I look at random, completely uninteresting spots in the middle of nowhere and think about the history of a pole or a shed.

[u/MaxvellGardner]

When I'm driving between cities and there's almost nothing out there, just power lines, tiny old abandoned structures, and stuff like that. It's completely uninteresting, but I end up thinking: when was this fence driven into the ground? The guy who built it probably doesn't even remember doing it, but I'd walk up to him and say, «Good day! Remember when you put up this fence in the middle of nowhere many years ago?» and he'd be like, «Huh? What? I don't remember, who cares?»

Or this abandoned shed, whose is it?

'Hello, ma'am, did your great-grandfather own this shed?'
'I don't know, maybe?'
'Do you happen to know why it's just sitting there empty?'
'No, who knows? You're weird.'

Yeah, I am weird, but what else am I supposed to think about during a boring drive?

[u/Zestyclose_Pack1006]

Curiosity is the best form of weirdness. I also find myself questioning things that do not seem to capture the attention of most of people. I love this kind of being weird, it's just fascinating LOL

[u/Ballroompics → u/Zestyclose_Pack1006]

Curiosity is the best form of weirdness. I'm totally adding this quote to my repertoire. Thats awesome. Upvoting.

[u/Zestyclose_Pack1006 → u/Ballroompics]

Thank you. Now that I am reading it again, I might have cooked with that

[u/WhenImTryingToHide]

I often think about people living their normal lives in different countries. Paying bills, sending their kids to school.

Somewhere in japan, there's someone helping their kid with their homework while dinner burns.

[u/Deep_Flounder5218 → u/WhenImTryingToHide]

Japanese people don't burn their food. They're too perfect for that lol

[u/Chupapinta]

There is a musical performance called Considering Matthew Shepard. Some of the pieces are told from the point of view of the fence he was tied to. That she cared for him and held him.

[u/dewihafta]

Not weird. I live in an area that is rife with older buildings and has nature trails named after old homestead buildings that you pass along the way. Very typical to see old sheds in various states of decay.

I used to work at a hospital in the main part of town. My husband picked me up one day from work on the opposite side of the building from where i usually go. Walking towards his car in the small parking lot, i noticed that, in one nearby corner, the remains of a brick fireplace. It made one corner of that little parking area. 

We also found this hidden set of ruins around the corner from a popular mountain trail. All thats left is a foundation, concrete steps, and an almost buried 40s-50s car. 

I dont even know who i would ask about what used to be there. I suspect a ranger station, but i doubt ill ever know for sure.

[u/04221970]

This is fascinating.....I'm going to do this from now on.

[u/Conscious-Phone3209]

I do this, but I think it comes from a place of loving history

[u/Cola102583]

Is this john wilson?

[u/Joe_Kangg]

I live a few miles from the former iron curtain. I regularly pass bunkers and guard towers. Even raffted down the river between slovakia and austria that people used to try to swim to freedom. I think about these things too. The church in my village is from 1400. A million people must've worshiped there.

[u/Buffalo_River_Lover]

I love thinking about old buildings and farmsteads as I drive around. I also very much love exploring old preserved cabins and farm houses in the Buffalo River park in Arkansas. Granny Hendersons cabin is truly wonderful. That old lady lived there most of her 80 plus years, by herself. Planting her own crops. Carrying water up from the river for her livestock. Fixing her own barn roof.

[u/Ballroompics]

When I see abandoned houses, not uncommon in upstate new york, where upstate = anything north of NYC, I often find myself thinking...when was the last time someone lived here? Formed happy memories here? Experienced love and loss...and what finally brought this house to this state?

What were the stories? And is there anyone left that remembers this place in happier moments?

[u/DocJawbone]

I love this

[u/JimDixon]

Here's a book you might enjoy: Infrastructure: a Guide to the Industrial Landscape, by Brian Hayes, 2014. If you like to look at things like highways, railroad tracks, power lines, canals, dams, factories, barns, airports, etc., this book will help you understand what they're for, how they work, why they're built the way they are, and so on.

[u/Aggressive-Fee-6399]

Near where I live, there is a long stretch of fencing which is pretty old, and is made up of old metal hospital beds. I often look at it and wonder what illnesses or injuries the people who laid on them had, and how many people died on them.

Edit to add, they were WWll emergency stretchers.

[u/HoselRockit]

When I see an old, red brick factory or warehouse that probably hasn't been used in decades, I think about how it was once brand new and in full service.