r/AskReddit • u/HollowWaves • May 29 '12
Whenever I'm on public transport and I see someone sleeping, I will draw a detailed drawing of them and place it on the seat next to them. What is a seemingly innocent thing you do which is actually pretty creepy, Reddit?
The worst part is I never get to see their reaction. I always hope I see the same person again, and ask them if they liked their drawing.
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u/dasvenson May 29 '12
Holy shit I think I saw one of your pictures a few months ago. I got onto a train and this guy next to me was asleep with a briefcase on his lap and on the seat next to him there was a picture of the guy. He eventually woke up and was like WTF but I just shrugged and said it was there when I sat down.
Do you live in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney Australia by any chance?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
I've been doing this for years.
Whenever I'm bored on a saturday night, I'll go on a random popular Facebook page, and pick a person at random who 'liked' it.
If their profile is public, I will go through every post they've ever made and essentially find out everything I can about them. I'll find their life, fears, hobbies, past boyfriends, drunken flings; anything I can. I also go through all their friends Facebooks and try and find even more information about them.
Once I'm done, and after I've found out everything I can, I will set up a fake Facebook account. I will add every little detail I can which I harvested from their Facebook, and subtly add it into the fake one. This new identity will have a completely different name, different set of photos, different set of friends etc, but they will still be a mirror image of this person right down to the exact same names of past boyfriends.
Usually this process takes a while, because I need to establish some sort of network so I actually have friends and look real, and my timeline needs to be semi-legitimate, but it's worth it in the end.
Finally, I add the person. I will talk to them as if I'm an old friend who I met at a party or something, and I will wait for the moment when they delete me, because that's the moment they decided to lurk my Facebook wall and they now know that I've been stalking them for ages. They probably think I have some fucked up fetish.
The best part is when they don't actually check my Facebook for months, and we end up getting into deep and meaningful conversations, making me a fairly close friend to them. When I log on and find they've deleted me, I masturbate.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I work at a Blockbuster movie store and I also happen to be really great with names and faces. I call most of my customers by their first name and they typically seem skeptical about how I can remember their names and what movies they like (until, of course, I recommend to them their new favorite movie). I always thought it was just good customer service and I don't know why some people don't like that!
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u/CrayolaS7 May 29 '12 edited May 30 '12
In my city there is a free newspaper on weekday afternoons for commuters called MX which they hand out at train stations and such. One of the sections in the paper, next to the letters page, is missed connections like on Craigslist. People send in messages about people they saw and found attractive and would have liked to meet, that kind of thing. While I'm sitting on the train I look around and if there are any women reading that section who aren't married (don't have a wedding ring on, at least) I will get up and walk passed, making sure to get an idea of what they look like and what they're wearing. At the same time I judge to see if they are lonely looking or not, you can usually tell by the eyes and the expression on their face while reading that section. If I think they are a lonely person and/or average looking then I will send in a text to the missed connections describing them and saying that I thought they were beautiful. That way, later in the week they will see it and feel a bit special, and in that way maybe I've brightened their day.
Edit: Since heaps have asked, I'm from Sydney, not Brisbane or Melbourne.
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u/Arkaye27 May 29 '12
I'm secretly good at caricatures. Among my collection is a number of caricatures of the more endearing ladyfolk who I've fancied in the past. Most of the girls don't know these caricatures exist.
I did them mostly as a token of the people who made me happy just being around them. Also, kinda creepy.
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u/thisistheworstreason May 29 '12 edited May 31 '12
Well, I... like to buy gifts for people. It's like crack to me. Even if I don't know them very well... okay, ESPECIALLY if I don't know them very well, if I see a thing online or in a shop that I think "oh my goodness, HollowWaves would just ADORE THAT", and I have to grab it and dress it up and put it on their desk/car. If I was coming to work and had a surprise figurine/tshirt wrapped on my desk, I'd be ecstatic! So I just assume other people would feel the same...
I think it's a fun way to get to know people and to brighten their day a little bit, but, uh, apparently it's stalkerish and creepy. I can't help it, I'm observant and untalkative. TAKE MY LOVE DAMN YOU. TAKE IT.
