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Jan 21, 2010#1

Shadazz

Today, on the train to see a friend in a different suburb. Usually I would have just driven, but I felt like saving some money. Anyway, there were a few, let's just call them fuckheads. Drunk fuckheads. They were probably about late 20's and there was three of these particular fuckheads.

Most of the train ride, they were either calling me "sexy babe" or telling me I look like a boy. Hallelujah.

Our trains are simply seats on either side of the train facing each other, which I've always really fucking hated. First, a youngin' about 14 who was obviously trying not to look at them from the other side of the train kept "looking at them funny" and to which they said they'd "kick his fucking head in." Great. They were threatening fucking little kids. The kid got off at the next stop, pretty darn fast as they were yelling at him. Poor kid.

Anyway, as one of these fuckhead's kids are swinging from the grab holds, he starts ranting about how much he needs to chuck a piss. An elderly man is sitting in the disabled seats down the edge of our row, and he laughed at the kids. I mean, they were cute, and I was giggling too. So the Alpha fuckhead decides to walk up to him and stop "perving" on his kids, spits in his face, and sits back down. By this time I'm about ready to move, but being two stops away I decide that I'll wait it out.

Then here comes the best fucking part. Alpha fuckhead, in all his brilliance, decides he's going to piss in the corner of the train. Directly fucking in front of me. I won't go into huge detail, but there was piss fucking everywhere. I had to lift my feet to avoid it.

Luckily this occurred just as my stop came up. I ran off the piss stinking train as fast as I could, and had my friend drive me back to my apartment. Fuck Public Transport.

So, to take my mind off this. Tell me some public transport tales, if you have any. If not, just share some personal experiences.

Jan 21, 2010#2

bhamv3

This took place on the Paris Metro, while I was on vacation there around 10 years ago.

A guy, possibly drunk, possibly mentally unstable, definitely pissed off, got on the metro, and sat down next to a young woman. The woman looked like a student, possibly a grad student, and was reading some papers in her hands. The guy kept muttering to himself in French during the whole trip. I think he must have been saying something profane, because I really didn't recognize any of the words.

Anyway, eventually the woman gets annoyed with him, and asks him to please stop. He literally gets in her face, puts his face within a millimeter of hers and starts screaming at her. She recoils and stands up, to move away, when he suddenly knocks the papers out of her hands, scattering them all over the floor, and stomps on them. That's when she loses it, and she pounces on the guy, clawing at him. Eventually they had to be separated by other passengers.

The weird guy moves to another seat, while some gentlemanly Frenchmen help the woman pick up her papers.

Best part was that for the rest of the trip, every time someone got off the train, they'd say something rude to the weird guy. I think he got sworn at by at least two dozen people that day, over the course of about five stops.

Jan 21, 2010#3

Shannow

Good ol' Australia

Jan 21, 2010#4

Odie

Ok...

On my trip home one night a very drunk woman with a good portion of most of her teeth missing sits behind me. This is fairly unsual as the train I take is a commuter train and is really only ridden by the same people (usually govt. workers who are too tired to talk or really bother anyone). Anyways the woman brings on a 24 pack of budweiser to the train and proceeds to drink and drink. Eventually she starts telling all of us around her that she is going to see her new lover and that this is the best day of her life. Her phone rings and she answers on speakerphone, Its her boyfriend whom she is leaving. She then proceeds to them him that he is "a giant fat loser" and she is going to see this hook up she found on craiglist and she will be sucking this guys "cockmonster" later tonight. Most the of the rest of the ride she is yelling back and forth about how this guy is going to give to her like she never has had it and that if her boyfirend wants her back he has to come get her. We get off the train, surprise surprise noone is there to pick her up. As a communter train this train only travels one way in the morning and one way in the evening so either She ended up calling someone to get her or she is sleeping in the outside terminal for the night. Im not sure where she ended up going but I have never seen her again .

Jan 21, 2010#5

Cajungal

Sorry. :\ I once made a bunch of English people scowl at me on a subway ride... or a "tube" ride, I guess. We were cramped in really tight, and my friend Arun was smooshed up right against my back, so I laughed and said, "Man you could get laid in here and not know it." A few people glared at me, but this one old guy laughed, thank God.

One time in a taxi in New York the driver told me how his father would electrocute him if he made bad grades in school. That was interesting.

Jan 21, 2010#6

phil

My friends and I in high school were going to the Dallas west end, which is the kinda trendy place to go I guess, and we took the DART rail to get there. So we're kind of horsing around when my buddy Andy punches Sean. The thing is though, Andy hurt his hand in the process and mostly jokingly bitched about it for a while. We all thought it was just hilarious and all in good fun, but one of the other passengers I guess didn't find it at all amusing and decided to tell us about real pain. Basically, this giant walks over to us, and tells us about how he lost some of his good friends climbing radio towers with THESE HANDS (insert giant hands here) and that real pain is having to climb the tallest structures in the world for a living. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details but I think Vietnam was mentioned in there as well.

