62 People Share The Absolute Weirdest Things They’ve Caught A Stranger Doing In Public

On my subway commute to work, I stood right by the doors because my exit was two stops away. The first stop came, the doors opened, and a man walked in, looked me in the eye, said, "My memory foam mattress remembers too much," and continued into the train car without further explanation.

That was two years ago...and like his mattress, I still remember...

Reading these comments reminds me of the time I got the bus home after a huge night of drinking.

As soon as I got on the bus I realised it was peak hour. There was people in business attire sitting next to me, while I smelt of boxed wine in the clothes I wore yesterday

I sat there eating yoghurt with my fingers and it was only when I saw someone's reaction, that it dawned on me,

I was the weirdest thing they saw that day.

I saw a man stop in the middle of a cross walk, examine two leaves he was holding, throw one away with disgust, and eat the other leaf.

Saw a man wearing shirt with the word “Legend” printed on the front sit down on a park bench, pull out a wheel of Camembert cheese and proceed to eat the entire thing in a few bites. Then stand up and be on his way. A true legend.

I was traveling with my mom when i was 18. we were in vatican city and i watched an elderly man with a beautiful yellow scarf do a handstand against a wall in st. peter's basilica, then get up, brush his hands off, and walk away. it was awesome.

I saw a woman on the train file her nails. In between filing each nail she would lick the file clean.

*shudder*.

Not weird per se, but funny nonetheless.

She was walking along the beach with a sandwich in one hand, and was throwing rocks into the ocean with the other.

My friends and I watched as she YEETED the sandwich into the sea and stood there shaking her head in disappointment.

I was walking through the town I live in a few years ago, and some guy was walking just ahead of me looking like Hagrid from Harry Potter, in a long brown wool coat and long hair and beard, and he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a plant, with roots and everything, dropping soil everywhere. He looks down, repots the plant in his pocket, and reaches into the other side pocket for his wallet. Since then I've been totally in awe of him and I often wonder what he was growing in his coat.

Old guy on the bus talking on his phone and when he got off his phone it was a bar of soap. When he left the bus he said to the driver "Thank you Captain" .

Two strangers. but anyway, I was hanging around in downtown seattle when I saw this kid, probably in his early 20s, wearing all black with chains and tattoos and the like, challenge an old man to a chess duel. He just kind of walked up to him and did it, and i watched them play chess (with one of those big chess sets that goes on the sidewalk) for like half an hour waiting for the bus. They didn’t appear to know each other at all. It was great, I think the old man won but I didn’t stick around for the end of it.

Just yesterday, I saw a guy walking down the street, with a glass of beer. (Consumption of alcohol in public spaces is illegal here for the record.) Another stranger walking the opposite direction approaches him,
"Hey, give me your beer, here's some cash, go buy me a beer and buy yourself one too."
First stranger obliges, gives this man his beer, and goes off with the money to buy some beer. By the time he's back, 2nd guy is finished the beer, 1st guy hands a glass to 2nd guy, and they both go their separate ways. Was pretty amusing.

When I was a child I was with my grandma on the beach and a man who would have been in his 30s was looking under rocks for crabs.

Totally normal thing to do... He was dressed well and gave off no weird vibes.

He found a huge crab and with no hesitation picked it up from under the rock with one hand, unzipped his pants with the other and just dropped it into his underwear. He then let out a massive scream in agony and ran away down the beach.

I had a FedEx guy bend over and eat mushrooms out of my front yard before getting back in the truck and driving off. I wonder if he's still alive. I actually have it on video.

An old bald man on the train in full lycra who ate a whole 1kg bag of raw potatoes.

When I worked at PC World I had a customer come in and start browsing landline phones. She then got a call on her mobile phone so decided to take off her jacket and kick off her shoes, take off her socks and lay on the floor of the store whilst talking on her phone. After a while she put the phone down but continued to lay on the floor looking at all the types of landline phone. I ask if she needs a hand and she says she needs help. So I sat down on the floor with her and kicked off my shoes as well and had a good old chat all about landline phones. She ended up buying one with a extended warranty so management didn't care that I just sat on the floor with her.

You know those sticks that dog walkers use to throw the tennis ball further? I saw a guy just throw the whole thing, with a ball attached. Dude did it twice.

At a concert, sitting behind an extremely sunburnt man. I watched him peel off a sheet of his burnt skin and then eat it, as if it was a perfectly normal thing to do.

When I was a kid I saw a guy in church lick the entire cover of his hymn book, bottom to top, in one long stroke. I was maybe 10 and he was easily 40. It still haunts me to this day.

Edit: Because a few people have asked, no, he wasn’t looking at me. It wasn’t a perverted thing; I was behind and slightly to the side of him so he 10/10 didn’t know I was watching.

One time I was on my way to a house inspection and witnessed a man laughing and talking to his chained up bicycle getting progressively angrier until he started screaming and fighting with said bicycle. It was my first introduction to weird city people.

There is a coffee shop located In the building I work in. When it was time to close (midnight) I was told a guy was sleeping in the coffee shop. I woke him up and told him I was going to lock the doors and he had to leave. He stood up and opened a bottle of water and poured it on his jeans on his calf. I said “what are you doing?” Meaning like hey you’re getting water all over the floor wth and he just politely said “that’s how they work man” and then left. It still confused the hell out of me.

Edit: He was mid 40s, Canadian tuxedo with a black north face over it and brown leather boots, kinda chubby.