Surreal experiences- any good ones?

[MDB111™]

Haha that’s cray cray. To piggyback on your driving story, 2 of my friends and I drove from Tulsa to Dallas in 1994 (I think) for Lollapalooza when it still traveled. Was a great lineup— Parliament Funkadelic, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Beastie Boys, Shonen Knife, Breeders, L7, Tribe, others I’m forgetting or simply didn’t like (maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers [edit: was Smashing Pumpkins, not Peppers — I liked Gish but Billy Corgan always seemed like a ******]).

Anyhoo, we drove back late that night, 4 hour drive, almost entirely rural and no surrounding lights. For some reason I got designated to drive and my friends fucked off to sleep. Somewhere around Weatherford, Oklahoma at 2 AM, my friend in the passenger seat jerks awake, screams ‘You’re gonna kill us!’, grabs and turns the steering wheel, and puts us into an involuntary doughnut. Somehow I managed to steer the car (his Mom’s car, btw) true and back into the correct lane (there was no oncoming traffic anyway) and kept us from cartwheeling Michael Bay-style into a ditch and certain death.

By this point, obviously we were all awake. We all just kind of sat there in stunned silence until my friend in the back said ‘Go back to sleep, Russ.’

Russ did and on we went.

What the heck was Russ' deal? night terrors?

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I grew up with a guy who in a few years will be in the Basketball HoF. Obviously, at a certain point you lose contact with a dude like this. Cut to 2008ish, and said future HoF'er is shooting a commercial at the high school he graduated from, where I happen to teach. I find myself in a hallway, and I'm at the head of the line. He walks through, we kinda/sorta make eye contact, and he stops, does a double take. He ask another staff member something, staff member replies, and the future HoF'er walks over to me, and we do the handshake, half hug thing. Cool part of this was that it was the second week of school, and it was my first year at the school. So I had some amazing credibility instantly.

Cut to two years later, and the HoF'er is running a camp for kids. I'm coaching an aquatics sport, and our AD brings him into our locker room to take a shit. He comes out from the shitter, recognizes me again, and gives a pep talk to my team.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Just to add to my story above about the future HoF'er....a year, maybe two years before I'd start at that school he'd gotten some corporate sponsorship (Converse, and I think T-Mobile) to host a concert at the school where Jennifer Hudson and Kanye performed. Anyways, both Converse and (if it was, I can't remember) T-Mobile, they both redid the entire gym. I mean, stripped the entire place down, and rebuilt it. Cut to a few years later, and the HoF'er would sign with Jordan Brand. The day after he did that Jordan Brand or Nike called our AD to say that they were going to be removing all Converse logos and replacing them with the Jumpman, and that they would start the next day. So after signing with a new shoe company, two days later you'd never know he was originally with Converse.

 

[airtime143]

Just to add to my story above about the future HoF'er....a year, maybe two years before I'd start at that school he'd gotten some corporate sponsorship (Converse, and I think T-Mobile) to host a concert at the school where Jennifer Hudson and Kanye performed. Anyways, both Converse and (if it was, I can't remember) T-Mobile, they both redid the entire gym. I mean, stripped the entire place down, and rebuilt it. Cut to a few years later, and the HoF'er would sign with Jordan Brand. The day after he did that Jordan Brand or Nike called our AD to say that they were going to be removing all Converse logos and replacing them with the Jumpman, and that they would start the next day. So after signing with a new shoe company, two days later you'd never know he was originally with Converse.

It is a good thing he didnt have any converse tattoos.

 

[KittiesKorner]

What the heck was Russ' deal? night terrors?

I guess i should’ve asked :-(