Given that the exact same question is the current top post but for driving instead of transit, I feel this question was needed.
My answer: I saw some guys hooking up a Raclette Grill to the outlet in an otherwise empty German intercity rail waggon. They had it unpacked in one of these 4 person seats with a small table. No idea if that could work or if draws too much power from the board net. I just headed on to the next waggon.
Lol your raclette experience reminded me when we once hooked up an electric cettle on a swiss alpine train to make an alcoholic drink called „fröschli“. It worked great but it also uses a lot less power. :D
I was reading a book on the train. A guy had the nerve to come up to me and ask me about the book I was reading.
I have peeked at book covers as I’m always curious. One day someone was reading a book called The Arranged Marriage. The plot was hilarious when I googled it.
One thing I noticed when I first moved to Japan:
When you buy a new book (they don’t do this at used book stores), they wrap it in paper. Kind of like we did with our textbooks with paper bags back when I was a kid in school in the US. But they use nicer paper.
This means that when you take your book out, nobody can see what it is. Unless you remove the paper.
That’s interesting. I wonder why?
When you buy products that are deemed sensitive, such as condoms or tampons or hemorrhoid cream or whatever it may be, they also put that in a paper bag instead of the regular bag so that no one can see what it is.
Of course, I found this to be counterproductive because that means you know that person is carrying something “sensitive”.
Maybe with books, that’s why they wrap all of them?
The bus driver watching loud porn on his phone and cheering them on loud enough for the whole bus to hear.
Porn or Skype?
Oh my.
I did not expect the sheer amount of posts from Americans about mentally ill people or drug users. I taught this would get more vibes, like people moving weird furniture in trams, or people in weird costumes, or stuff like that.
I’m not sure how it is in the larger cities, but a lot of the US is car centric. Since a lot of people with cars drive, it means that you see a higher percentage of people who can’t afford cars in public transportation. That leads to more sketchy stuff happening on public transports, which leads to more people who have the option avoiding it.
My father from the greater New York area still refuses to ride our local light rail here in Seattle because he doesn’t understand that it’s actually a really low key experience, with clean, safe, fairly quiet cars (for the most part), and relatively efficient service at low prices and all that. He thinks it’s all like the New York Subway or NJ Transit.
He’s going on that light rail next time he’s here.
I have been the doing thd Moving by bus. Not even by tram. With two changes. I won’t do it again.
Not my story but my dad’s. He was in London for work and was using the public transit. I don’t know if it’s like this anywhere else but uk buses throw you around a lot. So a group of American tourists got on, with their typical “having a conversation with a stranger” behaviour, something unacceptable in the uk (/hj). The bus starts and the Americans just go flying and the entire bus of brits are just laughing at them.
Young dude sitting waiting for a train flicking a bic lighter until it exploded in his hand.
Old lady fell off the platform between two cars while the train was still rolling. Had all the toes on one foot crushed and cut off. The sock was still intact so when we helped the conductor pull her back up it was just a bloody tube of sock with… stuff at the bottom.
Train stopped in the middle of nowhere after it hit a horse. The train won.
Two, both on the same bus ride:
Old guy comes on with a cart and starts selling cotton candy, with surprising success. 50 cents, and the rest of the ride people are just all enjoying cotton candy in violation of no eating rules (especially sticky stuff).
Girl, probably around 16ish, on a loud phone call with someone in regards to a boyfriend in prison with increasingly more depressing and dire details as the ride goes on except a random moment where she talked about Fortnite. We’re talking drugs, pregnancy, other women, and Fortnite.
Drugs, pregnancy, infidelity, and fortnite. The four horsemen
charge they phone twerk eat hot chip lie
I was taking the train to work and there was this homeless dude sitting there quietly scooping chocolate powder over his head.
Just using the little plastic scoop that comes in the can. Scoop, scoop, scoop.
He wasn’t hurting anyone, so I called it in to the transit authority when I got to my stop. On the one hand, I didn’t want anyone seeing a bunch of brown powder thinking we got anthraxed, at the same time, I didn’t want to be late for work. ;)
“Yeah, there’s a guy on the Westbound train quietly covering himself in chocolate powder.”
“What kind of chocolate powder?”
“. . . I dunno, Nestlé Quik? Does it matter?”
I love that they asked what kind.
Might have wondered if it was something that was going to melt.
Or they had a hankering for some Bosco.
The person might have thought chocolate was the color not the food.
On the tube in central London, two 20-something women got on the train, one was leading the other on a collar and leash as she crawled.
The one holding the leash sat down on the seat, the leashed one sat on the floor at her feet.
I think that’s gross. I’m all for consenting adults doing whatever, but I’m not consenting to be part of your sex life in public because that’s what gets you off. I also think it’s immature. I think BDSM is immature really.
I think it’s gross … Because of the gross stuff that’s probably on every surface in a public transit environment.
I think BDSM is immature really.
