The Weirdos That We Meet

[PanterA]

<p>&nbsp; Yesterday was such a terrible day to be a mail man. It didnt stop raining from morning till late afternoon. It was also freezing with bitter winds, at one point it was so cold that the rain turned to hail. Having small bits of ice hit you in the face and in the ear is probably the worst act of nature for a letter carrier. Althought threw it all there was one shining moment in my day. Something, or should I say someone, that made me laugh threw the fridged weather and the soaked socks. I met this man at his door. He has one of those little mail slots on his door that you can only fit one letter in at a time. These things drive me crazy but thats another topic. So, I guess he hears me struggling to get his mail into the slot and he opens the door so I can hand him his mail. Now its nice when people do that, it makes my day a little easier, but the site I saw when this man opened his door was something I would never have been ready for. First of all the guy must have been about 40 years old and about 6'3&quot; - 6'4&quot; and super skinny which gave him a gangly look. Now this man is standing in front of me in nothing but his tighty whiteys...and a cat in the hat hat on! </p><p><img src="http://www.anniescostumes.com/catinhat.jpg" align="middle" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp; As soon as I realized what I was seeing I said out loud &quot;What the FFF...&quot; then I openly laughed in his face. He smiled at me, took his mail, and said &quot;Thank you. Have a nice day.&quot; As he closed the door behind him. I was stunned for a good 10 seconds, unable to move or to stop laughing. For the rest of the day when ever a speeding chunk of ice stung my ear I would think of this wacko and laugh my ass off. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;I've run into a great bunch of looneys through the course of my day. I'll share more with you, but I would love to hear some of the stories you all may have. Share your tales of run in's with nut jobs. </p>

[reeshy]

I got a million stories, but it'll cost ya.....I'm writing a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Death Metal Moe]

Yesterday was such a terrible day to be a mail man. It didnt stop raining from morning till late afternoon. It was also freezing with bitter winds, at one point it was so cold that the rain turned to hail. Having small bits of ice hit you in the face and in the ear is probably the worst act of nature for a letter carrier. <p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just become a carpenter.&nbsp; Working in the exact same conditions except 30 stories up lifting all day makes it a lot easier.</p><p>Boy do I miss that....</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Death Metal Moe on 4-9-06 @ 1:39 PM</span>

[Gvac]

<p>I guess I've got to greet the mailman in my birthday suit tomorrow.&nbsp; </p><p>I hate to be outdone.&nbsp;</p>

[suggums]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>PanterA</strong> wrote:<br /><p>First of all the guy must have been about 40 years old and about 6'3&quot; - 6'4&quot; and super skinny which gave him a gangly look. Now this man is standing in front of me in nothing but his tighty whiteys...and a cat in the hat hat on! </p><p><img border="0" align="middle" src="http://www.anniescostumes.com/catinhat.jpg" /></p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you deliver mail to mike the teacher?&nbsp;</p>

[trackstand]

<p>&quot;I guess I've got to greet the mailman in my birthday suit tomorrow.&nbsp; </p><p>I hate to be outdone.&quot;</p><p>Good thing 20 year bike messenger types rarely deliver to your ilk.</p>

[Don Stugots]

<hr color="cococo" align="left"></font><strong>Death Metal Moe</strong> wrote:<br>Yesterday was such a terrible day to be a mail man. It didnt stop raining from morning till late afternoon. It was also freezing with bitter winds, at one point it was so cold that the rain turned to hail. Having small bits of ice hit you in the face and in the ear is probably the worst act of nature for a letter carrier. <p> </p><p>Just become a carpenter. Working in the exact same conditions except 30 stories up lifting all day makes it a lot easier.</p><p>Boy do I miss that....</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Death Metal Moe on 4-9-06 @ 1:39 PM</span><hr color="cococo" align="left"><p></p>

Moe is right. When I was a carpenter I worked at the AOL building @ Columbus Circle the pipes would burst in the cold, and I would have to push frames of sheet rock over sheets of ice. If I was lucky, the ice wouldnt crack and I wouldnt fall. Other times the ice would break, and I would have to work the rest of the with an icy cold foot.

I still cant be out in the cold and not feel a chill in feet.

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>Nice!&nbsp; I worked in the buidling for about 2 weeks a few summers ago down in J.C.</p><p>How long were you there?&nbsp; What local?</p>

[GwEnYpOo]

columbus circle ? hey i skate there!!!!!

