask for Black Rob"

No crack was purchased.

[Bubble Boy]

lol I'm usually the one coming up to people randomly and saying something. Especially in grocery stores. It's very easy to start random conversations in there. Everybody loves food.

[Alpha]

One time some friends and I were coming out of Burger King on the way to a gig and this dude offers us "New Zealand's finest". We give him a confused look so he pulls out a dime bag of methamphetamine (meth, P). We just laugh and said no and he walks off happy as Larry.

[Tydis]

Waz good my N***a can I borrow a few bucks cuz Ill give it back to you tomorrow even though we will never see each other again................. **** NO!!!! do I know you? GET A JOB STREET BUM!!!

[Halie]

Last year I was walking through the bus station in my town and an old man stopped me and said "Seeing you makes me wish I was young again", it was both creepy and really lovely at the same time, I just shook his hand and said thank you. I appreciated it.

[Yoko]

So, at the beginning of my last work term, I was going to work as I usually would. There's a train that I get on in the morning to go from Parking to Terminal 1 where my office was. I was carrying a red binder, a plastic bag with my lunch in it, and a tea. This one guy (From Air Canada) come up to me and says, "You're a student, right?" I said "Yeah..." He told me how he could tell and how he's seen be around the airport lately. I played along with it and told who I worked for, I got who he worked for and small talk like that. After The train ride was up, we parted ways. On my walk to my office I was like...Wait, I only started taking the train TODAY, Yesterday I was there in the Afternoon. HE'S A STALKER!!! I ran to my office and stayed there until my shift was done.

****ing Airport guys can be so creepy.

[Mystyrion]

I've been told I have very pretty eyes on very random occasions. The stories themselves aren't that interesting.

[loaf]

People avoid me.

[NikkiLinkle]

I was at the grocery store, looking at cat food and this lady came up to me and asked me how to use one of those toilet freshner things. I was like you just hang it over the bowl. Then she thanked me and complained about how the grocery store was out of Whiskas cat food. Lol. Ok.

Other than that, people don't usually talk to me. Unless to ask the time or something like that.

[Yoko]

Hey! I just met you and this is crazy....=D

Sometimes I like to join in randomly into people's conversations. Like if there's a topic I know a bit about or if I have something to add, I say it. Does that make me creepy or random?

People usually ask me how to get somewhere. People just ask me while I'm walking by and they're in their car. They're like "EXCUSE ME!! CAN YOU HELP ME?" My first reaction is usually no. It's a ****ing stranger trying to get me to come closer to their car. lol. Creepy! I usually help them out though. Then all I get is a simple thank you.

One time I was on my way home from work, and this person comes up to me and asks how to get to a certain place. I told them I knew how to get to that station, but from there on, I had no clue. Once I got to one place, I got on the subway and thought I wouldn't see then again. They happened to get into the same section as me and started talking again. They said it was their first time in Canada and we started to chat. Couldn't help but feel a little awkward though. I told them which station to get off at and just talked. Not many people do stuff like that. After they left, I couldn't help but have a warm feeling thinking that I had helped someone out. I never saw them again though.

I get these random occurrences a lot though. Not like the one above so often, but it's like people just know that I'm a good person to ask for directions and stuff. Or they think I'm a nerd and know everything. OR, I just have a sigh on my face or back saying TALK TO ME! I'M LONELY! I don't know.

[Rhaps]

According to my dad, he and I both have "the face." "The face," would be a face that tells people that we know where shit is, how shit works, what time shit starts, whether we appear happy, pissed off, tired, etc. So I get approached almost daily.

A memorable story would be back when I had my Maximum Jew Fro (like, at least a foot in diameter. It was bananas.) and people used to be able to distinctly pick me out from crowds. One day, I went into a gas station to buy bait since I was going fishing later, and as I walked in, there was an old, homeless hippie man walking out. I purchased my bait and was leaving, but he was still on the corner. As I went by, he said "Don't ever let the man get you, kid! Never cut your hair!" I was caught off guard, which I guess was evident to another patron entering the store, who said to me, "It's your hair, son. Don't let some vagrant tell you how to live." The hippie was about to pipe up again, but I was cripplingly shy then, so I ran back to the car and left. It was horrible.

