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People are Weird - September 2006

Yep, that'll teach the kid

Day 11 – Underage weirdo

Walking in front of me today was a kid who might just possibly have the kind of parents who encourage him to think big in life.

Most kids, when they are under five have a favourite toy right? Usually it’s a soft toy or doll of some sort and wherever they go, they have to take it along. My nephew has a tiny little bean bag Elmo, dirty as hell and it’s never far from him. So when you see kids trailing along behind their parents in shopping centres, they usually have their teddy, or equivalent, squished firmly around it’s neck in the crook of their elbow.

Well this kid had a doozy. It was a pony!! And the thing was almost bigger than him. He had one arm around it’s middle and the other around it’s neck and he was barely managing to put one foot in front of the other. His mother was strolling a few steps ahead of him, oblivious to his struggles. Either she’s away with the fairies, or they had had one hell of an argument about whether he was allowed to bring it and that he’d “have to carry it yourself all day.”

Hmm. Is that cruel or just one very effective way to teach a toddler a lesson?

All I know is…I’d hate to see his toy chest
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Today's Special - interest free loans

Day 10 - Weirdly Inebriated

Have you ever come across those local "travelling salespeople"who go into office buildings dressed in suits so as to blend in? Only, if you look closely, the bags they are lugging around have their really crappy and useless wares overflowing out the top. Things like the mug that doubles as a torch for only $5...you know for when you are drinking in the dark and can't find the sugar. Or the calculator that speaks in an impressive ten languages....none of them English. Ten dollars today, twelve if you want the plush teddy bear corkscrew.

Anyway, this morning a little after 9, two kind of scruffy guys came up to me and started off with the exact opening line these guys usually use....."We are just in the area today doing a promotion...." One of them then handed me a Westpac Bank business card with the name of a loans officer on it and said they were offering interested free personal loans of up to $20,000 and then continued to ramble for a bit.

What!!

I'm pretty sure my eyebrows involuntarily raised five centimetres toward my hairline at that, but I continued to listen. It was only after a few more seconds that I "smelt" what was going on. Alcohol. They reeked. And sensing I wasn't falling for it, they stumbled back outside and began hassling a group of smokers on the footpath. I was quite happy to let them continue, considering my disdain for smokers, but my boss made me call the Police. Party pooper.

So, I rang a station direct and the guy who answered told me that I had to actually ring 000 but he'd transfer me. So I get transferred to the wrong place and the second guy tries as well. Three times. So I ask if he'd like me to just hang up and dial bloody 000 myself. "Yes please." came the reply. Far out. Glad this wasn't a real emergency.

I found out that they caught the guys a few buildings down the road. And it was pretty easy to figure out that they had gone into a bank, which is two doors away, and just taken a heap of business cards from the Customer Service desk. Then in their drunken state, they decided to go on their merry way and pretend to be bank salesmen for the day.

Very original. Very amusing.
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The Twilight Zone-Seniors Citizen Sex

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With Friends Like These....

Day 8

Ok, i'm stretching a bit today. This guy was not so much a weirdo per se. He was quite entertaining. But I still came away thinking “why did you feel the need to tell me that story?” So, I'm saying that the fact that he told me this story with no provocation was a little weird and therefore, he deserves to be a part of the experiment


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What next..tutu's??

Day 7....another weirdo

I thought I might struggle to get a strange person today. Something just told me that all would be normal for a change. Mmm..nope...wrong


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Today's lesson...helping doesn't help

Day 6

Oh, I'm probably going to be chastened if I call today's charaters in my daily weirdfest...erm...weird. So instead, let's just say that the fact that there were two of them in the one day was weird ok? There definitely seemed to be a bit of a theme running today with the people I tried and failed to help


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Miss Diabetes Melbourne 2006

Day 5- And the freak goes on.

Today's weirdo almost escaped my notice. It was one of those instances where you turn to yourr friend and say "Did I just see....Did she just


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Where have all the real Goths gone?

Day 4 - Thus Weirdo 4

Goths..they amuse me. And i don't mean that in a derogatory way. I actually listen to quite a bit of Goth Metal, so I'm not about to Goth bash....well, actually maybe a little


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That's not a Samurai sword...THIS is a Samurai sword

As you may have gathered if you’ve read my previous blog, I see weird people (no Sixth Sense pun intended). So with this blog, I have begun an experiment of sorts. I want to know if it’s possible for me to see one strange person or event every day for fifty days. I’ve been looking for a while now and I’m pretty sure this is an easy task to accomplish. Because…fellow Humans…you’re bloody weird you know. And I’m just a regular person, going to work every day, having my lunch break and then going home. I’m not roaming all over the country, having the advantage of being able to check out bizarre locations and ergo…bizarre people. This is every day life and every day situations.

Now, I do realise, that for this to be a bona fide experiment, I should have a hypothesis and rules and regulations on what exactly constitutes “weird”….but hey, I only did one semester of Psych at Uni and I pretty much slept through statistics, so stuff that. My only rule here is that the occurrence must make me screw up my face and think “what the HELL was that


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Elementary my dear Luigi

Once again, today’s weirdo came past me fairly early in the morning. Maybe that’s going to end up being a precedent/truism for this experiment…Weird people come out foremost at the beginning of the day. Anyway, this middle aged ethnic man came up to me at maybe 8am today. He asked if it was ok if he just stood but the window for a while and watched the shop across the road. Apparently, his son had been missing for 7 days and as he worked in the shop across the street he wanted to watch and see if he turned up for work. He then told me the kid was eighteen, his name was, oh I can't remember, lets say “Pepe” and he was “a good boy and bla bla bla”

Ya, of course he was


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Aliens from Planet Beige

People are weird.

I saw a strange sight this week. And that's saying something, because I seem to be a freak magnet


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