Anyway, after he more or less creeps the hell out of all of us, he proceeds to hit on some lady and get her phone number.

We all agreed that this man has been hunting us ever since and the last thing we ever see in this world is him strangling us with his giant ogre hands, and we will all die with the knowledge that he's going to hit on our moms after he kills us.

Jan 21, 2010#7

Chazwozel

I ride the train everyday to work so I pretty much have a new story every week. One in particular is hilarious. I got off work early at 4:00 and catch the 4:45 train. Two drunk as balls frat boys sit behind me. For about 20 minutes they're swearing and talking about how many bitches they're going to fuck at the party they're going to. The one guy gets up and looks at the baggage overhead. "Dude, do you have our bags?" "No." "You fucking idiot, you left them in Philly."

I just fucking lose it and start laughing hysterically, as do a couple other regular commuters on the train. I obviously embarrassed the guy and he starts talking shit to me... until I stand up. It's always fun to watch a 5 foot dipshit cower like a scared dog. So he immediately calms down and tells me, "I'm just kidding bro..etc". They go back to their bag issue. The other guy get the brilliant idea that they should jump off the train and walk to Philly. At this point the conductor is walking by and overhears them swearing and causing a ruckus. He radios the train policeman, and the morons get escorted off at the next stop. I wonder if they ever got to their party and fucked all those bitches?

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Shadazz said:
Today, on the train to see a friend in a different suburb. Usually I would have just driven, but I felt like saving some money. Anyway, there were a few, let's just call them fuckheads. Drunk fuckheads. They were probably about late 20's and there was three of these particular fuckheads.

Most of the train ride, they were either calling me "sexy babe" or telling me I look like a boy. Hallelujah.

Our trains are simply seats on either side of the train facing each other, which I've always really fucking hated. First, a youngin' about 14 who was obviously trying not to look at them from the other side of the train kept "looking at them funny" and to which they said they'd "kick his fucking head in." Great. They were threatening fucking little kids. The kid got off at the next stop, pretty darn fast as they were yelling at him. Poor kid.

Anyway, as one of these fuckhead's kids are swinging from the grab holds, he starts ranting about how much he needs to chuck a piss. An elderly man is sitting in the disabled seats down the edge of our row, and he laughed at the kids. I mean, they were cute, and I was giggling too. So the Alpha fuckhead decides to walk up to him and stop "perving" on his kids, spits in his face, and sits back down. By this time I'm about ready to move, but being two stops away I decide that I'll wait it out.

Then here comes the best fucking part. Alpha fuckhead, in all his brilliance, decides he's going to piss in the corner of the train. Directly fucking in front of me. I won't go into huge detail, but there was piss fucking everywhere. I had to lift my feet to avoid it.

Luckily this occurred just as my stop came up. I ran off the piss stinking train as fast as I could, and had my friend drive me back to my apartment. Fuck Public Transport.

So, to take my mind off this. Tell me some public transport tales, if you have any. If not, just share some personal experiences.

Wow great roll model. And here I thought the juicehead, unemployed Aussie was a grossly exaggerated stereotype.

Jan 21, 2010#8

Shadazz

Getting their cocks wet is every frat boys dream, no? Haha. Well, I wish the Transperth Police were as good as yours are!

Oh, yeah.. well.. sorry, but that stereotype is 100% true. My taxpayer money goes to their booze, woohoo!

Jan 21, 2010#9

Chazwozel

Shadazz said:
Getting their cocks wet is every frat boys dream, no? Haha. Well, I wish the Transperth Police were as good as yours are!

Oh, yeah.. well.. sorry, but that stereotype is 100% true. My taxpayer money goes to their booze, woohoo!

So they really do hang around in the backyard all day, drinking beer and headbutting each other while playing a halfassed game of rugby? (me thinks I found heaven)

Jan 21, 2010#10

Seraphyn

Luckily, 99,9% of the time in my life, public transport has been good to me. I do put on headphones and read a book so I'm not bothered much though, I suppose that helps.

Jan 21, 2010#11

Shadazz

Chazwozel;331823][QUOTE=Shadazz said:
Getting their cocks wet is every frat boys dream, no? Haha. Well, I wish the Transperth Police were as good as yours are!

Oh, yeah.. well.. sorry, but that stereotype is 100% true. My taxpayer money goes to their booze, woohoo!

