The obligatory "People Are Sure Strange" thread

[Cowperson]

Please use this thread to tell us your "People Are Sure Strange" stories, the weird things you've seen people do . . . . .

I bring this up because of a happening on Sunday as my dogs and I were circumnavigating the 17 km trail around Upper Kananaskis Lake . . . . . . a beautiful day otherwise.

We're into the third hour of our four hour trip, having come across dozens of people already enjoying the day.

For reference, my two Golden's are leashed. I shorten those leashes when we come across people, and have them stand motionless on the side of the path to let people by. Not everyone wants to meet a dog. I understand that. There's never been an incident with either one.

This family of four comes along. Husband, brother, little boy about five or six years old, and finally the mother.

As described above, I pull over to the side of the road, shorten the leashes and wait for them to pass.

The father has hold of the little boy's arm . . . the little boy is already a bit agitated as they get closer but then stumbles and falls as he's parallel with my mutts . . . . . then the show starts.

He's on the ground, then up, then down, being BOBBED up and down in front of my dogs by his LAUGHING father as though he's BAIT on the end of a fishing line, the kid SHRIEKING in panic with the most FEAR-TINGED expression on his face I've ever seen.

Obviously, this kid is severely traumatized. Seriously.

To this point, my dogs, about three or four feet away from this kid, haven't moved a muscle. Not a twitch because I'm watching them closely. They're just watching this display with bemused interest.

But the shrieking continues, the kid trying to regain his feet and backpeddle away but the father laughing and dangling his kid in front of my dogs . . . . . . finally, after a long 20 seconds of this loud catterwauling, I calmly say: "Maybe you should move along."

So, they do . . . . . and I felt sorry for the kid . . . . . perhaps he's had some incident in the past with a dog, etc . . . . but what was the father thinking torturing him like that?

You would think that would be the end of the show. No.

Next is the mother . . . . . my eyebrows go up because she's climbed off the path and onto the modest cliff, putting as much distance between my dogs and herself as physically possible, staring in horror at my dogs, ready to spring and flee in an instant.

She says . . . . ."I'm TERRIFIED. Can you move please!!??"

Meanwhile, to this point, my two Golden's STILL haven't moved a muscle. I'm serious. They might not even have blinked as far as I know.

So . . . . . I say "giddyup" and we start off down the trail and all the while I'm thinking:

"Do you folks know how many dogs are out walking this trail today!!!???"

Wow. I'd loved to have followed them just to see what kind of disaster was going to happen next.

"People Are Sure Strange."

A lovely day to walk around the lake . . . . . .



Cowperson

[Bobblehead]

One Saturday night out doorbell rang. It was a guy who had tried to deliver flowers to a neighbour across the street and down a couple of doors. He asked if he could leave them here for the lady, and he would leave a message for her where to pick them up.

I had no problem with that.

Next day the delivery guy shows up. He's not very happy - the lady had called him back and made him come back to pick up the flowers and deliver them himself on a Sunday morning.

Other than an occassional nod or a quick, "Hi", I've never really spoken with her, but it is less than a minute round trip walk. I thought that very strange.

[J pold]

Well for my most recent “strange people” stories I am going to have to tell one about myself…Over the last couple of years I have been getting odd skin rashes when my skin is exposed to cold, some hives, redness, itchiness, mostly when I am in cold water, or my skin is exposed to cold air, its never been to serious so just ignored it

But this weekend I went down to the crowsnest pass as for some fishing and nice scenery, and out Saturday (a beautiful day sunny day must have been 30 degrees) my family and I went tubing down the crowsnest river the water was pretty cold but I thought I could manage…

So we get about 20 minutes into the float and I start getting my typical redness and hives, but its pretty bad, about 5 minutes pass and I start to seriously shiver but I still treat it as noting finally my dad says ok maybe we show switch boats, because his is out of the water, so we pull up on sore and that’s when things go bad for me

To make a long story shot, I pretty much went into anaphylactic shock, was white as a ghost, could hardly breath, and was extremely cold, was rushed to emergency when I got there my body temp was 32.1 degrees and that was after laying in the sun for about half an hour and my blood pressure was extremely low

The doctor told me that I am literally allergic to cold, when my skin is exposed to cold water/ air I release a ton of histamines and my throat could easily swell up and I could suffocate or it could drop my blood pressure so low that it will stop my heart, the Doctor said it was the strangest thing he has seen in along time so I had had to post it in this thread

[J pold]

^^Humm well I have never had Mono, and unless my ex girlfriend really isn’t telling me something than I am pretty sure I don’t have syphilis… the strange thing is that I have an extremely health person otherwise, I have no other allergies, I can’t remember the last time I was sick, I have never broken a bone, and other than this weekend I have never even been in emergency

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by J pold

The doctor told me that I am literally allergic to cold, when my skin is exposed to cold water/ air I release a ton of histamines and my throat could easily swell up and I could suffocate or it could drop my blood pressure so low that it will stop my heart, the Doctor said it was the strangest thing he has seen in along time so I had had to post it in this thread

Jesus Hyphen Christ . . . . that IS strange!!!

