As the OP was about strange moments, I feel its only fair to share one that I had last night with you. I had been reading the CNN & BBC hype on Mars being so close to the Earth Tuesday...but Tuesday it was cloudy here. So yesterday after work i dug my old telescope out of the attic, cleaned it up & prepared it for use. I go out at 8pm: Nothing There. I go out at 9pm: Nothing There (the neighbors lights started popping on though). Finally I said the heck with this...I'm waiting until its Really Late.
So the alarm on my watch goes off at Midnight and I drag the whole apparatus outside again...and its there! Its kinda orangish. So I set up my 150 power telescope that my father bought me when I was 12. At Sears. And I zoom in on the Red Planet.
And it looks like an Orange PEZ.
It was at that moment that I knew I was in a Strange Moment...for here I am...a grown man...who has to work the next day...on his front lawn at midnight looking through a dented telescope at an event the media has hyped as a 'Once in 65,000 year event'...and it looks like a Damned Orange PEZ.
Later that night, my wife asked me why I went to bed angry....