ageedizzleWhat’s the weirdest experience you’ve ever had?
https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/629851/whats-the-weirdest-experience-youve-ever-had
JiffyBagI was once abroad for a work trip, alone, and hanging around the local town center when I was approached by someone in quite theatrical costume (top hat and tails combined with animal-like elements) who greeted me by saying “Happy Apple Moon” and moved on. As the evening started to turn into night and then later circled back and told me to follow them. I followed them to the edge of a small woodland two blocks away and there was a candlelit path through the woodland “guarded” by two people in theatrical costume who greeted me with “Happy Apple Moon”. I returned the greeting and they let me pass.
I followed the first person down the forest path to an opening in the woods. There was a circular maze of candles laid out on the ground at the edges of which were lots of people in woodland animal costumes and in the center, a raised platform with a person in the center dressed as a large stag and playing a grand piano, the platform was covered in roses. There were a few other “normies” stood scattered around who had been lured into the woodland too.
The woodland animals on the outside started to dance in sync through the candle lit maze and guided me to the center where I was allowed to take a rose from the platform. The woodland creatures continued to dance a performative number around and then at the end of the piano song guided me out of the forest.
I left, rose in hand, and went back to my hotel.
The next day, I told the hotel receptionist what happened when she asked how my evening was and she did not believe me. I told my colleagues and they didn’t believe me. I returned home and told my friends - and they didn’t believe me.
Stumbling across a theatrical perfomance isn’t so weird, I guess. But it was so well done and performed for so few people. Even the receptionist at the hotel said “No, nothing like that would happen around here.” 😐
Also one time I went to a concert in my hometown and got to the bar and a man there turned to me and greeted me by my name. I did not know this man but he seemed to know me. He also brought a bottle of my favourite soft drink.
“I am here for a job interview tomorrow. I traveled from Poland. I searched for [the company name] and found your blog. You used to work there. You said you like this drink so I bought it. You also recommended this band and I saw they were playing, so I came to the concert.”
It was pretty weird that this dude had flown from another country and was attempting to get a job at the same company I used to work and had read through my history of blog posts so intently that he had a drink I like with him, and turned up at the same concert I was going to. He even knew what I looked like to recognise me at the bar. It felt like stalker territory, but he also didn’t seem threatening in any way.
I invited him over to a table of my friends. After the band had played, I stuck around for one more drink and then left him a few drinks deep with my friends and I went home. My friends told me he stayed out until 1am and got very drunk. His interview was 10am the following day.
I never heard from him again. I wonder if he ever made it to the job interview.