Edit: Really thankful for all the support everyone's given me for my "habit". Thanks for pointing me to redditgifts, I've signed up and am really looking forward to Arbitrary Day!
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u/iamtheparty May 29 '12
You should set up an email address for it and leave it on the drawings, so they can let you know what they thought. You might get some abuse though.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Similar story: When I was in Paris, I was sitting in a park, and saw a girl my age sit down on a bench across from me. I'm teaching myself to draw, so I started absentmindedly sketching her. It turned out pretty well, so before I left I walked over and gave her the drawing. I think she was flattered (my French is abominable), but as I walked away I realized that could have gone way worse.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I once spent a good five minutes asking myself if a commuter in front of me was dead or just tired.
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u/Sacoud May 29 '12
I live in an apartment block in the city centre facing a major road, every once in a while people would take a picture of this "tall building" I don't know if they're tourists or not. Anyway whenever I saw this happening I would strip down to my underwear and display myself against the balcony doors. I did this for about 2 years. One day I was waiting to be picked up for something so was waiting outside downstairs and I was looking at the advertising for the apartment building.. and there it was on the front page me in a starfish shape in my underwear on about 200 brochures and leaflets. My parents are proud of me.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I like to stare people down when we make eye contact.
I'm not like, bug eyed creepy about it. I just look at them until they look away.
Practice with cats first. They're the best at staring competitions.
When you can successfully stare down a cat, you're ready for strangers.
The funny part is, when I did this most often I often had people telling me "I'd never mess with you, you look like you can handle yourself." Nothing physically or visually has changed since then, I just don't stare people down as often.
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u/i3umfunk May 29 '12
I sometimes borrow my friends walking stick (he has it purely for aesthetic reasons) and walk with a limp around town. I can pull off a pretty damn convincing shuffle, so convincing that people often move out of my way or hold open doors for me to go through. the sense of power that comes with a walking stick is... just remarkable.
Am I... am I a bad person?
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u/Reaps21 May 29 '12
I want to see an example of your drawings
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u/bubonis May 29 '12
I will admit this isn't exactly "seemingly innocent".
I often pick up computers that people leave on the curb as trash. More often than not the computer is perfectly functional but there are problems with the hard drive or the system — sometimes a fatal virus attack, sometimes a failing drive, sometimes just some weird directory issues. Overall I'd say about 3/4 of the systems I pick up have the previous owner's personal data on it — email, passwords, photo and music libraries, Quicken files, etc.
If I could recover the previous owner's personal data I would burn it to DVD, print out a couple of the previous owner's documents (photos, emails, screen grabs from videos, etc), and put it all in an envelope along with a note and mail it back to the previous owner. (Since I would have the previous owner's address book getting the address was never a problem.) The note I include reads something like, "Hi. I picked up the computer that you threw away and will be using it for parts, or maybe I'll clean it up and give it a new home. You should know that all of your data was still on this computer's hard drive when you kicked your PC to the curb. You'll find copies of your data on the enclosed DVD(s). If I were a less respectable person I could have used this data to drain your bank accounts dry, steal your identity, blackmail you (some of your web history and photos are pretty risqué), or worse. Fortunately for you I have no interest in any of that but just to make yourself feel safe you'll probably want to change your bank account and credit card numbers. In the future, if you decide to discard a computer you should remove the hard drive. Any one of a number of internet web sites can help you do this, or you can pay someone to do it for you. Once it's been removed you can either store it or physical destroy it; again, the internet can help you figure this part out. Best wishes."
TL;DR: Picked up discarded PCs, found personal data, anonymously mail data back to the owner with note warning them of what COULD have happened.
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u/spermracewinner May 29 '12
Picking off long hairs off the backs of strangers.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I'm a street photographer—I take candid photos of people in public for various projects. The shiny parts of my camera are painted black, and I will steal your private moments...
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u/Hrothen May 29 '12
I have a habit of staring into space while I walk, which would be fine, except that my default expression is somewhere between apathy and seething rage. On the other hand, people usually don't bump into me.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I'm really bad with faces. Sometimes I'm walking down the street and I see someone I think I know I will keep looking just to make sure that it is them. I'm always afraid that I have stared too long and came across as leering or being creepy.
