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What is your most craziest story while being in China?
The craziest 'story', while in China is 'posting anon (-ymously) on anon (-ymous) board'!
Second craziest is ''being carried out of the Hospital drunk, after the sit-down with MD/Hospital's director/leader in Jixian, Hebei. Reason for sit-down was 'practicing MD's English.''
I saw a magic tractor once.
There it was, just driving along a country road....then all of a sudden it turned into a field.
A student of mine with wings of alabaster leaped from my classroom window screaming "Help me Wanda" and was snatched in mid air by a leprechaun wearing Paris tweed and then dropped into the arms of a golden mammoth hanging from the strings of a kite that swooped past narrowly missing a helicopter of the most magnificent golden hue that materialized in mid air beside four horseman in top-hats riding by singing the Hallelujah Chorus.
Other than that, very little comes to mind.
I stepped out of an elevator one day and all the waiting aunties stood back to let me out.
No. that was a dream. Are dreams allowed ?
I had to crouch to do a poo. I couldn't find any cheese. All the bread tasted funny. People were really crap at driving. People talked funny.
My favourite story took place many years ago in a small, provincial city in Heilongjiang. Pedestrian crossings were introduced for the first time at a busy road junction (the type with the red man and green man to indicate when to cross). The locals were enthralled by the entertainment watching the man go from red to green and then back to red. Such was the entertainment, that a large group gathered to watch.
The second strange thing I remember was when I was eating breakfast in the western restaurant of a five star hotel. There was a Chinese guy sitting nearby that hadn't quite grasped the methodology for eating Weetabix. He got himself a plate of dry Weetabix then picked each one up using chopsticks. He then used his cigarette lighter to toast the Weetabix before dipping it is some kind of brown sauce then eating.
I was in a hotpot restaurant once and there was this Chinese man sat near me. It was similar to a Mr.Bean episode. He would wait for me to order or ask for something then he would do the same. He was doing it with me and also another Chinese man near him so he ended up ordering way too much food. Then when he saw someone order a draft beer he was very excited so he asked the waiter for a HOT beer! The waiter told the guy that they don't serve hot beer and the guy got angry and made a scene. Everyone in the restaurant was looking at him and thinking WTF? His wife looked so embarrassed.
Robk:
You mean he actually found someone crazy enough to marry him?
I am more surprised at the fact a woman that married this guy is smart enough to realize he is embarassing.
Got married.
ScotsAlan:
Yup. That`s crazy. Do you remember having to sign the bit of paper to say you were not crazy ? Bit of a catch 22 that one :-)
Hulk:
It asked if I had "manic paycosis." I don't have that. However, I do suffer from manic psychosis. I didn't lie, they just didn't spell it right.
I was in Sichuan for holidays, in a bus, on my way back to Chengdu. It was in the mountains, a place with its lots of land-slides, rock falls and earthquakes. The road is *THE* vital link to civilization for all the villages and towns along thw way.
The bus was cruising along a treacherous section of the road, hahem ... dirt track ... barely large enough for two way traffic. Then the bus stop. I look outside, and I see a massive line of buses, trucks and some cars, two ways. Aya, bad luck, maybe some rocks felt and blocked the road. I decide that it's a good time for a nap. One hour, two hours, I wake up... The bus did not move. Most of the passengers are gone. The passengers of the other buses, blocked like us, are gone. WTF ?
I walk outside of the bus. All the people are massed in the middle of the traffic jam. I walk there. And then I see the cause of the blocked traffic. Two black BMWs, face to face, intact. The two drivers are shouting at each other, to debate who should give way to the other (the road was really narrow at that point with a 300 meters-high cliff). They were at it for 2 hours. They continued one more hour, when somehow they settled this done. Meanwhile, tons of buses and trucks were waiting, both ways. In an area were earthquakes, land-slides, etc are common.
Robk:
A bus ( with no markings) should have just removed its license plate before the owners could see it then push the cars off the side of the cliff and make way.
All the while, you should be taking pictures of their faces while it happens and post it on weibo or something. Instant gold.