[FUNKMAN]

<p>next time&nbsp;put the mail in his box</p><p>would you could you with a fox</p>

[SinA]

<strong>GwEnYpOo</strong> wrote:<br />columbus circle ? hey i skate there!!!!! <p>OMG! u sk8?</p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<strong>SinA</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>GwEnYpOo</strong> wrote:<br />columbus circle ? hey i skate there!!!!! <p>OMG! u sk8?</p><p>He was a Sk8r Boi</p><p>Said &quot;See ya later boy&quot;</p><p>He wasn't good enough for her.</p>

[sr71blackbird]

I went to Petco tonite and&nbsp;as I was leaving, this other customer (a total stranger) was also walking out the same time.&nbsp; It was raining and as we both were stepping into the parking lot, this car that was&nbsp;running at the curb suddenly&nbsp;started backing up, and I guess they didnt see us.&nbsp; So, we both had to kind of run to avoid getting hit.&nbsp; It didnt bother me&nbsp;because it was pouring out, and I could see how they might not see, and usually dont get mad anyway when these things happen, but this guy was flipping out and yelling at the driver like &quot;Nice! Nice to look where your going, you fucking&nbsp;idoit!!!&quot;&nbsp;<br />He suddenly starts up this conversation with me, (I guess in his mind we &quot;bonded&quot; due to his imagined near-death experience) so he starts in on the racist stuff (the driver was a black woman) and how they do this and do that and get away with this or that...all kinds of nasty stuff.&nbsp; <br />Now, this guy didnt know me from Adam, and here he is, because Im white and he is white, he thinks its ok to launch into a racist rant with a stranger ina parking lot while its raining!&nbsp; I couldnt believe it.&nbsp; I mean, with friends, I do enjoy the occasional black joke or whatever, but thats fine with people you know.&nbsp; Would you assume it is ok to have such a discussion with a total stranger?&nbsp; For all this guy knew, I could be married to a black woman or whatever.&nbsp; It was very weird.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p><img src="http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/fallingdown.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It only takes one thing to set you off. </p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<strong>Alice S. Fuzzybutt</strong> wrote:<br /><p><img src="http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/fallingdown.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It only takes one thing to set you off. </p><p>Comedy of the year in 1993.&nbsp; Fucking awesome.</p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p>I live in Hudson County NJ. the most populated county in the most populated state. I should have gone off by now.</p><p>Eh, I'll just keep cutting myself.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>KIDDING!</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>at my current job we have a guy who is the the spitting image of Jim from taxi, he only talks slower</p><p>at my job at the Colgate Plant we had a guy who resembled a gargoyle but spoke like a child &quot;as opposed to Finster who looked like a baby and spoke like a man&quot;.. his name was Fred Zitt. i almost got into an argument with him one night on the overnight shift. we both needed the elevator to get our job done and he tried bullying me out of getting it. he said something like &quot;that elevators mine&quot; and i responded &quot;oh yeah big guy?&quot;... </p><p>he was about 6ft tall but had to weigh near 300... not fat, just wide all over. he was basically bald and he had very oversized ears. plus he had powder all over him and he was pale as a ghost and had on a pair of farmers jeans. i was a good 180</p><p>we had another big guy named Joe Norton(&nbsp;5'10 320 )&nbsp;and this guy Hank would try to instigate a fight between Fred and Joe when we were on line waiting to punch out. Hank would be like &quot;don't do it Joe, he'll tear you to shreds&quot; and Joe would get real close to Fred&quot; Fred would just turn and smile but give Joe a good lookover to make sure he didn't touch him</p><p>boy i miss them days</p><p>then we had Exor... some spanish dude with a long black cock, everybody called it the black snake. hey. there would be like 12 of us in the shower rushing to get out on time. </p><p>and we had Gordie Pote. he was 70 or 72 and he lived in Lyndhurst and hung out at Wee Willies on Ridge Rd. his locker was next to mine and i'm bending over tying my shoe and i smell shit. i turn around and there's Gordie pulling his pants down and he shit himself. he had 2 teeth left in his mouth and they were what seemed to be 3 inches long.</p><p>Gordie was a miser who worked double shifts and supposedly had a million in his 401k. when the lines were down for repair he would fall asleep on the line.</p><p>sorry for rambling, had a couple brews...</p>

