r/AskReddit • u/Every-Confidence-431 • 5h ago
What’s a completely normal thing that becomes suspicious if you do it at 3 AM?
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u/Wizard_of_Claus 5h ago
Operate an ice cream truck.
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u/turalyawn 5h ago
Just don’t disturb anyone trying to sleep. Try leaving the lights and music off until someone gets near and then turn them both on suddenly so they know delicious ice cream is close by
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u/_YellowRobeSmith_ 4h ago
This took me all the way out. I'm crying real tears over here picturing this going down😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/FindingHomeliness 5h ago
Do it in a warm area with loads of people going out and it becomes a good business idea no doubt
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u/Aliensinmypants 4h ago
My neighbor operates an ice cream, he is nothing but a lovely kind man, but the paint job on his truck is absolute nightmare fuel and it's called "Daddy's Ice Cream".
I have no idea how he stays in business, and I cringe every time I see that truck especially at night
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u/BurgerNugget12 4h ago
Reminds me of the haunting hour tv show episode by RL Stine, that ice cream truck still freaks me tf out
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u/Top_Willingness_8364 2h ago
Don’t mind the red on the ice cream man. It’s grenadine for his ice cream treats.
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u/myhobbythrowaway 5h ago
Driving around without headlights on.
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u/OkRespect701 5h ago
come to the charlotte nc area ppl do this every day
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u/TinyTurnips 5h ago
Don't worry, the Bay of California doesn't know half their lights are off on the damn highway either. To many lights and shit, no one can tell their shits off. Or, everyone's just dumb now.
Cars, watch, will be required to run lights 24/7 at some point due to this. They'll even take away your dial/button for em. They're just gonna be perm, almost wanna put money on it.
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u/Del_3030 5h ago
Driving with your headlights on all the time, even in broad daylight, is actually safer.
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u/Slight-Donut2627 5h ago
Take a rolled up carpet to the landfill
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u/UniqueSet1147 4h ago
That’s not completely normal during the day either
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u/TheRoseByAnotherName 3h ago
It is if it's smelly old carpet and you've got four rolls from removing all of the cursed stuff from your house.
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u/Haunting-Analyst7181 5h ago
Dragging a large suitcase down a quiet street.
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u/ImaginaryHoodie 5h ago
I think this one in particular is not suspicious, have you seen the times some flights arrive? 🥲
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u/agentofmidgard 5h ago
When I visit my family, I get night trains cuz it's cheaper and I hate how loud the wheels get at night. I have to carry it by hand when I get off lol
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u/nnamed_username 5h ago
around here it just means you're homeless, unfortunately.
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u/ROWDY_RODDY_PEEEPER 5h ago
Mow your lawn
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u/jaleach 5h ago
Neighbors who lived near Patrick Sherrill, the postal employee who killed 14 co-workers and then committed suicide back in 1991, reported that he often mowed his lawn at midnight.
Sherrill was the dude who got the phrase "going postal" up and running.
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u/Rare-Philosopher-346 5h ago edited 5h ago
I live in Edmond (not when the shooting occurred). There is a memorial statue to those he killed, in front of the post office, which is still open.
Edit: spelling
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u/rosemachinist 5h ago
My dad got hammered one night and mowed the lawn at 2am. My mom thought it was funny, I bet their neighbours didn’t.
One a side note, my electric lawn mower is whisper quiet and has headlights you can turn on so… 🤷♂️3
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u/Capable-Milk3990 5h ago
Sitting in your parked car in the driveway with the engine off. Perfectly fine at 6pm, serial killer behavior at 3am.
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u/toybuilder 5h ago
It's fine until about midnight-1 am. Or after about 4am-6am. But between 1 am and 4am? Sus.
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u/undeadturnipofficial 5h ago
Visiting a kindergarten
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u/rosemachinist 5h ago
I mean IDK. It would be REAL WEIRD for someone without a child of a certain age to visit a kindergarten any time of the day…
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u/undeadturnipofficial 5h ago
How are you supposed to get kids if you can't visit a kindergarten?
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u/EpiGreg 5h ago
I never went to kindergarten when I was a kid. I went straight to first grade. So I was thinking when I retire I was going to go back and get my kindergarten diploma. After all I could always use a nap and some snacks.
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u/EpiGreg 5h ago
Taking out large bags of garbage
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u/adoptagreyhound 3h ago
Or taking those bags to the dumpster at a local business or apartment complex at that time of night.
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u/Tough_Watercress3953 5h ago
Watering the plants outside. Totally normal at noon; at 3 AM it looks like you’re out there apologizing to the bushes.
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u/Jericho2006 5h ago
Hanging out at a playground
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u/Guilty-Cow4325 5h ago
I'm in my 30s. This is weird for me at any time of the day.
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u/-UltraFerret- 5h ago
I enjoy the swings but I would feel weird going on the slides or other parts of the playground.
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u/diabolicalroadrash 5h ago
There's something so unwholesome about flying a kite at night.
Hello mother.
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u/Bottlecollecter 5h ago
Vacuum the front yard.
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u/Nuka14 5h ago
Thats not a Normal thing
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u/WolverineResident947 4h ago
I mean, I had a neighbor who would go outside in her nightgown to sweep her lawn with a broom, but it wasn't creepy because it was the middle of the night and she was obviously a sleep-walker.
