Strange questions, anyone?

[Twik]

Every now and then I get asked questions which are just, somehow, surreal - you have to check to make sure someone's not nearby with a hidden video camera. What are the strangest questions you've ever been asked? Mine are:

Have you ever seen your own jawbone?
(Asked by my dentist in the middle of a complicated extraction. Yes, and followed by a demonstration with a mirror.)

How many penguins would you like on that?
(Asked in a dry cleaning establishment, in regards to cleaning my best business suit. Turns out the "penguins" were a measure of the delicacy of the procedure.)

Excuse me, did you happen to lose your snake?
(Asked as I was walking down a path in a park. Someone had just seen one crossing the path, and for some reason thought it belonged to me.)

[ladiedeathe]

While my ex-hubby and I were primative re-enactors:

Is that a real fire? (A tourist, pointing to a woodfire I was using a blow pipe on)
Is that real food? (Another tourist pointing to a cast iron pot of chicken 'n dumplings I was stirring over the fire)

[IndianInlaw]

Ladiedeathe, do you work at a place like Plimoth Plantation?

Your job sounds cool.

[zoidberg]

Working at a cinema sweets counter with a cooler full of glass bottles of soda visibly displayed:

Customer: Are those cans?

[Cupcake Fiend]

Working as a teen at Walgreens, wearing a bright blue polyester smock:

Customer: Hey do you work here?

Nope...I just REALLY like polyester...

[Thipu1]

My favorite strange question came from a library patron who asked

"Were the pyramids really built from the bottom up?"

[sillysquirrel]

I was training a new bartender and we sold wine.

Me: When the bottle is empty put the old corks in a bucket for the owner (he fishes)

Her: Well, where do you get new corks from?

um....the new wine bottles maybe!! 

[IndianInlaw]

"Am I dead?"

(My son as a child, upon tripping and falling)

[Fluffy_Brit_Bunny]

"Are the biscuits shelved alphabetically?'

A customer to my best friend's mum, who was stacking the shelves.

[IndianInlaw]

This is intentionally rude, but I thought it would be fun to add it.

Rude jerk on phone:  "Does the Number 7 bus go to hell?"

Bus company info lady(my mom):  "Yes, get on it."

[ladiedeathe]

Indianinlaw,

No, we belonged to the Old Caintuckee Primatives, a 1790 to 1840 re-enactment group that did the Big Bone Lick Salt Fest and a variety of other local and regional shows (something scheduled every weekend and some weeks year round.) In 1992(I think!) we helped to build the flatboat Living Waters and sailed down the Ohio to Tall Stacks. The book "Northern Kentucky: Looking Toward the New Millenium" has a great pic of us and the boat, and the movie "A River Called Ohio" used us as the flatboat and passengers in the film. Check out this pic of my first wedding party:

[phred246]

Years ago, I was in my office in the School Computer Center, printouts  and flowcharts taped to the wall (Thesis work), computer parts and manuals all over the room, monitor on my desk, and a student walks into the office and asks "Do you know anything about computers?"

[Alida]

"Do you teach martial arts here?"

No, the big sign says, S--- Academy of Martial Arts, but shhh - we're really teaching basketweaving!

[snoopygirl]

This was not only a strange question but slightly rude to boot. I was showing my mom pictures of my reception site since my fiance and his family is doing all the booking. His family ( my future in laws) were in the picture. My dad looks at the one picture which has my future father in law from behind. He asks me can I call him "Baldy?" I don't care if he was joking that didnt sit well with me. I didnt say anything but I wanted to say heck no you cant call him that.

[Clara Bow]

I worked in a pharmacy, I got a million of 'em.
"I've got diarrhea, should I stop taking my Correctal?"
"If I take this codeine can I take Nyquil with it?"
"I need a decongestant without decongestant in it."