This is a thread for sharing stories of when you creeped somebody out by mistake.

I'll start.

When I was in college I was sitting next to this girl in one of my lectures. She dropped a pencil on the floor.

Being the gentleman that I am I picked it up.

As I handed it back to her I looked her straight in the eyes, gave a blank stare... and said in a really low voice... "Now you owe me..."

Well... it was supposed to be a joke. But she got completely freaked out and never talked to me again @_@.

-ty[r]ant

United States140 Posts

November 16 2010 22:42 GMT

nice man i like to practice my rapist impressions in class too

DOMINOSC

Canada345 Posts

November 16 2010 22:47 GMT

On November 17 2010 07:42 -ty[r]ant wrote:
nice man i like to practice my rapist impressions in class too

i lawled hard.

ive never really creeped any1 out like this but at work i came of as a douche when a girl was putting stuff away she asked where something went i told her where when she said she hated doing this job i just said "that sucks" and walked away.

i was having a very bad day.

we do talk sometimes now i helped her again after and wasnt a dick about it.

Maedi

United States477 Posts

November 16 2010 22:48 GMT

The worst is when you're staring off into space and then suddenly you snap back into focus and you realize you're staring at someone who's just realized you are seemingly-staring at them. D:

Archas

United States6531 Posts

November 16 2010 22:48 GMT

I take pride in the fact that every person I've creeped out has been the target of a conscious decision to do so. My go-to move is to look at the person in question. Once they turn and see me (if they aren't already), I make uncomfortable eye contact, and begin to slowly smile, keeping eye contact all the while. And by slow, I mean sloooooooow. Like, 20 seconds from ignition to completion.

Generally, my mission is successful, and the target is creeped out, but sometimes I giggle and it backfires. The number 1 rule is to maintain discipline when engaging in stealth-smiling.

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

November 16 2010 22:50 GMT

Stay classy TL.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

November 16 2010 22:50 GMT

I bought a new car and around that same time a coworker started noticing a car with the same make, model, color as mine driving around their neighborhood. Suspected me of stalking them - I don't even live in the same city.

Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

November 16 2010 22:51 GMT

I watch an action movie and I get all stoic and stone faced. That's pretty much all it takes, people tend to avoid me after that. Maybe when I think I'm looking like the terminator other people think I look like the una bomber.

Corrupt

Bulgaria1312 Posts

November 16 2010 23:15 GMT

One night in my neighbourhood, I was calmly heading home with a cigarette hanging in my mouth. I stopped (just next to some car) to pick the lighter from my jacket but I accidently pulled my knife instead. The next thing I heard was the car doors locking, followed by the panic scream of the woman inside.

Clearout

Norway1060 Posts

November 16 2010 23:23 GMT

#10

Last weekend I was at a bar and I was thinking profusely about something in the university. Doing so I kind of went blank and stared out into nothing. I was apperently also looking rather angry with my brows furrowed. I didn't realise I was staring madly in the direction of a guys head, and he thought I was gonna go and hit him or something. So he came over and was really terrified and apologized (for what I have no idea). I didn't realise I could look scary, I'm not a big fellow or anything. I explained to him after that, that I was just staring blankly but he was still kinda freaked out and overly polite.

Death stare!

Cel.erity

United States4890 Posts

November 16 2010 23:33 GMT

#11

I have this habit of falling asleep with my eyes open. Like, wide open. I can be at a party, holding a drink, totally asleep while people talk to me and I just kind of mumble back. It's also really awkward when it happens in bed with a girl; can you imagine waking up and seeing the guy you're in bed with just staring at you? But yeah, it's never caused any breakups or anything, just a little creepy.

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

November 16 2010 23:37 GMT

#12

A few minutes ago I just called a friend who have a similar name to my girlfriend and called her "My love". I'm pretty sure she was creeped out as hell. I only noticed the confusion after I hung up.

vizniz

United States120 Posts

November 16 2010 23:38 GMT

#13

I was ringing up a customer at work. While she was digging through her purse for her credit card, I spaced out. Turned out I ended up staring right at her infant child, right in the eyes. I didn't notice, so I didn't break eye contact. I eventually snapped to when the kid started crying.

Yurie

11822 Posts

November 16 2010 23:40 GMT

#14

On November 17 2010 07:48 Maedi wrote:
The worst is when you're staring off into space and then suddenly you snap back into focus and you realize you're staring at someone who's just realized you are seemingly-staring at them. D:

I do this once a month or more.

The best one I've done without meaning to was when I was watching a movie in the cinema, think it was speed 2. It entered an action scene with a boat crashing into a harbor. You are supposed to wonder if they will survive and so on. I laughed out loud, really loudly, during that entire suspenseful scene. It was just so overdone that it went into parody realm.

57 Corvette

Canada5941 Posts

November 17 2010 00:04 GMT

#15

Basically this. I'm staring randomly at the window in my English class, and one of the girls that sit near me thinks im giving her an evil stare.

Piste

6175 Posts

November 17 2010 00:05 GMT

#16

On November 17 2010 08:33 Cel.erity wrote:
I have this habit of falling asleep with my eyes open. Like, wide open. I can be at a party, holding a drink, totally asleep while people talk to me and I just kind of mumble back. It's also really awkward when it happens in bed with a girl; can you imagine waking up and seeing the guy you're in bed with just staring at you? But yeah, it's never caused any breakups or anything, just a little creepy.

I do this too! never happened in party I think, but I've heard from my ex that I sometimes sleep with eyes open.

ShoCkeyy

7815 Posts

November 17 2010 00:12 GMT

#17

Once I wasn't paying attention at who I was texting, I thought the last person to text me was my gf, but it wasn't, it was my co-worker. So basically, my gf and I usually play around about like killing each other after we say something stupid. Well I text back my co-worker by mistake and had written in the text message: "I'm going to stab you for being stupid." Yea, after that she never text me till she got comfortable with me again and basically proved to her that I meant to text my gf. Pretty awkward...

forgotten0ne

United States951 Posts

November 17 2010 01:01 GMT

#18

When I was in high school, I realized I had this inate ability to read people, and could often creeo people out by telling them I knew things about them they never told me. At one point, I made a money making game out of it on my bus, where I would tell random people 20 things about them they wouldn't think I'd know, after sutting next to, and talking to them for 1 bus ride. I had 3 strikes, and if I didn't strike out, they'd give me 5 bucks. Needless to say I was the creepiest kid ever to a lot of people. On the other hand, it got me 2 girlfriends, and a full-time job as "AIM Relationship Therapist".

boonrebU

United States32 Posts

November 17 2010 02:42 GMT

#19

On November 17 2010 08:33 Cel.erity wrote:
I have this habit of falling asleep with my eyes open. Like, wide open. I can be at a party, holding a drink, totally asleep while people talk to me and I just kind of mumble back. It's also really awkward when it happens in bed with a girl; can you imagine waking up and seeing the guy you're in bed with just staring at you? But yeah, it's never caused any breakups or anything, just a little creepy.

Wait, what? Yeah I guess I would be pretty surprised

pinenamu

United States770 Posts

November 17 2010 02:47 GMT

#20

LOL these stories. One time I followed this guy that looked exactly like a friend. I was calling out his name and noticed he walked faster. I was following him laughing, thinking he was walking faster as a joke.. What a creeper I was lol