--Thursday--
Walking down the street
"HEY,excuse me...hey hey!"
Turn to see a couple of high school girls.
HG1- " Uhm yeah... we are playing a game" (I start looking for cops or the candid camera video crew out of the corner of my eye.) " Uh... and I need a picture of a 'hug from a stranger' so... can I get a hug and a picture?" (add Chris Hansen to the list of people I am assuming are waiting to jump me)
Me- " Uh... okay"
Awkward hug, cell phone camera click.
Hg1- " Thanks you!" Hg1 to Hg2- " Come on we have to hurry *giggle* *giggle*"
And away they go.
I walk further up the street wondering if that is one of those things that is going to come back and bite me when a car pulls up and a high school bro pops his head out the passenger window.
Hbro- "Hey man, uh did you just give a hug to a stranger?"
Me- "Uh... yup."
Hbro- " DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT!... wait... can I have a hug?"
Me- "... If you need one."
Hbro- " Awesome!"
Hbro hopes out of the car wraps me up in a bro bear hug, driver snaps a pic and he jumps back in the car with cries of, " COME ON! COME ON!  We gotta hurry!" And away they go.
I walk the rest of the way home wonder what game was being played amused at having been a peice in it

--Saturday--
I am sitting in a coffee shop booth, drinking my oh so delicious coffee with cinnamon and drawing. I make a major mistake I usually don't make, especially when I have earphones in and can pretend to be oblivious, I look up when I hear.
Guy-"Excuse me sir."
Me-" Hello"
As he sits himself down at my booth I make the further observation that this isn't just a guy he is in fact...
Drunkguy- " Can I ask you for a bit of help sir.?"
What the... am I getting pan handled inside a coffee shop? Sure in Toronto I would expect that but this is the suburbs!
Me- " Whats up?"
Drunkguy- " I need to use the internet to find my brothers phone number, can I use your computer?"
Now I try not to be a dick generally speaking but as a person who is wicked paranoid about who and how people use his tech stuff there is no way I am putting my compy in the hands of a guy who is obviously drunk with coffee still dripping from his lips and mustache. It just isn't going to happen.
Me-" Uh I am sorry but I can't connect this compy to the internet. It is a bit old and I just use it for work so I can't help with that."
Drunkguy- "Oh..." Drunk thought processes seem to have a problem getting going.
Me- " If there is something else I can help with"
DrunkG- " Can I use your phone to call my brother?"
Me- " If you give me the number I can give him a call for yo.."
DrunkG- (cutting me off) " I don't know the number. That's what I need the internet for."
Me- " Oh... well I can't help with the number part, but if you can find the number I can help with the call." (hoping he is going to get interested in the idea of going and asking somebody else to use thier computer)
DrunkG- " I ... uhhh... just gonna sit and finish my coffee, that okay?"
Me- " Okay" (don't puke or pick a fight with me drunkguy, oh god don't puke or pick a fight with me drunkguy, is my mental mantra at this point.)
DrunkG- " I am Al Pachino"
Me- " O.o"
DrunkG- " I am Al Pachino, does that make any sense to you?"
Me- " No."
DunkG- " I am Walt Disney"
Me- (oh man this seems like a bad turn of events) " Okay"
DrunkG- " Does that make any sense to you? Do you believe me?"
Me- " I don't understand what your..."
DrunkG- (cutting me off) " I bet you didn't expect me to say that, just like you didn't expect me to be such a nice guy..."
Me- (cutting him off this time not wanting to get into an involved conversation about his good qualities) " I am really sorry and I don't want to be rude but I have some work I have to do so I need to get to it."
DrunkG- " Then don't be rude and don't..."
Me- (cutting him off, now the score is 2/2 for cut offs) " Yeah but I am on deadline so I really have to get it done, sorry. Let me know if you get that number."
DrunkG- " Oh... okay... I..."
He gets up and goes to harass some other table where the staff catches site of this and promptly asks him to leave.
Sum up- I didn't get punched or puked on... pretty good all in all. And I apparently met Walt Disney and Al Pachino at the same time

Random people week was RANDOM!

ps. I got featured in Big is Beautiful II news article here [link]