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32 Things People Saw Others Do In Public That Left Them Flabbergasted At How Unhinged It Was
Legendary old Hollywood comedian Buster Keaton had a very specific type of persona - no matter what happened to his character during the film, no matter what ridiculous situations he got into, he always kept a "poker face" of a sort. Well, many of the characters in our selection today are somewhat similar to Buster Keaton...
Today we have the honor of presenting to you a list of three dozen stories that netizens witnessed when someone, while in public, behaved in a completely strange way. Strange - if not stupid. However, it is up to you to decide how stupid it was.
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#1
I was working the front desk at a gym. An older guy swiped his card to check in at the same time as a decent-sized t**d slid out of his shorts and fell to the carpeted floor. He was about to go in to the locker room like nothing happened but I said "Sir?" and pointed at it in shock. He turned around, looked at it, picked it up in his bare hand and kept going in to the locker room like he had just picked up his keys or something.
I looked at the personal trainer next to me and we looked at each other like wtf?
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#2
I worked at public libraries for many years and one of the most random things I’ve seen was turning a corner and seeing a woman hunched over cutting her hair onto the floor. Just…trimming her hair and letting it fall all over the library floor. Checking the ends to make sure they were good…then trimming some more.
All customer service training went out the window as I bellowed “What are you doing!?! NO! JUST…NO!” She had the grace to look ashamed and try and scoop up all her little hair pieces.
BookFanatic 1 month ago
LoL We had two teens doing each other's hair in one of the aisles, complete with spray, brush, curling iron, and blow dryer. Had to explain why a plugged-in curling iron probably shouldn't be propped on top of flammable materials.
#3
Dude went out of his way to hit my friend's service dog with a cart at Costco. He then proceeded to follow them around the store because he thought it was funny how the dog would get visibly stressed out when he approached with the cart. Piece of s**t was wearing a "Back the Blue" shirt too of course, like sir are you aware you are committing a felony?
It all started, as often happens, in the AskReddit community, where a couple of days ago the user u/Such_Alternative1975 asked the question: "What’s the most unhinged thing you’ve ever seen someone do in public like it was completely normal?"
Oh, I wish they hadn't done that - because the comments (and there are now over 1.3K of them) have become such a cringe festival that it was damn hard for us to choose stories for you, believe me. But we did it.
#4
A guy used his car key to clean out his ear and then put it into his mouth. Walking out of walmart, naturally.
I dont know 1 month ago
I was trying to eat breakfast while reading this, and now there's scrambled eggs stuck up my nose. Thanks.
#5
Threw mashed potatoes at the waitress because they had gravy on them.
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
I'd lay an a*****t charge for that because that's not the only time she threw something at someone.
#6
Had a lady light a cigarette in the bank the other day. This was after insisting that the gold $100 bill she tried to give me was real. The, she told my manager to f**k off and that she wasn't the manager. She clearly wasn't well, but it was all wild.
Some of the situations described here can be explained by a simple word - alcohol. Or something even stronger and worse. A drunk person's threshold for assessing moral values is greatly reduced, and they are ready to do things that they would never do under any circumstances if they were sober. Moreover, they sometimes sincerely consider what they are doing to be funny or cool.
Alcohol affects people's consciousness in different ways - some fall asleep peacefully after a couple of glasses, while for others, on the contrary, all the fuses in their heads turn off, and their inner trickster wakes up. If you remember the plot of the old comedy The Hangover, you will definitely know what I'm talking about.
#7
Knickers round one ankle, skirt hoiked up at the front, leg up on the sink for easy access hacking away at her pubes with a razor in a supermarket toilet.
We made direct eye contact. I walked right back out of there.
#8
A guy on the subway peeling and eating a whole raw onion like it was an apple, dead serious.
#9
Eat a random pill they found on the floor of the bus. Then take out a beat up iPhone and try to identify what the pill was.
A separate category of situations is when people think that they aren't seen by anyone else. And then, it must be said, completely unexpected instincts awaken in many of us. For example, to eat food that has fallen on the floor, to throw garbage past the trash can on the street, and even to commit some minor offense. For example, to break traffic rules...
