“Everyone Switched To Another Train”: 40 Times Journeys On Public Transport Took A Wild Turn

Late night, rural train station waiting for a delayed train home. I saw a bloke looking out of sorts, had a chat with him and managed to persuade him not to throw himself in front ot the train and helped him phone a mate to come and pick him up and take him somewhere safe. Turns out he had some big money problems and I made him promise me and his mate to go and get some support in getting it sorted.

I'd love to say I was being selfless and a compassionate member of society, but I'm going to be honest with you reddit, more than once during that encounter, I found myself thinking, 'if he does do it then the train is going to be delayed even more and I'll never get home.'

No idea what happened to him, but I do genuinely hope with all of my heart that he got his life back on track and is happy now.

I was in the back of a [bus] in Laos and a nice old lady got on carrying a burlap sack which she tossed down the aisle to the back of the bus and sat down in front. The bag was next to me and as we rode on, I noticed it moving a bit [and] then heard a hiss. I yelled up front to ask what the sack contained - I was answered promptly with the international sign for snake.

The bag had two live cobras in it, and the fact I was upset about it may have been the funniest thing anyone had seen in years.

I once got on a crowded subway car and noticed that somehow there was still an empty seat left. I was tired, so I sat down without thinking about it. After a little while I noticed that I was getting odd looks from all around. When I looked up, I saw that there was a blood-soaked used maxi pad stuck to the ceiling, directly over my head.

My boyfriend and I were headed to go see the Nutcracker in Boston when a very large woman starts taking her shoes off. We look over out of curiosity and then off come her pants! I couldn't help but stare because I was thinking "WTF is going on right now, there is a woman in her underwear" when out of the corner of my eye I see like 6 other people in the car doing the same thing! This group of pantsless weirdos got off at the next stop and rubbed their a**es against the windows of the train. I still don't understand what happened.

On a bus through Camberwell years ago, my friends and I were sat parallel to a woman quietly singing to and stroking the head of broccoli in her lap.

May seem tame, but I sat beside a lady who read her book upside down for 15 minutes straight. Turned pages and everything.

A guy sitting opposite me was pulling out his nose hair with tweezers. Quite painful to watch.

I once saw an argument escalate until one guy stabbed the other with the smallest blade on the smallest Swiss army knife I've ever seen. Best part was the guy that got stabbed telling everyone not to worry because he deserved it and they were settling an argument. They got off the bus together and walked off in the same direction so who knows.

I got serenaded on a train once by an [old man] playing the didgeridoo. He also kept calling me Moyra. That's not my name.

On a separate occasion, I got asked to be someone's baby mama in exchange for a laptop. I declined. I already have a laptop.

Once on a subway, there was a guy looking nervously around the car in his seat, then he shouted, "I'm goin back to da future!" And stuck his head and arms inside his shirt for the whole rest of the way until I got off at my stop.

A man with a f*****g crow on his shoulder, at the Holborn tube. They looked like they did it every day.

I saw a woman flossing her teeth using her own hair as floss on the London Underground one morning.

I saw a tellytubby smoking a joint while waiting for the bus once.

I was standing in a crowded bus minding my own business, when I feel something wet on my right shoe. I look up and see a small boy peeing onto my shoe, the mom just looks at me and directs the stream of [urine] elsewhere. Oh well, at least I got my shoes cleaned.

When I studied abroad in Quito, Ecuador a man sitting in front of me on a bus had a big white chicken sitting on his lap which he proceeded to pet throughout the ride.

Sitting on the bus the guy in the back row was cutting his toe nails with clipper. He was putting the clippings onto a tissue than was spread on this girlfriends lap who was sat next to him.

Worst thing was a homeless guy giving himself a bath with 2 bottles of water. He stripped down to his tighty unwhities to do so and people were staring but trying to avoid eye contact. Also, he used a somewhat dirty kitchen sponge.

Some guy threw up in a empty 2 litre soda bottle. Then looked at the terrified girl next to him and asked if she wanted some. He called her a c**t when she said no and he took a swig of it.

He was pretty scabby and slurring, f****d up on something.

Standing on the platform, waiting for the subway, I saw a man take a pineapple, and start digging into it with his fingers. Once he got to the sweet, yellow, good stuff, he just started flinging it at passerby. I don't think any of it made it into his mouth. He was just standing there, throwing bits of pineapple at people.

I was on a packed bus returning home from work. Barely any standing room left. Was on my phone when I looked down and saw a creeping puddle slowly reaching the front of the bus. I decided to track it to it's origin.

It happened to be a guy in the middle of the bus, standing with a pack of people, p**sing his pants nonchalantly. Everyone started yelling at the guy to stop pissing . He decides to clean up his mess, he grabs a couple newspapers and works the puddle on his hands and knees, trying to soaking it up.


With his legs and hands covered in p**s, he starts hitting on this terrified girl who looked she was 13. He happened to be in his 40 or 50's.