Do you have funny stories to tell people? Put our anecdotes here!
Please 1 No Spam 2 Anecdote should be at least one good paragraph 3 Comments on others anecdotes to be made at the end of the post I'll start:
Someone I know was in the laundry room putting clothes in the washer... She suddenly has a sense that someone is watching her. So to calm herself down she decides to check the window to find... that there are two deers watching her with large eyes outside the window...
(might be a good thread, depending if enough people post...)
So this one time in '06, we were on vacation and decided to go fishing in Alaska. On the way to the dock where all the fishing boats were at, we were driving on the highway and this heavy, giant moose was walking in the road. The unfortunate animal was walking along sort of in the right side of the road, but this speeding idiot flew at about 70 mph on a 40 mph road. He swerved just in the nick of time and only got the moose's hind leg. The car stopped after swerving and hitting one of the guardrails, but unfortunately, the moose was pissed and started running at the stopped car. That's all I saw since we were moving along the highway. Dear god I hope he's still okay :<
That would be so scary for me, especially if you were alone and it was near dark. It would probably be horrifying enough to paralyze me to just stare back at the curious deer....
My dad works for the Roads and Traffic Authority here in Australia and a couple of years back he was driving around the country doing his work when he came across a log lying across the road. Because of who he worked for he was obliged to move it. So when he got out of the car, two escapees from a local low security prison sprang out of the bushes. They demanded the car and when my dad said no, one guy when crazy and ran at him then did a flying kick. My dad blocked it with the back of his arm and then the other guy came out and got ready to fight. To avoid getting seriously hurt he just said "Take the car" they got in the car with all my Dad's possesions (clothes, wallet, credit cards, phone etc.) and drove off. A truckie picked him up off the road and took him to the local police station. From there my mum came to pick him up so they could cancel his credit cards. The police were pursuing the escapees but lost sight of them. Over the following 5 months they were known to rob gas stations, shops and people. After another 3 months they finally caught them and put them in a high security prison. The court session is still being organized.
That put me in shock a bit when i first heard it but when i heard he was ok i calmed down.
When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker's circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks & manner) that he was tired of speech making. "I have and idea, boss," his chauffeur said. "I've heard you give this speech so many times. I'll bet I could give it for you." Einstein laughed loudly and said, "Why not? Let's do it!"
When they arrive at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur's cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein's speech and even answered a few questions expertly Then a supremely pompous professor ask an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody's fool. Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, "Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me."
And here is one of my own: I go to karate. Once in a while I will spar (kick boxing) when there is someone to spare with. So a friend of mine wanted to spar me after class. I was completely alright with that... We spar for 2 seconds, and then a wake up with blood in my mouth (it was only a small amount, I had my mouth guard on) on the ground. He says that I was knocked out by his jab and a kick that he did in quick succession. He apologized of course... (this guy was going to leave for the Navy and now He is doing well, as far as I know)
Three years ago I was walking to my bustop. It was winter, so it was pitch dark. I was also listening to some music through earbuds. I was looking at the ground as I walked because I didn't want to slip on a ice patch. Out of the corner of my eye, I see my neighbor waving at me from her car. I wave back at her, and then keep walking.
Suddenly, out of the darkness I see this brown leg. I look up and there's a moose (luckily, just a cow) about 10 feet in from of me. I hadn't even noticed it until now. I take out my headphones and I hear my nieghbor blowing her car horn, trying to scare the moose away.
The moose backed away and I managed to bolt off to my bus stop.
But for a while there, I was pretty close to freaking out.
Snorgy, did your dad get his car and stuff back? Also, too bad his phone was in the car. Otherwise he could have just called for help.
@aknerd The car and phone were property of the RTA and were replaced but he couldn't get all his stuff back. Instead they gave him a fair bit of money and 6 moths of leave on full pay ;P
