What on earth is that chair doing there?

When I lived in Arizona, they decided to put some "art" on one of the freeways that went around the city. Imagine my surprise when I saw a toilet atop the freeway wall!! A little time later there was a giant coffee pot, then a sink, then a huge empty urn. The freeway was littered with bathroom and kitchen equipment and they spent a couple million dollars on that junk--all from someplace back east, not even by a local artist. It all came down a few years later, what a waste of money but Arizona is very good at that. It was tasteless and unremarkable except for the shock value.

Yes, alot of the time. Recently i saw one of those big round chairs w/frame made of cane. It was sitting way out near the edge of a property like near the alley. not close enough to be thrown out as trash. I and everone i know of loves these chairs. Why would it be way out away from the house? Or outside at all. As if the owners didnt care about it. I couldnt really tell if it was damaged or not. But if it rained or snowed the cushion sure would be ruined. It just seemed odd to me that they had one of thoses chairs out in the yard very far from the house. Also today walking to the bus stop i saw a little girls coat laying out in a back yard at the corner of the property near the sidewalk. Since its been cold the last few days i didnt understand why a little girl would take their coat off outside and leave it laying on the ground.

Lol no I certainly haven't, well apart from Gissi in the Pillow case lol But no and what a strange Place to leave a Chair I have to admit that is certainly very strange Maybe it had been on the road and someone put it there out of the way ????

I was driving down a street when I saw a bright colored toy on the sidewalk I pulled into the parking lot and drove back up and had the roomie's nephew jump out and get it... After picking it up, I could well see WHY it was on the sidewalk - it made LOTS of noise at the least provocation (like turning a corner.) However, we took it home, gave it to the dog and she LOVED it. It was one of the few toys she didn't disembowel, and she played with that until the nice stopped, it barked, went "weeee" and other stuff when it moved or was tossed. She would throw it up in the air, it was fun while it lasted and it lasted a long time... wish we could find another - I'd even BUY it!

I have not seen such a thing, but if I saw one, I would think that it must be weird that the stuff was not in the place where it should belong to. Based on the situation you have observed, I guess that maybe it was a chair that was abandoned. Could it be?

yup, I saw lots of them on our house alone. On streets, pedestrian lanes were swarm with vendors. On schools were students flock on internet cafe and on casinos where government officials play.

Well my husband used to hitch hike, and that's where you have to hitch hike.. on the on ramps, so maybe someone was waiting for a ride there ... the chair could have come from someones backyard cause he was tired of standing, maybe he stole it.. or... maybe it DID fall off someone truck, and another person seen it there so they where nice enough to stand it up incase whoever lost it was looking for it! YEA! I have seen some weird things and thought WTH when i seen them, but off the top of my head i can't recall any except the most recent.. a small childs bike was in the bushes near my house for like a week. Not in someones yard.. and not really in plain site, but if you where walking close you could see it. The bike was small enough that i'd HOPE the parent of the bike owner would not have let them ride the bike alone.. So maybe a BIG kid moved it from the small childs yard (which would be rude and mean) and i hope the bike got returned to the owner.. it was a nice little bike.

It could have been anything. I just might have fallen out of a vehicle. This is kinda off subject but my dad ran into things like this before. He said that after his grandparents adopted him and he became of age to go out and do things at night he snuck out as much as possible. He said he could brag that the house would be darker than night and he knew his way around without even turning a light on. I laughed and thought he was crazy. He said that it had been going on for a while and one particularly drunk night he came home and tripped over the love seat by the back door in the kitchen. My grandma got out her wet dish towel and beat him senseless. I laughed so hard that I just about peed my pants. I also encountered a situation like yours. My friend and I were on our way to a club and stopped by a truck stop to grab some stuff and there was an actual couch right by the diesel pumps. I thought that was odd and said something to the cashier who told me that they were waiting on someone to pick it up. Some lady was arguing with a guy in her truck and when he went in to pay she pushed it off the truck and left him there. She said that man made a phone call and started walking towards the highway and didn't even look back at the couch. I thought it was funny. Stranger things have happened though! Have a good night

Plastic lawn chair and folding chair - came downstairs this morning and they were in my living room. Was wondering if my husband was having a beach party last night. He had brought them out for my friend. The desk chair she was using was hurting her back.

