A guy at the county fair asked me to make him a solid gold horseshoe.

He was totally serious, offered me $500 for the job, and got upset when I told him that's not how any of this works, so what's the weirdest request you've ever gotten?

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the_sean17d ago

Had a guy ask me to mail a live fish, no box.

sam_rivera17d ago

Okay but @the_sean, was it a serious request? People say weird stuff as a joke all the time. Could have been a prank or someone just messing around. Like, maybe they meant a toy fish or a picture of a fish. Taking it literally seems like a stretch. Not everything online is a real crisis.

thea2469d ago

Oh man, that gold horseshoe story is wild but I actually get it. See, the funny thing is that $500 is way, way off for the material cost alone, forget the work. Gold is crazy expensive. So that guy wasn't just wrong about how it works, his math was in a whole other universe. That's the kind of weird request that sticks with you because of the total disconnect from reality.