Two men from Richmond, Virginia, experienced a bizarre series of events recently when visiting a store to buy some groceries.

Local news broadcaster WRIC spoke to Ricky Berry, who entered the CVS store earlier this week with his friend Philip Blackwell and asked an employee if there was any sliced cheese available.

The worker informed him that there wasn't - and then, a few minutes later, Berry and Blackwell noticed that they were alone in the store, apart from one other customer.

"He was in the store before we were actually," said Berry. "He had a bad tooth, all he wanted was some Orajel. That’s all he needed.”