Hi, Hatley! Yes, I have seen many things that did not belong in a particular place. I admit your discussion about the chair on the ramp made me tickle. I have seen many things weird that will make your head spin. I wonder what whom left a chair sitting on a ramp??

We have a portable TV set on the footpath in our street that has been there for a couple of weeks and there is no scheduled household goods pick up any time soon. I think it may be the people who used to live across the road from us who have just moved out. They were notorious for putting old furniture on the street and just leaving it there which made the place look terrible. The council already had a word to them to no avail, they are nice people but extremely inconsiderate when it comes to our street, anyway they’re gone now and left one more item! (LOL)

Good morning Hatley, how about a car floating out to sea. I saw that when the weather had been really bad and a few people had parked in rather stupid places close to the edge of the sea. The road which is well known for flooding in torretential rain runs towards the sea under a small bridge, a couple of cars were stuck under the bridge being pushed by the flood water but one had been pushed right through and was on its way to who knows where. You had to be at the top of the other road to see it.

Hi Hatley That is funny. And with a bus stop just down the road..LOL I have seen things like that before. Here a while back I was driving thru town and saw a recliner chair sitting by a swimming pool. The funny thing about this was a woman reclined in it sunbathing. LOL..I don't think they made recliners for sun bathing do you!..LOL... I started laughing so hard that I had to pull over for a minute to get it out of my system.. Very cute discussion. Keep up the good work. Have a nice day and keep smiling.

Hi Hatley, I truly see this quite frequently and can never quite understand the meaning of it but on telephone wires I would see a pair of sneakers thrown up and over the lines and just hanging there. They don't look as if someone could actually throw them up because the wires are so high up so is it the telephone wire guys that do it? Once I saw a pair of sock thrown up as well. That would probably be one of the strangest out of place thing that I remember seeing. Another is a giant clothes pin statue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is enormous and simply just a clothespin. It looks as though a giant had been doing hanging clothes to dry and dropped a clothespin with it landing upright and someone froze it in place, so it looks odd and out of place to me amongst all the buildings in the city, it needs a clothesline and a giant.

Hi Hatley. Yes, I know I have, but I can't remember any of them just now. I do remember someone on yuwie posted a picture of a toilet pedestal in the middle of a small roundabout. It looked fairly new. One thing we see a number of around here is shopping trolleys dumped on the side of the street. People wheel their groceries all the way home and just dump the trolleys.

Hiya Hatley..Could also have fallen out of the back of someone's pick-up. I see a lot of items on the road that shouldn't be there and pretty much chalk it up to the stuff falling or blowing off an open truck or trailer. Maybe it was tied down but the ties came loose. Orrrrrrrr...if there are houses nearby and there was a windy day, the chair could of blown out of someone's yard.

When hubby and I lived in Arkansas, we had our God kids up that summer and we were going to the store. On the way there, there were some kids toys in the middle of the road! They appeared to be in perfect condition so we stopped and hubby ran to get them, sure enough, they were in perfect working order so we cleaned them all up and gave them to the kids in which they had a blast playing with. One was this recording machine like thing and they constantly recorded themselves while playing with all the other buttons which were nothing more than noise makers. lol

MY neighbours had a couch sitting in their front yard for ages when i lived in the city. It got rained on and everything and people still sat on the icky thing!

that is a very strange one hatley and i can't really match it. here on sunday and saturday mornings there are always various odd items that people have mislayed the night before. some are a little puzzling - like a single sock - how did someone manage to lose a sock but apparently not their shoe? nothing as striking as a chair on a ramp though.

It has happened to me too. When I was coming back home I found in the school not a chair but a bench in the middle of the lane. I looked at it with a puzzled expression, but couldn't really do much. The next day it wasn't there anymore, but I still wonder why was it there.