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<p>We&#39;re all weirdos in the comfort of our homes. One of the glories of spending a night in is being able to wear your blanket as a cape and communicate in strange sounds and little delirious dance moves.</p><p>However, when we step out into the greater world, there&#39;s an expectation of general civility, which means some of our strangest behaviors get tamped down.</p><p>In some situations, this can be stifling and make for a more boring world. But in many scenarios, public expectations are set in place to make the world run a bit smoother. This is to say, when someone goes way off-script, it can be simultaneously refreshing and disruptive depending on the context.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/p0hhz9/whats_the_weirdest_thing_youve_ever_witnessed/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared the weirdest thing they&#39;ve ever witnessed someone else do in public, and it just confirms we&#39;re all little weirdos at the end of the day.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DQScott95/">DQScott95</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>This was in Sacramento. I was sitting outside of a tattoo shop at like 2am waiting for a friend to come pick me up.</p> <p>As I&#39;m just sitting there, a homeless guy with baggy pants and no shirt walks up. He reaches his hand out for a handshake and says: &quot;Hey there, I&#39;m Death, how&#39;s your evening going&quot;. Very polite, didn&#39;t sound like he was on drugs or drunk, but looked like a wreck</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I responded with: &quot;Nice to meet you Death, I&#39;m Dylan, I&#39;m doing good, just waiting for a ride, how about you?&quot; To which he responds &quot;That&#39;s good, I&#39;m glad you were polite, you&#39;ve got a good heart, you&#39;ll be ok tonight&quot;.</p> <p>And then he just walks off. While it wasn&#39;t exactly the weirdest thing I&#39;ve seen in public, it&#39;s the weirdest way a person has ever introduced themselves to me.</p> </blockquote><hr /><blockquote> <p>I have one more short one. I was walking home one day and there was a very hippie-looking old lady walking down the street having a full-on conversation with herself. Like, asking a question, and then answering the question, and then discussing the answer etc.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>When I walked past her, she stops and turns around and says: &quot;I know I probably look like a crazy person, just having a conversation with myself, but in my age I&#39;ve learned that I honestly have the best answers anyways&quot;</p> <p>Changed my whole my life that day.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tamponstring69/">Tamponstring69</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Yesterday I saw a guy drive by while eating a half-gallon of ice cream. But not with a spoon- he was just going to town with his face buried in the carton. While driving.</p> <p>Terrible idea, but also I think he may have been my soulmate.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MUSTARDUNAVAILABLE/">MUSTARDUNAVAILABLE</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Watched as a fat and clearly drunk man try to f*ck a roasted chicken. He kept swearing every time he stuck his d*ck in the chicken, clearly, it was still hot. After a few minutes of getting his dick hot and scalding, he just eats the chicken and then went to a secluded area, maybe to jerk off with the grease from the chicken.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Sadly a few months later the guy was found dead by the beach, he was apparently drunk and tried to swim during a storm. The waves got too strong for him and it swept him out to the ocean where he drowned and the waves bought him back.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Alarmed_Alfalfa_5367/">Alarmed_Alfalfa_5367</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>A few hours ago in traffic, I watched a gentleman in a lifted-up truck vigorously sniffing his fingers and sticking them in his mouth. I stared, he looked at me, and I kept staring. It was odd.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/trowawaysimp/">trowawaysimp</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Dude on a bus. Pulls out a large jar of Vaseline. Scoops some out rubs it on his leather shoe. Scoops some more out, rubs it on his other shoe. Scoops some more out, rubs it into his bald head.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/silashoulder/">silashoulder</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>M*th heads were heavily making out and fondling on Boston city transit. Someone told them to knock it off and the woman, considerably older (and with her t*t in the guy&rsquo;s hand) said, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t talk to my son that way!&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/baronesslucy/">baronesslucy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Saw a guy standing in the middle of the street just staring straight ahead. Then he started singing at the top of his lungs. I saw this yesterday in Ft. Lauderdale.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/junior0826/">junior0826</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A girl was giving her boyfriend a blow job in the public pool.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thegrammarunicorn/">thegrammarunicorn</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A man just in his underwear rolling around on the floor in a pile of flour.