What’s the most random experience you’ve had with a complete stranger?

I talked to the woman next to me on an extremely open seated flight, for the entire time. Nobody was within rows of us. Upon landing we somehow pieced together that we were neighbors and best friends in the 4th grade. At the time of reconnecting she lived in a different continent, and we hadn’t seen each other in over 20 years.

one time a stranger at a coffee shop just started telling me their life story outta nowhere, like we were best friends. still have no idea why they picked me, but it was honestly kinda wild.

I went to a water park and went on an attration when you got on an innertube and would travel from little swimming pool to little swimming pool via these slides built in the ground. It was packed with people and you had no way of controlling where you were going on when your tube would suddenly get on the slide and swiftly move down. People were hitting the sides and getting tipped over. There was another woman there and it was like we had this unspoken agreement all of a sudden to look out for each other and try to help each other, even for only a couple minutes.

A stranger complimented me and it honestly made my whole day

Sat beside each other in a theatre, watched the worst movie ever created by man, decided to go for coffee after, jokingly said we see each other the next year. Same time, same place. Forgot all about it and then ran into each other at the library exactly a year later, had coffee that went on for hours, never saw her again.

My dad and I went to pick up my first van I was buying from a guy on fb marketplace around my age (23ish) at the time. When bargaining the price, the guy dropped it a lot out of panic, so we when we gave him the cash we gave him a little extra just as a nice deed as he was really friendly and selling his first van. Fast forward about 5 years… my dad passed away, and a day after he passed I got a message request on facebook from the van guy saying “this is random but I just wanted to say I never forgot how kind it was that you and your dad gave me that extra bit of cash for the van.” And saying my dad was a legend. We had absolutely no contact since the day I bought the van.

This elderly woman was just sitting down at a mall so I bought a slice of carrot cake nearby and used it as a starter. Then we just started talking about random things. Went on for 3 days then I didn’t see her again. I still think about her.

walking with someone i don't know at night because i was depressed

1) When I was a child, pre-caller ID, I answered the land-line house phone. The adult caller didn't give her name, but began talking to me like she knew me. At first I guess I was too embarrassed to admit I didn't know the person, so there was a bit of small talk between us, the kind that suggests familiarity with one another. I think the more we talked, though, the more we realized something was amiss, until I plucked up the courage to ask who the hell it was. Turns out she dialed the wrong number, and we were both just two morons too embarrassed to admit we didn't know the other despite feeling like we should've. 2) Another, though not with a complete stranger: Picked up the land-line phone receiver at a girlfriend's to make a call but got no dial tone. Pressed the (whatever the name of the button is you depress when you hang up the phone to end the call), but still got no dial tone. As I'm telling GF's parents there's something wrong with the phone, I hear a voice through the receiver. I ask who it is, to which the caller challenged me to do the same. Since I wouldn't expect anyone calling my GF's family home to know me, I just did like they did on *The Cosby Show* and said Johnson residence. Turns out it was GF's sister and I had picked up the receiver to make my call at the precise moment her call to the house went though, so I ended up answering her call without the phone even ringing. 3) Dude walks up to me in Walmart and greets me like he knows me, though I don't recognize him. When I ask him how we know each other, he says, "You know the Johnsons?" That was my girlfriend's family name so I said yes. I had briefly spoken to their neighbor once and thought it might be him. So I asked him if it was him, and he said yes. Just to confirm, I mentioned their street name and he says that's the one. We chat briefly and then he suddenly hits me up for money. When I turn him down, his expression goes dead, and he immediately turned heel and leaves. It was only later when I realized he was a scammer who chose Johnson because it's such a common surname that many people would know at least one, and the neighbor/street name was info I volunteered and he merely confirmed. Saw him a month or two later at the same Walmart attempting to run the same scam on another mark.