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I am feeling pretty strange about something that happened today.

I got on a bus I normally don't get in order to get to my nephew's baseball game.  I entered the money and before I got to a seat, some woman called to me with "hey dude" or something.... Grabbed my arm and started telling me she knew me... That we went to the same college but I couldn't remember her.... The college she mentioned -- I last attended a decade ago and not for the major she said I was in.  She then told me to pay the bus driver 50 cents for her toll.  I said "I don't know you".  She said "I know you, pay him 50 cents."  I said "but... I... don't know you.  I don't remember you."  she said "will you pay him the 50 cents?"  and I replied hesitantly "uh, sure... but I would appreciate it if you let go of me."  Instead of letting go so I could sit and get the change, she said "I need your cell phone number and email so we can catch up."  I blinked and I said "I don't remember you, I don't believe I know you, no offense but if you want 50 cents, so be it but I'm not giving out my number."  She insisted and said she wasn't a scam artist, wasn't out for my personal information (o rly?).  I said "sorry... I'm still not giving that information out".  I reacquired my arm and I sat down bewildered.  I took out my wallet and looked for 50 cents and she got off the bus.  It was the strangest few minutes I've had in a long time.

Was it just over 50 cents? Why was she grabbing and pulling on my arm?  Was she confused? Nothing rang a bell...  None of the proof she gave me fit AND she couldn't accurately draw from what little information I gave her to help me recollect anything...

Today was the first day I didn't have free change in my pants pocket... It was in my wallet.  I don't take my wallet out in public, I don't expose what I got and where I keep it.  Nothing added up, it didn't make sense.  If it was only about money, it should have been only about money.