yesterday’s encounter on the bus on my way to Ang Mo Kio reminded me of some weird people i have met while taking public transport over the years…
was taking bus 88 from pasir ris to amk when a lady in her mid-forties (i suppose from her voice cause i didnt see her personally as i was sitting on the upper deck) stepped onto the bus, and started making a racket… she was busy hurling abuses at some person who i dont even think was even on the bus… she was shouting at the top of the voice, and those around me were listening intently and trying to figure out what in the world was going on… she continued on for around 15min before the bus driver finally gave up, and politely asked her to quieten down as she was disturbing the other passengers on the bus especially the younger children… she started to argue with the driver, who kept asking her nicely to keep her voice and tone down… he offered to call the police for her if she needed some form of assistance but often got rebutted by the obviously distressed lady… after much arguement, she finally got off at the next stop, much to the relieve of the other passengers… despite all that was going on, many passengers still found it amusing for such a situation to occur on a seemingly harmless and normal bus ride to wherever they are heading to… the rest of the journey was pretty quiet except for some murmurs about what happened to frenz or family on the phone every now and then…
i think it was last year or so when i was taking the train back from school… it was kinda late, around 11 plus at night if im not mistaken… the train was pretty much empty, except for the occassional passengers getting on and off the train… a man walked to the cabin i was in and started to seat beside me… everything was normal till he suddenly took out a thick stack of 4D tickers and started counting them over and over again, and started talking to himself in some inaudible volume… then keeping them in his pocket only to take them out almost immediately and repeating the same old cycle for a couple of times before falling aslp on the train…
was taking the train on another ocassion when a guy in his mid-twenties started running cabin to cabin, smiling, laughing, and shouting some weird language… this carried on for almost 10min before he ran out of the cabin still shouting and laughing… looks of bewilderment were on the faces of the other passengers… some were amused, smiling away…
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