I don’t miss my days as a busser at a country club too much, but the club had a pretty heavy turnover rate so I had a LOT of different co-workers during the year I was there. They came from all sorts of places and had batshit stories. For example, one dishwasher claimed to be a former drug mule (no bullshit though, he just kind of stopped coming to work one day).
But that’s nothing compared to these stories, spurred on by the simple question, “Who is the strangest person you’ve ever met?”
I went to a wilderness survival school and there was this guy there named Charlie who never wore a shirt, rode this really beat-up motorcycle everywhere, and mined Bitcoin for a living. He didn’t bring a tent so he slept on a tarp on the ground for the whole week and ate canned beans even though we provided meals. He cried a lot and hugged everyone at the end of the week.
Charlie was pretty cool tbh.
EmberAlis
In my small home town, there was this guy called Waving Dave. Waving Dave would walk the 15 mile stretch between the 3 towns we had in the area on the highway and wave at all of the cars. Back in the 1970’s, WD’s parents died and he inherited tons of money. Not knowing how to be responsible with said money, he went and boiled his brain on drugs. He was left in a permanent state of bliss and because he couldn’t keep a job, he spent his days walking and waving.
acheron53
Years ago when I worked at a shipping and copying place (similar to Kinko’s) a guy would come in every so often with stacks of newspapers. He would cut up parts of different articles and tape the sections together to form his own stories, then run what he made through the copier to make it look like it was one actual article. He would then show them to me and tell me they were about him.
Usually the finished article was a combination of world news about terrorism and the sports section. The overall story was that he is a CIA agent fighting terrorism and his cover was being the quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
Lcdstusystem
I called him John the liar…he was a coworker of mine in college at a sporting goods store. He lied about everything not just embellishing stories or adding a few extra details… just straight up lies. He would lie about what he ate for lunch even though I saw him eat it.
He told our manager that his dad was a 6’5 marine who helped take down Osama Bin Laden and then an hour later he told me his dad was a quadriplegic and had been for 30 years. Then he told me he got an override from the administration to take 24 credits one semester as a biology major…then I found out he was still in highschool.
It was absolutely psychotic, I finally had to confront him about it when he started telling customers the completely wrong specs on all the guns we carried. He just lied some more and said that I was wrong or that I misunderstood him.
Eventually I had to ask my supervisor to schedule me on a different shift because I couldn’t take it anymore.
Cactusjacks22
I used to work the drive through at a Del Taco that was open 24 hours a day. I had several odd experiences with a regular who came in about once a week towards the end of my employment there.
Experience 1: Man comes to window and asks if our bean and cheese burrito is organic. I say “probably not but I’m not sure.” He decides that this means they absolutely must be 100% organic and orders 3 of them.
Experience 2: Same man comes to window shirtless. He explains that he is only shirtless because he was sweating profusely moments earlier (at 2am) and proceeds to hold a soaking wet shirt up to the window for me to touch as proof.
Experience 3. Same man comes to window, does not order anything, but tells me he is very happy that we are open 24 hours a day because “he is only awake at night.”
Experience 4. Same man comes to window to tell me about a yoga studio he has been frequenting because they are open until 3am. He suggests I check it out. He does not order his usual “organic” bean and cheese burrito but rather our fish tacos because “he has decided to only eat fish.”
Very nice man. Very strange man.
14kanthropologist
The cemetery groundskeeper in our hometown.
He did a very good job (the grounds were immaculate and perfectly landscaped), but he’d hover over people when they’d visited a grave – as if he didn’t want anyone in his cemetery.
People wondered why he’d have his lunch inside the mausoleum on the grounds on sunny days instead of being outdoors. He’d say, “I prefer being with the dead than with the living.”
Back2Bach
It has to be Miguel. Miguel was from Quebec and I met him in Portugal while studying same film classes. He was super friendly in a weird way, like not understanding social rules and being way too expressive at times. He picked up the language very quickly and he also spoke English, Spanish and a bit of Russian.
He was mostly stoned during the years I was friends with him. He had the craziest ideas for making movies but he always did a lousy job. Once he decided to build a giant lobster.. just because. I never understood his mind.. plus he was always begging for money. I met him a few years later in different cities and he was the same. Clearly out of this world..
idiopathicsmellyfeet
I was flying out of South Africa one evening and sat next to this big older fellow from Europe. We proceeded to drink together and trade some stories. He began his story with his work as a tour guide in the region. Didn’t think much of it until he specified it was specifically for European tourists.
Thinking that that comment was a bit odd, I asked why and he told me that he did this work during apartheid in South Africa, and these were the only tourists that would be allowed in. Out of nowhere he drops the bombshell that he did this guided driving tour strictly as a means to smuggle weapons into South Africa to arm the ANC in their fight against the apartheid regime. He didn’t really care much about giving tours, but it was kind of his side gig apart from the smuggling.
He proudly defined himself as an ethical weapons smuggler. The drunker he got the more interesting anecdotes he’d provide.
So yeah, I met a South African weapons smuggler on a plane.
