The strangest thing that ever happened to me

This is a true story.

In the late 1980s, I was a student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. I was waiting in a hallway in the Arts and Communications Building for a friend when a door opened. A guy who looked somewhat familiar looked up at clock in the hallway and asked, "Is that the correct time?"

I looked at my watch and said, "Yeah."

"Thanks," he said, and ducked back in.

I then remembered that Robert Shields, of Shields and Yarnell, a pantomime team, was performing that night on campus, and I remembered his face from their 1970s TV show.

It then struck me what I had done.

I had given the time of day to a mime.

Never done it since.