Anything that struck you as odd/unusual while out & about?

Neighbor comes over around 6:30pm last night, asks if we want to come swimming at her pool. I saw thanks, but we’re watching a movie right now, maybe another time? She said sure, it’s full of kids right now anyway.

So yeah, that was weird. Why did she invite us in the first place if the pool was full? :)

I saw a lady driving on the high-way in her medical scooter smoking a cigarette.

I’ve been opening beers with lighters for years. It works.

I work at a bar downtown. Like average downtown style place, concrete, buildings, ect…. One night after closing the bar. The other staff & I were sitting at the bar counting tips & cleaning when I heard what sounded like a lawn mower.
“You hear that?” I said.
Sure enough there’s a guy that appears in the window of the front entrance with a running lawn mower (On the sidewalk). The lawn mower stops and the guy knocks on the door. Asks us if we’re looking to purchase said lawn mower. We of course say no and tell him to get away from our bar. He then starts the mower back up and continues “mowing” the sidewalks. Mind you, there’s no grass downtown, lol.

While at the eye doctors office today, I saw an older woman pull into the parking lot in a bright green Jeep. When she got out I realized that her shirt and her shades matched the color of the Jeep exactly. I also realized that she wasn’t wearing a bra. She really, REALLY, should have been wearing a bra.

I went to a convenience store. I pulled up next to a smaller car full of kids just a few seconds after they pulled in. I waited to open my door because I was pretty sure they’d just fling their doors open and if mine was open already there would be a collision of doors.
So they got out and moved to the side walk. I heard the guy activate his car lock, “beep beep.” Didn’t think a thing about it until I got out of my car when I noticed that he had once had a sun roof that was completely gone. There was just a hole you could drive a truck through in his roof. I thought it was hilarious that he locked his car as he walked away when it had that huge hole in it!

This was yesterday, but while hiking I saw lots of white baneberries. They are so weird we thought they might be some sort of fungus at first, and called them “freakberries” until I was able to look them up back home.

They look like a bunch of little eyeballs!

@wildpotato I’m on the edge of my seat, what did your Internet search find?

@drhat77 Oh, I junt wanted to positively identify them. I suspected they were baneberries from the leaves, but I only have a picture of the red variety in the field guide I use. They are poisonous and are sometimes called Doll Eyes or snakeroot.

I watched a street person who was trying to hit up a young couple at Eastern Market for change, They pointedly ignored him so he started talking to their dog. It was quite a lively, if somewhat one-sided, conversation. The dog appeared to pay much more attention to him than the dog’s owners did. At great length he talked to the dog about how sometimes people just look through people like they aren’t even there and then added, “but, you, you’re looking at me, you can hear me.”

I thought it was very amusing if a little sad, and as I was passing them a few minutes later, I commented, “Interesting conversation.” The woman looked at me a little stonily and said “Oh that poor, poor man.”

I thought to myself: You just don’t get it.

I don’t get out very much, but I drove my car to the store this afternoon and I was struck by the fact that there were hardly any other cars on the road or in the parking lot, and the grocery was nearly empty as well.

I wrote about this on Fluther once before.

Every weekend, the driveway of the house next door (which is in the back, off the alley) is filled with cars, sometimes 8 or 10, usually one or two of them sticking out out into the alley and usually two more parked in front of he house. Five days a week only two cars are in the drivway, but Friday night through Sunday night the driveway looks like a used car lot. Most of the cars are old and beat-up looking.

It’s obvious that the people who come to the house and the people who live there leave for the weekend because the house remains dark and quiet those two days. And then on Monday morning, the cars are gone. I never saw or heard them arrive, and never saw or heard them leave. I don’t know who these people are or where they go every weekend. This has gone on almost every weekend for the whole time I’ve owned my house (eight years), and it’s very weird

A ribeye sandwich costs less than a funnel cake at the carnival.

I saw several new homeless people in my little town today. It’s sad and frightening…it could happen to any of us for one reason or another.

Saw a nine-year-old girl drive a tractor through the forest. Pretty unusual around here, but she seemed to know what she was doing.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room….. So, it seems that a lot of people show up at that house, then it seems like they all get together and leave, and leave their cars?

This may be far fetched, but I saw a program once where the police discovered a false wall in this guy’s garage. Every evening vans would dump loads of illegal aliens off and they’d disappear into the garage, behind the false wall, and they were working looms and sewing things. It was the only way the could make any money. They didn’t make much noise except for this odd thumping sound. The neighbor complained about it. The police checked and decided it was a dryer that was in the garage. Upon further inspection, though, they found the wall.

@Dutchess_III… Mmmmmm…

@Dutchess_III I was actually thinking the same, because they will sometimes stay in one place to save money. A lot send as much as possible back home to Mexico.

In a way I felt bad when they broke it up…..they weren’t really bothering anyone, the neighbor just thought it was weird that all these people would show up and….disappear.

@jonsblond I’d rather have the funnel cake—albeit it just sugar, flour and yeast.Maybe it is market driven.
@Coloma if you didn’t know this song, you rerally ought to :There But For Fortune by Phil Ochs [who succeeded but succumbed to depression and killed hmiself]

We took the dogs out for their morning pee this morning and found more than 20 dead birds under our large tree in our front yard. I’ve never seen anything like this before. We slept through a storm that dumped over 4 inches of rain in our area within 2 hours. We haven’t had a drop of rain in almost 6 weeks! We are guessing lightning killed the birds.

Aw. :(

@jonsblond Smells like foul play, sounds like a murder of crows :)

@jonsblond That is messed up! Did you call somebody to come check it out? It probably was the storm, but I think I’d have it checked out just to rule out anything more sinister.

@Katniss No, we didn’t call anyone. It was a ferocious storm, so we’re positive it was lightning. They were all under the tree.

Of course, there was this mystery, which Snowberry cleared up neatly for us.

Today I saw a pedestrian walking across a driveway and a car stopped to let him cross. The pedestrian actually smiled, waved and SPED UP to get across instead of just ignoring the car, holding up his pants by his crotch and sauntering across as if the entire world was not even worthy of his disdain.

I saw that armadillo hide @Dutchess_III was talking about get up and walk away….

Wait, that was just my imagination. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference.

So you saw a LIVE armadillo? Then you ain’t so magic after all! Even I would know a live armadillo ifn I saw one. Which I never have. All the armadillos I see are smashed on the side of the highway. :(

Naw, it was a harmadilla hide, hidin’ frum me.

An nen I brung it home and turned it inta sammiches, and I’m gonna feed ‘em to @bob_