Jan 21, 2010#12

Chazwozel

Shadazz;331828][QUOTE=Chazwozel;331823][QUOTE=Shadazz said:
Getting their cocks wet is every frat boys dream, no? Haha. Well, I wish the Transperth Police were as good as yours are!

Oh, yeah.. well.. sorry, but that stereotype is 100% true. My taxpayer money goes to their booze, woohoo!

Jan 21, 2010#13

twitchmoss

Cajungal said:
Sorry. :\ I once made a bunch of English people scowl at me on a subway ride... or a "tube" ride, I guess. We were cramped in really tight, and my friend Arun was smooshed up right against my back, so I laughed and said, "Man you could get laid in here and not know it." A few people glared at me, but this one old guy laughed, thank God.

People on the underground are afraid to make EYE CONTACT with each other, let alone speak

(this rule is discounted when the train breaks down, and everyone gets in a friendly bitching session about how the tube line sucks). To them, your comments were akin to loudly breaking wind in front of the pope during easter sunday. good for you!

Jan 21, 2010#14

Shadazz

phil said:
My friends and I in high school were going to the Dallas west end, which is the kinda trendy place to go I guess, and we took the DART rail to get there. So we're kind of horsing around when my buddy Andy punches Sean. The thing is though, Andy hurt his hand in the process and mostly jokingly bitched about it for a while. We all thought it was just hilarious and all in good fun, but one of the other passengers I guess didn't find it at all amusing and decided to tell us about real pain. Basically, this giant walks over to us, and tells us about how he lost some of his good friends climbing radio towers with THESE HANDS (insert giant hands here) and that real pain is having to climb the tallest structures in the world for a living. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details but I think Vietnam was mentioned in there as well.

Anyway, after he more or less creeps the hell out of all of us, he proceeds to hit on some lady and get her phone number.

We all agreed that this man has been hunting us ever since and the last thing we ever see in this world is him strangling us with his giant ogre hands, and we will all die with the knowledge that he's going to hit on our moms after he kills us.

Heheheh.

Jan 21, 2010#15

Dave

The only real stories I have ha nothing really happen in them.

When I was in Germany (Munich) I had to ride the U-Bahn (subway) a lot because hardly anyone has cars there. So the embarrassing story I have was when this GORGEOUS British lady was talking to me. She stops and says, "Where are you from?" Now, I got that a lot so I distractedly gave my stock answer, "The United States." This usually worked with Germans because they didn't know if I was from the states, Canada, etc. But this woman turned from nice lady to British aristocracy is a blink. She looked me disdainfully in the eye and said, "Yes. Yes I know. But they have states there. Which one are you from?" I stammered out that I was from Iowa but she had already decided I was about as bright as an ape and the conversation went nowhere after that.

The second story had NOTHING HAPPEN...but I just knew something was going to. In Germany you don't HAVE to buy a ticket to get on the train. It's an honor system. But there are officials who go from car to car and ask you for your ticket. If you don't have one you are hauled in and given a ticket. One day I got locked out of the apartment while taking the dog out to crap (the door is auto lock). I had nobody that I could ask for help and I had a few hours to waste before the roommates came home so I ended up having to take the U-Bahn to Marienplatz to get some food. But I had less money than I thought and didn't have enough to get back. So I boarded the train and shat bricks the entire way home. Oh, and I also had NO IDENTIFICATION! That would have been a fun day.

Jan 21, 2010#16

Hylian

Did they look at all like this?

Jan 21, 2010#17

Shadazz

hylian said:
Did they look at all like this?

I wish.

Jan 21, 2010#18

Dave

Then you'd need some guy in a robe squeeze their necks and knock them out.

Jan 21, 2010#19

General Specific

Shadazz;331837][QUOTE=phil said:
My friends and I in high school were going to the Dallas west end, which is the kinda trendy place to go I guess, and we took the DART rail to get there. So we're kind of horsing around when my buddy Andy punches Sean. The thing is though, Andy hurt his hand in the process and mostly jokingly bitched about it for a while. We all thought it was just hilarious and all in good fun, but one of the other passengers I guess didn't find it at all amusing and decided to tell us about real pain. Basically, this giant walks over to us, and tells us about how he lost some of his good friends climbing radio towers with THESE HANDS (insert giant hands here) and that real pain is having to climb the tallest structures in the world for a living. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details but I think Vietnam was mentioned in there as well.

Anyway, after he more or less creeps the hell out of all of us, he proceeds to hit on some lady and get her phone number.

We all agreed that this man has been hunting us ever since and the last thing we ever see in this world is him strangling us with his giant ogre hands, and we will all die with the knowledge that he's going to hit on our moms after he kills us.

Heheheh.[/QUOTE]

Anybody want a peanut?

