A very intoxicated man explained at length to my friend and me that we should stay in school instead of dropping out to join the military like he did. He wasn’t wrong.
On the NYC subway a guy was taking up two seats, he pulls out a notebook and starts (screaming) reading from it. It was all about some conspiracy that got him kicked out of Columbia University. People started moving away from him. At the next stop a guy gets on the train and says to “hey psycho you really need two seats” the crazy guy slides over freeing up one of the seats and then goes back to yelling.
“hey psycho you really need two seats” Read this in the TF2 Scout character’s voice
If you were from, where I was from, you’d be
fuckingdead.It is entirely within Scouts character to just… “yo, knucklehead, scoot over”, and then just put on his headset when the screaming resumes.
Though, being from Boston, and being exceptionally prideful… that may cause some issues on the NYC subway.
Newbie strap-hanger new to The City, a train rolled-up empty and it was cold or hot as fuck, and in my naivety was like, “these idiots aren’t hittin up all the free space!!!”… Yeah, dude taking a shit.
I was sat opposite a woman who had a grocery bag filled to the brim with crisps packets, or so it seemed. She started out just munching on crisps, mouth fully open, shoving her hands in there. She emptied two packs in between two stops (metro). Efficient.
When she had enough she started rumaging frantically through her bag for a solid 20 seconds, and then triumphantly dug out a can of whipped cream (squirty cream format for my UK friends), opened it, and just emptied the whole thing in her mouth in one go!
It was in France, of all fucking places.
Maybe she was pregante
Pregante? What is that? Is that how babby formed?
No that’s pragnent
Gregnant.
- perginat
- pargent
- bregant
- prengan
- pergert
Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head
Or just really hungry for trash
No she did not seem interested in me.
pregananant
Breakfast of champions.
Bulking up on carbs before robbing the Louve maybe? Need a lot of calories for that much running
Continental breakfast of champions
I watched a guy chug a bottle of orange Listerine, ramble incoherently for ten minutes, then proceed to have uncontrollable diarrhea all over the seat before getting off the train.
Man, I’ve been homeless and seen some wild shit on busses… fairly regularly…
That?
What you’ve just described?
That’s expectional even to me.
God damn.
Back when I was in college I road the bus every day. Nothing even remotely as crazy as most of the comments here describing happened that I witnessed on those hundreds of bus rides There was the dude wearing a parka when the heat index was over 100, or the guy weeping holding a bouquet while heading into a residential area and those are honestly not that interesting because shit happens but I do have one story:
One fairly quiet bus ride I was seated in some of the sideways seats near the front and a lady seated across from me was reading a newspaper. My eyes are drifting as I’m listening to a podcast and suddenly I realize on the front of the paper this lady is reading is a photo of my dad. I asked her “excuse me, could I look at that paper quickly? That’s a photo of my dad there and I want to see what he’s been up to to get in the paper but hasn’t told me” and it turns out he helped run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at a local library to help encourage new contributors.
That’s a wild way to find out. Lol
As a Wikipedia contributor myself I thank your dad 👍
In Halifax, two teenage girls talking on the bus. One girl was describing how her boyfriend fucks her. Very graphic.
i had a co-worker like this. she got fired for sexual harassment. would come in every weekend and loudly tell people about the hot guy that fucked her ass in detail.
Too many people in the world need to share everything about themselves with the public. I don’t get it.
a massive insecurity complex that forms a endless need for validation from other people.
people like that have zero ability to self-validate their choices, so they need to broadcast every choice to others to tell them how great it is.
That makes sense.
Waiting for a matatu and one dude starts beating the shit out of another. Two separate times.
Cool dude gets on near Bakersfield, sits next to me, drinks a 12 pack and tells me how he murdered people in prison.
Various people smoking crack, meth, and fety on trains and buses
Dude gets asked to turn his music down, goes on escalating and frankly impressive rant for 10 minutes about how he’s going to cut the guys head clean off with his machete
Various guys jacking off
Various rants against every race
Spent 90% of my life taking public transit and I love it. Big public transit fan and I wish people would intermingle more in general.
But, if you talk loudly or listen to music on the tinny speakers on your phone, you are the scum of the earth in my eyes. I’d rather have a dude strung out on heroin on the train than you, absolutely no hint of sarcasm.
You love it? God, I would become so depressed.
It’s a fair point, but I think I gained some empathy and perspective on my own problems. Maybe it does something dark to a person but I’m definitely fairly confident.
I get to look at my phone and read interesting things/do Duolingo. The stress of a car would be similar or worse I think.