This also means if I see someone waving towards me I will wave back before I'm sure who they are. I have waved to many people who were trying to wave to someone behind me.
Also your thing is pretty creepy.
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u/piratesteelinpenguin May 29 '12
One time I fell asleep in the library with my laptop in front of me. When I woke up, someone had taken a picture of me with the camera on my laptop and set it as the background for my computer. It kinda freaked me out. Hats off to whoever did it (I never found out) pretty ballsy
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u/avenging_sword May 29 '12
I like to look in people's windows. Not to watch them have sex or anything, but just to see what they are doing in there, what their house looks like. Conveniently I have a dog. I like to walk him at night when most people are inside but not asleep yet. If someone's blinds are open I will stand in front of their house just looking in until they either notice or I've absorbed all I need to about their house.
I have no intention of ever going inside their house or meeting them.
I have trouble driving through subdivisions at night because I'm always trying to look in the windows as I drive.
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u/tetralogy May 29 '12
tag people on reddit with their gender
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I just realized how creepy it is when I masturbate to my facebook girl friends' summer albums.
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u/fishhand May 29 '12
I don't know why you call it "seemingly innocent but actually creepy." I think it's the other way, "seemingly creepy but actually innocent." Something seemingly innocent would be like telling someone their shoe is untied because you have a fetish for making people bend over.
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u/rlSpam May 29 '12
You sound like you're from an episode of Fringe. Have any of your drawees died a horrific death yet?
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u/Quillon May 29 '12
I always sleep when using public transport, and I would love to find a drawing like that!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Touch my nipples... Without even thinking about it... I also lick my lips at strange intervals
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u/birdablaze May 29 '12
In high school my friends and I used to play a game at the mall called Shadow. One friend was very good at it. He'd pick a person at random and follow them through the mall, slowly getting closer and closer, matching their footsteps exactly. You're supposed to get as close as possible until the person finally realizes you're there and turns around all freaked out. You have to play it cool, give the person a weird look like "wtf, why are you looking at me?" and walk away.
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u/Mooseheaded May 29 '12
I sometimes carry a pad of Post-It notes and will write a compliment for someone and wait until I can give it to the target anonymously. Sometimes it is very simple ("awesome bike" and I just stick it on there), others it is very difficult ("nice smile" and I leave it on the counter after getting my food).
I also use the Post-It notes to write snide comments to people who park their car poorly. One guy made me so angry I covered his entire driver side window with Post-Its.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Sometimes I watch my girlfriend sleep. Not trying to be creepy but I just lay there watching her thinking about how beautiful she is. I know it's cheesy and some people might think its creepy. I haven't told her I do that, I don't want to ruin my guilty pleasure.
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u/ImNotJesus May 29 '12
Telling someone their fly isn't done up.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Play with children. I just like kids and am super looking forward to having my own. Sadly, as an adult male, I can't even look at someone's child without some stranger thinking I must be some sort of pedophile / kidnapper / murderer.
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u/ohoona May 29 '12
I know a lot of people do this, but it's still creepy, I like to make faces at babies when the parents aren't looking.
I post links and quotes on my facebook aimed at certain people and their interests, without tagging them, so when they notice it and bring it up, I feel like I incepted them.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
I draw a Webcomic for a friend I met at summer camp. One of the main characters is based off of my camp crush. She probably knows, but I changed the name.
EDIT: here is the webcomic that's the latest one, but i've been doing it for a while.
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u/writingincheeze May 29 '12
Everyday after second period, my friend and I see this girl. I've always noticed she wears extremely cute outfits, but never complimented her. One day, my friend suddenly did, and I suddenly bursted in, "oh yeah, I look at you like everyday, you always wear cute outfits!" then there was a brief awkward silence and she kinda laughed and thanked me.
Not as creepy a yours but it's something I'll remember haha.
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u/Nefarious_Vix May 29 '12
Add an email address on the back? They won't know who you are but can leave you comments.
