What's the most surreal thing someone in the street has said to you?

[Lysander]

What have strangers said to you, seemingly out of nowhere with no conversation opener?

Classics over the years have been,

"If you had a real gun, who would you shoot?"

"Excuse me, but do you do stage magic?"

"Mate, Neo wants his coat back"

And the more recent but equally bizarre:

"Stay on the Left Hand Path".

Oh, and "Oi! ****!"

Anyone else?

 

[Lysander]

I once had a guy ask me the time in South Beach, Miami. When he noticed my accent he asked where I was from, and when I told him I was British he asked whether I knew this guy from Leeds. He seemed surprised when I told him that the UK's not that small a place, there's 60 million or so of us and we don't all know each other.

I love it when things like this happen. It is bizarre how some people think.

"Oh you're from France? Do you know Pierre?"

 

[Lysander]

"WHERE ARE THE HAIRBRUSHES??"

Some panicked woman who thought I worked in Sainsburys.

Oh, and also this. The most worrying by far.

"Look guys, I don't mind getting back in the van, I just want to know what's going on".

 

[Lysander]

I once had a drunk ambassador approach me at a bus stop, and then share around the largest box of ferrero rocher I've ever seen.

I hope you retorted with "excellente".

 

[Lysander]

At the traffic crossing in Belfast city centre I had a woman look me in the eye and say "If you come with me now I'll give you the best afternoon of your life"

A good friend of mine had something very similar from an apparently attractive girl in a pub.

"I've just moved in round here and don't really know the town very well. If you're free some time how about coming round to my place to **** me?"