Humanity is interesting, warts and all
Sounds like a very good way of seeing it.
I try to not be sad about this world but often fail.
I find that driving through traffic leaves me very depressed and often angry. I’d like a few more options for my depression at least.
Some people are not built for coliving on the same planet.
Once an old guy asked me to hold the door for him when the train stops so he can stand up and get out. I did but he took very long to stand up so I instinctively went to help him, the door closed and the train went on. So we both excited at the next stop and wanted to get the train back. It was the worst possible stop because the walk was crazy long and the old guy crazy slow. Me being way too helpful, I walked with him and he told me about how his family never visits him anymore and all kinds of trouble in his life, while one train after the other passed by. Eventually we arrived on the other side, got back to the original stop and exited. I escorted him to a taxi. He was very thankful for the adventure and I was a few hours late to work.
Aww, you are a kind and good person, and I’m glad that you’re in this world with me.
I try to be but it was honestly overwhelming since I’m actually not a very social person, especially not back then. Luckily he was talking most of the time. It was a learning experience for me and I’m glad I did it.
Work can wait, people in need cannot. You did the right thing. Thanks for talking about it here.
I bumped into a friend who is cop in the British Transport Police at a station while he was working. While I was there somehow a happy-drunk guy fell between a train and the platform and got stuck. That’s not the crazy part.
The crazy part is the four separate people who all ended up getting arrested because they attacked my friend and the other responders trying to free the stuck man - physically kicking and trying to drag them away - because he/they wouldn’t order the train to leave the station and it was making them late. Four separate people, all apparently sober, all absolute psychopaths who would happily see someone mangled by a train so they wouldn’t be inconvenienced, and so utterly convinced of their righteousness that they were prepared to physically attack police officers and paramedics.
I was later told this is pretty normal when there’s a “one under”: aside from the person who fell getting injured or dying, the biggest immediate problem is a handful of narcissistic cunts who interpret the whole thing as some kind of personal insult. It really shook me that anyone could be like that.
What the fuck?
This is the second highest comment in the thread and it’s so bizarre that I don’t think I need to bother thinking of something to contribute myself.
So, trying to kill someone who falls onto the tracks is normal? Someone should study this
This is like the weirdest IRL trolley problem, but the consequences of the decision are 1 death vs. several people running late or being mildly inconvenienced.
#Utilitarian at all cost *💪🏼 *unless it’s me getting mangled
Imagining a fully automated dystopian future where decisions are always predetermined and based on greater good rules. Billionaires can’t grasp why we’re so ungrateful for the better world they’ve created, so clearly it must be further proof we don’t know what’s best for us.
While I generally oppose police brutality, I think this is a good case for it.
I think in that case the Transport Police should ask them to leave the station building, or get physically moved out without warning. If they refuse, you can set the rest of the train on them, stating that they delay is now due to the person not leaving the train/platform, rather than the passenger being stuck.
Santacon and elf con crossed tracks at a train stop. For some reason there was also a train full of clowns and a few mime artists all on the same train.
Sounds like the opening scene of an Austin Powers movie
I’ve had to administer noloxone twice on the subway (once was on the platform)
some guy sat across from me and started screaming at me how beautiful my boots were and what a removed i was. then went into this long story about how he’d be rich like me if his bitch mom hadn’t stolen his dad’s money. then he went on about his dreadlocks being beautiful and perfect and he’ll cut anyone who calls it cultural appropriation.
nobody had said a word to this guy, he just went off for one stop then got off to change cars probably to go tell the same weird nutbag rant to the next subway car.
I don’t know if you are aware, but your instance seems to have censored your post. It says beautiful my boots were and what a removed I was
that’s because my instance is gay and doesn’t like bad words for gay people
Saw a guy on the SF Muni simultaneously solving two Rubik’s cubes, one in each hand. By the time he got off at the next station he was done with both of them.
Someone called the bus driver “woman” for being sensitive during an argument so he called the police on them.
I find it funny how men will call women emotional but then we get ol yam tits and his pedo gooner squad with that angry ass hobbit and they have thinner skin than a pudding cup. Going into bitch-ass screeching queen of hearts mode whenever someone hints at them being exactly what they are.
A woman jumped while I was waiting for the train at my home station. It wasn’t pretty…
I’m so sorry you had to see that.
I saw a guy jump off a bridge when I was driving by. He didn’t break the ice and was laying in the middle of the river for quite some time as first responders had to get down the icy/snowy cliffs.
