Public Weirdness

Public weirdness is really fun... the concept is to make people do a double-take, and think about life twice. Please tell us about your personal ExperiencesWithPublicWeirdness, or your InhibiTions!

Here's some ideas:

Buy several small containers of icecream, and feed each other icecream. Get good and sticky and make a game of it: no one can feed themselves. taught beautiful girls with chocolate icecream...

it was really cool. i walk around with pixie wings on my back im all black or combat coulers. i get people that wont look me in the eye to people that ask me dreamly "are you an angle???" sucking on a soother freaks people out a fiar bit. i was once with a group of people and it was really hot out so we started charging for shade. it was one bad joke.. it was really funny. well thats my public weirdness that im gunna tel you about

At Marina's birthday party, seeing a group of about 40 teenagers walking down the street during school hours got quite alot of attention from people; we didn't really need to do anything else. One person pulled their car over and asked us where we were going. We replied "To the court house!" Which was true, but sounded slightly more interesting than it actually was =) Then on a different day, a group of us were going to the ocean and walking along the busy main street and decided to start singing all the songs about California that we could remember in loud voices. We got some VERY strange looks then. And on a different day, Emma, Kim B., Kim W. and I all sat along the side of the road watching cars go by. Whenever a car would come along, Kim B. would jump up and try to flag them down. Then the rest of us would jump up and pretend to be trying to restrain her desperately. Or sometimes we'd just wave. We got alot of smiles for that. Another great thing to do is to ask strangers if you can take pictures of them. (Or better yet, ask random strangers to kiss, and then take a picture of them!) That's all my public weirdness that I can remember right now. ~Becky~

Well, what Ali and I were doing when we were at the Mall of America...

• blow bubbles- y'know... with bubble wands and everything
• In music stores, put on the headphones they have, and then dance to it- this is funny 'cause people can't hear what you're listening to (unless you sing loudly and out of key. hehe)
• if you get tired, just sit down wherever you are.
• do silly walks. (duuhhhhh) We got some great looks from this
• juggle tampons and otherwise display them publicly. You'll get some pretty strange looks... believe me.

That's about it; we did other things.. no, wait... that was with Amberlee and Lareina. (I'll put those up later) -JessicaSkater

fun at the bus stop here is what we did, when meeting someone, (who will remaine nameless) at the bus stop, we made a few signs... the best one was <Name> I want to have your baby!!! (best done, with people of the same gender, and at small bus stops, so they are the only get geting off there) or if it is a school or something, you can do: Free <Name> !!!!

Variations on Tag

• Downtown
• Tagging willing-ish looking strangers (young children can be a good bet)

Interviewing Strangers

Some props, such as a clipboard, survey questions, and/or microphone and tape recorder (doesn't have to have batteries in it) may help you look and feel more legit.

"Random" Postering

Dream up poster concept (No event, brand name, or meaning required). Draw, photocopy or print. Get tape. Gather guts or friends. You're off.

An Elevator Music Band

Stand in an elevator, in a big building with instruments (preferably, tall, thin ones, like an electric stand-up bass (just a stick with strings) or a keyboard stood on end (doubling the weirdness factor, too!) and you probably have to have a saxophone... they're great for elevator music.

Then all you have to do is study some cheezy tunes and play in the elevator... and you have a captive audience. You could improv to already playing music, or cover it up.. clash, or better yet, seal foam over the speaker.

You could even have printed sheet music, then when someone going to a far-away floor gets on, ask them to be your music stand, since you know they'll be on for a while.

The Traffic Game See GamesUnschoolersPlay

Smile at everyone. Wave at everyone. Look people in the eyes. Comment to people on the beautiful clothing they are wearing. Ask people in stores how they're doing, and after they say "fine" ask how they're really doing.... tell them you appreciate the work they are doing. These things shouldn't be listed on a page for "public weirdness" but if you try doing them you could discover people think you're weird....

Walk behind someone, exactly imitating their gait and style. For all the times I've done this, (about 10) no one has ever noticed. And John Cleese (of MontyPython) recommends it. Really.

A bunch summer and/or her friends do on a regular basis

	* Find a small toy (plastic monkey) that you can buy a /lot/ of cheap (7:00
for a box of 100!) and hand them out to random strangers who you want to
appreciate for some reason -- cool hair, whatever. Just hand em out with a
smile and maybe a catchphrase ("wanna monkey?")

• i've also folded paper cranes from random paper that was laying around, and waited till a cute stranger walked by, and just held out my hand. one stranger said he'd keep it forever. another danced with me. yields interesting results, and they always seem touched. RoyaBoya

	* Sing on buses, and try to get the other passengers to join in.

