The Amusing Anecdote Thread

[D'Snowth]

Otherwise known as "The MC Memoirs"...

Ever been an occasion in your life that was just so bizarre, or so out-of-the-ordinary, that you say to yourself "One day, I'll look back on this and laugh"... and you did? The kind of moments in your life that make for amusing conversation pieces?

There's been a couple of these occasions in my life, where I look back and laugh...

This first one, I'm sure I've told you guys about, but, I was in McDonald's one day about a couple of years ago or so, just sitting at a table, waiting for my food. Across the restaurant from me is a group of punks hanging around, apparently waiting for their food too, I don't know; anyway, one of them comes over, and sits down at my table and starts chatting with me... okay, I guess... then slowly, one by one, the rest of the group migrates over to my table, and pretty soon, the whole group is sitting with me. Now, nobody's ever wanted to sit with me before, so how come all of the sudden a group of punks decide to head over to my table and sit with me? You wanna know why? Because of my hat! I kid you not... apparently these Radar hats are popular with punks, and I guess they thought I was one of their kid, lol. If they allowed us to wear hats in school, I'd never be lonely at lunch!

This next anecdote happened more recently... Mom and I were at one of those gas stations-within-a-grocery store at Kroger one day, and wouldn't you know it, our car broke down right at the pump! Dad was out of town, so the only thing for us to do was call AAA, and wait for a tow-truck to come get us; while waiting, a couple of old men pulled up behind us, so I stepped over to them, and explained that we were broke down, and if they needed to, there were other pumps free, but instead, they offered to help us, as the driver had jumper cables with us, and offered to give us a jump start to see if that would help. Okay, so what's so amusing about all of this you ask? Well, among those walking over to the little attendance office paying for gas was this busy body old lady, who was poking her nose in our business, and like me, noticed the man jump starting us had a gun stuffed in the waistband of his pants - something told me that this guy wasn't going to use it, but the old lady thought otherwise, as she started freaking out, and called the police on him on her cell phone. Ironically, this man was actually a retired county officer, and had a permit to carry a gun, but the old lady didn't believe him, she even gave him her phone to talk to the police, but as soon as she gave him her phone, she started complaining that he was trying to take her phone away from her, and waste her minutes. Eventually, the old crone went on her way, and so did the other two guys, after jump starting us failed... THEN the police showed up, and we had to explain to them what the whole situation was about. Mom and I both agreed we'd look back on this and laugh, and we do.

 

[D'Snowth]

Wow, I was expecting to read some anecdotes from others by the time I got up this morning; I'm shocked to see this thread's already been killed!

 

[Beakerfan]

*eyeroll* You've hardly given it any time to live...

*steps up to the microphone, feeling very Seinfeld-esque*

I recently started working at this craft store. It's kind of a weird thing, because it's a craft store with a fabric store right next to it. After about a week there, this girl calls up and says she left something on our counter when she was in earlier. So I take a look around, don't find anything resembling what she claims to have left. So I get back on the phone, and I tell this girl that it isn't here, and she's like "Okay. Did you look around the fabric counter? It might be over there," and I paused for a moment. We don't sell fabric at this particular store. SoI explain that we don't even have a fabric counter and suddenly she starts getting really upset, and she's yelling to her mom everything I'm telling her. Then her mom yells back "Are they giving you the run-around?" and the girl hangs up, and I'm just standing there like, what the heck happened? Are you people really mad at me because you called the wrong store? I mean - you can't even give me a "oh, I'm sorry I must have the wrong store?" you just hang up?

So then, like an hour later, these two teenage girls come in, and they ask me if we have fabric. I smile and say "No we don't," but in my head I'm thinking, What, are these people nuts? Don't they see the big sign next door: "JOANNE'S HOUSE OF FABRICS"? And then, to top it all off, the two girls go OUT the door they just came through - which is marked "Entrance" - walk across the front of the store, and come back in through the exit. They come in about four feet, stop, look around, and one of them says "Wait, isn't this the store we just came in?"

 

[D'Snowth]

I'm sorry to say I'd actually have to give them the benefit of the doubt, because a LOT of craft stores also carry fabric, in this case, it'd be a common misconception; especially since the craft shop you work at is right next door to a fabric shop, lol.

Come to think of it, where I live, Jo-Ann's is like a fabric shop/craft shop hybrid...

 

[Beakerfan]

That isn't the point...

 

[D'Snowth]

I know, I'm just sayin'...

 

[Reevz1977]

My girlfriend had a (kind of) interesting event on Tuesday. With live in a VERY rural area and she and a friend went jogging. She was jogging over some fields when she was approached by a fellow in a hi-viz jacket who said "can I please ask you to wait for a second as we are filming at the moment". My partner obliged and asked "What are you filming?". The guy the said "You see that guy stood there, thats Russell Crowe, we are filming the new Robin Hood movie". It turns out Russell had been staying in our tiny rural town and been out and about mingling for a couple of nights with the locals - small world ain't it!

 

[Oscarfan]

I'm note sure if this is an "anecdote", but it's kind of funny. At a carnival I went to with friends a couple of months ago, there was a ride that involved going upside-down. Earlier, my dad told me to wear shorts instead of jeans. So, I did that and when on the ride, since the shorts had looser pockets, when going upside-down, my phone fell out of my pocket, hit the bottom of the cage we were in, the back broke off and my battery flew out of it (my friend in the cage and me kept our feet on the phone so that didn't fly out) Then, my library card flew out. Thankfully, after the ride, the operators returned that and the battery functioned fine (except for some slight damage).

 

[D'Snowth]

I think I know what ride you're talking about.

I think I told you all about this one, but I remember several years ago when we were televising a youth talent contest, and I was a co-stage manager, at one point, the chair I sat in back stage during the acts was too close to the edge, and the next thing I know, I'm on my back (but still in the chair), with all the other talents looking over me asking if I'm alright.

I swear if the cameras had been rolling, that'd be another typical AFV moment. I'm surprised I didn't hurt myself (though my back was a little sore the next day).

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

Oh boy! An even better place to post my random VeggieTales story!

So I was on a Boy Scout camping trip a few years ago and some weird kid brought a tape recorder with him and kept playing "Oh Santa" (the Silly Song from The Toy That Saved Christmas) over and over to annoy everybody (bear in mind this was at the beginning of April as well). Finally, someone couldn't take it anymore and took the tape recorder when he wasn't around and we all sat around listening to "Oh Santa" confused (me and my friend were the only Veggie-savvy ones in the group so we had to explain Larry to everybody) and then when the song ended there was more stuff after it. It was that kid singing in-tune to a funeral dirge about blowing up Iraq and then singing Deck the Halls about weapons of mass destruction rather than bows of holly. The look on his face when he saw us listening to it... oh man, I know it was mean but it was hilarious listening to those songs. And the cassette was even labeled "Songs with Larry" when though it was mostly him. I wonder if he still has that cassette...