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wastingtoomuchthyme/">wastingtoomuchthyme</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Watched a woman in a sundress finger blasting herself on a curb by the bus stop.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Allisade/">Allisade</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Ok, start with lettuce leaves the size of a dinner plate. Like, a dozen of them at least, maybe more.</p> <p>Imagine open seating in the center of a Don Pablos Mexican restaurant. Everybody can see everybody, people are rocking the chips and salsa, dates are happening, queso is flowing, it&#39;s a good night in the semi-industrial-themed decor. Good times.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>And one f**king dude, sitting across from a woman who&#39;s not reacting to this at all, who isn&#39;t acting like this is even remotely strange, this dude is putting the giant a*s leaves of lettuce just barely into his mouth. Just getting one regular modest-sized bite into his mouth and leaving the rest of the leaf sticking out into the air, and then - without using his hands, without touching the leaf -- slowly eating through the whole thing carefully.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Politely, slowly chewing up each small bite, while the rest of the leaf waves, the rest of the giant f**king leaf still sticking out of his mouth and flapping with his chewing motions until he pulls in another small modest bit more of the leaf and starts chewing again. The huge piece of paper-sized greenness flapping in the breeze like he&#39;s some f**king brontosaurus herbivore working his way through dinner -- but all while sitting at his table and apparently even carrying on a conversation with his date too.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Repeat for next leaf. And again. And again. For like half an hour.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was stunned and confused, I pointed it out to the wife so I could have validation that I wasn&#39;t insane and was really seeing this, she was stunned and confused. We watched mesmerized while having dinner as this guy just...cow chudded the giant leaves one after another. Flapping them all over the place. Like they&#39;d swing up and you couldn&#39;t see his face for a second and then they&#39;d be back sticking straight out, waving at you, and he was just...chewing...and his...date? Wife? Girlfriend? Never once batted an eye. Didn&#39;t react. Her body language was not &quot;I&#39;m trying not to lose my sh*t&quot; it was 100% &quot;this is normal.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>What. The. F*ck. What was happening? Why? What the f*cking hell happened there? Why did the restaurant give him a stack of giant lettuce leaves? Why did he think this was how you would eat them? Why didn&#39;t the woman care? Aliens? Dinosaurs in disguise? What. The. Every. Loving. F*ck. Happened. There?</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We still bring it up from time to time. I haven&#39;t figured it out yet.</p> <p>The thing is...</p> <p>Since then...</p> <p>I&#39;ve tried eating lettuce that way, just to try it?</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It&#39;s really f**king hard! Lettuce breaks! You gotta really hold the lettuce with your lips while crewing the piece in your mouth and it&#39;s like...it&#39;s a developed talent!</p> <p>This guy wasn&#39;t just doing this on a lark - he&#39;d practiced! He made it look easy!</p> <p>I just...</p> <p>I just don&#39;t know.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/exoticfruitcode/">exoticfruitcode</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Guy wearing full scuba gear to the grocery store early pandemic.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gummybear_2003/">gummybear_2003</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>While on a family vacation to Dominican Republic, I saw a naked elderly woman who was angry and obviously high or drunk or something, screaming at a man, until she threw a massive spider at him. It was a real spider, like a tarantula&hellip;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Like I don&rsquo;t even know how to explain to you how weird this was to witness. I have no idea what they were saying because it wasn&rsquo;t in Spanish it was in Haitian creole.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tycoon5000/">Tycoon5000</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Zombie pub crawl one year, guy taking a piss on the side of a hill. Must&#39;ve been absolutely hammered because his buddy was holding him upright by his shirt collar. His buddy, confident that he was done pissing and ready to go, let go of the guy and he face-planted straight into where he was peeing.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Alpaca_Tasty_Picnic/">Alpaca_Tasty_Picnic</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A young man waiting for the bus in the extremely tame Cornish town I worked in. He was wearing just a waistcoat, hot pants and cowboy boots and hat. All in the brightest hot pink. (Vest and booty shorts for my transatlantic friends).</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>It was 8 am. On a Tuesday.</p> <p>To this day, I think about him. I almost thought I dreamed it, but the car behind me almost crashed because the driver was laughing so hard.