Strangest People You've Ever Met

[Bungleau]

I can't think of anyone really weird... wait. Not necessarily weird, per se, but somewhat stupid.

Dingbat #1: My brother's friend from school. We had a box fan that my grandfather had built (literally) from a 2x8 board, a fan blade and motor, an electrical box with a light switch, and a cage around it. The switch was inside the cage, and dingbat #1 decides one day, while he's talking on the phone, to turn the fan off. Without looking. He missed the switch. It was not one of those plastic safety fan blades, but a real metal one from the 1950s. One trip to the ER, coming up.

Dingbat #2: Guy I worked with at a pizza joint. We were cleaning things up in the kitchen, running things through the diswasher and running excess food and such through the garbage disposal. He turns the disposal on, and then proceeds to start shoving his hand into it (to push something down, perhaps). I hollered at him and asked him what he was doing. He looked at me and said, "what?". When I mentioned what the disposal would do to his hand, he got sheepish and said "oh. didn't think about that." Sheesh!

Dingbat #1, revisited. The time he pi$$ed me off and I should have let him die. He was buying my brother's car from him, up until something went wrong while he was driving it. Somehow, I got drafted to help figure out why the engine wouldn't start. I looked at a variety of things, and said I thought it was the fuel pump not working somehow. He thought it was the starter, and went to buy a new one. We replaced it, and it still wouldn't start. He decides to short the starter by making the connection and start the car... with a metal wrench held in his bare hand! Apparently the concept that *he* would become part of the electrical circuit escaped him. Sadly, I prevented him from electrocuting himself by asking him what the he!! he was doing (one of my favorites phrases). Why did I want to kill him? Because after working on this stupid starter for 5-6 hours, some other friend comes along, says he thinks it's the fuel pump, and dingbat #1 immediately agrees and says the guy is probably right. That lost Saturday.... I shoulda killed him twice [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]

[Dundee Slaytern]

From my friend's LJ.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sartan0/31821.html

I only wish I had been there as well...

[pritchke]

Originally posted by Bungleau: I can't think of anyone really weird... wait. Not necessarily weird, per se, but somewhat stupid. Dingbat #1: My brother's friend from school. We had a box fan that my grandfather had built (literally) from a 2x8 board, a fan blade and motor, an electrical box with a light switch, and a cage around it. The switch was inside the cage, and dingbat #1 decides one day, while he's talking on the phone, to turn the fan off. Without looking. He missed the switch. It was not one of those plastic safety fan blades, but a real metal one from the 1950s. One trip to the ER, coming up.

That actually sounds like a safty hazard. You should modify it put the switch on the outside and some type of mesh or cage over the front. To many dingbats out there plus children who are still getting used to the world.

If I had a quarter for each dingbat I met....

[ 04-22-2005, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

[Dron_Cah]

Well, there was this one guy I met, named Lyle...

[Bozos of Bones]

Time I posted in this hilarity too [img]tongue.gif[/img]
A few times a month I see this guy I call "Eppur si Muove". Why? Because as he walks straight at a steady pace, every 10 feet or so he turns 360 around his axis and keeps on walking. First time I thought he dropped something or remembered something or I don't know... but now, I've seen him half a dozen times and every time he spins around. Must be fun being him.
I know this failed maths professor, a freind of my dad's who helped me out when my math grades needed mending. He went a tad bit nuts. Ya know the usual, washes weekly, lives with a cat, goes out rarely and all that. But dude! When we were doing cubical equations, I showed him an example the teacher asked the student that day, and he just told me the results in 3 seconds, just by looking at the paper! WTD!? Until that I thought that wasn't possible, but this... And this wasn't a one-shot incident, this kept on with trigonometrics and everything! Spooky I tell ya [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Next on the list we have a friend of mine from school. Every day he takes with himself all books and notebooks of all classes, not just the day's classes, complete with gym shorts and laboratory suit. And no, he isn't homeless or anything. He is mostly normal, if a tad bit neurotic.
Maybe later I'll think of more examples...

[Bungleau]

Originally posted by pritchke: quote: Originally posted by Bungleau: I can't think of anyone really weird... wait. Not necessarily weird, per se, but somewhat stupid. Dingbat #1: My brother's friend from school. We had a box fan that my grandfather had built (literally) from a 2x8 board, a fan blade and motor, an electrical box with a light switch, and a cage around it. The switch was inside the cage, and dingbat #1 decides one day, while he's talking on the phone, to turn the fan off. Without looking. He missed the switch. It was not one of those plastic safety fan blades, but a real metal one from the 1950s. One trip to the ER, coming up.

That actually sounds like a safty hazard. You should modify it put the switch on the outside and some type of mesh or cage over the front. To many dingbats out there plus children who are still getting used to the world.

If I had a quarter for each dingbat I met.... [/QUOTE]Oh, it was definitely a safety hazard. But this fan was built 50 years ago easy; to make it "safe" would cost more than a new fan. And my brother's friend was 16 years old or thereabouts... not exactly a child who might play around with the fan to their dismay. There were also no children around, and whenever we *did* have people over, we moved the fan out of harm's way (or harming's way). In any case, I think the fan is long since retired.

Point is, you... just hearing about the fan, let alone looking at it... said in your mind "wow! That thing is dangerous, and I would need to be careful around it". That's a normal, rational response in my book. Apparently, his normal rational response button is broken... and it hasn't gotten much better in the years since, AFAIK.

[Sir Goulum]

There's this person on my bus whose life sounds like a soap opera. [img]tongue.gif[/img] She's always talking to this other girl about how she's going to the park or something, and then she sees her ex-boyfriend and has to hide in some bushes so she won't be seen. And there's all these cheesy lines she talks about how she said them to her friends. If it wasn't so early in the morning, I'd be laughing away. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Lucern]

Warning: there's one naughty word here, but it's a true quote. It's also in all caps.

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I'm sitting at work reading (I run the counter of a store atm), and I hear this loud belch about 30 feet away. This is a tiny store, and there's just the two of us in there. I look over to see an older fellow with dark, thick red glasses. He's a towering guy with a row of gold teeth and a Hawaiian shirt. "Good!" I think: we sell Hawaiian shirts.

So he's ambling around the store with this pretty impressive slouch, and he yells at me...just the loudest sound possible comes out of him. "HEY!" as he picks up a figure of a horny toad (aka horned toad), "WE USED TO HAVE THESE AROUND MY HOUSE WHEN I WAS A KID!! NOT ANY MORE THOUGH!"

- Yeah, they're not too...

- WHOA, I LIKE THAT ONE BACK THERE! (pointing to something I coudn't see) HOW MUCH ARE THEM BITCHES?!

- Uh...?

- THE SOUTHER BELLE! (The idea of those being synonyms is astounding lol)

I tell him and pull it down for him, and he doesn't buy it. He buys the horny toad and eventually leaves.

Here's the really weird part: I'm pretty soft-spoken and he could hear me just fine. My conclusion: he just likes to yell lol. That was two weeks ago and he's been back like 3 times, buying something every time, so I can't really complain hehe. The fact remains, he's one of the strangest people I've ever met.