Wild take at the end of a comment about being overtly sexualy kinky in public
I do though. I think it sucks the human connection out of sex and numbs people to their feelings. I think people who are into it are using it for passive self injurious behaviour.
I read this article about a woman who was killed in bondage in a BDSM household where her “master” who killed her had a few other “slaves”. All the women were fairly chubby and said when interviewed they hadn’t had many relationships before, it was obvious they were super vulnerable and in the hands of a sociopath. At first they defended him and covered up for him, but then came forward to the investigation and told the truth about what their household was like.
I’m not saying that playing around with a little kink isn’t ok, a spanking for example can be quite nice. And whatever I might think, you do you, just be safe and have self respect, and leave strangers in public places out of it.
I was with you until that last part.
I don’t need anyone to agree with my opinion about it, it’s ok. But I think we can all agree that the women on the train were being inappropriate.
I’d argue there’s a very pleasant and even artistically beautiful side to the bdsm community. The problem is that, like any niche subculture, the ones that tell you about it are unbearable and the bearable ones aren’t out here showing off.
I think the people into that scene really need therapy. It’s like passive self injurious behaviour.
Someone on Reddit once talked about working on porn sets, and said that the actresses all had this vacant quality. I think when you make your sex life about being a violent commodity rather than simple human intimacy and mutual pleasure that it’s unhealthy. Also some women have been murdered in the scene, and I think it hides sociopathic people fairly well.
high speed train. a scrawny dude in a tracksuit asks someone when the train will stop. next station in 40 minutes, someone tells him. (there are only five stops and all in large cities) this reassures him for a while.
30 minutes to the city. dude stands up and asks when will the train stop. the same someone tells him that in half an hour, but this time he doesn’t chill out. he wants to get out, RIGHT NOW. dude gets increasingly more agitated and hovers around train door. he found a hammer somewhere and tried to break open glass in that door, but it’s reinforced so it doesn’t fall apart. at that point someone alerted train staff. he wants to get out, right now, and won’t through that hole. train got stopped shortly after, everyone in that car was moved out to others. other than that dude, that is, now without hammer, repeating I WANNA GET OUT
some of staff tries to pacify him, but it doesn’t work. border guard and some other uniformed officer, both on leave, tackle him and hold until railway security arrive. it took six of them to take that tracksuit dude out to ambulance. (he got to leave train) motherfucker caused 4h of delay for this train and many delays downstream
40 minutes, someone tells him. (there are only five stops and all in large cities)
I want to live where the fast passenger train takes me to the next large city 150km away like it’s easy. I could totally get used to riding an hour to get to the hot springs; it’d be a great ‘down’ weekend.
there are some tradeoffs
that train used to have peak speed of about 150km/h on that route maybe it’s a bit faster by now. these five stops are in three cities, and there’s 250km-ish distance between them. (and all built for EU money) by that 30 minute mark it started slowing down and was something like 60km away from city
Someone today had a balaclava on with a bandanna tied around the forehead and sunglasses on. It is summer here.
My favourite was the guy who asked me if he could borrow my phone tomorrow to record his wedding to me. Ha.
In New York some man decided to hold the whole car hostage to some lengthy preaching and finally I told him he was boring and to shut up.
Does a handjob under an umbrella count or is that too tame?
It was some memorable first impression of the Philippines though.
That’s creative!
As I was preparing to get off the train, I heard the man next to me say “hublublublubluh”.
I looked over. He was lying down.
“hublublublubluh” he repeated, and this time I got to witness the exit of pints of beery vomit onto the floor.
The train stopped. The vomit rushed across the floor under other people’s feet and bags. As I got off I noticed the smell.
Really glad that was my stop.
- Guy with his pants down furiously masturbating in the middle of rush hour. Caused a delay.
- Tweaker trying to grind on us til a BAMF lady with a tazer and a huge afro scared him off
- Two rival gangs threatening each other with guns. Police raided the train from both ends
- Masturbaters on the bus
- Delusional woman accusing everyone of touching her hair and trying to pick a fight
- Guy blowing off another guy in between moving train cars
- Subway surfers
- On the bus, guy kept saying “mmm gassy” while eating Chinese takeout and loudly farting
NYC is wild
…Is Subway Surfers what I think it is?
What… uh… what do you think it is?
Cars catch a lot of hate, often for valid reasons, but I’ve never seen people doing this stuff in my car at least
Oh the city is saturated with batshit crazy drivers that have serious main character syndrome.
As a very recent example, I almost got mowed down at a crosswalk by a guy in a sports car who decided to floor it in reverse through a red light without looking, while turning
There’s virtually no traffic enforcement so people will park and drive literally anywhere without a second thought. I’ve seen ambulances and fire trucks get blocked in too many times to count.
Ok that is fucking horrible, but the “mmm gassy” guy is amazing
Dude on the train runs a successful business selling plain white socks. See him hustling nearly every day.
How much a pair?