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/p38-lightning/">p38-lightning</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A guy I knew in college got dumped by his girlfriend. I watched him literally dress up in a suit of armor to go make a big movie-style speech about being her knight in shining armor - assuming she would then run into his arms.</p> <p>She slammed the door in his face. That was a LONG walk back to his apartment.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NoahtheRed/">NoahtheRed</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Saw a guy eat an entire grapefruit at a stop light like an apple. Dude was taking t-rex sized bites out of it, rind and all. The entire thing took less than a minute and a half, too.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AMillionFingDiamonds/">AMillionFingDiamonds</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>We once saw a couple at Ikea pretending to drink wine out of the wine glasses in the display kitchens. Really trying to imagine themselves in that space I guess.</p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ViableVengeance/">ViableVengeance</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Bit of backstory, middle of a hurricane and I&#39;m driving back to my house from the store.</p> <p>Stopped at a gas station and there are some guys who were more likely on something dancing all over and around a bunch of vending machines and one of them was on the roof of the gas station.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RollingandJabbing/">RollingandJabbing</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Brushing their teeth while driving 70mph on the motorway.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the weirdest thing they’ve ever witnessed someone do in public.

We&#39;re all weirdos in the comfort of our homes. One of the glories of spending a night in is being able to wear your blanket as a cape and communicate in strange sounds and little delirious dance moves.However, when we step out into the greater world, there&#39;s an expectation of general civility, which means some of our strangest behaviors get tamped down.In some situations, this can be stifling and make for a more boring world. But in many scenarios, public expectations are set in place to make the world run a bit smoother. This is to say, when someone goes way off-script, it can be simultaneously refreshing and disruptive depending on the context.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the weirdest thing they&#39;ve ever witnessed someone else do in public, and it just confirms we&#39;re all little weirdos at the end of the day.1. From DQScott95: This was in Sacramento. I was sitting outside of a tattoo shop at like 2am waiting for a friend to come pick me up. As I&#39;m just sitting there, a homeless guy with baggy pants and no shirt walks up. He reaches his hand out for a handshake and says: &quot;Hey there, I&#39;m Death, how&#39;s your evening going&quot;. Very polite, didn&#39;t sound like he was on drugs or drunk, but looked like a wreck  I responded with: &quot;Nice to meet you Death, I&#39;m Dylan, I&#39;m doing good, just waiting for a ride, how about you?&quot; To which he responds &quot;That&#39;s good, I&#39;m glad you were polite, you&#39;ve got a good heart, you&#39;ll be ok tonight&quot;. And then he just walks off. While it wasn&#39;t exactly the weirdest thing I&#39;ve seen in public, it&#39;s the weirdest way a person has ever introduced themselves to me.  I have one more short one. I was walking home one day and there was a very hippie-looking old lady walking down the street having a full-on conversation with herself. Like, asking a question, and then answering the question, and then discussing the answer etc.  When I walked past her, she stops and turns around and says: &quot;I know I probably look like a crazy person, just having a conversation with myself, but in my age I&#39;ve learned that I honestly have the best answers anyways&quot; Changed my whole my life that day. 2. From Tamponstring69: Yesterday I saw a guy drive by while eating a half-gallon of ice cream. But not with a spoon- he was just going to town with his face buried in the carton. While driving. Terrible idea, but also I think he may have been my soulmate. 3. From MUSTARDUNAVAILABLE: Watched as a fat and clearly drunk man try to f*ck a roasted chicken. He kept swearing every time he stuck his d*ck in the chicken, clearly, it was still hot. After a few minutes of getting his dick hot and scalding, he just eats the chicken and then went to a secluded area, maybe to jerk off with the grease from the chicken.  Sadly a few months later the guy was found dead by the beach, he was apparently drunk and tried to swim during a storm. The waves got too strong for him and it swept him out to the ocean where he drowned and the waves bought him back. 4. From Alarmed_Alfalfa_5367:  A few hours ago in traffic, I watched a gentleman in a lifted-up truck vigorously sniffing his fingers and sticking them in his mouth. I stared, he looked at me, and I kept staring. It was odd. 5. From trowawaysimp: Dude on a bus. Pulls out a large jar of Vaseline. Scoops some out rubs it on his leather shoe. Scoops some more out, rubs it on his other shoe. Scoops some more out, rubs it into his bald head. 6. From silashoulder: M*th heads were heavily making out and fondling on Boston city transit. Someone told them to knock it off and the woman, considerably older (and with her t*t in the guy&rsquo;s hand) said, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t talk to my son that way!&rdquo; 7. From baronesslucy: Saw a guy standing in the middle of the street just staring straight ahead. Then he started singing at the top of his lungs. I saw this yesterday in Ft. Lauderdale. 