Experiences taking public transport

[Mad-Mike]

Oh just rememberd, a couple of years ago when I was in Turkey with family. A taxi driver was masterbating at the side of his car with a towel over his ding dong

[callumh]

i love this
Sometimes i take the bus when my ped has run out of petrol and i HATE it.
juts so crowded and the amount of people that get one that haven't washed


One of my best experience is when me and a group of mates got on a bus, it was quite late and we went to the top deck.
a couple of stops later a guy come up the stairs with a pack of beer in his hand an open one in his pocket and and another in his hand. as he was walking up the stairs he nearly fell over but while doing that his open one dropped out of his pocket, i don't think he realized it had and was now spilling all over the floor,
we where sitting at the back and he sat half way down.
He was waring a sleeveless denim jacket with 'Essex Boys' on his back.
He kept turning around and laughing at us and talking to him self.
Then he started singing
'Daisy daisy, give me answer due, Im half crazy' ...... yea i think you know how it goes,
he started of quiet but then got very loud.
He then turned to us, said something like 'see this ?' pointing to his shirt 'Dont fucking mess with us' then started singing again lol
It was scary and funny at the same time.


also i just went on my facebook refreshed my status and this is what one of my mates had put.

[Alex6714]

Waiting for the train at the station, also waiting are tons of other people. The speakers are saying "Gandia, platform 5, sector A, leaving immediately". We all look around. Thats our platform. Then they say it again.... and again.

A few minutes later train rushes in, everyone hops off, everyone hops on and it rushes out.

Was quite funny at the time.

[OiSkout]

Originally Posted by Ironcomatose

Im from NYC so i have so many stories i dont even remember them all right now

Haha same man. I also went to college in Boston so I had to deal with their public transit ... and a buttload of drunk college students/red sox fans.

I guess the most impressive one didn't happen to me, but my sister. Forgot which line she was on, but some dude comes on the train and starts doing magic tricks. Like pulling out a never ending hankercheif and all that. So most people just kinda ignore him. He does a few more tricks, then he takes out a bag, and squeezes it all the way down so you can tell there's nothing inside. Then the dude puts the bag back into it's normal shape, and then pulls out a dove. Apparently the train erupts with applause and people give him a buttload of money.

I've seen some like young kids break dancing on a moving train. Pretty crazy balance since it's pretty uh, wobbly to say the least.

I think one of the most amusing ones is on weekends in Boston, the outbound T(train) had like 3 stops on campus that were free(which they charged for later on). You'd just see kids packing themselves in around 9-10 when everyone heads out to party. Halloween would just be like a ton of nearly naked girls and a buttload of dudes in every sort of costume you can imagine packed into a car. Like a few people tried to squeeze their way on, but they couldn't even fit.

[Atandon]

Public transport here in Boston is slow as hell...I swear the trains here never go above 45 mph. I haven't had the opportunity to travel late at night on the T (because it closes at 12am).

@ OiSkout: Which college in Boston? I go to BC right now, and our shuttle buses are often filled with people who've had too good a time on a Saturday night. Hilarious to watch.


Once a guy (who was standing in the bus) threw up on this girl. Bus driver pretended it was nothing and kept going.

[[R-MOD]Spec]

Hm. Nothing impressive happened to me. Some little things here and there, some strange people, some interesting ones, but nothing special. Only notable thing probably was an accident with the bus hitting a car in a winter day with kinda icy streets, but noone was injured or anything and the damage wasn't that much either, so... Nothing interesting to tell. I guess I'm lucky with the public transportation.

[C.vanDijk]

Me and a couple friends were waiting for our train to arrive in London. I went to go check what time the train was arriving, and on my way back to my friends I saw a lady kneel down to pick something up off the floor and you could see clearly down her skirt, although it was dark so I didn't see much. Me being me I thought "Ooo, very nice", and then she stood up. Turns out this lady wasn't much of a lady, more a middle aged man in womens clothes. He/She got on the same train as us and everyone slowly moved away from him.

[Bellator]

No especially bad experiences in public transport. I have encountered the occasional drunkard, and once I witnessed an intoxicated person starting a fight. But such experiences are scarce and far between considering that I use public transportation almost always when I need to go somewhere too far for my bike.

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

Living in london, i'v had a fair few things go down on transport de public, most notabely the trains.

It was an ordinary, weekend, P.M return from a shopping trip to Oxford street and the underground was packed solid. Its been a good five stops and the driver has, in their usual formal, resentful and glum tone, announced the next station that the train will arrive at. We stop at station and the driver announces that the next stations are "Balham, Tooting Bec, Colliers Wood, South Wimbeldon and will terminate at Morden". We reach Balham, which is my stop, and as we get off, the driver announces "This is Balham station, change here for overground railway services". All is normal. He then finishes the broadcast in a lord of the rings-esque, Scottish reigonal accent: "This train terminates at the black gates of Morden, where the fires burn hot! Hobbits and humans bewhere!!...please mind the gap". Needless to say people errupted in laughter and light applause.


Another memorable, yet a little more serious event comes to mind.
Me and a friend of mine awaited the 15:45 to West Coryden on Platform 15, Clapham junction station(britain's bussiest train station) on the overground. As usual for the summer period, we leant against the railings flanked the staircase, to oggle the clevage of those women who stopped to check the train times, or make the full journy up the stairs onto the platform. It was the season for it and we were in luck: many'a bust was oggled.

We hear a comotion somewhere below us, in the tunnel-passage that ran from each end of the station, connecting the platforms together. Probably some kids making trouble or robbing one of the small shops that were dotted along the length of the passage, right?
Then we notice the people below us stop, frozen. Looking on intently at something out of our sight. We heard shouts of "Bruv, your ****ing with the wrong guy, man!" "Are you dumb?! Are you silly, cuz?!" "**** you, you dick'ed!". Those wernt kids shouting, they clearly sounded like men in their late 20s, both voices.

In this short time, perhaps 30seconds, a crowd had gathered of passers-by, creating a semi-circle around the disturbence and kept its distance. Then, from within a gap created by rappidly realing on-lookers, a guy runs flat-out up the stairs and onto our platform, risking the odd look over his shoulder as he went; the man brandishing what looked like a chrome-finish 45. automatic handgun. It was a peice alright.
Naturally, a sixteen year-old me and my friend shat ourselves(not literally) and yelled out. The guy split and jumped onto the train pulling up.
A few seconds later, a guy comes up the strairs with a friend, blood pouring from his head, clearly looking for his now mounted and moving foe.

First time I saw a gun in person (aside from airport police and that)


...mongol...

[Zulnex]

I have been taking a city bus to school for almost 3 years now. I never experienced any problems and I truly enjoy my relaxing stress-free daily commute. Drivers are professional, courteous and very helpful if you have any questions. If someone is intoxicated and not behaving properly while on the bus, they are arrested in the matter of minutes. Zero tolerance for causing a disturbance.
Nothing but praises so far.