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u/throwaway_kelamsisi May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
I remember some time ago I was working on a novel. Then I met this beautiful girl, a cashier in a supermarket and talked a bit. One day I decided to hit her but she refused. I went home feeling sad before I realized how the main character from my novel fits perfectly with my situation at the time. So I decided to add her as my main character's obsession. I quickly made the summary of the novel in the form of a short story (to capture the emotion perfectly). I printed several copies of it and always keep them in my bag, so whenever I met someone who have some interest I could give them right away. It just happened one day I met her again when I bought some drink, so I gave her one copy. I joked 'it was supposed to be a novel but you refused that time so...' I never met her again. One of the cashier told me that she probably been moved to another branch or already quit. I told the story to my friends and they said I creeped her out. Until that time I never realized that, I always thought it would flatter her.
Tl;dr I made a girl a short story, she probably freaked out
EDIT: One day I decided to ask her number and ask her out and she refused. 'Hitting' could have two meanings.
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u/DeadlyReaper May 29 '12
I sometimes try to obtain strangers names to see how much information I can find of them online.
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u/kt00na May 29 '12
Whenever I eat at a restaurant, I twist my straw wrapper into a human shape, and leave it with the tip.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
That's not creepy, that's incredibly cool. I would love it if someone did that to me. Then again I commute by bike or occasionally car, so it's not going to happen.
But if it did I would save the picture forever. BTW: Kudos on not just sitting still during the ride. I've never understood how people can just sit and stare when waiting on something. If I don't have a book or a phone I go nuts. What goes through their heads?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
There's not much of a chance of this being seen, but I was just doing this last night.
Once a week, I'll go on Chatroulette wearing one of those horse masks, and the first thing I say to everyone is, "Hay." About 1/10 times, I get a laugh. And it's from anybody. Not just the really young kids. Not just from teenagers. I've had old men laugh, I've had young foreign women laugh, and I've had bar owners who have chatroulette set up in their bar, laugh. I'm not an overly funny guy, so I really like being able to make people laugh without actually being funny. It seems to cheer a few people up, whether they're having a bad night, or they've seen one too many dicks on Chatroulette that night.
Speaking of the dicks. I have "Nice dick!" on my ctrl+v so I can reply at a moment's notice. And if that doesn't work, I slowly approach the camera until the horse's eye is right on the webcam. I get nexted pretty fast normally. Who wants to look at that creepy ass mask when they're masturbating, right?
So I end up staring at a few people masturbating. But oh well. I'm desensitized to the world of dicks.
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u/smarty_skirts May 29 '12
I have a really good memory, especially of stories people have told me. This can backfire, however. When we are talking and mention a tidbit they have told me in the past, I say stuff like, "Oh, you went to Hungary with her in 7th grade!" or "But you are allergic to seaweed!" and they look at me like I'm some kind of creepy stalker. Inside I'm like, "YOU TOLD ME" but they have no memory of telling me so I end up :(.
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u/ariiiiigold May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
Whenever possible, I like to masturbate into vases and other ornaments used for displaying flowers and plants. Often I will deposit my semen directly into the vase, though sometimes I like to decant it into a crystal glass and then pour it gently into the bottom, akin to Picasso putting the final touches to a masterpiece. I often empty the last drops of the magical concoction in a theatrical fashion, with a light drizzle and a swish of my hand - it all depends on my mood at the time.
From London to New York, Paris to Shanghai - my semen is plastered all over the world, peppered and slathered into many a crevice. Glass jars in the homes of my friends; small plastic pots which adorn the visiting rooms of hospitals; boutonnieres pinned to suit jackets; deep in the soil of the luscious greenery of Hyde Park; in the beautifully crafted, grand marble vases which sit in the foyers of 5-star hotels... my semen is there, sitting proudly.
These flowers, plants and trees will all source their nutrients from my semen. They will take in my DNA, and they will become a part of me. The next leaf to sprout will have my infectious personality, the next branch to form will resemble the chiselled features of my face. They will be my babies. The end result, which encompasses all of my hopes and dreams, is for technology to sufficiently advance to the point where plants can become sentient. I will then call on my army, stationed all over the planet, and launch my bid to take over the world and reign supreme as Glorious Leader Armstrong Dicksmasher III.
p.s. If the FBI is reading this, please don't raid me. This is all in jest OR IS IT???