[Michael Swayne]

I don't know if this counts, but back in 2009 a Greyhound bus full of Kentucky band kids pulled in my driveway. The bus driver asked me where Woodland Altars was and how to get there. I told them that it was at the end of the road and to make a left. Then they pulled out of the driveway and left. I know that they found the place (it is only 0.9 miles by road from my house) because a few hours later the band kids started playing whatever it is that band kids play. I wouldn't call it music, because it is never music on the first day of band camp.

Not as random as some of the previous posts, but it was random to me. I mean, how often does a Greyhound bus pull in your driveway asking for directions?

I just remembered one. It is similar to Pete's and Alpha's. Mom and I were heading back to the University where they were holding the district science fair in 2003. We had gotten lost coming back from lunch because the roads in Portsmouth were getting worked on, causing a lot of traffic to get diverted. Anyway, we ended up somewhere in the ghetto part of the city. We stopped at this stop sign and this person came up to our car. Mom rolled down the window and asked for directions back to SSU (Shawnee State University). He actually said that he didn't know where it was, and then he reached in his pocket and asked Mom if she wanted some marijuana. She quickly rolled the window back up and we hightailed it out of there.

We eventually found our way back. It's a good thing that I had already had my judging that morning. Because if I had judging in the afternoon we would have been late and I would have been disqualified.

[Meier Link]

Most random thing that's happened to me was a random lady walked up to me the night I met my girlfriend and asked me if I had two bucks, when I asked her what it was for her responce was that "she needed it for soap to cure her ring worms". When I offered to just buy her soap she said no thanks and ran off.

Yup that really happened.

[Polk]

"How much?"

[Pete]

One of my friends was propositioned by a hooker while at work on a Saturday. He was in ghetto Brooklyn (redundant, I know), when some girl approached his truck. Being that she was a white girl in Brooklyn, he rolled his window down, figuring she'd need help. She offered him a bj for 20 bucks, which he declined. She then tried to open his door, which was unlocked, so he had to push a hooker out of his car. Apparently she was relatively hot... but a hooker.

One time some farm girls were going to the bar, driving up Main St in Binghamton, going towards the bars. My friend and I were talking along Main, and they asked us if we wanted a ride. Having a decent beer buzz, we hopped into the back of their pickup, where two more girls were. They asked us if we had any cigarettes, which we didn't, dropped us off at the bar and then told us to have a good night. True story.

[Josh_R]

Myself, and 3 friends were at Jr's Food Mart in downtown Ashland. I was sitting casually while one of my buddies pumped gas. Some skinny crackhead looking dude walks up to the car and taps on the back window. My buddy Travis rolls down the window, and says whats up man. Crackhead looks at him, and says hey little buddy you like to party, confused Travis laughs. I turned around and said wtf. He looks me in the eye and says you guys look like partiers. I'm just like no man we don't party so go away. He pulls out a baggy of weed, some coke, and some pills, and says if you wanna party I got you. We pulled off in a hurry.

[Aerif]

Like RhapsoBlarg, my father and I too have 'the face'. Perhaps we are distantly related.

My father gets it much much worse than I do though. While we've never been solicited for drugs or prostitution (mostly because everyone and there dog already has a dealer already), he constantly gets stopped by drunks asking him for money or insisting that they owe him money. Even in foreign countries, as far as I'm aware it's happened to him in Scotland, England, Wales, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Spain. The worst part is that when they realise he doesn't speak the local language they do manage broken English. It's weird.

I'm constantly being flagged down for directions, which is of course a terrible thing. In Glasgow, most people who flag me down are looking for a specific train station which is quite near the main shopping street but not quite on it, this is something that I can do - I can tell them where it is. Anywhere else and I'm screwed, because I don't know where anything is. Even my hometown people ask me how to get to streets that I've heard of (and am pretty sure are just around the corner), but I honestly haven't got a clue where they are, almost ever.

Also people constantly ask me for '50p fer bus or train fares'.

