Not the kind of thing you see every day...

[Dayvo]

Sitting on the bus on the way home after dropping the car off at the mechanics', I saw and heard some old fella talking to himself. He whistled in reply, or so I thought.

I looked at my fellow passengers and they gave me that understanding look. However, I misread that look as sympathy, rather than amusement, for perched on the old bloke's shoulder was a large parrot, completely untethered, but under full control.

Hope the bloke bought two tickets...

Anyone else see things that are unusual/out-of-place in everyday surroundings?

 

[gbb]

Never on a bus, but as a kid i had a crow that used to perch on my shoulder. Can't remember how it came to be, probably found it as a youngster, but had it for a few months till it flew off one day...

 

[biggs682]

was it captain hook !

 

[Dayvo]

was it captain hook !

He looked more like Captain Birdseye!

 

[ComedyPilot]

A couple of weeks ago I was looking in Tesc* for a hi-fi lead. There was a lad (about 13-15) walking about talking to himself and displaying what I can only say is tourettes.

 

[vernon]

Anyone else see things that are unusual/out-of-place in everyday surroundings?

Yes and very closely related to your observation.

I saw a chap marching purposefully through Kirkstall in Leeds with a large parrot on his shoulder. I had to do a double take.

There's camels in a field off the A66 near Scotch Corner. I had to do a double take.

I once thought that I had seen a push-me-pull-you up near Guiseley 25 years ago or so when I was walking from Meanwood to Ilkley on the link path to the Dales Way. It turned out to be two llamas facing in opposite directions but next to each other. It spooked me since I hadn't been smoking those 'fragrant' cigarettes that were popular at the time amongst my peers.

 

[JoeyB]

A pigeon flew straight into our glass fronted office today...made quite a noise...poor thing didnt know where it was for about 5 minutes!

 

[palinurus]

I saw a 60 year old guy with white hair wearing bondage trousers.

That's how it is, during the 80s you'd see these old teds from time to time. Now it's punks.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I saw a man on Saturday walking down the Marble Arch end of Oxford Street and carrying a massive rabbit. I also used to see a man cycling around the east end of Glasgow with a black cat around his shoulders. He was an ancient old trampy person and probably dead now.

 

[Maz]

Sitting on the bus on the way home after dropping the car off at the mechanics', I saw and heard some old fella talking to himself. He whistled in reply, or so I thought.

Reminds me of the joke about the native in deepest darkest Africa who spoke English with perfect British Received Pronunciation. When asked by the missionary how that was so, he replied "My dear fellow, I [whistles randomly] learnt to speak [whistles randomly] English by listening to BBC [whistles randomly] long wave."

 

[Sittingduck]

Sitting on the bus on the way home after dropping the car off at the mechanics', I saw and heard some old fella talking to himself. He whistled in reply, or so I thought.

I looked at my fellow passengers and they gave me that understanding look. However, I misread that look as sympathy, rather than amusement, for perched on the old bloke's shoulder was a large parrot, completely untethered, but under full control.

Hope the bloke bought two tickets...

Anyone else see things that are unusual/out-of-place in everyday surroundings?

I was about to ask how you knew it was a parrot, then realised I had misread the bold, as 'unfeathered'.

 

[Maz]

Anyone else see things that are unusual/out-of-place in everyday surroundings?

Once saw a bloke getting a blow job as I cycled past him - this was in broad daylight on the road. Thankfully he was parked up and not driving at the time, which I'm sure would contravene the Highway Code.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Once saw a bloke getting a blow job as I cycled past him - this was in broad daylight on the road. Thankfully he was parked up and not driving at the time, which I'm sure would contravene the Highway Code.

Was he in a lay-by?

GC

 

[Typhon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19783214

I can't say I saw that in person, but I'd have loved to.

 

[Maz]

Was he in a lay-by?

GC

No, it was just a normal road. In an everyday kind of street.