What is the most interesting thing you have done/seen on public transport?

[Powereaver]

Being a guy who doesnt drive.. i take a lot of public transport and am wondering if my fellow bus/train goers have spotted anything interesting/weird on their travels to and from work/school.

I remember my little sister going to high school on the bus... she happened to share it with university students.. and she said they tended to get a little "private" in the backseats if you catch my drift.. i guess they couldnt get much alone time at uni so did it on the travels to and from the dorms/classes? I once was on a bus at night and the door opened to let on some passengers and a whole bunch of eggs come raining in on the bus driver.. that was terrible the kids ran off afterwards and the driver reeked of rotten eggs but yea thats my experience.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I went on a bus as a kid during the second Intifada and someone had left his bag under his seat. Shit was crazy - they evacuated us and had a bomb squad destroy the bag, even though I later heard it had some towels and swimming equipment in it.

 

[RustlessPotato]

I once was waiting for the train. The Thalis (international high speed train) passed the station and a pigeon thought it'd be a good idea to see if it could out-fly it. The pigeon then became read mist and I was covered in pigeon blood. Not much, but enough.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

I once sat next to an old woman who told me that she had worked at the Standard telephone and cable factory in Oslo for some 40 years - and that her very last assignment before retiring, had been to perform a routine quality inspection on what was to become the longest undersea cable in the world.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Well, actually I have a guilty pleasure related to public transport.
I like to get on a crowded tube train, and touch women.
It's especially fun if you can make it seem like it's their fault.
...
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I DON'T actually do that.
I just smell them; they don't own the air!

 

[DugMachine]

Saw a teen girl giving this dude a blow job once. Two kids were high as fuck and it was pretty awkward to say the least. Took the bus driver forever and a day to spot em in the act and kick em off.

 

[RJ 17]

Straight-up out of a hentai doujin, I've seen a guy finger-fucking his girlfriend while they were both standing on the subway train.

 

[Cr33dl0rd]

-enter metro
-bald guy in a suit with an iron briefcase
-looks nervous
-his knuckles get white whenever somebody comes to close to the briefcase
-comming closer and closer final station
-guy starts sweating a lot
-i start sweating a lot
-i leave metro a station early
-i walk towards my destination
-i spot the guy on the street withouth his briefcase

didn´t use the metro for a couple of days after that.

 

[The Funslinger]

Made out with my then-girlfriend on a bus.

Saw a teen girl giving this dude a blow job once. Two kids were high as fuck and it was pretty awkward to say the least. Took the bus driver forever and a day to spot em in the act and kick em off.

Straight-up out of a hentai doujin, I've seen a guy finger-fucking his girlfriend while they were both standing on the subway train.

Huh, well shut me up. Though to be honest, I expected things of this nature. I never said mine was that interesting.

Oh, on a train, I argued with a bunch of American tourists who were whining that the pronunciation of Keighley didn't match up with its spelling.

Hm... things I've seen...

There's a mentally challenged elderly guy who gets on the bus I take to college a lot of the time. I also once saw three Spanish people who'd never met before meet each other and start having an animated conversation in Spanish. That was also the first time I saw a deer.

 

[TheColdHeart]

When I was in secondary school I used to catch the bus to/from daily. One of the companies which provided busses had some utter sheds. They were old double deckers, stank, were falling to bits and were probably barely even road legal.

One afternoon me and some friends were sat upstairs at the front chatting etc and my friend was sat on the rail leaning his back to the window. The bus for some reason lurched forwards and the whole front window just fell out and smashed all over the road. My friend (thankfully) was leaning more forwards than backwards or else he'd have probably fallen out too.

The driver stopped the bus, came up (cigarette in mouth) and pretty much went 'Hey! Stay away from that window, it wasn't held in properly, it's fallen out'. Went back downstairs and drove off like nothing had happened. The rest of the journey was rather edgy and breezy to say the least.