You've got a great excuse to move to Costa Rica.

Cowperson

[J pold]

Originally Posted by fotze

Maybe thats the problem, you are too healthy, you need to get sick sometimes for your body to practice killing germs. Now they are just itching to attack something so they choose something stupid like coldness. Yes, I obviously am a medical doctor.

Meh your guess is a good as mine; I might go see an allergy specialist on the matter but for now its nothing but sun tanning and warm showers…

[J pold]

^^Few!!!! Am I glad I don’t have any friends

[Tron_fdc]

I knew a guy once that was allergic to his own sweat. It was pretty gross, when he went out and played hockey his hands would get all dry and cracked, and he would break out in hives. He was actually quite fit for a guy that had the worlds greatest excuse for being lazy.

Imagine what your nards would feel like on a daily basis.....

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Recently, there was a guy that came into the ctrain with a toilet seat around his neck. He asked for smokes from passengers and just hung around talking about whatever random crap. He claimed to know that the government hires animals to take away our jobs. Yeah, I have no idea what that means, but he was pretty sure this happened. He asked for smokes again, and having lack of success, leaves. Weird.

[Mr.Coffee]

Last summer I remember leaving my door to door job thinking "man people are expletive deleted weird". I was on a team that travelled southern Alberta towns, and literally met hundreds of people. I've got a TON of stories of weird people.

Some stories came from my boss too. I don't know if I should get into specifics... but lets just say there was a gangbang in Pincher Creek involving more than one species, my boss, and some of the town's finest. And by finest I mean surely their ugliest. It was a bad night for the poor guy.

Anyways... I remember on countless occations being told to **** OFF!!! And while I guess that's not exactly strange or unexpected- most of those ones were the people I hadn't even reached the door yet and they were bellowing from their living room after peering at me through the window. I always wondered why they didn't just not answer the door, or tell me to politely leave and i would have had no problems.

I was once attacked by a medium sized dog as I ventured onto somebody's property. I didn't have much of a problem with it (I was on their property and was an annoying door to door man and blah blah blah)- but two things stood out. There was no warning signs for the dog... I didn't even know the dog was there, ran around teh corner and attacked me, and the owner just stared at me as the dog was biting my leg. I had a few cuts- pretty much hoped I didn't contract rabies, and walked to the street. The dog followed me onto the street and continued to bite me, but on the other leg. The owner remained silent, just staring at me. I started to run but the dog kept chasing after. After about 10 meters I stopped, and the dog lunged again for my ankle. I dodged it by moving to the side, and it turned around to attack again. This time as it jumped at me mouth open I kicked it (actually fairly lightly...I really could have booted the crap out of this thing) and the dog just trotted off. I thought that was kind of odd. The owner didn't move a muscle the whole time. Even after I'd kicked it. No words were spoken.

Another time I rang a guys doorbell. He was quite interested in what I had to say, but seemed to be quite worried about something. He kept looking behind him and putting his hand to his forehead. He asked if he could sign up and I told him absolutely. Then this guy says "yeah that'd be great, we can do it on this table here, but you can't go to the basement. There's no way I can let you go to the basement. Just don't go there man." I laughed and told him there was no need for me to go there and not to worry I'm a pretty easy going and harmless guy. And then towards the end of the discussion as I was leaving, since we had been getting along pretty well I joked "its a good thing I didn't see that body in your basement". He went pretty quiet. I'm pretty sure I screwed up the deal at that point.. and he didn't think it was very funny. To this day I wonder what the big deal with the basement was!

I have more but.. you know..

[MolsonInBothHands]

Well as for strange allergies go... I have a friend who is allergic to his own eyelids. Every moring his eyes are gooped shut as if he has pink eye. Bizarre.

This weekend, sitting in the sun, drinking beer on the deck out at the lake. I watch a lady march around her property with a satellite dish. Sometimes she would take over to the sprinkler and stand in the spray. Other times she would crouch down and sneak around the yard with it like she was hunting something. This went on for at least six beers. I am pretty sure she was not getting 100% signal.

