I've just travelled on two trains. Durham to Oxford and Oxford to Slough. While travelling, I saw a lot of fun people such as: a Brian Blessed lookalike who had a voice similar to Sean Connery's (he also loves HP Lovecraft), a guy who was reading a book on Nazis (he also had a Nazi tattoo on his arm) and a guy who looked, and sounded like Michael Kaine.

So what has happened on your weird journeys?

I seem to encounter an awful lot of real hokerrs on intercity trains. Maybe I just don't notice them so much on commuter trains, on the road, flights, walking etc but long-distance train travel is something I feel rather averse to.

Oh, and motorway service stations around Nottingham seem to be largely patronised by psychopathic and very ugly chimpanzees. I think we'll stop off elsewhere next time we're headed north.

train rides specifically? eh, just looking out the window, seeing the cool places. or sleeping(i think at least once) on third level bed, almost at the very ceiling. and one time, trying cards for the first time. though that was not much of a lesson, as i don't think i remember anything of it.

on the plane i remember looking out the window while we were flying above the clouds. that was a sight to see.

one trip to Moscow, Russia, we had to stay in a hotel and sleep in i think in a basemant on what i think was a huge beanbag-like things(or mattresses, or something). weird stuff that experience was.

I once saw a guy playing a traffic cone (by blowing into it like a trumpet) at the train station.

On the train back to Durham, I saw two black guys talking ghetto but it was like those two guys on Airplane!

I only rode on trains back when I lived in New York and took trips to NYC. Nothing weird happened on those.

But the last time I was on a plane, there was a loud Texan babbling about his daughters obsession with Hannah Montana and how he couldnt live in Alaska because its too cold, and the mandatory crying baby.

It's best to avoid Nottingham proper at all costs, for the same reason you stated.

I live in Sunderland, the bottle breaking north. Think of this TES style

North East = Nords

Hey... knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in', man!

I love that film.

I used to take the train to Liverpool and back every day, you start dreaming about trains it happens so often. Weird, escheresque trains.


I've seen lookalikes for: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Rod Stewart, Derren Brown, Robert Mugabe, Stalin, Fidel Castro amongst others. It's amazing how many people look like world leaders.


I've seen a man pour a can of beer on the floor for his dog to eat.

I've seen a trainload of Scotsmen dressed in women's clothes drunkenly crap everywhere in the toilet.

I've had a guy explain to me his plan for defrauding the football pools.

In the worst scenario, I witnessed a drunken old man attempt to molest a teenage guy while some police just watched, uncaringly, as he shouted to them for help.



Also I once saw a girl reading The Colour of Magic, I damn near asked her to marry me.

Now you know why I avoid public transport :spotted owl:

I was travelling up to Scotland to visit friends there. Unfortunately that meant travelling through the north of England. We decided to pull over into an Asda car park to stretch our legs a little. As we pulled in I saw a white van surrounded by men dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes. Needless to say we didn't hang around long. I still don't know who they were and what they were up to.

Yeah, your girlfriend knows my name 'cuz I'm ballin' like Baylor
I be makin' all this money, everything I got is taylor
Man, her body is a ship and believe me, I'm a sailor
Don't even try to block me man, cuz it'll all just end with failure

Oh wait, this thread isn't about rhyming....

Okay, I was once at a 4-way stop and the only people there were myself and an old man at the stop across from me. I was planning on going straight, and he didn't have his signal on so I assumed he was going straight as well. We both pulled forward at the same time, and seeing as I drive a 2007 Camaro, I pulled faster than he did. He was turning left, and hit the side of my car, but since he didn't use his signal, he was at fault and had to cover the damage, so it was all good.

Damn old people! Let's reverse roles, see how you like it!

A guy in an easter bunny suit sat next to me on a train once


EDIT: And I live in Australia, so I have seen more drunks on public transport than Prince has written songs about six

I have two stories, both of which take place in Boston, Massachusetts.

I was in a car, on my way to Copley Place (a shopping center,) and was stopped at a traffic light just around the corner from it. I heard a scream from outside of the window, and see an ambulance stopped next to me. The back doors of the ambulance fly open, and a guy jumps out of the back wearing one of those hospital gowns with no back in it, and an IV tube in his arm. He rips out the IV, and a police officer grabs him, but he pushes her down, and sprints down the busy street wearing nothing but a hospital gown.

Actually, I'm not sure that the second one is appropriate, so I'll just delete it.

I ride the train to Toronto on a daily basis. Over the years i've grown accustomed to hosting my own little anthropological experiments based on where people will sit given the person thats already sitting there.

I also use myself as a subject.

I grew my hair out for a year and grew a pretty nasty beard http://i54.tinypic.com/5y5mjb.jpg and I noticed that i'd be last pick to sit next to on the train. Other things determined if I was last pick too, like the place I was sitting. Corner seats usually displayed unfavorable outcomes as it was a tighter space.

I eventually got bored of doing that, went back to looking normal and now I just read TES fan fiction and get some extra designing in on the train.