In fact, much of our life is the result of the so-called "social contract" between people, that is, not the absolute truth, but the result of people's agreement to consider it as such. And we, when we're not seen (or we think that we are not seen), involuntarily protest against these "game rules." And then we're surprised to be caught doing something completely unhinged.
#10
Saw a chick go into a sandwich shop while drunk with her friends, and instead of waiting to use the bathroom, just squatted over the mop bucket in the dining room and pissed like it was no big deal in front of a full crowd of strangers. Dinner theater.
#11
A very professional looking woman (think skirt suit and matching shoes) was walking in front of us in Spain. Suddenly she slapped the absolute s**t out of her own face.
No stopping, no change in facial expression either. Smacked herself so hard I had secondhand sting.
#12
I saw someone pick up dog poop with their bare hand at the dog park and then walk to throw it out in the trash can.
Most ironic part about the whole thing is that there were bags that they could have used right next to the trash can. I wonder about people sometimes.
Of course, there are situations when smart people just do some completely stupid things. Why does this actually happen? For example, because sometimes "dizziness from success" happens, people acquire irrational confidence in their own infallibility - and even having made a mistake, they try to convince others that it was not a mistake, or that they had actually planned to do it exactly that way.
"When smart people make dumb mistakes, it usually isn’t because of stupidity, ignorance, or apathy," Donalee Markus Ph.D. says in her article on Psychology Today. "They make dumb mistakes because they’ve been seduced by their own success, and the rewards of success help them develop expectations about how things are supposed to be."
Of the stories we’re telling you today, examples like these make up a significant, if not the most significant, share as well.
#13
Used to work in a pub. Had a crazy old lady ask for a half of bitter. Takes the glass, puts it in her handbag and walks out. I was about to go get the glass back when the manager stopped me and said “It’s probably not worth it…”.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
My sister has a few glasses the her or her friends have taken from pubs (which I have lectured her about a few times) but I doubt they would have been filled at the time!
#14
I was tutoring a student at a public library in Orlando, and the student was unusually distracted, periodically glancing behind me over my shoulder.
Eventually I asked the student what was up and he told me that a man behind me was watching p**n on one of the library computers behind me. He was a college kid, so I didn't figure that he could be that phased.
When I turned around, what I saw, with absolutely no effort to conceal it, was an old man watching naked, morbidly obese women being aggressively strangled.
#15
I once saw a woman in a supermarket queue eating a whole stick of butter like it was an ice cream. I moved to the next queue. .
Be that as it may, and even if you don’t want to understand the possible reasons why people behave the way they do, I think you’ll find these stories interesting, from the lite odd to the totally cringy. So please feel free to read these stories, and if you’ve ever witnessed something similar too, we're open to your own tales in the comments below!
#16
Watched someone on the bus eating ice cream bars, one after the other, out of a box. Finished one box, started another. About half way through that box they paused, rummaged around in their many bags, came out with a needle, and stabbed it into their thigh, and continued eating the ice cream.
#17
Was on the subway and a lady across from me started brushing her teeth and spitting on the floor. She then washed her face with her water bottle.
#18
Walking down the street in Barcelona and a guy takes his phone out and full on licks the screen to clean it. Whole tongue out using the entire surface, with force, for at least the 3 steps he walked by me !!
#19
P**s in the middle of dollar tree
i didnt actually see the lady do it, a customer let me know about it, but the next day, my manager showed me and my coworkers the security camera footage. she legit just crouched down, pissed, and then got back up and walked away as if nothing happened.
#20
Y'know those plastic dividers the cashiers at the supermarket use to divide your groceries from someone else's? I saw a cashier at Safeway pick one of those up, insert it down inside his shirt to scratch his back, and then put it right back on the conveyor belt in between the groceries as if that was a perfectly normal thing to do. 🤢🤮
I went home and promptly called the manager to report it.
#21
Some homeless woman cascade vomiting on the bus seat in front of her, then asking the bloke she barely missed to fish out her dentures and hand them back to her.
Edited; phrasing.
#22
To make a very, very long story short, I worked at a ski resort with company housing. I had a super creepy housemate who, over the course of the winter, went progressively more insane. One of the final straws leading up to his firing took place at the childrens bunny hill while I was taking a group of kids to their ski lesson.
