Hey Pandas, What Was The Most Random Thing That Has Ever Happened In Your Life?

While driving home some annoying driver decided to tailgate our car. So, my wife slowed down to let him pass and out of nowhere a Mercedes came out and started tailgating him. The original driver tried to speed up, but the Mercedes kept up with him. Then the driver changed lanes and so did the Mercedes. Eventually, the original driver pulled off of the road and the Mercedes resumed his regularly scheduled drive. At the next traffic light, the Mercedes driver was in front of us and he put his hand out the window and gave us a thumbs up!

To this day, the wife and I are happy knowing that Captain Mercedes is out there dispensing justice to the jerks on the road.

For me, it was a couple months ago, I'm a freshman. I was in a class then this kid came busting thru the door, must've been high or something. The teacher asked who are you? The student then screeched like a macaw and ran out of the room. There is absolutely no way there is something more random than this.

I was at Ikea when I met the Statsminister (Swedens equivalent of president or state head) getting a set of drawers in a flat-pack. There were two guards with him. I was getting the same ones, so I waited. He then asked me if he was in the way and then offered to help me get a flat-pack down.
Most random thing that I have the same drawers as Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt.

My husband and I (Canadians) lived in Pakistan from 1988-1993. There we met another Canadian couple working there temporarily as well. The wife was originally from Peru, so I told her I had lived in Peru from 1966 to 1968. It turned out that we had gone to the same British girls' school, but she was quite a few years younger than I was. My father (a university professor) became close friends with the newly-arrived headmaster of the boys' school my brothers attended. That headmaster stayed on in Peru for many years after we left, although he visited us in Canada many times.
Anyway, during my conversation with the Peruvian-Canadian woman, I discovered that her son got into a Canadian university because the headmaster got 'his Canadian professor friend' to write a letter of recommendation for her son. And that was my dad!

Was walking with a friend on the shore of the Baltic Sea in mid january, pieces of ice floating on the water. We were in deep conversation, when a naked dude (apparently freezing...) walked out of the water and entered one of the beach houses.
In retrospect, probably someone with a home sauna, but surreal (and amusing) at the time.

I was born

I received a phone call one time. I believe it was a wrong number, but the first thing the woman said was, "what's your recipe for chocolate frosting?" I gave it to her and she said "thanks" and hung up. No idea who that was.

I became canonically part of the doctor who universe. I’m not going to say who exactly I am because my real name is used, but a family member was the director for doctor who for a while and wrote a book that inserted me and my siblings into the universe without even telling us until a few weeks ago. I have a fandom page dedicated to me now. Not the kind of thing I thought would happen in my life, I’m going to be honest.

I got roped into mountain biking one day and now I'm winning races

About 25 years ago I was backpacking with two friends (one F and one M) and we were taking the train from Tangier to Rabat in Morocco. Somehow we females got separated from our (M) friend as we boarded the train. We found an empty carriage and took our seats. A bunch of guys came into the car and sat around us. We were craning our necks trying to spot our friend. A guy walking down the corridor saw us out of the corner of his eye, stopped and came back to our carriage. He stopped at the door and gestured to us and said “You! Where are you going? Are you going to Rabat?” I said yes. He said “Good. Stay on the train. Don’t get off at the first stop. Don’t trust anyone. Everyone is a hustler.” He gestures to the guys in the other seats “He’s a hustler. He’s a hustler. They’re all hustlers. I’m a hustler. Don’t trust anyone, don’t get off at the first stop. Go to Rabat.” And then he’s gone. My friend and I look at each other asking ourselves what just happened. Our missing friend finally finds us and joins us. Some of the guys leave the carriage when they figure out that we have a guy travelling with us. The remaining guys ask us questions about where we’re from (Canada) where we’re going, where we’ve been etc. They suggest that we might like to visit the town they’re from - Asilah - but we explain that we have a booking for a place in Rabat that night so we’ll stay on the train. Some time later we’re in Amsterdam at a cafe and we meet a bunch of other backpackers from different countries. Everyone is telling travel stories and this couple says “We were on the train in Morocco, heading from Tangier to Rabat…” and I say “And you got off at the first stop!” They ask “How do you know that?” So I ask them what happened. They got mugged by a bunch of guys and it cost them all of their travellers cheques (around $400) to get out of Asilah and back on the train. We used up all our karma during that trip but some of it was definitely worth it - a random interaction with a random guy on a train saved us a potentially dangerous and costly situation.

Many, many years ago, my daughter was at the same school as one of the (then) current Premiers daughters. My daughter went to their house for a sleep over party and I picked her up the next morning. It seems I got the timing wrong and arrived an hour earlier. So, to kill time, we just sat with coffee and chatted about stuff just as two dads. Politics wasn't even mentioned. So, I had coffee made for me by the Premier.

One afternoon, me and my 3 young children were at a mall side entrance in the Dillard's Department store waiting for my husband to bring the car. Suddenly out of nowhere a old black pick up truck came to a sceeching halt directly in front of us outside. A man from the passenger side jumped out making a mad dash into the store, grabbed a female adult sized mannequin, tucked it under his arm like football, ran back to the truck and they made their getaway. Disturbing to say the least as the other on lookers and I stood with our mouths agape and speechless!

The school mascot ran down the halls screeching the day of the homecoming game. He's an eagle, since that's our school thing (we're called "The Nest" help) and for some reason he has TEETH, so that was weird to see at 7:25 am while running laps.

I do a lot of silly things but one time when playing a game, I just shouted out "I love me pudding" It wasn't something I planned to say, it just came out of my mouth, i don't know how

I was sitting on my stop when a older man wearing all black
walked past me looked at me and with a voice of pure hatred stated that he hated me. I do not know him, but I believe him.

Choosing from a menu of randomness ... I'd have to say the time a naked guy ran across the road in front of my car one night while I was taking my sister to the hospital. Nobody else in the car saw him and I wasn't about to go back so they get a look.

I'd have to say the random bad luck I've had with water heaters. First, for some context: I lived in an older trailer for about a decade in my 20s. It had a full- sized water heater, not one of the small ones you usually find in older trailers. It was behind the wall in one of the bedrooms, with a door made of just that ugly paneling usually gracing the walls of said trailers, over a wooden frame. I tried to check on it frequently; being a first time homeowner I was pretty clueless though.

1. The first incident, it exploded. Shot a hole through the side of the tank and through the wall, flooding the room.

2. The second tank had been leaking, without my knowledge. The support structure it was on was wooden. Wood rots quickly when wet. It collapsed, crashed through the (repaired) wall and the floor beneath. The only thing keeping it off the ground was the ugly linoleum flooring was somehow lending support.

3. New house, an actual 2-story house, but incredibly old. The bottom literally fell out of the water heater. Apparently it had been rusting underneath (I can't get down on the floor to look under it, and it was functioning fine so I hadn't been worried.)

I have bad luck with water heaters.

In the weight room of my junior year of highschool, a freshie came up to me and said "holy **** that's a big *** forehead." I replied- "at least I have a brain."
We are dating now.

That would have been in the 1990s, when I was working in Cambridge, MA. I get off at the Harvard Square T(subway) stop and, at the top of the stairs, were two students collecting money to rescue Elvis from the Space Aliens. I still wonder if somebody lost a bet.

Went on vacation in Alaska (my wife and I live in Michigan). We had just bought a house and on the drive from the airport, we saw a cool looking lighting store and decided to stop in later.

While we were in the lighting store, all of the sudden I see my wife's cousin and his wife (they live in California). Neither of us knew the others were going to be in Alaska. We ended up going to a nice dinner together while we were there.