Fandom encounter in real life

[caffienekitty]

Sharing this because I desperately need to make myself (and a few other people maybe?) giggle.

So I went to a Chinese restaurant to pick up a little takeout the other day, year of the Dragon and all, and since that was the first time I'd been to an actual Chinese restaurant since I started watching Sherlock, I was thinking as I approached the place, "Oh I'll have to make sure to look at the bottom third of the door handle to see if it's a good restaurant, just like Sherlock does, har har har."

So I get to the front door.

There is a rubber band wrapped around the bottom third of the door handle.

Not serving any purpose, just hanging out on the door handle in the bottom thirdish region.

Me: *stops dead, blinks* "...but, but, what does that mean?!??" O.o

Other customers: *edging away*

(In retrospect, I think it was probably a commentary on the state of the chow mein. XD)

Comments

[anniehow.livejournal.com]

Dude... I've found a "Moriarty was real" flier on the street and I'VE BEEN WAITING TO SQUEE ABOUT IT ever since! It had little "I believe" tags... Obviously I took one ;-DDD

[caffienekitty]

Fliers and buttons are cool.

[samalander-dawn.livejournal.com]

hee!
man, I didn't even _think_ to look when we got Chinese.... clever you!

[caffienekitty]

Not clever so much as obsession.

[ciaranbochna.livejournal.com]

Ok that's it, next time I am casing the usual Chinese joint;)

[caffienekitty]

It was a very bizarre moment.

[teardrop-tattoo.livejournal.com]

Oh Gawd, this makes me smile. :D

The other day my friend said something about Mercuary, and how it can kill you if there's huge amounts, and I grinned and went 'Neat'.

Everyone just stared at me. :/ I felt alone in my fan-ness.

[caffienekitty]

Yeah, people tend to misunderstand things like that. XD

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omyg!!!

This is like a Sherlockian puzzle come to life!

Do you think a sekrit fellow fangirl put the rubberband there? (You know, I thought of this stupid doorhandle thing several times over the past few days? Perhaps because it's Chinese New Year and there are banners everywhere.)

I'm planning a visit to Speedy's and can't help thinking that I might run into hordes of furtive doorhandle checkers there, hahahahha.

o god what has become of us

[caffienekitty]

*envies you for being in visiting range of Speedy's* I've gone on Google street view 'walking tours' of the area so often, it's sad really. XD

o god what has become of us

Something wonderful, I think. :-)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Google Street walking tours!!!!!!

*forgets to post rest of comment*

[caffienekitty]

It's fun! Lately I've been getting a high view of London, dropping the little street view guy in a random location, and trying to figure out how to get to either Speedy's or the Sherlock Museum at 221b Baker.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

o my god you are playing The Chase from 1x01 with little street view guy.

!!!!111!

*is seriously impressed by your fandom credentials*

[caffienekitty]

Nothing that organized. Also, street view doesn't include rooftops. XD

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omg if we could stalk The Rooftop. Surely, google satellite view might reveal it?? Where in heck was that filmed? Do we know? (Wales???)

[seergirl.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of being in college and writing Bad Wolf on random walls.

[caffienekitty]

Graffiti's a bit much, unless it was chalk.

[seergirl.livejournal.com]

A shocking number of restaurants in the town where I went to college had a "right on our walls please!" policy. I can think 4 off the top of my head, and I'm sure there there were more. It was sort of a weird liberal hippy kinda place in retrospect. The rest of the time it was chalk, I promise (one of the up sides of being an art student for two years, you always have chalk or charcoal on you somewhere)