Jan 21, 2010#20

Tinwhistler

I've taken the train/subway in Toronto, St. Louis, and the Dallas DART (mostly to/from the St. Patrick's Day Parade staging area). I used to use Greyhound regularly between Corpus Christi and Houston when I was in the Navy. Nothing interesting ever happened on the bus/train. Though I once chased off a couple homeless guys who were trying to mug a homeless lady once outside the Corpus Christi Greyhound station . But I saw that more of a "downtown in a city after midnight" situation and less of "weird thing on a train" situation.

Jan 21, 2010#21

Shadazz

General Specific said:
Anybody want a peanut?

Probably, he means no harm.
He's really very short on charm.

Jan 21, 2010#22

sixpackshaker

I live in BFE and have no public transit. Hell nearby Houston barely has public transit.

Jan 21, 2010#23

Hylian

I have only had to use public transportation a few times and luckily each time it went without any incident.

Jan 21, 2010#24

The Lovely Boehner

I had a native american vision quest in Manhattan that culminated with Fred Sanford from Sanford & Son barking at me on the Q Train.

Jan 21, 2010#25

Chazwozel

The Lovely Boner said:
I had a native american vision quest in Manhattan that culminated with Fred Sanford from Sanford & Son barking at me on the Q Train.

Jan 21, 2010#26

Dave

Check out Charlie rocking the peyote!

Jan 21, 2010#27

Shannow

Chazwozel said:
I

I just fucking lose it and start laughing hysterically, as do a couple other regular commuters on the train. I obviously embarrassed the guy and he starts talking shit to me... until I stand up. It's always fun to watch a 5 foot dipshit cower like a scared dog. So he immediately calms down and tells me, "I'm just kidding bro..etc". ?

Jan 21, 2010#28

Zonker

I've been riding the DC metro and have no particularly interesting stories. Once this obnoxious 10 year old kid sat next to me and tried to give me a hard time, asked me what I was reading, so I started reading Bulgakov's Master and Margarita to him in Russian. I've had to stare down obnoxious ten year olds a few times, I don't feel like I should have to take crap from anybody on a train. Once this guy who was an obvious crack addict came up to me asking for money, I ignored him and he tapped my hands to get my attention and we got in a big shouting match that resulted in him freaking out and threatening me with a pipe. But he didn't hit me. Called the police at the next station but he got on a train going the other direction before they got there.

I think it's a felony to beat up crack addicts in dc...

Jan 21, 2010#29

Twitch

hylian said:
Did they look at all like this?

In Hungary they all look like this

Shannow;331888][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:
I

I just fucking lose it and start laughing hysterically, as do a couple other regular commuters on the train. I obviously embarrassed the guy and he starts talking shit to me... until I stand up. It's always fun to watch a 5 foot dipshit cower like a scared dog. So he immediately calms down and tells me, "I'm just kidding bro..etc". ?

I saw two punks steppin to a pretty young lady on a subway once. Causing her trouble, threatening her. I stood up from my seat and flexed at them. One pissed his pants, and the other guys head exploded. The one who had pissed himself them jumped through the window...off the moving subway. I gave the woman who I just saved a mean look, and BAM, she was pregnant. With twins.

Yeah, I am that awesome.[/QUOTE]
Dude, I get your thing with busting the guys balls but this story wasn't unbelievable at all, dumbass college kids are always starting shit and they get scared by anyone who clearly isn't taking their shit.

Jan 21, 2010#30

Dave

Zonker said:
I've been riding the DC metro and have no particularly interesting stories. Once this obnoxious 10 year old kid sat next to me and tried to give me a hard time, asked me what I was reading, so I started reading Bulgakov's Master and Margarita to him in Russian. I've had to stare down obnoxious ten year olds a few times, I don't feel like I should have to take crap from anybody on a train. Once this guy who was an obvious crack addict came up to me asking for money, I ignored him and he tapped my hands to get my attention and we got in a big shouting match that resulted in him freaking out and threatening me with a pipe. But he didn't hit me. Called the police at the next station but he got on a train going the other direction before they got there.

I think it's a felony to beat up crack addicts in dc...

That's because they are the mayor.

Jan 21, 2010#31

Twitch

I'd like to take this time to tell you all to watch Kontroll, a Hungarian film about some subway ticket collectors.

Jan 21, 2010#32

Wasabi Poptart

I was 8 months pregnant, leaving Comic-Con. We had parked the car at the San Diego Naval base and rode the trolley to the convention center. On the way home the trolleys were packed. I couldn't get a seat. I thought it was pretty sad that no one would give their seat up to an obviously pregnant woman, but it didn't compare to the guy who elbowed me right in the stomach as he pushed me out of his way. My husband was going to tear the guy's head off.

