whats some of the weirdest things youve encountered on public transit?

ive been riding the bus for like 5 years so i have dozens of stories to share, usually its just instances where i've been harassed which arent that fun but are honestly too ridiculous not to share lmao

by far the weirdest thing was the one guy (who i assumed went to my college) who chatted me up at the bus stop and then when i went to sit away from him he heckled me to sit next to him and so i, being too shy to say no, sat with him. he then tried to invite me out for drinks and forcefully HELD MY HAND!!!! the entire bus ride. like he just met me literally 5 seconds ago. he was giving off very stalker "i just met you and youre my soulmate" vibes. he put his name in my phone number and told me i had to call him later. i told him that i had to go grocery shopping and got off the bus like 50 stops early and hung out at a shopping plaza for an hour because i didnt want him to follow me home or anything (he seemed the type!) i never saw him at my college ever again either.

weirdest thing of all is that im a dude, i have a kind of "feminine" face and im sometimes mistaken for being a girl. either this guy thought i was a really masculine girl named nathan or that i was a gay dude (he mentioned my LGBT button so its likely?) and he was just extremely bold? and weird? i dont even hold my own boyfriend's hand in public because we've been yelled at too many times. i know this situation isnt that weird for a lot of women, but sometimes you forget there are totally weird stalkers of all genders and orientations lol.

oh, there was also the time this old lady told us we were going to hell for not being christian and i told her "cool, thats where all my friends will be then" and left. really the best comeback ive ever had.

I was on the new york subway and i saw a carving that said Bat Fiends

and then a guy came on and sang my least favorite song i dont go on public transit a lot but tbh theres always something

That's a pretty funny/weird story!! I don't understand how you can hold someone's hand like that... to even touch someone on the shoulder is bold to me LOL. And your comeback is gold lol.

I don't ride public transit very often at all, though quite a few of my friends do. My friend once sat in a seat that had been peed on. And she got covered in pee on her way to school. Even saying that again makes me shiver inside ;-; Though, I have met quite a few interesting people on plane rides, if that counts? I used to fly quite often, and I loved meeting interesting characters (unless they were creepy and I was trapped with them for a couple hours...).

Oh boy here we go. So I don't drive and I've taken public transportation since I was 18 (so about five years now). I have seen/heard/experienced some crazy stuff. One of the scariest and most unnerving was the time I had someone take my picture on the bus. This was before I started on T and I still looked very much like a girl. I also looked (and still look) very young for my age. These two drunk guys took their phone out and tried to hide their phone as they took pictures of me but when they noticed that I noticed they quickly hid the phone and started laughing to each other.

Several other ones were when people were drinking and I reported one this one time and I had these guys threaten to kill me before getting off the bus. I've had middle age women come up to me on crowded buses and tell me to move so they can take my seat (again assuming I'm a kid) (I just had this happen again a couple days ago, she even grabbed my shoulder and I was on the phone too). I've had this one guy recently on the bus give me the most skin crawling look ever. He was slightly overweight, late 40's - early 50's, balding but long stringy hair and stains all over his shirt. He just stared and smiled whenever I would look his way. (The weird part is I look very much like a guy now, but like again a younger male high schooler age so this guy had to think I was a teenage boy)

And that's just a few stories. I mean I get looks all the time on the bus, I have tattoos and a septum piercing and usually have a bunch of nerd t-shirts on. I've had both guys and girls check me out, I've had older people give me unhappy looks (especially when my hair was dyed for the summer).

I agree that it doesn't matter what gender you are, there will always be people like that and with what happened to you. The best suggestion I give people who start riding public transit is always pay attention to your surroundings but also avoid eye contact with people. Keep headphones if needed, but always pay attention.

oh my gosh, the pee thing reminds me of the one time i was on the bus and there was this huge brown stain all over like, the entire back row of the bus. I don't know WHAT that was, but we definitely avoided it.

ohh my gosh those are really scary stories :( ive had a lot of similar things happen, i look like an 11 year old so when people are flirty with me im like....huh???? my boyfriend had someone take his picture too, and it was guy from his old school too? didn't talk to him just took a pic of him for like no reason. Weird dude who was listening to vocaloid music.

im hoping to get my liscene soon, because ive just been yelled at soooo many times on the bus. people who get cars and liscenes at 16 are so lucky. im gonna end up being an old man by the time im able to drive.

