STRANGE STRANGERS

Reddit asked, “What’s the weirdest encounter you’ve ever had with a stranger?” Some of the responses:
– “Grocery store parking lot, a random guy came up to me and gave me five 100 dollar bills and then ran away, yelling ‘I just bought your soul!’ I went in and bought groceries with the cash.”
– “Went shopping in Germany, it was an hour across the border from the Netherlands. A man came running my way yelling ‘excuse me, sir! excuse me!’ in Dutch. He gets really excited and shaking my hand saying, ‘It is such an honor! Wow!’… After a few mumbled sentences by him, it becomes clear he thinks I’m the King of the Netherlands, incognito. I’ve been told once that I looked like the king,… This guy thought I was him in disguise, because of my beard.”
– “I was driving and stopped to put gas in my car. It’s about 5am. I decide to go to the bathroom. I come out of the stall and there’s a large man in the women’s bathroom with overalls on and a hospital gown underneath. He says “Can you see this hospital gown under my overalls?” I nod yes and he says, “I’m not going back there. I ain’t crazy. They’re crazy.” I walk out and tell the attendant about the guy, he looks at me and says “Oh that’s just Frank. He must have got out again.”
– “I have this weird thing where complete strangers will tell me everything about them within 5 minutes of meeting me. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s dark, but it’s always super personal and none of my business. I don’t know why they do it.”
– “I was outside having a cigarette when some car pulled up on the curb, a guy got out, went to the trunk, pulled out a shoe box with a new pair of shoes in it, and asked if he could leave them on the lawn in front of my house. I said sure.”
– “At a store, a hippy-looking older woman was just staring at my infant son and he was staring back. She then looked at me and said, ‘I’m sorry I was just talking to his soul. He’s remarkable and you’re very lucky parents.’”
– “I was standing in line to pay for my gas after finishing work. All of a sudden this older woman in line behind me smashes her face into my bicep and inhales deeply, then tells me I smell really good.”
– ” I was getting out of a subway station when an old tiny Asian lady just tried to reach and touch my forehead with a highly panicked look in her eyes. She kept saying something I couldn’t understand. From that point I always assumed I was cursed.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What weird thing has a stranger said or done to you? (Watch out for perv stories!)