Anecdotes thread
 

Post funny/interesting/scary/weird anecdotes in this thread.

I'll start with this:

During my high-school days, I had a friend named Rob.
One day Rob met a girl online. She sent him pics but he never sent her any.
After a couple of weeks he asked her out and she accepted, Rob was very nervous and asked me to come along.
We waited for her ,after 20 minutes she finally showed up.
She approached me with a big friendly smile and asked "Are you Rob?".
I pointed at Rob and said "He's Rob"....her smile disappeared, she took a good look at him, rose an eyebrow and sighed.

wow ... poor Rob, needless to say the whole "date" was a disaster...

I once was riding bikes with some of my friends, on my friend's birthday. My friend Mike, who's birthday it was, and myself, weren't BMX bikers, but our other 2 friends we were riding with, were. There's a dirt mound outside of Mike's house, and one of the BMXing friends kept riding up to it, but then slowing down right before it and turning away. He did this a few times, and so then I commented that, hell, if he wasn't going to actually do it after building it up, then I was. I don't know why I was so confident, but I guess it was my age (about 13 I think). So, things to keep in mind were that I was riding a mountain bike, not a BMX bike. I was wearing no helmet for some reason, and I'd never done any jump with my bike, really. Anywho, what ended up happening was that I flipped halfway in the air, lost all comprehension of what was up, and crashed hard. Surprisingly, I was largely alright; no broken bones or anything. I nearly had a concussion though; I took 4 pain killers (Tylenol I think was what I was given) and I kept myself from falling asleep by watching TV (as apparently, when you have/nearly have a concussion, you risk not being able to wake up again after falling asleep right after the injury).
So that was lots of fun. the guy who I poked fun at for not taking the jump still brings it up from time to time as the gnarliest thing he's ever seen. :p

When I was in high school, I went on a class whitewater rafting trip with my best friend. The guy was, well, to say he was useless would be giving him too much credit. He had no idea how to paddle and ended up getting us stuck on every rock in the river. Then, right before a rapids, a spider bungee-jumped down from a tree and bit him and he dropped his paddle. I shoved mine in his hands and told him, "You're going to need this," before jumping in after it and riding out the rapids with my feet in front of me to protect me from the rocks. Then I get back in the boat and things seem fine for a while until he gets us stuck on another rock. Unfortunately, this one was right at the top of a falls, and guess who was elected to shove us off? So I'm trying to brace my leg on the rock, but we're hopelessly stuck until the idiot moves OFF the rock onto the back. Yes, our raft was stuck THAT far. That was enough for the current to take the raft and swing it around, and swing ME around with it like a ragdoll and into the water. I rode down the highest falls and the roughest rapids on my back, clinging with one hand to a strap on the raft, half of it underwater. His explanation? "Well, I had both paddles in the raft and was kinda hanging on, and you seemed to be doing pretty well, so..."

And then the guy said it was "too much work" to do again the following year. Gee, thanks.

32-Bit, that's harsh. I feel bad for your friend.

A couple weekends ago I was having movie night at my friend's house. She lives with another girl and a guy but they usually go out and party whenever we come over. So we watched our movies and were hanging out on the couch (it was past 1 am at this point) when her guy friend comes home. He's obviously very drunk, as he's running into the doorjambs on his way to the bathroom. I decide it's about time to go, so my roommate and I get up and head to the door. On the way there we pass by the guy's room (who is still in the bathroom) and his door is wide open and you could obviously see there was another guy laying in his bed (under the covers) and as we pass, her roommate slips in the room and closes the door. My friend who lives there was like "... I really need to fix my ipod."

Me, being me, didn't catch onto what was going on until I got into the car and someone else explained it.

I...I'm not sure what was going on from that description, so I don't blame you.

Loud sex that can't be drowned out with a broken ipod.

'Rob', huh?

So, that musta sucked for 'Rob'.

Who was your 'friend'.

And not you.

well THis happened yesterday. now, here's the set up.

I've come down with something that may or may not be my annual cold seasons bronchittis(sp?) so I've been feeling like shit these past few days. The first day I called in, and the second I came in late. The third day. I came in late, with the manager who EVERYONE hates and mocks on duty. this was our exchange.

Her: "Why are you late?"
Me: "I am too tired to answer, and I don't really care just let me do my job"
Her: "What?"
Me: " I said I can't think straight and Don't care about whatever you're saying"
Her: " well you can just go home"
Me: "I'd love to be home in my bed"
Her: Then go!
Me : Excellent* leaves*
Should I come back tomorrow? * my vacation week started today*
Her: NO!
Me :Greeeaaat
so, funny story, but I might be unemployed next week

Well, yes. But...the details beyond that are confusing...

The lesson of the day is I write horribly confusing stories that make no sense.