People say the strangest things

[Andy Hamilton]

Someone came up to my mate in a coffee shop the other day and out of the blue said, "I met an alien when I was 7, well I guess we all did then".

[Ratty]

Hahaha. Brilliant. Travelling on public transport always affords the opportunity to meet characters with interesting things to say too! In my personal experience anyway!

[Brij]

Awww!

People hardly ever talk to me on public transport... apparently I give off an "unapproachable" aura... I think that's a nice way of saying I smell!

[mrsflibble]

I'm the nut magnet on local public transport. if they're a wierdo, they#'ll come and sit next to me. I think it's 'cos I try to smile at people.

[oldfella]

Hey Andy was he looking at you when he said it, and HOW did he say IT

[hamster]

Awww!

People hardly ever talk to me on public transport... apparently I give off an "unapproachable" aura... I think that's a nice way of saying I smell!

Do you knit on public transport? No-one ever sits next to me when I knit on the train, but people always come up and ask me for directions in the street so I assume it's not cos I'm unapproachable or smelly, it must be the knitting...

[pogostemon]

When I worked in a wholefood shop I had a guy come in and say he
"didn't like all this organic food because it was grown in far too much manure for his liking"

Hamster - did you know that the fabulous designer kaffe Fasset was taught to knit by a woman sitting opposite him on a train?
He'd bought lots of wool because he loved the colours and couldn't wait till he got home to teach himself to knit. So he asked the lady who was knittting at the time to show him and the rest, as we say, is history

[Clara]

When I was working the tiny bar of a tiny independent cinema as a student some guy with a limp and communist lapel badge struck up a conversation. At some point I referred to "home" and he wistfully said....."ah yes home, sky as red as the ground beneath your feet and canals..........." so of course I enquired where that was, with a completely straight face he quickly replied "Mars". At which point I had to seek eye contact elsewhere, enter the future Mr Clara to rescue me from my nutbag!

[Brij]

Awww!

People hardly ever talk to me on public transport... apparently I give off an "unapproachable" aura... I think that's a nice way of saying I smell!

Do you knit on public transport? No-one ever sits next to me when I knit on the train, but people always come up and ask me for directions in the street so I assume it's not cos I'm unapproachable or smelly, it must be the knitting...

I do sometimes, and I actually find that on English public transport people don't seem to mind, they're happy enough to sit next to me as long as I'm not using my long needles! However on French public transport I catch people looking at me and they look away quickly if I look up and smile, pretending they can't see me! They certainly won't sit next to me out here if I'm knitting... guess I'm the elephant in the room or something?

[Clara]

Awww!

People hardly ever talk to me on public transport... apparently I give off an "unapproachable" aura... I think that's a nice way of saying I smell!

Do you knit on public transport? No-one ever sits next to me when I knit on the train, but people always come up and ask me for directions in the street so I assume it's not cos I'm unapproachable or smelly, it must be the knitting...

I do sometimes, and I actually find that on English public transport people don't seem to mind, they're happy enough to sit next to me as long as I'm not using my long needles! However on French public transport I catch people looking at me and they look away quickly if I look up and smile, pretending they can't see me! They certainly won't sit next to me out here if I'm knitting... guess I'm the elephant in the room or something?

Perhaps a subconscious cultural memory of Madame Defarge and Le Tricoteuse in the front row of the guillotinings!

[Ratty]

Just home from local communal vegan dinner where all sorts of characters turn up. Older bloke who has said random stuff to us before plonked himself down where we were sitting and proceeded to tell us that babies throw things out of prams because they are starting to think about gravitational pull ...

[Wombat]

Ahh nutters! gotta love 'em!

I was giving a talk to a survivalist group many years ago when I had a conversation with this guy who was convinced he was being poisoned by the mercury crystals in his watch. He came to this conclusion by using a pendulum over some old medical books. So I asked the obvious question, had he got himself tested for it? He said he had, but admitted to my further enquiry that not a trace was found in his system. The tests were (he said) not sensitive enough to pick up the levels in his system.

Mmmmmm Merkury (his final comment)

Nev

[MKG]

Mockers!!! At this very moment I am suffering from the specific poisoning envisioned by the growers of red grapes (may the cojones of such devils wither). I, unlike others, would gladly submit to any kind o ftest (see - I definitely typed "of test") to prove this fact. "What fact?", they all cry - and I think I have to agree with them. Definitely time for bed ...

[the.fee.fairy]

I'm glad i'm not the only nutter magnet...

I tend to find that listening to comedy on the mP3 player, and knitting at the same time tends to put most of the off. But then again...it does make you the new nutter...that person sat in the corner giggling to themselves whilst wieldng pointy sticks...

[Brij]

Yay for pointy sticks!