• especiall effective if you can harmonize. oh, and don't forget to thank the bus driver.

	* Ask random people (particularly in grocery stores and the like) to answer
whatever important question you might be debating ("Is snuffleupagus real?",
"Who's the best Winnie-The-Pooh character?") 

• what are eyebrows for???

	* Buy a 12 pack of popsicles and offer your extras to the clerk and people
mulling around outside the store. Really encourage them to take one.
	* Enlighten strangers with your trivia facts: whenever you think of
something interesting you know, or learn something new, go up to several
strangers and say "did you know....?"
	* Dress up as "superheroes" (rolled up pajama pants, weird hats, carryign
around wands or musical instruments...) and go around humming a superhero
theme and telling people what your powers are.
	* Hum a soundtrack to everything going on around you.
	* Offer to read people's palms and then act shocked/surprised/happy about
the length of their "sex line"
	* Stand on chairs and/or bus stop benches and do poetry/songs/monologues
you know.
	* Talk to people. Always. Consistently. Leave them alone if they really
don't want to talk to you. But otherwise, talk to anyone. See what they have
to say. Ask them to do a freestyle poem for you. Do a freestyle poem for
them. Find out how their day was. Tell them you like their hair. Ask them
where they're going, where they came from, and how they like each place. Ask
them what they think of /your/ hair. Tell them your secrets. Ask to know one
of theirs. Yell. Whisper. Talk to people.

stuff my friends and i do sometimes on the bus:

• sing. (yah! i didn't know other people did it too.)
• bring action figures, like ninja turtles and x-men, and play with them. make funny story lines. make them fight. (note: be careful. this is how i broke my friend chelsy's april o'neal action figure. she still hasn't forgiven me for it!)
• play "i'm packing my grandmother's trunk" and use dirty words to make people look at you. try writing them on post-its and sticking it on the walls of the bus
• lean to the side when the bus turns. (note: i don't recommend doing this with strangers all the time. some of them can have scary/ annoying habits, like stinking or giving creepy looks)
• impersonate people.
• repeat the words you see on signs until you are laughing hysterically

in town:

• sing
• follow random people around to wherever they go (preferabley someone that was on the bus with you) and then hide when they turn around and look
• yell your favorite catch phrases at strangers and cars
• pretend like you can fly and jump off of benches and the sidewalk
• use an umbrella on sunny days and sing "singing in the rain".. clockwork orange-style, if you dare
• eat lots of ice cream at ice cream shops and be loud until the employees are laughing with you
• "steal" small packages of sugar from restraunts and cafes and eat them
• take pictures wherever you go, especially of things on the ground
• talk to the telephone poles

at the grocery store:

• take pictures of the clerks
• take pictures of the merchandise, or of you holding the merchandise
• sit in shopping carts, and attempt a race
• stand in the frozen food section and try to do a scene out of "titanic"
• buy baby food and fight over who gets to eat what kind

-Mari

• take a video camera with you and interview the lovely people you meet.
• go to a grocery store. race for the nutella. shriek with glee when you find it. (usually an unplanned occurrence, i know, but..)
• hand out paper cranes to beautiful people, as i wrote above...
• steal straws and sporks from fastfood restaurants and 7-11's
• spraypaint a spork gold, keep it behind your ear, and call yourself the "Spork Pimp" (ok i plagirized that one..)
• do the cancan across cross walks
• exchange clothing with a friend. a lot of it.
• end words with "ith" likeith thisith, getith itith? (doing so, of course, when you order food, talk to people, etc)
• take a flag with you, walk up to someone, stick it in their hand and say "claimed! you're mine! the property of Roya!"
• marina adds that that would be useful to do to cute guys, specially if the flag had your phone number on it.
• walk through busy crowds saying "MAKE WAY FOR THE POPE! THE POPE IS COMING, PLEASE MAKE WAY!"
• rush up to someone, pretend you know them, hug them, call them by their "name," rehash old times, be very loud and boisterous, don't let them talk back...and then rush off, as suddenly as you started. (i've done this where people will start doing it back.)
• name things. everything.
• go around calling perfectly innocent objects by the wrong name. chairs become monsters, tables become footballs, shoes become canoes, etc.
• pretend that one hand is fighting against you, and your other hand has to keep it under control.
• talk in rhyme
• let only one foot touch the ground at a time. insist that it's "a gravity thing."

theees eees all fer now. i vill sink ahv more later, ah'm surrre..RoyaBoya