I saw Hikaru Nakamura in a grocery store yesterday

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I saw Hikaru Nakamura at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 

I'm still in shock! Anyone else had similar experiences?

gambit-man
bestpony wrote:

I saw Hikaru Nakamura at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 

I'm still in shock! Anyone else had similar experiences?

That's funny, he's in Tbilisi, Georgia...

macer75
bestpony wrote:

I saw Hikaru Nakamura at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 

I'm still in shock! Anyone else had similar experiences?

lol... good ol' Hikaru hasn't changed one bit! The last I saw him was 20 years ago, when I went to jail for repeatedly failing to pay my parking fines. He was in the cell next to me, and was nearing the end of a long sentence for gang violence and impersonation of authorities. He was the biggest and scariest guy in the jail, and he knew that, so he would keep on taking things from the other inmates. I remember that he did have a strong affinity for chocolate. Once, one of my friends visited and brought me a few Snickers bars. I tried to hide them, but on my way back to my cell one fell out of my pocket, and Hikaru saw it. I was forced to give him everything, because if I didn't he said he would stick a bishop in my %%$. I'd seen him do the same to another inmate, and it wasn't pretty. 

Luckily for me, he was released about two months after I arrived, so I could serve the rest of my sentence in relative peace and quiet. To this day, it looks like Hikaru still enjoys taking chocolate and humiliating people with chess pieces. Like I said, he hasn't changed one bit, and I don't expect him to anytime soon. But I, on the other hand, have changed, at least in one way: from the day I got out of jail, I've never failed to pay a parking fine.

Me_Named_Wert
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bestpony

@Gambit man, obviously a humanistic and caring person as me would slightly modify the exact location and time in such a way as to protect Nakamura from stalkers, without needing to compromise the authenticity of this weird encounter. Despite his suboptimal behaviour, it is not OK for that reason to send stalking fanboys to hunt him down. Stalker...

bestpony

What a moving story Macer. Obviously this goes back very long, farther than most of us could even imagine. Such horrific conditions can really change a man. I'm glad to hear it influenced you for the better, and you can now live an honest and fruitful life as a good citizen. Shame the same isn't true for our friend here, but at least it seems to have perfected his handling of chess pieces, as can clearly be seen in his furiously rapid and relentlessly accurate style of play today.

Thank you for sharing your story.

gambit-man
bestpony wrote:

@Gambit man, obviously a humanistic and caring person as me would slightly modify the exact location and time in such a way as to protect Nakamura from stalkers, without needing to compromise the authenticity of this weird encounter. Despite his suboptimal behaviour, it is not OK for that reason to send stalking fanboys to hunt him down. Stalker...

lol... trolling really has reached a new level...

FortunaMajor
bestpony wrote:

@Gambit man, obviously a humanistic and caring person as me would slightly modify the exact location and time in such a way as to protect Nakamura from stalkers, without needing to compromise the authenticity of this weird encounter. Despite his suboptimal behaviour, it is not OK for that reason to send stalking fanboys to hunt him down. Stalker...

*hiding a smile.

FortunaMajor

He really might have.

president_max

Mmmm ... Chocolate ...

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president_max

I want my chocolate

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BlargDragon
macer75 wrote:
bestpony wrote:

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Macer: Prison certainly changes a man. Seven years in I developed the ability to talk to animals. I was able to get out early through the prison yard legal counsel of a squirrel that liked to hang out and eavesdrop by the University of Virginia School of Law.

 

Bestpony: It's very considerate of you to protect his current location from throngs of fans. However, anyone who's attempting to acquire chocolate in an illicit manner probably deserves mob justice. Which Georgia is Tbilisi in, anyway? The one partly occupied by Coca Cola headquarters or the one partly occupied by Russian troops?

oldaccount2005

lol Naku sounds really weird xD

 

FortunaMajor

I saw Flying Lotus at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 

What is this about???

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta 

tittiesnxans
This is just a huge scam. You think I couldn't recognize this nonsense meme?
FortunaMajor

I thought that was real at first.

Ofgeniuskind_closed

HA! that's nothing I saw urmom and she proceeded to tell me to fight her because her name is JOHNITA CENA!!!!  then she ripped off her shirt and then got in wrestler pants and dived at me so I I proceeded by running out of the store screaming

FortunaMajor
Ofgeniuskind wrote:

HA! that's nothing I saw urmom and she proceeded to tell me to fight her because her name is JOHNITA CENA!!!!  then she ripped off her shirt and then got in wrestler pants and dived at me so I I proceeded by running out of the store screaming

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Endapuppy
Was Hikaru Nakamura in Star Trek?
Ofgeniuskind_closed

 I can image this 

Warp speed mr nakamura 

nakamura sez: SCREW YOU KIRK IM A IM!