Edit: Grammar
KingEscherich
An old lady that used to live in my town who was usually just known as the “I say!” lady. She was usually seen accompanied by a large dog. She was called that because she started all conversations with adults with “I say….”.
She was an absolute terror to children. If a child came within a few feet she would berate them for being near and say the dog would attack them (the dog seemed more terrified of her and I never heard of it attacking anyone). We kids all knew to just leave her alone.
With adults, she was a totally different person and would be extremely friendly. Adults knew to avoid her too because she would talk to them for hours if you let them and literally chase after you if you tried to leave.
zerbey
A girl I knew at college believed in the Many Worlds theory, and that included cartoon universes having existed. She swore that she’d been in every single one, always as the main character. She’d watch animes and cartoons and point out that she knew she was this character or that character, and eventually her belief in this expanded to videogames, television shows, and movies.
She was Kenshin, Albel, Tulio, Kuja, Mal, and a loooooong-ass list of other main characters. She also believed that other people she hung out with were the other main characters, like Cloud and Kaylee and Lina Inverse. You could tell some of her friends were into it, and others were uncomfortable as hell when she got going.
pm_me_chupacabras
A crazy homeless lady. I was on vacation with my wife and decided to talk to her just to see what was going on. I was drunk and it seemed like a good idea at the time. She was convinced the world was a movie and she kept asking me if I knew how it was gonna end. She thought we were actors in the movie. My wife was freaking out and nudging me to leave the entire time.
At one point the lady asked for money and I said I dont carry cash, but would you like a cigarette? She said yes so I gave her one and then lit the lighter to light it for her. Her eyes when huge like she had never seen fire before and started blabbering and ranting about something I couldnt understand. She started making me really nervous so I grabbed my wife and walked off.
Later in the hotel bar we heard a commotion and turned to see what all the yelling was about. She had followed us into the bar and the hotel staff was trying to escort her out. So that ended my homeless curiosity.
wafflesngravy
A friend of a coworker of mine named Jake or Mark, depending on if he was on hard drugs that day or not.
Mark would come up to work and visit, super nice and normal guy! Pleasant to be around, nothing creepy. Khakis and a nice polo.
He would go on hard drug binges, shooting up cocaine and shit. That’s when Jake would show up. Biker leather, bandana on his head, and his voice dropped 2 octaves and somehow sounded hoarse like he was a chain smoker. Jake would wave guns around his head, describing the 2 different times he witnessed friends kill themselves. Jake would just stare at you, breathing heavily, considering what he could do to you. Jake would shove an entire unbroken-up gram nug of weed in his bong with his thumb, smoke it down in one drawn out hit, then smash the bong against the wall.
Mark was so nice though, bought me a fruit smoothie one time. Great guy.
beardedbarnabas
Fucking Ted.
Ted sold my friends and I drugs through college. He was also impossible to get rid of once you summoned him, so we all wound up knowing way more about him then we ever wanted.
The list is long. Here are some of the crazy things we came to find out:
•Ted is an ex-heroin addict who quit cold turkey
•Ted was on track to be an Olympic swimmer and was on the same swim team as Michael Phelps, but quit swimming so he could play Pokémon.
•Ted is a Mountain Dew addict. During his prepubescent days, he would ride bike 2 miles after school to get his Dew fix before his parents came home. When he graduated they found 50+ 2-liters hidden around the house
•Ted was expelled from college for selling OxyContin (twice)
•Ted has a cat named Brontavius
•Ted was known to take 10 tabs of acid at a time and watch Mean Girls.
•Ted was deeply ignorant of social cues and his surroundings in general
•Ted was passionate about Mike and Ike’s and Salsa Sun Chips
•Ted received an alert that the DEA had confiscated a shipment and hid all of his elicit goods in his tree house at his parent’s house
We’re 70% sure he was a spirit. He was so unlike everyone I’ve ever known, I really can’t say for certain he was real.
Edit: Ted, if you’re reading this, don’t ever change man.
frothyminx
h/t Reddit
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You don’t have to pack away your bikini just because you’re the wrong side of 20. These body-beautiful stars reveal their secrets to staying in shape and prove you can smoulder in a two-piece, whatever your age. Read on and be bikini inspired!
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Hayden Panettiere
Size: 8
Age: 18
Height: 5ft 1in
Weight: 8st
To achieve her kick-ass figure, Hayden – who plays cheerleader Claire Bennet in Heroes – follows the ‘quartering’ rule. She eats only a quarter of the food on her plate, then waits 20 minutes before deciding whether she needs to eat again.
Hayden says: “I don’t have a model’s body, but I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m OK with what I have.”
Nicollette says: “I don’t like diets – I see it, I eat it! I believe in eating healthily with lots of protein, vegetables and carbs to give you energy.”
kim cattrall
Size: 10-12
Age: 52
Height: 5ft 8in
Weight: 9st 4lb
SATC star Kim swears by gym sessions with Russian kettle bells (traditional cast-iron weights) and the South Beach Diet to give her the body she wants. To avoid overeating, Kim has a radical diet trick – squirting lemon juice on her leftovers – so she won’t carry on picking.
Kim says: “I am no super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.”
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