What’s the most unexpected question you have ever been asked by a stranger (excluding the homeless)?
I was walking the streets the other day (downtown, very busy time of the day with many pedestrians) and a woman stopped me to ask me where the Victoria Secret store was. Without flinching, I told her exactly where it was. I don’t know what was more usual. Me being asked that question by a woman when there were dozens of women around or me knowing where it was (to my defense a famous bookstore closed down to make way for the new Victoria Secret store, so that’s the reason I knew the answer).
For the record, I know you are dying to know, but the woman in question was NOT attractive.
In the lady’s room of my office building, about a month ago, a Latino girl (I guessed from her looks) came to me and asked me “do you work out a lot? You look really fit!”
19 years ago, my first day on a new job, the HR manager and I are sharing an elevator ride. He says “nice shoes!” I say “Thanks!”
I was too naive to understand what that meant. Later, the gossipy girl I shared an office with basically gave me a list of all people in the company who were gay/lesbian. I still didn’t make the connection until years later when I learnt that this was a thing.
The only permissible way to answer this is to say, “What’s that, buddy? You looking for a gap?” Then, deliver a clean punch to his teeth, knocking one out. As you stand over him, finish by saying, “There you go, pal, there’s your f***ing gap.”
Years ago when I was in the UK I was walking down the street and noticed a women across the road looking at me and then start walking purposefully towards me.
Her question? “Is there a Nandos in this town?”
Basically I was selected from a street full of people as the man that would know where Nandos was. The irony is that I don’t really see the appeal of Nandos, same with Chipotle. I don’t get why everyone < 25 is obsessed with them?