Jan 21, 2010#33

Shannow

Twitch said:
Dude, I get your thing with busting the guys balls but this story wasn't unbelievable at all, dumbass college kids are always starting shit and they get scared by anyone who clearly isn't taking their shit.

Wow, fail at the joke that was there.

Jan 21, 2010#34

Cajungal

Thanks, twitch!

To the OP, I find it interesting that they went from calling you attractive to saying you look like a boy. I think they need to examine themselves and think carefully about their life choices.

Jan 21, 2010#35

Dieb

I've been taking public transportation for a few years now every day, nothing bad has ever happened. Well, I've gotten into some crazy conversations with homeless people, but those were hilarious.

Jan 21, 2010#36

Shegokigo

As long as you don't meet

You should be fine.

Jan 21, 2010#37

Shannow

Yes, red x is a terrible thing to meet!

Jan 21, 2010#38

IronBrig4

This pic was taken in the Seoul metro. It's a public service announcement, telling you how to behave on the subway.

I take Honolulu's bus system to campus every day. There's quite a few crazies here. There's this one crazy bum who often shows up at my bus stop (at least five or six different routes go through there). He's always got his hand up to his ear, like he's talking on a miniature cell phone. He usually shouts out weird stuff like "Cyanide the water!" every few seconds. Anyways, the buses are usually late, like everything else in this state, so you can sometimes wait 45 minutes for a bus. Apparently this little old lady had been waiting a long while and the crazy guy had been ranting and raving for that entire time. She yelled "Oh SHUT UP!" and instead of quieting down or ignoring her, he changed his usual rant to "You wanna fight? That's how I roll." There was a bunch of us around so he didn't actually try anything. He just switched back to his tirade about corn syrup.

You should see him walk through a group of Japanese tourists. They don't understand the language but they know something's screwed up. Plus he smells.

Jan 21, 2010#39

Shannow

Hahahahaha, thats great

Jan 21, 2010#40

Kitty Sinatra

Yeah, other than the occasional crazy person (who is more hilarious or sad than aggravating) my experience on the Toronto transit system has been a dream; there is no reason I'd ever drive in that city if I was downtown or the subway could get me there. The only shitty thing about it is that the subway only really has 2 lines.

Jan 21, 2010#41

Allen, who is Quiet

Man, all I have is a story about a middle-aged guy who felt like a failure in life just wanted to talk at somebody, and I happened to be next to him.

Jan 21, 2010#42

@Li3n

Over here it's way to crowded when i use it for any of that crap... all i see is people shoving (the worst are old women) and arguing pointlessly until my ears hurt...

Jan 21, 2010#43

Green_Lantern

*reads some stories*

and people don't understand why I "like" walking.

Jan 21, 2010#44

CynicismKills

My uncle and my two cousins (when they were still 10-12) almost got run over by a taxi in Manhattan. The driver rolled down his window to yell at him, and my uncle walked up and clocked him in the face.

Jan 21, 2010#45

Chazwozel

IronBrig4 said:
This pic was taken in the Seoul metro. It's a public service announcement, telling you how to behave on the subway.

I take Honolulu's bus system to campus every day. There's quite a few crazies here. There's this one crazy bum who often shows up at my bus stop (at least five or six different routes go through there). He's always got his hand up to his ear, like he's talking on a miniature cell phone. He usually shouts out weird stuff like "Cyanide the water!" every few seconds. Anyways, the buses are usually late, like everything else in this state, so you can sometimes wait 45 minutes for a bus. Apparently this little old lady had been waiting a long while and the crazy guy had been ranting and raving for that entire time. She yelled "Oh SHUT UP!" and instead of quieting down or ignoring her, he changed his usual rant to "You wanna fight? That's how I roll." There was a bunch of us around so he didn't actually try anything. He just switched back to his tirade about corn syrup.

You should see him walk through a group of Japanese tourists. They don't understand the language but they know something's screwed up. Plus he smells.

Yesterday while waiting for my train at 30th st. Station, one of the homeless guys from outside came in and starting rapping to himself at full volume. At certain points he'd shout "Ima let you win." Over and over and over again.

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@Li3n said:
Over here it's way to crowded when i use it for any of that crap... all i see is people shoving (the worst are old women) and arguing pointlessly until my ears hurt...

When I first started taking the train to Philly: I get on the train after taking a call from my wife with my Blackberry ear buds still in. I totally forget about the earbuds and take a seat. About 10 minutes later this old bag in front of me (who I swear looked like Danny DeVito with a wig) whips around, sticks her face a couple inches from my mine, and yells at me to turn down that fucking N****r music.

I'm completely stunned. I tell her I didn't have any music on. She goes into a rant about how she could hear every word. I tell her to shut the fuck up and leave me alone.

