This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at BC chapter.

I was in line for the bathroom one night when I witnessed a random drunk girl squirm her way into her friend’s bathroom stall. It was then that I was confronted with the fact that she wasn’t wearing any underwear. I found that out the hard way. I tried and failed to make it my Snapchat story for the night (major d*** move, I know). And after my utter state of horror passed, I laughed and thought to myself people are weird. Seriously, it seems like I’m always texting my friends about the “new weirdo of the week.” I’ve compiled a list of the top five weirdos that have made my hall of fame:

1. Have you ever been to downtown Boston at 2am (after all of the clubs and bars have kicked out all of the drunkards for closing time)? Well I have. And if you aren’t one of those drunkards, it’s quite the sight to see. I partially feared for my life as I tried to hail a cab on Tremont Street. And I know I can be dramatic, but after seeing someone with a bleeding hand walk by and being proposed to by a complete stranger, you’d be freaked out. I honestly thought I would never get home until I looked across the street to the Boston Common. There was a girl still dressed up from going out instating a planking competition with her friends. As I watched her plank, I knew everything would be okay.

2. I know we’re young and our hormones are still racing, but Lower is not the place to provocatively feed your loved one. That’s right, last night I saw some girl feeding this guy, presumed to be her boyfriend. And with every chew, I felt like I needed to leave because I was invading such a private moment (which they made public). Take your food to go and do that in the privacy of your own home.

3. In Miami, we have a way to refer to someone who takes his/her shoes off at inappropriate locations: pata sucia. Let’s say you and your friends are out clubbing and you see some girl who couldn’t handle her liquor, taking away all of her inhibitions, thus prompting her to remove her shoes at the club. She probably sticks around dancing with her friends, risking several foot fungi from the club bathroom (but that’s of no concern to her) because she is a pata sucia. Pata sucia literally means dirty paw in Spanish, which makes the term all the more hilarious. I thought my days of seeing pata sucias were over, until one day at the Plex. I saw some guy traipsing around the Plex with no shoes on in broad daylight. I have no idea what he was thinking. But this bizarre behavior definitely granted him a place in the Weirdo Hall of Fame.

4. I know this is my second Plex story, but whatever. I guess a lot of unique folk frequent the gym. I will never ever forget the day I saw a man dressed in business clothes on the stationary bike. Yes, he was wearing a button down shirt, tie, khakis, and dress shoes while exercising his heart out on the machine. And his tan leather briefcase leaned on the side of his bike. I actually admire his ambition because when I forget to pack my gym clothes, I just go home and watch TV. But no, this man stuck it out through thick and thin. Or he was sticking it to the man by not conforming to the Lululemon/Nike theme we have going on at the Plex. And for that I applaud him. He made my day.

5. “Get out of the way. Get out of the way! GET OUT OF THE WAY!” Whenever I sensed a lull in the conversation on a walk from Lower to Walsh, I would blurt out this phrase at an escalating volume and run for my life. I’m not sure why, but my friends and I always found it exceptionally amusing to look at the confused faces of onlookers as I would race past them blaring for them to get out of the way. My personal favorite was when I did this and ran into a bathroom. It seriously never gets old. I feel like that qualifies me for my own “Weirdo Hall of Fame.”

In the words of Jessica Day (New Girl), “I like being weird.” Seriously, life would be so boring if people weren’t unique and weird in their own way. I love knowing I can walk outside and observe some sort of strange behavior. Whether it’s someone engaging in some serious nose picking or someone skipping through the Reservoir (because they prefer it to running). I find comfort in the fact that I’m not the only weirdo out there.

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People Are Weird: The Weirdness Hall of Fame

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