Yeah I mean I get if the people who look younger are flirting with me because I look young, I just am like ew sorry way older than I look, while it's so creepy how many older people will just give you those looks and they have to think your a kid too, like the one guy on the bus...ugh

Yeah, I wish I am able to afford a car or license...Don't worry I know a lot of people who haven't even gotten driving licenses until they were way past 30.

Once i had this guy i sat next to start talking to me about aliens and conspiracy theories with them

Another time, i was telling my brother about how people always come up and tell me the weirdest stuff and then at the stop to go home, this guy started talking to us about these things that no one believed him with, like he wrote all these famous songs and one time he died and went to hell and all these celebrities are really demons

and last night this guy with a bike with one wheel came up to us and quietly asked us if we have any weed, and when we told him no, he was just "im sorry, that was an illegal question". We're in Washington, where it's legal and there's shops everywhere.

I've been taking public transportations for years (I took the bus I was a toddler). I've only started taking the bus alone at 18 I think? But I'm lucky I wasn't the target of a lot of "weird moment".

A few years ago, I've hit a very unlucky day I think. I was going to the doctor and the bus that I had to take was rather late. I was listening to my music, not bothering with anyone, until a man came to me for no reason. He asked me what time it was and I told him without smiling, without invitation: just the time. He walked away and I resumed my music. But he came back and started to talk, so I looked at him without removing an earbud but I could understand him saying "I'm sorry but you're very beautiful" (unimpressed brow moves from me) "I'm very sorry" and he kept going on until I said "I don't want to talk anymore" and thankfully the bus came right after. I was 18 at the time and he looked probably in his late twenties or middle thirties. Either way, didn't like it.

The exact same day, after going to the doctor, I was making my way to the next bus, minding my business again BUT a man probably in his thirties came onto me straigt as fuck tbh. He started to asked me the time again (I was warry a lot by then ha ha) and he kept talking to me, looking for my sympathy when he said that he came to my city because of a girl that he found online but she dumped him and now he's basically living alone but he looks for a roommate (ha ha ha ofc bud). When the bus arrived, I was alone with the driver and this man. He followed me where I sat and kept chatting, asking me questions about my life, my family situation, if I wanted to move in with him, if I had a boyfriend (told him I was dating a girl tho but whatever). When we arrived to my destination, he got off too and THANKS GOD we weren't taking the same bus.

It gave me the most lowkey freak fucking vibe ever. Reminded me of how street gangs recruit young girls for prostitution (I study in social work and we have a lot of formation on the matter).

There are so many bus stories... so little to remember. I don't pay attention to things anymore. There is one story that stuck to me:

I was riding the bus home one time at night and there was this drunk guy passed out at one of the stops. He had a bunch of empty beer cans around him and the driver stopped and was yelling "hey! You need the bus?" He finally woke up after she went out there and he climbed aboard and had a knife in his back pocket. I told her about it and the cops finally showed up at my spot where they took him into the car.

Fun times. I ride the bus sometimes now, but not as frequently as I used to when I was going to college.

hi ney ^_^

was on the metro & it was rly packed n the doors were the type with like, a set of doors that open in close to keep ppl from killing themselfs via metro tracks, and this old lady got stuck between them as she was trying 2 get onto the train !!!!! and her daughter or idk who was behind her and started screaming and like, my face was literally inches from this happening this old lady being crushed between doors and shes like aaaah and her daughter is like AAAAAAAAAH and im just like 2 stunned to react im like ._____. lol

and afterwards there was this old guy who was shaking his head all solemn and saying "tragique..... dramatique......" and it stuck with me cause it was so fucking funny the way he said it and i was in such a state of shock

I've had some really creepy and terrifying experiences but my weirdest experience was actually one that gave me faith in human kindness again. I was really sick after a wild night and trying to get home on public transit in a city where I don't really speak the language and that was still semi-unfamiliar, and a young man holding a bunch of roses saw that I wasn't doing well and that everyone was avoiding me because yeah I looked like a zombie, throwing up in the trash. He didn't speak much of any language I know fluently but he gave me his roses and helped me find my way home through a series of hand gestures, pointing to places on a map, and broken fragments of any language we had in common. He was really scared that I needed a doctor (I understood that much.) but I convinced him I was going to be ok and I fully expected he would leave me as soon as I was slightly less confused and seeing double but instead he held my hand while I threw up, talked with me about where we both came from to cheer me up, and helped me walk back to my building/made sure I had someone to take care of me later even after the long train ride to get there.