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Shannow;331903][QUOTE=Twitch said:
Dude, I get your thing with busting the guys balls but this story wasn't unbelievable at all, dumbass college kids are always starting shit and they get scared by anyone who clearly isn't taking their shit.

Wow, fail at the joke that was there.[/QUOTE]

I got the joke. You can believe what you want. I don't really give a shit.

Jan 21, 2010#46

CynicismKills

It's true, when I was in high school back in California my mom (from southern GA) worked as an attendance clerk and made announcements. Someone in my class decided to mock her accent for a cheap laugh and I told him something to the extent of "dude, that's my mom and if you do that again I will kick the crap out of you" and he apologized and shut up. Some people don't have the balls to back up being a total dickbag when they're confronted about it.

Jan 21, 2010#47

Rob King

The only bus story I can think of from recent memory was when I was riding from the University to the mall. It was suppertime, so the bus was crowded, and this one obviously mentally challenged guy was sitting by a window, hugging himself, rocking, and randomly telling people that he was claustrophobic, had PTSD, and was liable to freak out and punch someone by accident.

Typical college idiots were laughing at him, so I tried to distract him by striking up a conversation. We were the only two people on the bus talking, so I was very self-conscious, but we talked about the kinds of music he liked, his family, the food he liked, etc. until we got to the mall and most everyone got off.

The biggest reason I remember that ride was because of the strangers who talked to me afterward, and the reaction of my then-girlfriend. Two girls and one elderly woman stopped me when we all got off the bus, thanked me, and told me that I was the only 'man' on the bus etc. (referring to the dumb college idiots who were just making fun of the poor guy). My own girlfriend at the time (who was on the bus with me) said absolutely nothing about the situation, and actually sort of had this air about her that what I had done was borderline stupid.

Jan 21, 2010#48

V.Bond

Zonker said:
I've been riding the DC metro and have no particularly interesting stories. Once this obnoxious 10 year old kid sat next to me and tried to give me a hard time, asked me what I was reading, so I started reading Bulgakov's Master and Margarita to him in Russian. I've had to stare down obnoxious ten year olds a few times, I don't feel like I should have to take crap from anybody on a train. Once this guy who was an obvious crack addict came up to me asking for money, I ignored him and he tapped my hands to get my attention and we got in a big shouting match that resulted in him freaking out and threatening me with a pipe. But he didn't hit me. Called the police at the next station but he got on a train going the other direction before they got there.

I think it's a felony to beat up crack addicts in dc...

Man I do love taking the Metro, it's always something.

I have to admit it's pretty tame though, probably because of the ever looming threat of TERRORISTS.

Also, I love public transportation, and would be hard pressed to live without it at this point in my life.

Jan 21, 2010#49

Shannow

Chazwozel said:
I got the joke. You can believe what you want. I don't really give a shit.

Jan 21, 2010#50

Adammon

Rob King said:
The only bus story I can think of from recent memory was when I was riding from the University to the mall. It was suppertime, so the bus was crowded, and this one obviously mentally challenged guy was sitting by a window, hugging himself, rocking, and randomly telling people that he was claustrophobic, had PTSD, and was liable to freak out and punch someone by accident.

Hey, that was probably me! Thanks for the chat!

Jan 21, 2010#51

Twitch

Shannow;332021][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:
I got the joke. You can believe what you want. I don't really give a shit.

i knew you would get the joke and have a laugh, hence said joke. Was more surprised that someone decided to white knight for you on something so obvious.

Although, perhaps I was wrong there, tough guy.[/QUOTE]
I'm not white knighting it's just that I seem to recall you giving the same kind of reply to any story Chaz posts. If it was a one time thing I might assume it was a joke. I'm pretty sure random people on the internet don't need me protecting them from another random guy on the internet. Especially since we all live in different goddamn states.

Jan 21, 2010#52

Shannow

Really, I have gone after chaz?

..That is not a joke, I usually just joke around with him on here. I mean hell, look at my sig.

Jan 21, 2010#53

Chazwozel

Shannow said:
Really, I have gone after chaz?

..That is not a joke, I usually just joke around with him on here. I mean hell, look at my sig.

No no no, I meant I don't give a shit in a light hearted way. I did have a laugh.

I love reading shit that starts out serious and then progressively goes over the top.

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Twitch;332044][QUOTE=Shannow;332021][QUOTE=Chazwozel said:
I got the joke. You can believe what you want. I don't really give a shit.

Jan 21, 2010#54

Twitch

I guess I recall incorrectly.