8. From junior0826: A girl was giving her boyfriend a blow job in the public pool. 9. From thegrammarunicorn: A man just in his underwear rolling around on the floor in a pile of flour. 10. From wastingtoomuchthyme: Watched a woman in a sundress finger blasting herself on a curb by the bus stop. 11. From Allisade: Ok, start with lettuce leaves the size of a dinner plate. Like, a dozen of them at least, maybe more. Imagine open seating in the center of a Don Pablos Mexican restaurant. Everybody can see everybody, people are rocking the chips and salsa, dates are happening, queso is flowing, it&#39;s a good night in the semi-industrial-themed decor. Good times.  And one f**king dude, sitting across from a woman who&#39;s not reacting to this at all, who isn&#39;t acting like this is even remotely strange, this dude is putting the giant a*s leaves of lettuce just barely into his mouth. Just getting one regular modest-sized bite into his mouth and leaving the rest of the leaf sticking out into the air, and then - without using his hands, without touching the leaf -- slowly eating through the whole thing carefully.  Politely, slowly chewing up each small bite, while the rest of the leaf waves, the rest of the giant f**king leaf still sticking out of his mouth and flapping with his chewing motions until he pulls in another small modest bit more of the leaf and starts chewing again. The huge piece of paper-sized greenness flapping in the breeze like he&#39;s some f**king brontosaurus herbivore working his way through dinner -- but all while sitting at his table and apparently even carrying on a conversation with his date too.  Repeat for next leaf. And again. And again. For like half an hour.  I was stunned and confused, I pointed it out to the wife so I could have validation that I wasn&#39;t insane and was really seeing this, she was stunned and confused. We watched mesmerized while having dinner as this guy just...cow chudded the giant leaves one after another. Flapping them all over the place. Like they&#39;d swing up and you couldn&#39;t see his face for a second and then they&#39;d be back sticking straight out, waving at you, and he was just...chewing...and his...date? Wife? Girlfriend? Never once batted an eye. Didn&#39;t react. Her body language was not &quot;I&#39;m trying not to lose my sh*t&quot; it was 100% &quot;this is normal.&quot;   What. The. F*ck. What was happening? Why? What the f*cking hell happened there? Why did the restaurant give him a stack of giant lettuce leaves? Why did he think this was how you would eat them? Why didn&#39;t the woman care? Aliens? Dinosaurs in disguise? What. The. Every. Loving. F*ck. Happened. There?  We still bring it up from time to time. I haven&#39;t figured it out yet. The thing is... Since then... I&#39;ve tried eating lettuce that way, just to try it?  It&#39;s really f**king hard! Lettuce breaks! You gotta really hold the lettuce with your lips while crewing the piece in your mouth and it&#39;s like...it&#39;s a developed talent! This guy wasn&#39;t just doing this on a lark - he&#39;d practiced! He made it look easy! I just... I just don&#39;t know. 12. From exoticfruitcode: Guy wearing full scuba gear to the grocery store early pandemic. 13. From gummybear_2003: While on a family vacation to Dominican Republic, I saw a naked elderly woman who was angry and obviously high or drunk or something, screaming at a man, until she threw a massive spider at him. It was a real spider, like a tarantula&hellip;  Like I don&rsquo;t even know how to explain to you how weird this was to witness. I have no idea what they were saying because it wasn&rsquo;t in Spanish it was in Haitian creole. 14. From Tycoon5000: Zombie pub crawl one year, guy taking a piss on the side of a hill. Must&#39;ve been absolutely hammered because his buddy was holding him upright by his shirt collar. His buddy, confident that he was done pissing and ready to go, let go of the guy and he face-planted straight into where he was peeing. 15. From Alpaca_Tasty_Picnic: A young man waiting for the bus in the extremely tame Cornish town I worked in. He was wearing just a waistcoat, hot pants and cowboy boots and hat. All in the brightest hot pink. (Vest and booty shorts for my transatlantic friends).   It was 8 am. On a Tuesday. To this day, I think about him. I almost thought I dreamed it, but the car behind me almost crashed because the driver was laughing so hard. 16. From p38-lightning: A guy I knew in college got dumped by his girlfriend. I watched him literally dress up in a suit of armor to go make a big movie-style speech about being her knight in shining armor - assuming she would then run into his arms. She slammed the door in his face. That was a LONG walk back to his apartment. 17. From NoahtheRed: Saw a guy eat an entire grapefruit at a stop light like an apple. Dude was taking t-rex sized bites out of it, rind and all. The entire thing took less than a minute and a half, too. 18. From AMillionFingDiamonds:  We once saw a couple at Ikea pretending to drink wine out of the wine glasses in the display kitchens. Really trying to imagine themselves in that space I guess. 19. From ViableVengeance: Bit of backstory, middle of a hurricane and I&#39;m driving back to my house from the store. Stopped at a gas station and there are some guys who were more likely on something dancing all over and around a bunch of vending machines and one of them was on the roof of the gas station. 20. From RollingandJabbing: Brushing their teeth while driving 70mph on the motorway. 