I see him sitting outside the shack at the top of the lift, feet resting on the controls, wearing nothing but a speedo, and shaving his head with a pair of clippers.
It was the middle of february, well below freezing, and this man was sitting in a lawnchair in a speedo, shaving his head on the bunny hill.
I said, "jesus christ man! what are you doing!?"
And he calmy replied "well... there was an outlet up here."
He gestured towards the outlet the clippers were plugged into.
The kids are looking at me like, "Who the hell is that guy?"
That was one of the thousands of insane things I saw that man do in public.
#23
Back in early pandemic times I was stuck in a long line at the grocery store and this couple in front of me was ignoring their child.
Everyone is masked up, a bunch of ppl had gloves.
This kid was stuffing cheesy puffs into the keyhole on the grocery cart and then sucking the cheese puff paste out of it. This went on for at least 30 minutes, cheese puff after cheese puff.
No one stopped him.
#24
At the gas station I saw a woman in a wheelchair insert her card into the reader with her mouth and used her tongue to press the number buttons. Initially I was saddened by this (in addition to being horrified), then I noticed that she was accompanied by an able-bodied man who stood and watched it happen.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 month ago
You are an idiot if you think the solution would be for the disabled person to have to share their PIN with someone else just for you don't get offended watching them struggle. You may not like it but this way gives the disabled person financial independence.
#25
Watched a man peeling a banana on an early morning commuter public bus. As he peeled it, it broke, and most of it fell onto the floor. It even rolled. He looked around (didn't see me watching him) and then picked it up and ate it. OFF THE FLOOR OF A BUS.
#26
Two people smacking each other with umbrellas in a fight. This happened at the university I used to attend.
At least I got morning entertainment before a dull lecture.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Doesn't seem that strange for uni students... In fact, I am picturing at least one of my friends who could have done it!
#27
I watched a woman walk completely naked down the street from a bus window. A moment later a cop car comes careening around the corner and the bus driver points and tells them the direction she went in. Apparently she wasn’t a first time offender.
#28
Clean her whole car with baby wipes in front of a Ross. Windshield, tires, everything. There was a car wash across the street.
#29
I saw a guy try and return a pair of trousers in a shop that had s**t stains on the butt. The poor store clerk didnt know what to do. I suspect it was his kink or something.. maybe?
#30
Sitting in the deli/bakery seating of a grocery store having a coffee and donut when a man sits next to us with a grocery bag and he takes out a giant steak still in the packaging that he clearly just bought, and pulls out a small bottle of seasoning salt from his coat pocket and proceeds to eat the whole raw steak with his hands making sure to salt every bite. It was absolutely foul.
#31
Someone at the airport who looked not homeless grabbed an empty plastic bottle from the recycling bin, walked to the water fountain, filled it up and drank from it.
#32
I was having a conversation with a homeless man when another homeless man walked up, didn't say a single word, pulled a bottle of vodka out of his trench coat and handed it to the man I was speaking to. The man I was speaking to proceeded to open the bottle, start chugging it, choke, and spit it all over me. He gave me a "my bad" look and walked away. I stood there stunned and then a lady that watched the whole thing called the police and the guy got arrested. It was so strange and really gross.
What do you think ?
R.C. 1 month ago
During the winter in Canada, I witnessed a man at the top of an outdoor public staircase blow his nose into his hand. He then tried to shake the mess off his hand onto the ground and then he proceeded to grip the handrail all the way down the stairs. Reinforces why I'm a germaphobe. You never know what's been done to something in public!
Lara Verne 1 month ago
I was once parking my car, and I saw guy walking out of pub. He stopped in front of lawn, put his finger down his throat, vomited and then went back to pub.
R.C. 1 month ago
During the winter in Canada, I witnessed a man at the top of an outdoor public staircase blow his nose into his hand. He then tried to shake the mess off his hand onto the ground and then he proceeded to grip the handrail all the way down the stairs. Reinforces why I'm a germaphobe. You never know what's been done to something in public!
Lara Verne 1 month ago
I was once parking my car, and I saw guy walking out of pub. He stopped in front of lawn, put his finger down his throat, vomited and then went back to pub.
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