If you commute to work via bus or train, the majority of your rides probably feel like a blur. They’re routine and mundane, and most of the time, that’s a good thing. But according to Sustainable Bus, a whopping 81% of Europeans use public transport on a daily basis, so not every journey can be uneventful.

Redditors have been recalling the wildest things they’ve ever witnessed while traveling via public transit, so we’ve gathered their most entertaining stories below. From wholesome encounters to experiences that might convince you to skip riding the subway altogether, enjoy reading through these tales. And be sure to upvote the ones that inspire you to start looking up from your phone while on the bus!

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#1

A few years back I took public transport to work one Friday so I could meet up with friends after work. I always drive into work and this was the one time I deviated from the norm.
I was waiting for the bus and a man came and stood by me carrying a cardboard box. The box started rustling and suddenly a tiny, furry face popped out the top. I couldn’t hide my delight at seeing a kitten at sad o’clock on the commute and squealed like a little girl. The man asked if I’d like to take the kitten – “it’s a nice cat” he said.
I couldn’t resist and he handed the box to me along with some sachets of cat food and off he went. I boarded the bus and tried to figure out what I was going to do with the kitten once I got to work. I worked in operating theatres at the hospital at the time so that was interesting! Hid her in the staff kitchen until my mom could come and pick her up for me. Still got the little fur face.

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#2

I was having a really bad day and decided to leave work early. Midway through subway ride home I’m self-consumed and on the verge of tears when a man gets on with a boombox, a microphone and an unidentifiable black box. He then proceeds to serenade the train with the Michael Jackson song “Black or White.” He starts dancing and holding up the microphone to random passengers to sign the chorus. The next thing you know a sing-along has begun and I can’t stop laughing with the stranger sitting next to me.

For the grand finale he presses a button on the black box and BOOM! Bubble machine – bubbles everywhere.

He got off at the next stop.

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#3

I once saw a pigeon standing on the platform for the Chicago L train like he was waiting for the train. The train pulled up and the pigeon (perfectly lined up with the door) got on the train, walked calmly down the center isle to the next door, then got off at the next stop.

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#4

Weird, but awesome.

Three 6’6″ transvestites having an animated discussion with a 4 year old girl and her mother on the Subway about makeup… during rush-hour.

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#5

I got up to offer am older lady my seat at the bus station, she yelled at me to sit down then proceeded to sit on my lap, it was an odd day.

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#6

Girl, maybe mid-twenties on a Friday night, blacked out – all black clothes, jet black hair, black eye shadow, black nail polish, etc. She’s just standing there holding onto a pole and all of the sudden a mouse or rat crawls out from her bust and crawls up to her shoulder. She gives the thing a kiss and it runs back down and up her shirt sleeve.

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#7

One time while riding the bus home from school a little later than usual, I sat down and almost immediately a man came up to me and just took my right shoe off and walked away. It happened really quickly so I didn’t have time to react, but the person sitting next to me informed me that he rode the bus everyday at this hour and that he would return the shoe shortly. Thought it was rather odd.

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#8

As the doors on the Metro are closing, I notice this 30-something year old suit guy sprinting towards the train. He full on dives headfirst into the train, his feet passing through just before the doors closed Indiana Jones style. He stands up, dusts himself off, and says “Whoa… thought I was gonna miss that one” to which the entire train just bursts out laughing. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen after taking the D.C. Red line for nearly a decade.

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#9

I went to the Imbolc festival a few years ago in Marsden, a village up on the moors in West Yorkshire. We caught the train to avoid trying to find parking. As usual it was fabulous – with parades, fire spinners, the fight between Jack Frost and the Green Man and various musicians including a mariachi marching band (from Barnsley, I believe).

We saw the mariachi band (still in full costume) on the overcrowded platform – they were catching the same train as us out of Marsden after the event – and we ended up in the same carriage where they entertained everyone with renditions of Seven Nation Army, Pigbag and Hey Baby. The train was literally bouncing with people dancing and singing. Best journey ever.

