Okay, so this is a weird story related to skateboarding. Not sure where else it could go and didn't want to make a new thread. Here goes. I was at Target this morning shopping for groceries, pet supplies and some other stuff. I'm heading to the First Aid aisle to see if they had rubbing alcohol and after a few seconds I realize a young woman in front of my cart is talking to me. She was saying 'Hey Bro' I guess, and once she gets my attention, she goes 'Yeah bro I'm talking to you. I'm not too pretty for you to look at me when I'm talking.' I apologized and said I didn't realize you were talking to me. She says, 'I'm sorry that was kinda mean, hello how are you?" I said 'Fine'. She says 'Actually you're good-looking I bet you could get a way prettier girl than me." I said 'Uhh... thanks' (I had a mask on). Out of nowhere she goes, "So here's the deal. I'm buying this skateboard." She points to a child's toy complete she put in her cart. I almost said to get a real board from a real skate shop but I let that go because I quickly realized she was manic or psychotic somehow, you could tell by her eyes. She had no mask on I might add, against CA State policy. She says 'I need you to break it down for me, what do I need to do to learn how to skateboard?' I said 'The first thing you need to learn is how to push', told her not to push with her front foot and not to try tricks before you learn to ride it. I ask her, 'How did you know that I skateboard?' There was no indication that I skate by anything I was wearing. She starts to explain how she is buying her first board and I said no, repeated the question 'I've been skating my whole life how did you know that?' She goes 'It's God. He tells me things.' I thought I had a high tolerance for being weirded out but this left me kinda shook. She asked me something about skating again and before I could answer she says 'Okay thanks for your help I gotta run ask this guy a question, goodbye God bless you" and takes off to look for a store employee I hear her saying 'Hey Bro, hey you? It's okay I'm not poor". I went back to shopping and I notice right away the store's security staff walking around looking for her and talking quietly into the walkie talkies about a customer who was bothering people. A few minutes later I saw staff following her to checkout, she was ripping up a piece of paper and throwing it on the floor and the staff were all saying 'No no no don't do that'. They let her check out, I could see her at the counter waving her arms around and talking very animatedly. I'm not telling this story to exploit or poke fun at anyone suffering from mental illness, just an odd encounter with a random person caught in a manic episode and I felt bad for her. I have to say though, I've seen a lot of weird shit in my life but when she just randomly guessed that I was a competent skater that kinda freaked me out a little. Has anybody had an encounter like this where someone assumed correctly that you skate with no indication whatsoever? No logos anywhere on my clothes and wearing running shoes. I guess its possible she could have been on drugs too, but she looked healthy despite being a little chubby. I think it's safer to assume she was not well mentally. Who knows? Shit was odd though
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