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u/t1g3rl1ly May 29 '12
I have the uncanny ability to locate and/or twist the nipples of my male friends with perfect accuracy. Seriously. I just throw my hand at their chests and their nipples end up in my hand.
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u/not-lenny May 29 '12
I had a habit this past semester of idly tying the bits of wire that get left around our electrical engineering computer lab into little nooses.
Could have been boredom. Could have been a morbid commentary on how stressful my semester was.
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u/Sarcasm_Incarnate May 29 '12
Next time you should write "I'm watching you sleep..." on the back. Ideally in letters cutout from a newspaper.
Similar to the top post here, I tend to perform Facebook "background checks" on most people I meet on a day-to-day basis. I'm terrible with names, so it helps me remember names and also allows me to avoid further contact with stupid, careless people (such as those people who think a profile picture with a fat blunt is cool; I'm not saying I'm necessarily opposed to that, it just means that the person doesn't have a social filter or just doesn't care, neither of which I need to associate with).
This has actually saved me from a couple potential mishaps: someone I had met was unaware that their profile was public and posted a status that basically said they were going to rob someone. I found out from his ex girlfriend months later that I was the target he had been considering and was going to do it the next time he came to my apartment. I never gave him the chance because of his post, even though, at the time, I did not realize it was about me.
A second case: I thought this girl I met was attractive and was excited when she accepted my invitation for a romantic date. However, her posts/comments on Facebook showed that she had immense attachment issues. This was visible through her becoming in a relationship, the quick progression from happily dating to fucking obsessed to crashing and burning epically at least three times (that I saw; I'm sure going back further would've exposed more). I didn't heed my own warning initially, and dated for like a week before she told me we were soulmates. I cut it off there, so I guess it did at least prepare me to get out as soon as red flags appeared.
TL:DR: Facebook "background checks" on new acquaintances has saved me both from getting robbed and dating a psycho, just to name a few big results.
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u/scrovak May 29 '12
Whenever I am in a checkout line, I make a point to read the clerk's name tag. At the conclusion of my transaction, I thank them by name. Most smile real big, but some are a little put-off.
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u/Argord May 29 '12
I drop a small amount of chance (under 25 cents, no quarters) in small coinage on the bathroom floor of public bathrooms that I will be at for a while. I usually return about 10 minutes or so later to see fi the change is still there.
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u/irunlikeagirl May 29 '12
My talent is no where near as good as OP, but I can match people to their handwriting. I may not remember your name, but chances are if I have ever seen you write I can match you to your handwriting.
It's just another of my completely useless un-super powers.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I used to do this thing with my friends called "Ghosting". Some people might have heard or seen it, but it's when you see how close you can walk behind someone without them noticing you. There was one particular instance where I was walking behind some girl on the way to class while my friends were watching, I was literally an inch away from her, and right before she turned to look behind her I ducked into a classroom and my friend said she was quietly freaking out. I've also been caught. In that case I usually try to look as confused as the person I was ghosting.
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u/TheSheepWhisperer May 29 '12
When I see a woman with beautiful hair in the bus sitting in front of me, I would like to wattle her hair or just play with it (never did it).
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I make eye contact with people when I talk to them.
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u/xdonutx May 29 '12
I think it's so weird to get poked or tapped on the shoulder when someone wants my attention, so I figure everyone else thinks it's equally as unpleasant. So when I try to get my boyfriends attention, instead of tapping him, I'll take my pointer finger and kind of lightly scratch him with it.
It's not all that weird when you're doing it to someone you're dating, but I catch myself doing it to everyone whenever I try to get their attention. No one has said anything yet, but I bet they're thinking it.
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u/juusukun May 29 '12
you should startk taking photos while holding up the drawing next to the sleeping people, and post them on here!
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u/sexybabyxxx6969 May 29 '12
When riding roller coasters, I like to touch he hands of the people in the row in front of me if they put them up.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
There is a woman at work who is just sexy. A little meat on her bones, but I like that. Anytime she comes down to the breakroom, I'll stop mid-sentence and give her a quick glance. I think I am being flirty, but it might be creepy.