[newport king]

<p>i work in a really awful area of jersey city and when the neighborhood is too bad, they send out 2 techs. as my partner and i were driving down martin luther king blvd, i see a <strike>fiend</strike> man, in an open lot surrounded by nothing but dirt, holding a fishing pole. fishing. in the dirt. i have a picture of this but dont know how to put it from my cell to the comp. we stopped and asked him if they were biting. he mumbled something and we took off.</p><p>same strip a few months ago i saw a man walking a balloon. like stopping by trees and waiting while the balloon took a piss. then continuing walking with the balloon behind him. </p><p>crack is whack.</p>

[newport king]

oh i also forgot &quot;loco loco diablo&quot;. a spanish man that walks around jersey city with a big 10 inch crucifix around his neck. he'll tell you to stay away from drugs because they are agents of the &quot;loco loco diablo&quot; then asks for money for some beer.

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>newport king</strong> wrote:<br /><p>i work in a really awful area of jersey city and when the neighborhood is too bad, they send out 2 techs. as my partner and i were driving down martin luther king blvd, i see a <strike>fiend</strike> man, in an open lot surrounded by nothing but dirt, holding a fishing pole. fishing. in the dirt. i have a picture of this but dont know how to put it from my cell to the comp. we stopped and asked him if they were biting. he mumbled something and we took off.</p><p>same strip a few months ago i saw a man walking a balloon. like stopping by trees and waiting while the balloon took a piss. then continuing walking with the balloon behind him. </p><p>crack is whack.</p><p>i worked at a hardware store on MLK Blvd, used to be Jackson Ave. The hardware store was up the block from 34 school and there was a Dairy Queen across the street.&nbsp; is the store still there?</p>

[newport king]

only DQ that i know of is on westside....i try to stay out of that area.

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>newport king</strong> wrote:<br />only DQ that i know of is on westside....i try to stay out of that area. <p>yeah, i know that one. we'd stop there on our way back from our grandparents house in country village and we lived downtown. there used to be a Rands across from Dickinson High School that sold good ice cream as well...</p>

[sr71blackbird]

I work with this guy that will get into a very heated argument with you if you start a conversation with him about which he knows nothing about.

[Fallon]

<p>I always meet weirdos. Something about me says &quot;hey, come talk to me you fucking freak&quot;. Tonight was no different, I was at a club enjoying my beer and this guy kept coming up to me, shaking my hand, asking if I'm having a good time, and it's fucking awesome here tonight. The he said &quot;do you want me go over there and fall on my face so you can all laugh?&quot;. I told him, no thats cool.</p><p>Fucking drunks.&nbsp;</p>

[FezPaul]

<strong>sr71blackbird</strong> wrote:<br />I work with this guy that will get into a very heated argument with you if you start a conversation with him about which he knows nothing about. <p>Tell him about this board.</p>

[PapaBear]

<p>How's this for weird? Our cooks usually listen to Latin music (DC fans know the station well...&nbsp; El Zol). Tonight, two of them (one Salvadoran and one Guatemalan) were listening to a mix CD of 80's music. It was mostly power ballads and love songs. It was stuff like Scorpions, Hall &amp; Oats, Nazareth, etc.</p><p>They said they couldn't believe everyone didn't love it. They didn't&nbsp; undersrtand most of the lyrics, but they just went nuts over the songs. What really cracked me up was when the Guatamalan said, &quot;Mexicans don't understand this kind of music, because they are all stupid&quot;.</p>

[FezPaul]

<strong>PapaBear</strong> wrote:<br /><p>How's this for weird? Our cooks usually listen to Latin music (DC fans know the station well...&nbsp; El Zol). Tonight, two of them (one Salvadoran and one Guatemalan) were listening to a mix CD of 80's music. <strong>It was mostly power ballads</strong> and love songs. It was stuff like Scorpions, Hall &amp; Oats, Nazareth, etc.</p><p>They said they couldn't believe everyone didn't love it. They didn't&nbsp; undersrtand most of the lyrics, but they just went nuts over the songs. What really cracked me up was when the Guatamalan said, <strong>&quot;Mexicans don't understand this kind of music, because they are all stupid&quot;.</strong></p><p>Are Mojopin and TheQuestion Mexican?</p>