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

[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.