WTF in 2012

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just now went to the Sketchy-Mart to buy a pack of cigarettes, despite my intent to swear off them. As I exit and approach my car, a tiny, curvy, hijab-sporting woman runs up to me.

"Hey!" she calls in a vaguely Northern African accent, "One dallah for a cigarettes?"

Mildly confused, I say "You want a cigarette?"

"No," she says, "I want a dallah for buy cigarettes."

I say, "Oh, sure, I'll give you a dollar."

Then she peers at my throat and says "Nice necklace! I have same one!" and pulls aside her hijab to show me her five-fingered hand of Eris.

I say "Thank you!" and she says "Thank you! Happy New Year!"

I hand her a dollar, and she runs into the store. I proceed to my car and drive home.

[Pæs]

 

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

how... odd

[navkat]

She's doing it right.

[Telarus]

NICE.

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[navkat]

Aaaaand she got a dollar out of you.  

[Suu]

...Wow.

I think we have a year of weird^TM on the way, folks.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

O.o If I were the sort of person who looked for omens and portents in things like this; I'd be stocking up on Pepsi, popcorn, and Hazmat suits right now.

[BadBeast]

A Dollar for cigarettes? They're £7.50 a pack here!

[Richter]

We are everywhere, and we were the last to know.  Figures.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

...Wow.

I think we have a year of weird^TM on the way, folks.

If Timewave zero is correct then 2012 is going to be the weirdest year in the history of man.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

NICE.

Permission to repost as a quote from Empress Nigel.

I missed this, and yes, of course.

[Oysters Rockefeller]

That is an excellent story.