@#$%!!! Another learning experience re: crazy people in public

[mg.mikael]

When I lived with mom and dad, I picked up the phone when it rang. On the other hand there was weird breathing and sounds. Curse you, pervert - I shouted.

It was Grandma who was drinking a class of water when she called and sputtered when I answered.

When Grandma called back - my Mom claimed that she never called us and must have gotten some nut by accident. No caller ID in those days, etc.

Being a ninja does lead to some false positives, now doesn't it?

LMAO

 

[KevinAbbeyTech]

It could be that he was just some random guy doing something crazy on a whim, or a dare.

Some of my "friends" have tried to get me to do dumber thing that yell in a store.

 

[Hungry Seagull]

There are those who are deaf or hearing impaired; I happen to be one of those.

Crazy? No. I take in the world as I see it, literally. I soak in every part of a person's body language really quickly and make up my mind how to deal with that person. It has to be fast reading and done right.

I like calm, ho-hum people. Nothing to see there. Nervous jittery meth heads or someone off their meds... man... what a trip. Anyone else exhibiting stressful behavior or symptoms of stress is not good either.

One of my favorite jobs in the past involved a very profane boss. If there was absolute silence and he was glaring at me becuase I made expensive boo boo that will cost time, payroll and money to repair... Im in trouble. But as long as the profanity rolled on, everyone was happy yah?

 

[Geno]

I hear voices...usually two women. I just ignore them and go about life. It really ticks my wife and daughter off.

Your reaction was measured and proper, not over, not under.

Geno

 

[Norinco982lover]

ugh...one time I was at my friends house when I was much younger and my friend answered the home phone (no caller ID) and heard the heavy breathing and a few muttered words. He immediately assumed it was a prank call (he ran with a bad crowd part of the time) so he started yelling why don't you leave me alone you star wars darth vader voice, you stink at prank calls and so on before he hung up. His mother came in 30 minutes later and it was her dying friend trying to call her because he needed her. Talk about a horrible feeling...and I didn't even do it

 

[Hungry Seagull]

We made a few prank calls in our time. And tried one to the principal to haul the teach out of class to postpone a dreaded test.

Good thing in those days it's all rotary and the state had not advanced to touch tone... tee hee.. boy did we get away with lots of things... as long we didnt get faculty eyeballs upon us in mid-act.

 

[JeffDilla]

Today prank calls will probably lead to charges of terrorist threats

 

[Deltaboy1984]

newbie did right !

He stayed cool and didn't tip his hand.

 

[snipe300]

According to Jeff Cooper's Principles of Personal Defense on p.1 I quote: "The number of sociopaths in a stipulated population varies widely, but we can take a figure of one in one hundred for simplicity's sake and not be far off. About one person in one hundred will, under some circumstances, initiate a violent attack upon another, in defiance of the law, for reasons that seem sufficient to him at the time. Take the able bodied male population of your community, divide it by one hundred, and you have a fair approximation of the number of possible contacts who just might take it upon themselves to beat your head in."

This from a man who knew of what he spoke.

 

[kyo]

if the coffee shop had a drive through or someone else picked up a to go order and they didn't get their "six packets" that might be why the kid came in.

 

[wyk]

Well, I have had my share of seeing crazies. One incident that I remember very well was at a coffeeshop in a plaza. An asian woman in her 40s/50s who was probably mentally disturbed was walking around wearing nothing but glasses and carrying her handbag. She was not disturbing anyone and therefore I would not draw if I carried. She attracted a lot of stares and onlookers.