Seriously Weird Stuff

[katiefoolery]

There was some seriously weird stuff happening at Mitcham Station yesterday afternoon, as I innocently waited for a bus that turned up twenty minutes late. So weird, in fact, that I was expecting people with cameras and microphones to jump out of the bushes and shout: "Surprise! We've been filming you so we can see the stupid expressions on your faces!"

It all started with a girl in a skirt. For some reason, I noticed her as she walked past in a crowd of people who'd just disembarked from the train. She was wearing a skirt with a lovely gold trim that swirled around her feet and I was wondering how she managed to walk without tripping over every ten seconds. On top of this was a mustard coloured cardigan that should have looked disgusting, but somehow didn't.

She walked past, I thought these thoughts about her clothes and I assumed that would have been the end of it.

Except, the next thing I knew, she'd accosted a guy who'd got off a bus and was claiming to know him. (I should also explain that there's a place near Mitcham Station where people with intellectual disabilities work, so there are often quite a few of them at the station. This guy seemed to have come from that place.)

While this poor guy claimed no knowledge of the girl with the swirling skirt, she said:

"Didn't I score some cocaine off you once?"

I mean, seriously, who says that sort of thing in real life? More importantly, who says that sort of thing at an incredible volume in front of dozens of people at a train station? It was just so contrived.

Next, she started asking him questions about whether he was disabled or autistic and why did his eyes look like that? The poor guy was so confused. He had to catch a train, but he still felt he had to respond to the girl. I was on the verge of shouting out to him that he didn't have to speak to her when she finally let him go.

There was something about the entire situation that didn't seem at all real. The questions the girl was firing at him seemed contrived and practised. In short, something seemed Afoot.

The level of bizarreness increased when a man walked past with the most inept-looking guide dog I've ever seen. The man was saying: "Find the train! Find the train!" to the dog, which just looked clueless and kept on walking in a straight line. Now, I've seen plenty of blind people at stations and I've never yet heard them directing their guide dogs to "find the train". It made me imagine that particular training session, with all the guide dog puppies lined up in front of a train, a bus and a taxi as they're taught to identify each one.

I'm afraid it was just too strange to be real. Something was going on at Mitcham Station yesterday and I rather fear I'll never know what it was.

Comments

[emmaketurah.livejournal.com]

You'll probably see it on TV in a few weeks LOL

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking at the time. I'll have to keep a look-out for it. ;)

[peachynat3.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say the exact same thing! I would be watching out for any 'just kidding' type of shows on soon :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

The minute the girl started talking, I thought: "This isn't real". There could have been some cameras hiding in the bushes near the taxi rank, you just never know.

[emmaketurah.livejournal.com]

I'll keep a look out too

[poisonheadache.livejournal.com]

You made me giggle! I've never ever heard anyone use the word "score" in real life in terms of drugs. It just makes twirly skirt girl sound like she's auditioning for a Tarantino film!

As for the inept guide dog - it's a fantastic comedy character!

I think that you entered some sort of Twilight Zone. It's the only explanation.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It really did sound like she was acting. All of her "questions" sounded like lines. It was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud.

It definitely felt like reality had gone for a little holiday. I just wonder what I'll be witness to this afternoon.

[flippyfrog.livejournal.com]

I think Mitcham Station must be on the cross lines of some random mystical thingy. One where it causes reality to twist into amusing television shows... are Fox studios close by? They could be emitting an aura of poorly-acted bad-taste programs and so affecting everyone about it....

How about a radioactive dumpsite of tvs, any of them near the station?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It's quite near the site of a demolished factory that used to make photographic film, I believe. Maybe that's having an affect on the air? Unless I carried the vibes of Neighbours to the station from the Channel Ten studios near where I work...

[flippyfrog.livejournal.com]

That must be it, so it's All Your Fault. :P

[gravityslave.livejournal.com]

People say 'score' in reference to drugs all the time here, but they also use it for everything from hamburgers to A grades on term papers. Life makes no sense.

[gravityslave.livejournal.com]

I think it was a highly sophisticated spy interaction. Obviously, they have their codebooks memorized.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a distinct possibility. Someone back at HQ has said: "Now, what if our agents meet at a train station? What sort of things would you expect people to say there? I know!"

*writes down: "Didn't I score some cocaine off you once?"*

Seriously, I think everyone's explanations are all quite logical

[the-kaytinator.livejournal.com]

Aliens.

They were definitely aliens.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I think it's quite likely. Under cover alien reporter spies from the twilight zone.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

yeah, I think seriously weird just about covers that one lol

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

There's simply no other way to explain it. :)

[naelany.livejournal.com]

not really, no lol

[sarsalot.livejournal.com]

Performance art, maybe? Actaully, it reminds me of a exercise the hsc drama students were given when I was in yr8, where they had to burst into any random room in the school and serenade someone (or several someones) in that room with one of Shakespeare's sonnets or monologues. Very weird.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

There's another one to add to the list of extremely plausible explanations. But what were they trying to achieve? That's what I want to know.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

That sounds like fun...

[scrapidee.livejournal.com]

That is weird and hilarious! I laughed out loud.

Definitely Strange Things Afoot.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I was thinking the exact words in your icon and probably had a similar look on my face at the time. Nothing weird happened at the station this afternoon. It was almost disappointing.

[scrapidee.livejournal.com]

Rats. People watching is so awesome when there is something *worth* watching...

:D

[(Anonymous)]

Katie, your storytelling voice came out in this post and I really enjoyed it! You might want to stop by my short fiction blog and contribute. Your voice is great! =D

Kelly Parra
writerwords.blogspot.com
ficmusings.blogspot.com

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Wow - thanks for your compliments, Kelly! I'll certainly drop by your short fiction blog.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

Well, between this and the stabbing at Box Hill it's looking like my train line is descending into the spirit of Blue Heelers. Although maybe more of a Skithouse look at Blue Heelers. I've never watched it, but I can't imagine they have many blind people telling their dogs to find the train..

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Ah, but maybe they're using blue heelers as their guide dogs, so there's your connection.

All in all, I'm glad I was subject to bizarreness and not somebody dying on the platform.

[bethamphetam1ne.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a tie-in with my dog-kicker phone call.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

They're certainly odd enough to be connected. The strangeness is spreading...