[sayian]

If/when i decide to go for a walk and i just so happen to pass by a small group of young white dudes, i ALWAYS get asked something that involves me buying, having, locating, or selling marijuana, weed, bud, pot, bugga shugga, dank, smoke, purp, green, or whatever the fuhk u/they call it(ive never smoked or even tried it in my life btw).... and u cant tell me that aint cause im a black dude bc nothing about me looks thuggish other than me not looking like some1 u really wanna fuhk wit on the street..lol

[che]

If/when i decide to go for a walk and i just so happen to pass by a small group of young white dudes, i ALWAYS get asked something that involves me buying, having, locating, or selling marijuana, weed, bud, pot, bugga shugga, dank, smoke, purp, green, or whatever the fuhk u/they call it(ive never smoked or even tried it in my life btw).... and u cant tell me that aint cause im a black dude bc nothing about me looks thuggish other than me not looking like some1 u really wanna fuhk wit on the street..lol

Sounds like some Arkansas shit tbh.

[sayian]

Sounds like some Arkansas shit tbh.

well i wouldnt know how normal this is or isnt because i dont go out and about in other cities. people are different everywhere... but to tell the truth, just about 90% of the black dudes i know here smoke so that particular steriotype (of potheads) is legit imo so i cant get mad.. lol

[Taco-Calamitous]

I was in a mall once, and this older guy comes up from behind me and yells angrily at me, something along the lines of "Are you gonna go anywhere, or just mill around all day?!" I guess I wasn't walking fast enough or something. It was alarming. Looked over at this lady who had seen it, and she looked as bewildered as I was.

Also this other time in San Fransisco in a parking lot or something (don't remember exactly where) some random guy walked up to me and was like "Hey yo bro, wassup?! I haven't seen you in ages! Hope you're doing great! See ya!" or something like that. I was like "Hey... nothing much.. yeah... you too..." And my brother was like "Did you know that guy?" And I was like "No."

Can't think of anything else. This dude pulled up to my friends and I one time when we were walking at night and yelled "What a bunch of fag-os!" to which my friends responded by laughing at the term "fag-o" because it's stupid. Also have had food thrown at us; a watermelon this one time, that passed through all of us. We started running after the car, who tore away, heh. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

[saio]

i haven't had many random encounters with children (for some reason or another they seem to be scared of me)
though i did have an encounter similar to supersaiyins first post

i was in a thrift shop looking through a stack of cds trying to find any ps1 games
and some lady next to me suddenly says "these are my sons.." while pointing to a cd of the golden boys
i replied "really how nice" while trying to think of some way to extricate myself from the proceedings
alas i still had a stack of cds to look through
so i simply continued my search while listening to her recount story's about
her sons music career after what felt like an hour (but was probably only ten minutes)
i finished the stack and politely excused my self with nothing but a scratched up
copy of dune 2000 (which i learned wasn't as bad as i thought it was) to show for my efforts

i did not return to that place for several week's

[Rowan]

I dont think I've ever had someone come upto me randomly (unless it was city days, ugh). I think they are intimidated by my stunning good looks and my badass demeanor. Of course people stare at me when they see my beauty, but rarely will approach me at an attempt at conversation. This pleases my girlfriend who would savagly beat any girl that attempts to make a pass at me.

[pixergirl]

niiiiiiiiiiiiiice question!! (usually i'm the one saying random stuff but,
Me: standing around feeling a bit lame at the library.
Random little kid bopping past: staaaaaare, then, "What's that on your head?"
Me: incredulous expression and, "it's a...scarf???"

[Cyanist]

Usually: Hey, you need help with that, miss?
Automatic answer: Nope. ^_^;

[Cyanist]

Oh, man, I double-posted!!! Please don't ban me, it was an accident! (Stupid reload thingy)
Okay, here's one: "What's your number, G?"
Answer: "Ugh"

[Unknown Entity]

I was at a bus stop one night after work waiting for my bus to turn up. I had my headphones in, and there was some old guy standing next to me who kept talking and talking whilst looking in my direction. After a while, I thought "Who the **** is this guy talking to?" So I pulled my headphone out to listen to him, and he was talking to me about his role during WWII, and then went on to how "back in the day" he'd never let a woman stand at a bus stop alone in the dark.

It was both creepy and cool at the same time. He said his name was Gary, and asked if he could make sure I got home okay. I told him I had "someone waiting" for me at the other end, and he let it go. I don't even know what the hell started that lol.

[Crescent]

Your fkng hot, beautiful etc blah blah
Do you have a bf??!

Anything u hear over n over gets fkn annoying no matter how complimentary

[pixergirl]

lots of times i've had people just randomly tell me i have a nice smile.
weird. i never know what to say. :/