[Morozee]

Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

Well as for strange allergies go... I have a friend who is allergic to his own eyelids. Every moring his eyes are gooped shut as if he has pink eye. Bizarre.

This weekend, sitting in the sun, drinking beer on the deck out at the lake. I watch a lady march around her property with a satellite dish. Sometimes she would take over to the sprinkler and stand in the spray. Other times she would crouch down and sneak around the yard with it like she was hunting something. This went on for at least six beers. I am pretty sure she was not getting 100% signal.

lol, I like how you used your beer consumption to describe how much time passed. Good stuff.

[calf]

Cowperson's story reminds me of something that happened to me this weekend. I was going for a rollerblade along the Bow River pathway, and coming the other direction is a group of people & thier dog. I know that some dogs can be fairly unpredictable, and most of the time they'll try and come see me as I'm going by, so I slowed down a bit, even though most of the time the owners keep their dog on a short leash keeping everyone safe. The dog owner in this case didn't, and the dog crossed my path so I went into the grass on the side & bailed, scraping my knee slightly. I was going to give them a piece of my mind, but the two guys were about twice my size, and appologized, so it wasn't worth it. At least that distracted them from the fact that I was checking out their girlfriends

[Barnes]

I met this old guy on the train one time that wanted to talk to someone about something really important. No one else would give him the time of day and I was alone, bored and going all the way up to the Stamps game from Sommerset so I gladly listened. He had a lot of great and important things to tell the world.

Listen up cause this is all true. I have the documents that he gave me that day my life was turned upside down. They are very official looking photocopies so it must be true. PM me if anyone wants to see the evidence.

He is the real Prime minister of Canada first off. He was imprisoned by a group of Black ops types from the US that wanted to install a new powerbase of individuals form......... Estevan Saskatchwan.

All the most powerful people in the world are from Estevan and are related to the Hart family. The pope for instance is actually a female member of the Hart family. The Clintons, Bush's, all from Estevan, all related to the Harts.

There is much more. Again PM me for the evidence

This old feller offered me a prime place in his government if I was to donate to his cause and which I gladly donated one canadian dollar and took copies of the evidence to share with others.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Barnes

I met this old guy on the train one time that wanted to talk to someone about something really important. No one else would give him the time of day and I was alone, bored and going all the way up to the Stamps game from Sommerset so I gladly listened. He had a lot of great and important things to tell the world.

Listen up cause this is all true. I have the documents that he gave me that day my life was turned upside down. They are very official looking photocopies so it must be true. PM me if anyone wants to see the evidence.

He is the real Prime minister of Canada first off. He was imprisoned by a group of Black ops types from the US that wanted to install a new powerbase of individuals form......... Estevan Saskatchwan.

All the most powerful people in the world are from Estevan and are related to the Hart family. The pope for instance is actually a female member of the Hart family. The Clintons, Bush's, all from Estevan, all related to the Harts.

There is much more. Again PM me for the evidence

This old feller offered me a prime place in his government if I was to donate to his cause and which I gladly donated one canadian dollar and took copies of the evidence to share with others.

ESTEVAN!!!!!!!!!!! I heard it was Humbolt! Jeezuz.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Cheese

ESTEVAN!!!!!!!!!!! I heard it was Humbolt! Jeezuz.

Could have been. It's bean awhile since I have read these docs.

Hope my position of Minister of Pies and Cakes isn't in jeopardy. There should be tin foil hat smilies.

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Next is the mother . . . . . my eyebrows go up because she's climbed off the path and onto the modest cliff, putting as much distance between my dogs and herself as physically possible, staring in horror at my dogs, ready to spring and flee in an instant.

That reminds me of when people see me in public! except they usually panic and grab their kids like i'm going to run them down.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Some stories came from my boss too. I don't know if I should get into specifics... but lets just say there was a gangbang in Pincher Creek involving more than one species, my boss, and some of the town's finest. And by finest I mean surely their ugliest. It was a bad night for the poor guy.

Yeah, he was crying quite a bit in that one video that came up on a Torrent search...

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Could have been. It's bean awhile since I have read these docs.

Hope my position of Minister of Pies and Cakes isn't in jeopardy. There should be tin foil hat smilies.

LOL...I want to be Minister of Trade....Ill trade Quebec for Columbia and pay off the national debt with the cartel cash....

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

That reminds me of when people see me in public! except they usually panic and grab their kids like i'm going to run them down.

Maybe they've read some of your CP posts? If that is the case, can you really blame them?