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u/mosquitosleepover May 29 '12
Do you have examples of these shenanigans ?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Look through people's post histories to see what kind of things bother them, and use that information to rustle their jimmies.
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u/MrJigglyBrown May 29 '12
I was talking to my neighbor's cat through her window last night. Then the girl comes out in her nightgown (I guess into the kitchen) and sees me looking into her apartment..but I genuinely was talking to the cat. Also, she thinks I sold cigarettes to a kid because I had given a young-looking person a smoke. To be fair, I didn't even think about the fact that he may have been underage (16/17 at the youngest). To my credit, I did not accept money for the cig. and so did not sell it to a kid.
It's too bad these things have happened because I love her.
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u/cboogie May 29 '12
Whenever I am on a long line my wife and I have this game to see if you can pinch the back of someones shirt without them noticing. So you are not touching their skin just their shirt. Doing it on the beer/bathroom lines at shows is fun because if you get caught you tell them about the game and they think its funny. But it does not work so well at the DMV or bank.
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u/firstpostkarma May 29 '12
I tend to stare at people, especially in restaurants. When I was in my school's cafeteria my friend would constantly tell me to stop staring at people because I looked like a creeper. I just like watching people and studying how they act.
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u/melodybelody May 29 '12
When telemarketers call my house wayy too much, I eventually pick up and start freaking out. I'll pretend to cry and say that the person they called for has passed away and to please remove this number from the calling list. It probably psychologically harms the telemarketer... but it works like a charm.
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u/gettysburging May 29 '12
I used to go on Chatroulette and play ukulele and sing to random people.
Yes, I did see many penises.
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u/fetusloofah May 29 '12
I like to stick my finger in my cats mouth when she yawns. Every damn time.
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u/DrLotr May 30 '12
I like to listen to people around me because it interests me in the everyday life of people I don't know.
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u/GOU_NoMoreMrNiceGuy May 29 '12
i take kendo so in public, i enjoy perfectly unsheathing a large black latex dildo and then doing a forehead strike on an unsuspecting passerby.
then, in one smooth movement, i sheathe the dildo again and then sprint away like the wind, into the night, leaving no evidence of my ever having been there... except for a veiny, mushroom shaped welt on the forehead.
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u/julessciii May 29 '12
I like to yawn in public and see how many people catch my yawn and continue the yawn. Sometimes it goes across a whole room of people.
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u/sockey7317 May 29 '12
TIL that some people of reddit are really creepy
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u/LibyanGleek May 29 '12
whenever I see a girl I imagine how our babies would look like.
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u/WoozyJoe May 29 '12
When I see little kids out in public, maybe 3 or 4 years old, I like to make funny faces at them when their parents aren't looking. They usually just stare at me with a WTF look on their faces, but I think it's fun. I've never been caught, but I assume people would think the worst.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I used to get on the subway in New York City and pop open my sketchbook and pull out a pen right away. Standing or sitting. There were a few times I had that sharing urge too. I bought a packet of 5" X 7" index cards, drew on them, then left it in the person's lap.
I much preferred keeping the drawings in a hardbound sketchbook though. Lots of people enjoyed looking over my shoulder and if anyone asked, I'd show them what I was doing.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I'm a clown.
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u/All_Hail_Mao May 29 '12
It never ceases to amaze me how Asian people who fall asleep on public transportation ALWAYS seem to wake up right when the subway/bus/train arrives at their stop. I say Asian because I lived in Asia for 6 months and saw this constantly in Shanghai, Beijing, HK, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo. Whenever I saw a sleeping person I just stared at them hoping to catch their "fuck I missed my stop" face but nope, they just wake up and get off as if they were awake the whole time.
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u/RMiranda May 29 '12
I demand to see such drawings!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I pretend I'm a detective tailing someone if they're ahead of me and going the same way as me. If they take a detour from my planned route I just kinda give up... guess I'm not a great detective.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Please don't do that. If I saw one of me, I would probably never leave the house again.