I really wish I'd gotten more contact information from him so I could make him a pie or something, I could have really gotten hurt that night in so many ways and he was a real angel.

Eh, the weirdest thing I've had happen while riding public transportation was a person wearing a giraffe onesie. Not very terrifying, but I've only ridden the train once and a public bus a couple of times.

Been on public transport for years on end. Fortunately I haven't had too many weird things happen. Probs the worst thing was when a drunk guy tried to grab my hand to kiss and everyone just sort of let him harass me because they were afraid. Another time that probably almost matches it was a drunk guy shouted at me from behind back when I boarded the bus and sat down and it was a very crowded night bus so everyone heard what he was saying. He basically had a one way convo with me and was getting really agitated I wasn't answering back and started saying really nasty things to me but I didn't say a word and luckily got off the bus when he didn't. But boy did it go from hey pretty girl to @!#*& fast.

I totes recommend headphones while on transport but I'd recommend absolutely no distractions coming off transport. That includes headphones and putting a hood on. Because you never know.

One time I was on the city bus and I saw one of my friends that lived in my city get on a few stops after me, and he had his headphones in so when I called his name he didn't hear me calling him or notice me when he got on, and the bus was crowded so he just kind of stood in the aisle hanging onto the handrail and I came up behind him and grabbed his butt. and just. the way. he slowly turned with this terrified death glare...is was great. hahah.

I've been riding the bus for 10 years and tbh I haven't encountered anything weird, just nasty people like the mother and daughter who loudly bitched about people bringing walkers and strollers onto the bus. There's also the kids who brag about spending $200+ on drugs and the usual crowds who are super classy and shouldn't be surprised that they've gotten nowhere in life.

I guess the weirdest thing is the "wizard" who rides the bus. There's an old guy with a long white beard that wears yellow robes with other brightly-coloured patches sewn onto them. I think he also wears a wizardish hat but I can't remember since I haven't seen him in a while.

I have my own car so I don't use public transport unless I'm traveling.

during a family trip to Sydeny I got into a heated argument with my dad over something dumb and it escalated, out of the blue he yelled "That's it! you are paying for the bus ride home! we are leaving right now!"

so fine I'll pay!

we stood there in silence waiting until the bus came, the minute it stopped the driver came out and waved everyone in "COME ON! COME ON! the meter malfunctioned so it's a free trip!!!"

I laughed and my dad looked like he was ready to blow his top XD

I usually only ride public transportation when we go to the resort beach town, not very far from where I live. Once, when I was maybe 10 or 11, there was this woman who was sitting down and a man was standing in front of her. Not out of the ordinary, one might say. Until you look closer. I watched as she slipped his zipper down and slowly reached into his pants. Eventually, her entire hand was in the front of his pants. Not exactly something my young girl self needed to see.

A few years ago on my tram home there was usually an older guy looking EXACTLY like Hitler. The moustache, the hair, even his face and attire - and he wondered why the other people looked at him weirdly.

Also, a while ago an unknown woman went to me, hugged me and said how I was going. Then she looked at my face, her face went red and she went away awkwardly...huh.

I'm from a fairly rough bit of London so I have seen plenty of creeps on public transport. I would not have put up with that guy! That is so crazy! But you probably made a smarter choice than I would by not agitating him. For most situations I play 'deaf'/no english- but holding your hand! I would have lost it! Glad you managed to lose him.

omg this is my greatest fear. I am always waving at people I think are other people. If I did this I would just melt into the pavement.

The craziest (and also scariest) experience was on the tube one night and this American guy sat next to me and my friend and asked something innocent like the time/where the train was going or something. And then he just started making comments about the gun laws in America compared to here. And we were just politely nodding/trying to end the conversation because it was so weird. And then he asked us if we were Muslim! (Dude, just because we're brown) We just quickly said no and started internally panicking about him murdering us all. Next stop was us so we just ran off the train. I looked back to see that he'd moved seats to sit next to a Muslim lady! I hope he didn't give her grief! Such a creep.

I live very close to NYC and every public transit trip is an experience. They're all so wild that it's more unusual to not have someone/something very bizarre happen.