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Q: What's the strangest thing you've seen someone bring on public transportation?
I had an odd experience the other day. During the morning commute, a couple squeezed a fully assembled door jamb onto the crowded bus. Very thoughtful of them at 7am. That didn't turn out to be the weirdest leg of my commute. On my way home a guy had a monkey. A monkey! What the hell? It was definitely an unusual day. What have you seen?
I've seen live chickens and pigeons, several times. There's a custom to bring a live pigeon (well, in Jiangsu at least) to people who just went out of hospital and are recovering at home.
Hulk:
wut. Never saw that in Jiangsu.
That seems odd. "I heard you just got out of the hospital after being sick for some time, so here's some Avian Flu to put you right back in."
I did not see it, but I know it happened.
My MIL brought a bucket of live jellyfish back from the hometown....on the bus.
Scandinavian:
I've seen this, not jellyfish but a tub of small fish, no lid of course. This is a couple of years ago, now no animals are allowed on the busses here
It won't make the list of weirdest of all time but I saw a guy with an entire bucket of eggs on the fast train from Shanghai to Beijing. It just really confused me. Are eggs that expensive in Beijing that you need to bring your own? If he's going to see them then how much profit will he really make? He had like 50 eggs. Was intriguing and confusing all at once.
humbug:
Yeah sometimes people only trust the food in their hometown, I used to live with a Yunnanese girl, and her mother would post us apples all the time, because she was convinced the apples in beijing weren't good enough...
wagon:
Yeah, this. If you ever board a train in Qingdao you'll notice everyone has boxes of beer with them. As if people can't buy a Tsingtao in Beijing or Jinan or wherever. They believe that the beer from a brewery here(number 1 brewery) has better water. But the thing is, I seriously doubt if they even make an effort to buy beer made at number one brewery.
I was once working in a very small town in which I was probably the only foreigner. A woman on a bicycle caught sight of me and turned to have a stare. She lost control of the bicycle and hit some bins at the side of the road containing litter, rotting vegetable matter etc. She fell into a huge pile of rotting food items. Undeterred, she got up and without even brushing herself down, set about staring at me again.
Kaiwen:
I've got to admit that I didn't read the question correctly. The funniest thing I have seen on a train is a guy pull down his trousers and do a dump in the aisle of the carriage because the toilet was engaged. And then watching one of the service workers just come along and clean it up without even blinking an eyelid.
wagon:
I saw a guy drop a deuce at a bus stop and chase after the bus while trying to pull up his trousers. Disgusting and comical at the same time.
royceH:
Don't you just hate these filthy fkers! No better than animals. I mean, do they even have a brain!
What the hell are we doing here! I'm goin.
I once sat next to a guy on a bus who had a live duck in a bag.
He had closed the zip around the duck's head so that the duck could see out the window.
All I could think of was poor Daffy!!!
I was waiting for a bus in Sichuan and a heard a quacking noise! What is the hell is that I thought? I ignored it bus I kept on hearing it so I was looking around and ended up seeing a ducks head sticking out of a bag! I have also seen chickens sticking out of bags! Apparently it is a custom to bring live birds and bags of rice to a persons home you are visiting! They kill it and cook it for everyone that night!!!
Weird!
Yep, I've seen bags of geese with holes cut so they can poke out their heads. That was on the train somewhere in the south of China.
I haven't actually seen that many weird things on public transport in China, strange because I use it a lot. I've seen kids pee in the subway train twice, and just today a I saw a guy with one turtle in a huge bucket on the bus.
I'm not an animal rights activist, but seeing how people treat animals in China does depress me.