I have far too many to just pick one. So I will just pick a few random ones:
- We met some Chinese guys at a club, they took us to a night market. One of them sitting quietly and appearing to slowly pass out... suddenly burst into nut job mode and started punching the guy sitting on the kiddy chair next to him (not with our group or at our table).
The two guys at the other table quickly retaliated and smashed a beer bottle over his head before running off. We did`t know the guy well (just met him) and sent him to the hospital in a cab.
- A group of us foreigners went to a small town in Northern Shanxi that TRULY had never seen foreigners. A group of adults and children followed us non-stop (I mean walking around town and everything) for like a few hours. It started to feel like people of the corn... and we could tell there was something off about the people.
They kind of got a bit aggressive about making friends and tried to grab stuff from our hands and look in our bags. I have been all around China but never encountered such a weird small city. Even the Chinese hikers that were with us thought there was something very wrong there.
- Had a Chinese person hold a door for me once that wasn`t a host or staff member.
DrMonkey:
About Weirdoville... Back in the days, in mountain place, some towns were full of people with stunted development. Those towns typically have just one water spring to drink from, and that particular spring would have a weird mineral composition. Like, no iodine at all, which induce a medical condition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism
The modern version of it would be polluted soil/water with heavy metals. This, or you walked close to a mental institution ^^
As with most, the daily occurences seem to dilute what is considered strange now, but two things come to mind. In a taxi one night with a couple of friends, just approaching midnight and on the way to a chinese nightclub. Stopped at traffic lights when the guy in the car next to us had clocked a taxi full of foreigners, he signalled to wind down the window and when greeting him with a little broken spoken chinese he couldnt be happier. He reached across to the passenger seat where I assumed he would be getting a business card as people often do, but instead passed me something out of the window... it was a sex toy!!! luckily it was obviously new and in an unopened celephane wrapper, traffic lights turned green and we parted ways!
Another time in a tiny little bar, again about midnight some guys with 3 camels trotted past on the road! Wasn't expecting that in a chinese city!
iWolf:
Have you considered that by giving you the sex toy he was really saying "Go f@#k yourself"? Or offering you a sample from his factory?? But definitely a great moment. I hope you are still getting some drinks for this story!
maywood87:
hahaha... yea could have been implying that but from seeing this guy i really dont think he had it in him to think of that hidden message all by himself! To be honest it was over a year and a half ago and forgot about it until seen this post about 'weird' stories!
on the metro, and the aul granny across from me starts munching an onion, seriously, as though it were an apple...sees me looking...offers me one....politely declined
1. Getting mobbed by about 50 people in Nanjing who wanted pictures with these crazy foreigners (I was traveling with 2 other guys), I mean, I have people point at me, comment on me, pictures, the whole thing. But it was bizarre being in the middle of this huge mob.. felt like some A-list star on tour or something. And it was in Nanjing, well developed, modern, wealthy and not some Henan shithole.'
2. Saw somebody taking a dump inside a Haagen Dasz in a an upscale mall.
ScotsAlan:
Did the second experience put you off your chocolate ice cream
Craziest story for me actually happened a few days ago:
I was on my way to work on my electric bike and was going to cross diagnonally on an intersection, (In China, if the traffic light says you can go left, you can make a diagonal turn if you are on the opposide side of the road), where I was waiting at the corner to wait my turn.
Suddenly, about 10-ish feet away from me there was an older man that was also on his electric bike, started to cross the street where the incoming traffic light was flashing green about to turn yellow. As he was crossing the street, suddenly a car that wanted to chase the yellow light speeds, and then screeches his brakes where he slams right into the old man directly infront of me. His electric bike totalled, the man, slams onto the pavement and loads of debris fly everywhere.
Dozens of bike riders on each corner just stare at what just took place and the driver of the black car nonchalantly gets out of his car with his sunglasses with the expression of, "Wtf, he should have seen me..." and doesn't do anything (nor anyone else) to help the man, but just gets on his cellphone and calls someone..
I happen to pass this same intersection everyday for work and everytime I pass by, its a reminder to be safe....
Cuz Chinese drivers are kinda crazy...