Thread:SOLONM/@comment-32738051-20160906123946

Thank you for the voodoo collection and yummy dinner, Solon! 😍🎁

I have a funny story...well, it's actually a friend's funny story. He's a weirdness magnet and, like me, has attended a lot of sci-fi conventions. There was one he attended in New Orleans once, pre-Katrina, with some friends and they decided to have dinner one night in the French Quarter. As they were seated at the table, this Creole black man walked up behind my friend, proceeded to stroke his fingers through my friend's hair (my friend has a Beatles' like mop top, lots of hair), and then stopped and said to my friend, "Is it voodoo for you?" And then he just left. Several of my friend's friends had weapons on them and they not only had their hands on them but were almost out of their seats by the time it was over. But nothing came to blows, much to the relief not only of them but also the restaurant's wait staff. 😲 I have no idea what I would have done in such a situation but I'm sure I would have found it pretty freaky too. Anyway, we all get great laughs about it to this day. And my friend is still a weirdness magnet, though that was the only time something quite like that happened to him. 😉 