View Full Version : Public Transportation-A Cast of Characters


Moonlight Lady
08-28-2002, 11:02 AM
Who are the weirdest regular passengers on the bus (City or School), subway, trolley, commuter train. What do they do or say that makes them weird or annoying.

The #14 that leaves at 7:49am and the #24 that leaves at 5:07pm are mobile looney bins.

The most annoying person on that bus is sickeningly sweet
She thinks she's being funny and cute. She makes me want to puke. She usually says things like:

1. Hiya Cutey
2. I'm well
3. Men, ya gotta love em
4. How's the Man in your life
5. The Man i'm married to....
6. God bless em....

These are always said in a sickeningly sweet way.
She also bellow laughs it's almost like a scream laugh.
she always finds a way to sit either behind or infront of me. If i'm talking to someone next to me, I can't hear myself or the person because Winnie's having kittens over a joke someone told.

Mossopp
08-28-2002, 01:36 PM
Oh man, some of the characters on my regular bus...!!! :lol:
There's this mad old English woman who's always raving on about how "Glasgow folk are the salt of the earth!" and how much she loves Scotland. The sad thing is, she's been living here for years. I would've thought the novelty would have faded by now. Just don't sit next to her - she'll talk at you very loudly for the entire duration of the journey about everything and anything. She gave me a 30 minute lecture on how "brilliant" suitcases are.
Mad as a moose! :crazy:

Moonlight Lady
08-28-2002, 02:48 PM
Wow, she sounds like one of the women who used to ride the #14 in the mornings. She got on the bus with one of those grocery handcarts, She picks me to sit next to. The way our buses are set up, they have side seats in the very front and the rest face front, there was plenty of room for her there, it wasn't crowded at all and she sits next to me. There's not enough room for her and her cart. She starts rambling on about, Kmart, her illnesses--going into great detail, which i'll spare us both from.
Also, the stupid cart is on my foot and I said nicely twice "Excuse me, your cart is on my foot." She doesn't do anything. I said a third time, and then a fourth, So she says to me: "Oh I'm sorry, is that on your foot?" I said Yeah, I told you that 3 or 4 times.
I was so glad to get off the bus.

Warm & Fuzzy
08-28-2002, 04:59 PM
Well, there's this middle-aged woman who would take the same EXACT cart in the same EXACT train as I EVERY single day in the same EXACT station..

And EVERY single day, she'd ask whether if the downtown F went to Jay Street, and I'd tell her "Yes." This continued for the next two months I was attending this summer course.

She was sooo annoying! I think she's a stalker, or something. Whoever she was, she has the memory span of a fish.. I hope I never bump into her again when I go back to school in Septemeber; or else, I'll freak! :eek:

Moonlight Lady
08-29-2002, 10:00 AM
Oh, there was this one lady on the bus who would sit in one of the side seats and pick her nose! Ugh!!! I would try to sit way back so I wouldn't have to see this too closely. Also, she would listen to her walkman and start shouting out "Yeah!" and Baby!!

At night, while waiting for the bus, she would come up to me and wanna put her hands on me. I don't wait for the bus at that stop anymore.