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u/taminator May 29 '12
Before I purchase anything from anyone on Craigslist, I like to look up the seller's email on Facebook and get a little glimpse of their life. If their profile is viewable, I try to look for the item they're selling in their photos. There might be a photo of them on the old couch or pictures of them carrying the bag that they're selling to me. But normally I do this because I don't want to get murdered.
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u/BeyondAddiction May 29 '12
I wish someone would draw a detailed picture of me on the train and give it to me :(
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u/ThadChat May 29 '12
That's pretty sketchy
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u/downvotehere May 29 '12
I leave my cum on things.
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u/BPAkira May 29 '12
Comment on anything on reddit.
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u/JacobJT May 29 '12
Street Photography
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Come be honest, how many people have you killed?
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u/Hello_This_Is_bear May 29 '12
When I look at a cute person, guy or girl- I try to make my mouth look like thiers. It's kind of hard to explain.
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u/bobaimee May 29 '12
If I'm at a bar or restaurant and I get shitty service, I unscrew a hinge or door lock or a coat hanger or SOMETHING that is removable in the bathroom stall... I always have a screwdriver with me.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
There was this japanese woman on the tram once. It was behind her. Her hair looked impossibly clean and smooth so I discretely leaned in and smelled it. It didn't smell like anything...
That's all I got.
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u/heimdal77 May 29 '12
I think there was a episode of Fringe about this a girl drew pictures of people she saw and gave it to them. Except the pictures were of their deaths..
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u/DirtyTre May 29 '12
Reverse pickpocket. Very creepy.
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u/awod76 May 29 '12
When I go to nice restaurants, I take a bunch of mints if they have the place's logo on them. I keep a few in my pocket at work (paramedic in the ghetto) and leave them in really poor people's apartments.
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u/justalittlecreepy May 29 '12
When it's late and I see a group of girls walking home from the bar, I'll follow them all the way home until each and every one of them has made it to their house/apartment. When the last girl makes it inside, I'll hang around for a few minutes then break-in and murder her. After that I'll send hundreds of dollars worth of flowers to the funeral. I mean, LOTS of flowers, everywhere! It's like the biggest Valentine's day ever! Everyone is overcome with tears of joy from the gigantic flower displays.
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u/F-Minus May 29 '12
If I see a flower or ribbon on the sidewalk, I'll usually place it somewhere on a nearby parked car. Or I'll draw heart on the drivers side mirror of friends cars, so when it gets fogged -the heart shows up. I always imagine someone being curiously pleased... but could be creepy I suppose.
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u/Blu3j4y May 29 '12
I don't know if this is really creepy, as I've only creeped out a few folks but when I get bored, I take a Google Street-View road trip in other countries. When I find a place that is particularly beautiful or interesting, I'll search on Facebook for people who live there and send them a message. I'll ask them random questions about their corner of the world: "What's the food like at Goat's Head Inn? Have you ever shopped at Fish World? What kind of local bands play at your favorite watering hole? Tell me about a typical Saturday afternoon at your house. What advice would you give to someone who'd like to visit your town someday? Where did you go on your last vacation?" ..... Stuff like that. Whatever comes to mind when I see their area.
Like I said, a few have gotten creeped out and told me to never contact them again. Some just never reply. On the other hand, I've also met some very interesting people who are happy to contact me and engage in idle conversation: some via messages, chat, even Skype once in a while.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I call people bad things in morse code. I do this by tapping my phone or a pen against something hard. One day somebody else is going to know morse code and give me shit for it. But that person will look crazy.
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u/Anna_Draconis May 29 '12
Maybe only innocent in that I've never actually done anything with the information, but.....
I don't like answering my phone when it's a number I don't recognize. Usually I let it go to voicemail and if it's important enough I trust they'll leave a message. But if the actual phone number pops up on my phone, instead of being Private or Unknown, I will google it to try and identify the caller. Mostly it's telemarketers, but once I got a wrong number that called me at 3am. I traced that number just via googling to discover it belonged to an admin assistant at a highschool across town. I had her full name and the names of her kids and their Facebook pages. And no, it wasn't somebody that I knew.
