people are strange...

[honeylocusttree]

So yesterday I was at Best Buy and there was a Buddhist monk there.

How do I know he was a Buddhist monk? Well, he had on saffron robes and he was bald and wearing sandals.

I have no idea what he was doing at Best Buy.

Comments

[honeylocusttree]

Columbus actually has a really large Somali population, so I'm used to seeing burqas and what-all, but this one honestly had no precedent.

What was he doing at Best Buy in the first place?

I once got blessed by a monk in Japan, after I made a donation. Totally different outfit--that guy had the hat and staff and everything.

[embroiderama]

My weird sight of the day was when I was driving back to work after running to 7-11 at lunchtime. I turned off of a main road onto a side street and a couple blocks ahead of me I saw what looked like a desk in the middle of the road, then I realized it was MOVING. When I got closer, I discovered that it was a man in a wheelchair with a big boxy end table balanced across the arms of his chair, and he was wheeling it through the middle of the street. Which seems drastically unsafe.

[honeylocusttree]

When you said it was moving I thought it was going to be some dude UNDER the desk, crawling along...nevertheless, the reality is still pretty damn weird and yes, highly unsafe.

People, man. WTH.

[quickreaver]

I love C'bus. I probably would've followed the monk like a creeper to see what he was buying. Something tells me it wasn't Grand Theft Auto.

My strangest mid-Ohio sighting. Hmm. I bumped into--I mean literally bumped into, nose to chest--Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova in the Short North. I'm 5'1". They were both easily a foot and a half taller than me. He's kinda scary-looking. And she's got more wrinkles than I expected. But they were both very nice to the strange little woman who couldn't watch where she was going.

[honeylocusttree]

Surreal! But in the end, everyone seems to come to Ohio...