 

[RJ 17]

Oh, on a train, I argued with a bunch of American tourists who were whining that the pronunciation of Keighley didn't match up with its spelling.

xDDDD Alright, I'm an American and even I would find that just painfully moronic for someone who speaks English to say that a word's pronunciation doesn't match the spelling...saying such a thing is just soooo god damn stereotypically "American Tourist".

For god's sake, English is a language that has silent frickin' letters! Why the FUCK does "Knife" need a "k"?!

 

[Shuguard]

saw a guy who looked like a crackhead trying to sell gardening gloves for $10.

 

[wooty]

A carriage packed to the rafters with Japanese schoolgirls who were all waving at me and wanting pictures. I was flattered and mildly turned on but slightly scared too.

 

[The Funslinger]

Oh, on a train, I argued with a bunch of American tourists who were whining that the pronunciation of Keighley didn't match up with its spelling.

xDDDD Alright, I'm an American and even I would find that just painfully moronic for someone who speaks English to say that a word's pronunciation doesn't match the spelling...saying such a thing is just soooo god damn stereotypically "American Tourist".

For god's sake, English is a language that has silent frickin' letters! Why the FUCK does "Knife" need a "k"?!

They were saying "I wonder how long it'll take us to get to Keighley" (pronouncing it "Keeley")

Then the intercom piped up "The next stop is Keighley" (pronouncing it "Keith-ley", as it is supposed to be)

They were like "Oh my god, the train conductor can't even say a place name right!"

I turned round and said "actually, that's how it's pronounced". They replied "but that's stupid, it's spelt with a GH, not a TH!"

"Yes, but the name is Celtic."

"Well they should change it!"

"They're not going to change the name. It's old, it's Celtic and it fucking makes sense in local dialect!"

 

[lRookiel]

I got on a bus and there was an old guy with a HUGE dog at the back, it was super fluffy and all he did was smile all the way. I mean a big fucking grin as well.

Kinda like this.

:3

 

[Muspelheim]

Me and a few mates hopped aboard a tram once, and I fished out my card and had it stamped properly, saying offhandedly "See? I'm paying for the ride, like a proper citizen, lads!" to my mates.

Some old drunk nearby overheard, and announced to the whole tram: "Look'a'him! He says he's a bett'rn citizen than the rest'o us!", before his speech against me, enemy of the people, died out in an inaudible mutter. Everyone on the tram was dead-quiet, and began looking in other directions. I think I still see Citizen Drunkespierre, as I've taken to call him, sometimes, but he seems to have forgotten about me. Always makes me giggle.

Edit: because the stories are sort-of familiar.

i really started to hate homeless people for a while.

Well, remember that not every homeless person is like that. And that man is likely mentally ill, and should honestly be in an insitution and not out in the metro. Just tossing that out, they're not all like in Condemned.

 

[RJ 17]

Oh, on a train, I argued with a bunch of American tourists who were whining that the pronunciation of Keighley didn't match up with its spelling.

xDDDD Alright, I'm an American and even I would find that just painfully moronic for someone who speaks English to say that a word's pronunciation doesn't match the spelling...saying such a thing is just soooo god damn stereotypically "American Tourist".

For god's sake, English is a language that has silent frickin' letters! Why the FUCK does "Knife" need a "k"?!

They were saying "I wonder how long it'll take us to get to Keighley" (pronouncing it "Keeley")

Then the intercom piped up "The next stop is Keighley" (pronouncing it "Keith-ley", as it is supposed to be)

They were like "Oh my god, the train conductor can't even say a place name right!"

I turned round and said "actually, that's how it's pronounced". They replied "but that's stupid, it's spelt with a GH, not a TH!"

"Yes, but the name is Celtic."

"Well they should change it!"

"They're not going to change the name. It's old, it's Celtic and it fucking makes sense in local dialect!"

Seriously, crap like that makes me ashamed to be an American...how the hell are you going to go to a foreign country and tell them they're not speaking the language correctly? xP