Jan 21, 2010#55

klew

On my birthday last year, I took the bus into the one city on this island for a movie and dinner, with a stop at the library. While waiting alone at the bus stop that night to come back, a 50+year old lady sat next to me and saw I was reading Preacher (the Vertigo series borrowed from the library) and started taking to me about God and how we must use our gifts. I put the book away before she saw some of the imagery and still had my headphones on, hoping to be ignored, yet she kept talking for 30 minutes, more of the same and asking why I came to Bermuda. As the bus arrived, she walked away with her bags of groceries. Why would she sit and talk to a stranger (thirty-something, 100kg male, not that I look dodgy) at a bus stop for half an hour when she had no intention of taking the bus?

Jan 21, 2010#56

Hailey Knight

Living in DC, I've not had too much trouble on the metro. I recall one guy having a seizure, which was disturbing.

Honestly, people in this part of Maryland are like scared rabbits. I've only seen someone shouting once and everyone moved to the other side of the metro platform from him. That's everyday in NYC and nobody reacts that way, so it's hilarious to watch them. I miss New York. Everyone walked faster there than they do here.

The one weird one (this was New York) I remember was I got on the bus to the mall. Little did I know, I got on the right route going the wrong way. I found out when I asked the bus driver and he told me. So this guy in the front of the bus started laughing, which was fine, I didn't care... Then he comes and sits next to me, and starts talking about how he sets up parties for sports stars and has a super model girlfriend. I just nod and smile, and "Oh yeah?" Then he starts asking me personal stuff, like if I have a girlfriend and where does she live, and I decided to start making shit up in return, like "She won't tell me because her dad says he'll kill any other guys she brings over".

Eventually, he got off the bus. The other passengers were just staring at me with these amused looks.

Jan 21, 2010#57

Espy

I have seen way to many penises (peni?) on Minneapolis Metro Transit buses. I don't ride them anymore.

Jan 21, 2010#58

Wasabi Poptart

You don't ride penises any more?

Jan 21, 2010#59

Espy

Wildsoul said:
You don't ride penises any more?

Har har.

To be clear. The buses. I don't ride the buses anymore.

Jan 21, 2010#60

Cajungal

So he's still riding the penises. Unlike the busses.

Jan 21, 2010#61

Espy

You know what?
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Jan 21, 2010#62

CynicismKills

He didn't say anything about screwing girls, either. Just guys.

Jan 21, 2010#63

Green_Lantern

I would like to aplaud Wildsoul and CajunGal

Jan 21, 2010#64

Cajungal

^_^ *bow*

Jan 22, 2010#65

Wasabi Poptart

* blows kisses, poses for the paparazzi* Thank you! Thank you! :laugh:

Jan 22, 2010#66

@Li3n

Chazwozel said:
Yesterday while waiting for my train at 30th st. Station, one of the homeless guys from outside came in and starting rapping to himself at full volume. At certain points he'd shout "Ima let you win." Over and over and over again.

Oh man, that reminds me, once, while taking the bus for no work or school related stuff this 15-16 year old was playing Counter-Strike with himself, repeating sounds from the game and stuff... (like loading the shotgun etc.) He obviously had some mental problem, but damn it was hilarious. Freaked out the older people who had no idea what CS was... and of course some jerks started making fun of him and scared him off a bit, but he kept going, just a little less loud.

Jan 22, 2010#67

Zumbo Prime

Despite spending 3 hours a day for a year on buses, I don't have many stories. Except watching a different bus, a driver got pissed at someone and wouldn't let them on his bus. Had to call the supervisor to drive over.

Jan 22, 2010#68

gargoyle_eva

Chazwozel;331831][QUOTE=Shadazz;331828][QUOTE=Chazwozel;331823][QUOTE=Shadazz said:
Getting their cocks wet is every frat boys dream, no? Haha. Well, I wish the Transperth Police were as good as yours are!

Oh, yeah.. well.. sorry, but that stereotype is 100% true. My taxpayer money goes to their booze, woohoo!

So they really do hang around in the backyard all day, drinking beer and headbutting each other while playing a halfassed game of rugby? (me thinks I found heaven)[/QUOTE]

Basically. Grow a bit of stubble (or a 30cm long beard, nothing in between. Seriously), buy a barbecue, some snags (sausages), a carton of Emu Bitter, and find an old car to "fix up" and never bother doing any actual work on it and you're fucking true blue Aussie matey![/QUOTE]

It's like fucking West Virginia, only with cooler accents!!!![/QUOTE]

To be correct chaz if you were in the west side of aus (where shadazz and I are from) it would be Aussie Rules Football not rugby. Thatsa for eastern staters.

Oh and shadazz, what up my fellow west aussie. Ever been to geraldton?