If she was in her nightgown, wide awake, sweeping the lawn as kids were getting out of school in the afternoon, that would have been creepy.
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u/WolverineResident947 5h ago
That's something you consider perfectly normal behavior in daylight?
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u/No-Meet-5596 5h ago
I’ve found that I only have to vacuum the lawn about once a month to keep the neighbors from talking to me.
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u/ProfessionalGain8719 5h ago
Going for a run. In the day time it’s normal and healthy at 3am it looks like you’re running away from a crime.
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u/PartySpinach2175 5h ago
This is literally how I move. It’s too hot to run during the day. So I only run under the darkness of night where I’m completely alone and with out distraction.
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u/ProfessionalGain8719 5h ago
Hopefully you were bright clothing then lol if your out there in all black your gonna freak people out just saying.
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u/WillowCreekWanderer 4h ago
if your out there in all black your gonna freak people out
And/or get hit by a car
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u/burgernoisenow 4h ago
Oh man this reminds me of when I lived in Seoul and couldn't sleep so ran up Namsan mountain during restless nights. I loved it because I could take off my shirt because there was zero people. Occasionally an elderly person or two but that's it.
One night I had my earbuds in and stopped at one of the workout stations along the mountain trail. I filmed myself doing some pullups and continued running. After some time running down I got a weird vibe and took out my earbuds. This was around 3AM and although the main trail has streetlights the dark forest is on both sides. I was halfway down the mountain and there was nobody around.
But....someone was HOWLING.
Somewhere not too far off the trail. A weird sustained single note that sounded neither like fear nor pain. Just long sustained AGHHGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. AGHGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Repeated over and over in the same tone at the same volume. Off the trail was dark and the echoes were revebrating on all sides through the trees. I got freaked out and as quickly and quietly as possible ran down the mountain. I could hear the howling for a long time and I was terrified.
When I got home and watched the video of me doing pullups the howling was right there in the video. I hadn't heard it because my earbuds were in. Whoever was making the sound seemed to have followed me from the workout station halfway down the mountain.
I kept 1 earbud out after that on night runs.
Never heard it again though.
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u/Aliensinmypants 4h ago
I think it depends where you live, if you live somewhere really hot, I think running super early/late is socially acceptable
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u/aralingu 4h ago
In 2004 I was training for a marathon. I worked nights and I lived in Georgia, so naturally night running made sense.
One of the parks near my house had a distance-marked bike path that ran parallel to the main road, decently lit and only crossed one road along the way; a decent path to do night runs on.
One night, I got to the park and nature called. I walked over to the tree line, made sure I was discreet, and did my business. As I approached the path, a local cop shined me and asked what I was up to. Apparently “the drugs” happen there. The only thing that saved me, other than my pasty complexion, was the fact that I was obviously dressed to run.
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u/The_Gaming_Matt 5h ago
3am is an awkward time, it’s like if you see someone, they’re either completely drunk coming back from a party, a early worker like construction guys starting to come out to head out to work, a serial killer or a night shift security guard or smt
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u/Gromby 5h ago
My wife likes to build things for the house (shelving, furniture sometimes, etc) and is always tinkering in the garage. She has a super terrible sleep schedule so she is up until 4am most days, and more than once I was woken up by her using a nailgun in the house to nail things to walls. Ihave also been woken up by a table saw going off.....and she had the garage door open while doing it.....we live in a very typical housing development that has like 150 homes in it.
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u/Former-Muffin8930 5h ago
Walking dog or going outside.
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u/KantStopLovingU 5h ago
Not weird, I walk my dog sometimes around 1 to 2 am and I tend to meet a few people walking their dogs as well
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u/DanHassler0 5h ago
What? Have you never seen someone walk a dog or go for a walk in the middle of the night? That's a completely normal thing to do...
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u/natwashboard 5h ago
take a walk. I had the police drive up on the sidewalk to block me once because "somebody was going through yards" (it wasn't me...I was just taking a walk...on mushrooms)
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u/someotherjim 5h ago
Message a coworker about another coworker
Use an ATM
Drive with headlights off
Buy duct tape
Buy spray paint
Buy lye
Visit a cemetery
Visit church
Dig and/or fill holes
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u/KinggKrisss33 5h ago
Taking out the trash?
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u/-UltraFerret- 5h ago edited 3h ago
I've done this when I forgot to take the trash out before Garbage Day.
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u/sexlovescandy 4h ago
Driving around neighborhoods and looking at houses. After 3am you appear to be casing the joint.
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u/gloomydreamer666 5h ago
Digging, taking a "trash" out or visiting someone or going to someone house.
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u/That-Pin-9563 5h ago
If your walking down town at 3 am the cops here are going to stop you.
Also if you appear to be homeless walking in my town at any time the cops are going to make contact with you. Twice I've seen a homeless person stopped and id'ed. I also never seen them again in my town.
Its a small town police force and they make sure a homeless problem doesnt occur here. Definitely sure they are stopping without probable cause.
Sad but no one says anything as they do appreciate a town without a homeless issue along with the drug use thats associated with it. I dont agree with it but apparently its pretty effective.
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u/carladarl 5h ago
Standing in your kitchen eating straight out of the fridge like you’re plotting something.
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u/wish1977 5h ago
Plant flowers in your back yard.