If a stranger is acting loony, but not threatening, do you find it disturbing?

I would be concerned for their safety, as well as others.

Yes because you never know what they might do. Crazy people are unpredictable.

I find it loony.

No, I would either find it amusing or feel bad for them.

> Yes because you never know what they might do. Crazy people are unpredictable.
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Very true!

No.

I see enough of 'em, living in a big city. They could be off their meds or have any number of mental problems. Or be drunk or substance-abusers. I see them talking to themselves all the time but some rant and rave to or in the general direction of complete strangers also. So best to keep one's distance. We have lots of homeless here, some attempting to camp in the larger parks also.

In Lansing there was a homeless lady that walked really fast and talked to herself just as fast, you would see her all over the city. We named her "walkie talkie".

I also see plenty of crazies on the buses. I often wonder how they got that way and how they manage to survive out on their own like that.

Usually the loony-acting people I see are mentally ill and homeless. I find it a little disturbing because they clearly aren't getting the help they need. I never see regular, sane adults acting loony. Sorry, LindaH. You must be the only one.

Because most people forgot how to have fun.

It doesn't disturb me at all, even if I can tell they are mentally ill. I wish more people weren't afraid to act a little crazy (for the heck of it) so that it would be seen as fun-loving carefree behavior more than disturbing behavior.

Yes, you're right, I don't act this way because I don't know how to have fun! Or maybe I just don't consider their behavior loony.

I probably should have worded this differently. Odd, maybe. Sane people can act oddball for fun, and some people think it is 'loony' and other people realize that it is just someone being carefree. Those are people who wouldn't be disturbed by it.

Define loony....and if they appear to be unstable, they need assistance and it isn't just about 'me' then.Sometimes it really 'is' about other people's needs.

If they are acting unusual, odd, bizarre... I probably should have used those words instead of loony.

Depends on what they are doing and why I am being exposed to them. Am I at work and they are a customer in the store? Am I passing them in a parkinglot at the grocery?

I live in Louisiana. I'm used to it.

Nope. Loons are cool.

No

Nah, I'm usually at the Alto Bar and the stranger is usually wasted. So I laugh.

I've lived in NYC and Hollywood and nothing appears odd to me. If fact, I (like most people) hardly notice.

Here, they do. The things people get worked up about... whoof.

No I find them annoying. I want to punch them in the face!

It depends. If it's in a wide open space then no, but in an enclosed space like a bus or train, very much so, because you don't know what they're capable of, even if they are at first sight unthreatening.

It depends on where I am and what they are doing. If I'm alone in a fairly isolated place (e.g. the bus station, late at night) then anyone acting at all out of the ordinary is a bit disturbing, especially if they are trying to talk with me. That's inherently threatening though. The same goes for if someone was acting strangely outside my window after dark.

On a hospital ward (especially a psychiatric ward) then no, I don't find it disturbing.

Depend on whether or not it is one of my tenants.