Jan 22, 2010#69

Shadazz

gargoyle_eva;332325][QUOTE=Chazwozel;331831][QUOTE=Shadazz;331828][QUOTE=Chazwozel;331823][QUOTE=Shadazz said:
Getting their cocks wet is every frat boys dream, no? Haha. Well, I wish the Transperth Police were as good as yours are!

Oh, yeah.. well.. sorry, but that stereotype is 100% true. My taxpayer money goes to their booze, woohoo!

Jan 22, 2010#70

gargoyle_eva

Just asking. Thats where I live and I ran into somebody from perth the other day who had never heard of it.

So that gives us 2 aussies and a kiwi on the boards i think. We are growing in numbers. Although I do need a new schtick since I'm not the only aussie here anymore

Jan 22, 2010#71

Shannow

Twitch said:
I guess I recall incorrectly.

Thats is okay. For a bit there, i thought you had gone retarded.

Jan 24, 2010#72

König

Shadazz said:
Basically. Grow a bit of stubble (or a 30cm long beard, nothing in between. Seriously), buy a barbecue, some snags (sausages), a carton of Emu Bitter, and find an old car to "fix up" and never bother doing any actual work on it and you're fucking true blue Aussie matey!

See thats the problem with living on the wrong side of Australia.... Emu Bitter *shudder*

Jan 24, 2010#73

Kourosism

I don't have many bad public transport stories to tell. I tend to cycle everywhere.

. (It's not a rickroll)

Jan 24, 2010#74

Rob King

Awesome short film from Germany called "Schwarzfahrer."

For those who don't know, "Schwarzfahrer" translates to "Black Rider" and is someone who rides the trolley without purchasing a ticket. In the context of this video, it is also a pun.

Jan 24, 2010#75

Twitch

Jan 25, 2010#76

David

I took the bus between the mall and my college for a couple years between being a concurrent student and getting my license. I'm afraid I don't recall anything TOO weird happening. Were a couple of annoying douche bags though. Once this guy got up to stretch and did a couple pull-ups on the holding bars when the bus was pulled over. The driver yelled at him to cut it out, and the guy got offended and started yelling back, in very slurred speech. He ended up getting thrown off the bus. The bus was in the middle of switching drivers, so the guy tried to get back on when the new driver was in, only to get told off by the new driver too, who had witnessed the event. Though to be fair, the first driver was kind of a prick with a short temper to begin with. He seemed to be in a bad mood any day I had him.

Another day some punk kid tries to get on the bus after dropping a couple cents into the machine, lacking the full ticket price. The driver stops him and tells him he has to pay the full price or get off the bus, and the kid expects the bus driver to be able to open the machine to give him his money back. Dude, seriously, you KNEW you didn't have the full ticket price, why would you drop what change you have into something you can't get it back out of? The idiot refuses to leave the bus, and than to make a point sits down on the stairs blocking the door from closing making sure the bus couldn't leave. The driver called the police to come get the kid, but another passenger paid the rest of the kid's fee so we could just go. I say it would have been worth waiting for the police to arrest the knucklehead. Or at least someone could have simply kicked him out onto the curb Sparta-style, the way he was sitting would have made it very easy.

Jan 26, 2010#77

gargoyle_eva

König;333012][QUOTE=Shadazz said:
Basically. Grow a bit of stubble (or a 30cm long beard, nothing in between. Seriously), buy a barbecue, some snags (sausages), a carton of Emu Bitter, and find an old car to "fix up" and never bother doing any actual work on it and you're fucking true blue Aussie matey!

See thats the problem with living on the wrong side of Australia.... Emu Bitter *shudder*[/QUOTE]

We also have export for the lower classes

or swan draught for the really fancy people.

XXXX and VB suck the big one. Coopers is ok.

Jan 27, 2010#78

Qonas

I have no public transportation horror stories, because Detroit has no public transportation. I think there might be a bus, somewhere. Oh and the People Mover monorail but it doesn't go anywhere really.

Dave;331896][QUOTE=Zonker said:
I've been riding the DC metro and have no particularly interesting stories. Once this obnoxious 10 year old kid sat next to me and tried to give me a hard time, asked me what I was reading, so I started reading Bulgakov's Master and Margarita to him in Russian. I've had to stare down obnoxious ten year olds a few times, I don't feel like I should have to take crap from anybody on a train. Once this guy who was an obvious crack addict came up to me asking for money, I ignored him and he tapped my hands to get my attention and we got in a big shouting match that resulted in him freaking out and threatening me with a pipe. But he didn't hit me. Called the police at the next station but he got on a train going the other direction before they got there.

I think it's a felony to beat up crack addicts in dc...

That's because they are the mayor.[/QUOTE]

I can't believe this got no-sold. Marion Barry jokes are like crack to me.

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