OT: the strangest/most bizarre encounters of your life
There haven't been many "fun" topics this off season so I thought I'd start one.
What's the weirdest event you've ever experienced?
For example: I vividly remember someone on the board recounting an experience in which they were road-tripping through rural Mississippi and stopped at a rest stop in the middle of the night. When they entered the men's room they mistakenly walked in on a Bukakke in process (or maybe I'm mis-remembering a nightmare I had?).
There's also an Old Testament writer named Ezekiel.
I'm curious to hear some great true stories of bizarre happenings.
Nah, this is a very fun thread!
That is bizarre.
August 8th, 2023 at 12:49 PM ^
All my crazy occurrences involve girlfriends.
1. I’m walking down Amsterdam Ave on the upper west side in nyc and my college (UM) gf suddenly randomly walks by with the cofounder of Cosi restaurants. The other founder was her new bf. The weird part? While we pause for a quick hello, Mickey Rourke walks right between us… leather jacket, shades. Crazy.
2. I visited buddies in Chicago one summer in law school hoping to run into another ex gf. I win a shot contest and get so hammered the cops put me in a paddy wagon and off to drunk and disorderly jail for the night. Two months later I reunite with that ex gf and out of nowhere she goes “were you in the back of a police wagon a few months back?” She randomly walked by and saw me getting put in…. Crazy.
3. Same college gf told me she went to a David Copperfield show while we were dating and Copperfield selected her from the crowd for an onstage trick after which he invited her back to his hotel, which she declined as far as I know.
3 years later, I went to a David Copperfield show on Broadway and got my revenge. He had a trick where foam bricks fell on the audience. One fell on me and I grabbed it from about 30 rows deep and flung it at him, just missing him on stage. He was not happy, and he was scanning the darkness of the crowd for whoever threw that, but no one busted me.
Anither four years after that, I am at a bar at the MGM casino in Vegas with a very lovely blonde I had picked up. I head to the bathroom real quick, and when I come back out, who is at the bar hitting on my date? None other than a blown out, old David Copperfield… My life nemesis.
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turns out David Seth Kotkin was married to Claudia Schiffer in the 90's and has a net worth of $1bn!
Sorry, but I have another one...
The night before the John SInclair Freedom Rally featuring John Lennon at Crisler Arena on Saturday, December 10, 1971, there was a lineup outside the arena to buy tickets the next morning when the box office opened. Limit was 10 each. I was a freshman living at Bursley. 10 guys on my dorm floor put up money for 1 ticket each and I drew the short straw to go to Crisler and stand in line all night and then buy 10 tickets. I think I was one of the 1st ten in the line. It was freezing cold and I had way underdressed for the weather. A guy in the next group took pity on me and offered to drive me back to Bursley while his friends held our place in line. We drive back to Bursley and I get a heavier coat and 2-3 blankets. On the way back to Crisler we get pulled over for some minor reason. The cops separated me and the driver and talked to the driver first. Turns out he had all kinds of outstanding arrest warrants (traffic and more serious) and they were hauling him into jail. When they talked to me they told me his situation and WTF was I doing with him. I told the cops my story and they were nice enough to drive me back to Crisler. When we got back his friends had no sympathy for him, as they had warned him numerous times about getting those matters settled and that they would bail him out in the morning.
Concert was very long and ran until 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. Yoko was booed when she did a solo with her high squeaky voice. Stevie Wonder and Bob Seger were great.
interesting story - I once stood out all night for YES tickets in the early 80's; it is kind of crazy that this was the best people had come up with and that no one had conceived of the wrist band technique.
I was with a stripper at a bar in Ann Arbor. She couldn’t help herself and was naked on the bar.
Not my story, but it is an awesome one.
Courtesy of Goldman Sach's Elevator:
I've had plenty of strange occurrences, coworkers I travel with forgetting they were strapped at the airport, factory we were supposed to tour burning down the night before we showed up, being arrested on accident due to mistaken identity, but to me, the strangest was a girl I was friends with deciding to make "the move" on me. Instead of saying "i want to be more than friends," or trying some playful physical contact after drinks to test the waters, her idea of "the move" was to spontaneously mount me and start dry humping my leg, like a dog dragging ass on the carpet. I've never been more stunned or confused in my life. That was literally the very first signal. I don't even know, man.
August 11th, 2023 at 11:53 AM ^
Still together?