On a trip to San Francisco, the quintessential "gay mecca" of the USA I was on a bus making my way over towards Haight area (then planning to go visit Castro street aka the actual gayest part of San Francisco) there were a group of men on the bus going on a bigoted rant specifically about homosexual men ruining the country and going to hell and all that fun stuff on the LGBTQ+ agenda.

Like, I'd expect to hear that kind of stuff in the middle of Oklahoma's rural hellscape (sans the bus part). But in San Francisco of all places?

I used to ride the CTA blue line into downtown Chicago for work. One of the other commuters who I saw regularly was as guy with a large patchwork hat that he clearly made himself. He also called a folding sign that looked like it was made of thin pieces of plywood. He'd be sitting and reading the newspaper when I got on, but when the train was getting close to down town he'd calmly fold up his paper and start getting himself worked up. By the time we got to Clark and Lake, the big transfer station, he'd be incredibly animated and ranting about God and the devil. He'd sprint off through the crowd the moment the doors opened

Two things come to mind:

• Subway rolls up with an empty car and I was like, "these fools aren't on this sweet-ass empty car!!?!?"... yeah, dude taking a shit.
• Another being on the A Train, express, and stuck with mariachi band at full-tilt in a convenient 10-15min gap between stops.
• And one time we were the entertainment! Had to get the tree back to the apt, dragged that shit onto the train.

Drugs is nothing. Vomit is nothing. I watched a dude drop a duce and thought now that's something.

dude huffin paint out of a paper bag on a full morning commute

dude was trippin balls and everyone gave him space so it was something to behold, it was one of those bus rides that had a 15-20 minute space on the freeway so there wasn't any making him leave. Everyone kept an eye on him as he passed up and down the isle.

It was something so far out, I recorded it on my phone

I stared at my wife's cleavage while riding the train once. Otherwise it's all been pretty chill.

Got a few that come to mind:

Three young guys, I would guess in their early twenties, were being obnoxious in a silence compartment. Other people noticed but nobody went beyond casting disapproving looks. One of the boys defiantly started asking the other passengers one by one if they found the boys annoying. The first few people cowardly denied annoyance until one of them simply and firmly responded 'yes'. The boys had not expected this and just packed up and left. It was hilarious to see their faces, they had not expected that haha

In Spain, a ticket inspector addressed me in Spanish, which I don't speak. I tried communicating in English. Unfortunately the ticket inspector thought that I would magically start understanding Spanish if he increased his speaking volume. After a few rounds of this he was practically shouting at me. Luckily at that point another passenger joined in to translate and we managed to sort things out.

On the train from London to Edinburgh, an obligatory drunk randomly shouting Scotsman

I have been sitting in a tram that emergency breake'd. It was all seriously fast: Ring of the warning bell (like an overgrown alarm clock) towards the driver of the car, and next thing was that I was leaning over an old lady sitting in the opposite side. They accellerated like a snail on dope, but breaking was applying ACME Insta Stop.

I jooed.on at my.stop and then get.off at my stop and that was it...weird shit huh!

Guy gets on bus, sits down, starts playing music from his phone's speaker. Plays "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off," while simultaneously launching into a recitation of the Lord's Prayer on repeat.

We Don't Have to...

On my once a year trip on mass transit, someone came on, so hammered/high they proceeded to vomit up the thickest, most gooey, florescent yellow-green puke I have ever seen. They did this 2 or 3 times before getting off and stumbling home.

I have no idea what was in their stomach, but it for sure wanted out. I just felt for the poor soul having to clean it up.

The bus being on time.

And people wonder why a lot of folks are uncomfortable on public transportation.

I was excited to ride on public transportation for the first time and immediately people were doing drugs right next to me and babbling incoherently. Yep, no, I'm good.

I was on the escalator coming up out of one of Washington D.C.'s Metro stations when the guy ahead of me reached the top, stepped to the side, then squatted down and pissed his pants.

Maybe not the "craziest", but I remember being a kid and on the NYC subway, a bunch of dudes were just like... doing "steet performance" stuff... like on the subway... like they'd while moving from one subway cart to another subway cart (is that what it's called, idk the terminology), like through the train connection thing while the subway was in motion, like a group of 4-5 guys, one went around, begging for money, which I thought at the time was a robbery, like, for context, I was around 8-12 at the time, I literally just came to this country, I was just so "wtf" about the whole situation. Like what the fuck was that. Like... I don't wanna be racist about this... but I'm Asian, and those dudes were not, so you know... me being a kid, I got even more scared about it. I just kinda leaned on my mom sitting right next to me and like hugged cuz I felt so scared.

No it wasn't really a robbery, but like... I was just so fucking confused at the time. What the fuck what that? Then like 10 minutes later, they moved to a different subway cart. It felt like 30 minutes to me lol. And like I don't think we ever were at a stop, since I think this was like those segments where it takes forever between 2 stops, probably the manhattan bridge section of the D train or N train, which takes forever.

Like can you imagine being a kid and a bunch of dudes are causing a scene for some reason you don't understand?

Also I remember this other time where I'm sure it was the D line, and like I went on this subway cart where it was empty. Like you know NYC always crowded af and no seats, and I always hated standing as a kid. So my mom and I picked this subway car that was apparantly empty. So then the doors close behind us and then we noticed a smell, then we notices some homeless looking dude on the other corner of the subway cart. And like the smell was coming from the homeless dude. (No offense to homeless people btw, but I'm describing this memory from a kid-me's perspective so keep that in mind) So it got really uncomfortable in there, but the doors closed and train already got moving. But the next stop was like 10 minutes away (one of the sections where they skip like 3 stops on the express track), so we just had to bear with the dumpster like smell and also the potential danger of dude just waking up and attacking us.

I thought about just hopping between the carts using the doorway thing (if you know what I'm talking about), but there was a sign warning not to move through doors while train is moving and my mom said no, its too dangerous, so we just stayed in that cart for 10 agonizing minutes.

Actually, current-me might've been actually been more freaked out by it since I have germophobia now. That's why I kinda hate public transit nowadays.

Nothing crazy really. I ride the train that's also a connection to one of the biggest asylum centres for immigrants, so of course, because foreign people scary, there's loads of extra security.

The only few times I've actually seen something they were needed for, it was never the immigrants. Once I saw a white guy wailing on someone who looked foreign, took a good while for security to actually step in and do something.

A different time, some guy was just being a nuisance and didn't want to get on or off the train or something. Two of these security people got involved, both a lot bigger than the guy, but they struggled a lot to get him down and cuffed. The guy almost got up and fled a few times.

So that got me really feeling confident in this security... (/s of course)