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#10

Every once in a while I see this guy on the bus and he’s the most hardcore biker looking guy fully equipped with a zz top beard and everything. But he carries a neon green purse. And he struts with it. Like I mean he owns it.

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#11

Once, I was sitting across from a guy eating out of a small hagen daaz ice cream container. He didn’t have a spoon, and was using his thumb. After each thumb of ice cream, he’d let it melt in his mouth and then spit it on the floor. Everyone switched to another train car at the next station.

On the bus, a high homeless lady started doing assisted flips (using the hand straps on either side of the bus) while freestyle rapping about how young people should love each other more. There was a couple who clearly liked each other, but weren’t at the stage that they had admitted it yet. She kept telling them to hold hands, and composed them some personalized beat poetry.

Halloween at 1am, some guy dressed as Borat gets on the bus, hits on all the girls in typical Borat style, and then passes out in the corner.

Vancouver buses and skytrains can be pretty odd sometimes.

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#12

And this is actually one that my husband told me: he got on the bus after work and found a seat. Nearby there was a dirty homeless-looking dude with headphones in his ears, bobbing his head to music. He seemed really into it. My husband looked down, followed the wire, and discovered that his headphones were actually plugged into a carrot.

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#13

A weird homeless man wanted to sell me a UFO. I was thinking “How bad could this be? It’s probably a bunch of bicycle parts arranged into a disk.” But instead, he pulled out a Frisbee made of tinfoil. Hell, for five bucks it was worth it.

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#14

I was taking the train from the Bronx down to Coney Island and we had a pigeon that rode the whole way.

It just chilled out under a seat and when we got to the last stop it hopped off the train and flew off.

Pretty smart actually, it’s a five mile flight.

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#15

Sitting on the Red Line and the lady across from me is eating something out of a cardboard box. No big deal, until she finishes whatever is in it and then starts tearing off bits of the box an casually eating the pieces.

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#16

I was in the back of a [bus] in Laos and a nice old lady got on carrying a burlap sack which she tossed down the aisle to the back of the bus and sat down in front. The bag was next to me and as we rode on, I noticed it moving a bit [and] then heard a hiss. I yelled up front to ask what the sack contained – I was answered promptly with the international sign for snake.

The bag had two live cobras in it, and the fact I was upset about it may have been the funniest thing anyone had seen in years.

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#17

I once got on a crowded subway car and noticed that somehow there was still an empty seat left. I was tired, so I sat down without thinking about it. After a little while I noticed that I was getting odd looks from all around. When I looked up, I saw that there was a blood-soaked used maxi pad stuck to the ceiling, directly over my head.

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#18

On a bus through Camberwell years ago, my friends and I were sat parallel to a woman quietly singing to and stroking the head of broccoli in her lap.

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#19

May seem tame, but I sat beside a lady who read her book upside down for 15 minutes straight. Turned pages and everything.

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#20

A guy sitting opposite me was pulling out his nose hair with tweezers. Quite painful to watch.

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#21

Once on a subway, there was a guy looking nervously around the car in his seat, then he shouted, “I’m goin back to da future!” And stuck his head and arms inside his shirt for the whole rest of the way until I got off at my stop.

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#22

I saw a woman flossing her teeth using her own hair as floss on the London Underground one morning.

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#23

Sitting on the bus the guy in the back row was cutting his toe nails with clipper. He was putting the clippings onto a tissue than was spread on this girlfriends lap who was sat next to him.

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#24

Worst thing was a homeless guy giving himself a bath with 2 bottles of water. He stripped down to his tighty unwhities to do so and people were staring but trying to avoid eye contact. Also, he used a somewhat dirty kitchen sponge.

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#25

Standing on the platform, waiting for the subway, I saw a man take a pineapple, and start digging into it with his fingers. Once he got to the sweet, yellow, good stuff, he just started flinging it at passerby. I don’t think any of it made it into his mouth. He was just standing there, throwing bits of pineapple at people.

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