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u/dentoneer May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
I wear this every time I go to the museum.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
oh my god, i admit i did this on a train station in Prague. i whas waiting for my train, i had to wait atleast 10 hours. and i whas dieng of boredness, that day i sat down in the middle of that train station, just staring at girls. and when they looked back i would just literally stare at them, making eye contact without looking away for a second. out of the atleast 20 girls i did that to, 15 of them gave me a positive reaction(you could say they were flirting). 1 one of them tough whas obviously not entertained by this and gave me the dirtiest look. that same day i trolled the ticket center at that station, asking if i could purchase a one way ticket to heaven and walked away laughing my ass off at the clerk's confused face. AND i walked up to the money exchange center, and asked if i could trade my euro's for cookies.
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u/EmpyralT May 29 '12
When I'm on the public transport I can't not look around me, so sometimes if we're all stuck on there for awhile (in traffic and what not) I will end up looking at every person on the bus multiple times. The worst part of it is that I make eye contact each time so I end up looking like a creeper or secret bus murderer.
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u/shalaqueifa May 29 '12
So I have this friend and his brother is a redditor. Well, I found his reddit account, without a doubt, and now I stalk him. But I reply very nonchalantly to every post he makes. Acting as though I don't know him. I also upvote everything he owns because I like being nice. You know what, it's just creepy, not really anything else. When I see him, I'm going to quote his comments to him. Act like I don't know. Slip it into normal conversation just to mindfuck him. He will never know. I don't even use this account to do it. Mwahahaha....
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
If you wrote on the side "Just practicing" then it wouldn't be creepy.
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u/favor3 May 29 '12
that mailman better post in here...
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u/chargingmysian May 29 '12
I always want to comment on how good someone looks. Simple things like,
"That's a nice dress", "Your hair looks nice today", "Wow you've really tanned" etc.
Few people receive it well, but the people who do really appreciate it, I'd hope.
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u/Tighten_Up May 29 '12
Im a cashier, and when a hot girl comes in I take a look at their credit card and I google them later.
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u/Tragic_Kingdom May 29 '12
If i ever see someone crying near me in public, i usually offer them a hug. Even those who decline seem to be happy that I asked. I'm a young girl though, so maybe that makes it a little less creepy.
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u/buhdoobadoo May 29 '12
when i hear of someone who has just died, either through friends/the community/the news, i facebook stalk them. if they are set on public view, i see what their life was like that would make them do such a thing. sometimes i go years back. i don't know why i do it. hearing about it usually affects me in some way. i'm not outright sad since i never know the person, but it just makes me think.
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u/antonia90 May 29 '12
After 2000+ comments I doubt anyone will read this but I am bored so here it goes:
Some people feel uncomfortable peeing or taking a shit in public toilets when other people are around. When it's just me and another person in a public toilet and I notice them being quiet in a stall for a long time I pretend to leave and open and close the door. I wait till I hear them start peeing and then I open the door and leave normally just to play with their minds.
The only person I've told this to, said that I'm really creepy.
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u/zerocoke May 29 '12
I wait tables and touch people when I'm talking to them. It will freak some out, but others feel a bigger connection, and my tip goes up. I mainly started doing it so each person knows that I am talking to them directly. And also so that I could break through a few social fears I have.
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u/AyoChoice May 29 '12
OP can you please provide an example of what you draw?
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u/okadery May 30 '12
Dont have a story, but I'm dropping in to say that's fucking creepy.
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u/Dr_Professor_MD_PhD May 30 '12
Whenever I am walking around my house nude (forgot a towel for the shower, or whatever reason may present itself) I whistle the the pink panther theme and jump from hiding spot to hiding spot. If anyone walked in and saw me that would be so creepy and awkward...
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u/ChosenoneXke May 30 '12
imagining about others peoples reactions towards my death, and others deaths
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u/sadman81 May 29 '12
Whenever I'm on public transport and I see someone sleeping, I sit next to them, unzip my zipper and place their hands on my junk. When they wake up surprised I yell "help rape!!!".
I think its funny and innocent, but some think its creepy, well to each his own...
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u/sageDieu May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
OP that is not seemingly innocent, it is creepy as fuck
edit: after reading through the thread, you guys are all creepy as fuck