My favourite spacker
I think this fella was probably a mong rather than eccentric, but eccentric sounds nicer.

Many years ago I practically lived in Birmingham, and often used the Birmingham to Wolverhampton metro service. Now while I am well aware that public transport, especially in the West Midlands, is a fertile soil in which you can grow prize winning nutters, this man was in a different league.

He sat opposite me and smiled in that man to man, acknowledgement-y hello smile kind of way. So far so good. The tram pulls away and out of nowhere he suddenly plays this little drum riff by clapping and slapping his thighs. He stops and then just goes back to looking totally normal. This happened every 3 or so minutes for the entire journey which lasted about 40 minutes. Next up, the lady on the automated tannoy announced the next stop was Bilston Central. Every time she said Bilston, he would burst into a fit of laughter, suddenly do another drum solo, and then stop, returning back to neutral, dead serious.

Towards the end of the journey this big dragonfly type thing got onto the tram and landed on the window beside me and this crazy man. I was already incredibly uncomfortable sitting there anyway, and having this bug the size of a small vehicle stuck to the glass wasn't helping. He notices the bug, leans forward and says to me:

"...BUG!!"

He then smushes it with his hand, peels it off the window and eats it.

I do miss Brum.
(GONEism, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 16:06, 3 replies)

YES!!! I've seen him i think...
but then again it could be any one of hundreds of nutters that make the Brum to Wolves metro seem like a mobile Psyciatric ward!!!

I just posted one about the Big (7ft) black (self explainatory) basket ball bloke, you must've seeen him too...
(dampwookie failing to understand everything from birth up to, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 18:27, closed)

ooo
And this is the exact reason i love living in birmingham, its just full to the brim with nutters.
(JonnySniper In accordance with the prophesy...., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 19:03, closed)

Until the dragonfly bit
I was thinking it sounds like a case of Tourettes, but no. Probably just a nutter.
(Prof. Moriarty put his foot in it on, Sat 1 Nov 2008, 14:28, closed)