Public Transport TraumaCompletely Underwhelmed writes, "I was on a bus the other day when a man got on wearing shorts, over what looked like greeny grey leggings. Then the stench hit me. The 'leggings' were a mass of open wounds, crusted with greenish solidified pus that flaked off in bits as he moved."
What's the worst public transport experience you've ever had?
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chthonic, Thu 29 May 2008, 15:13)
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JEEEEEESUSLANDProbably the worst public transport trauma I had was when I flew from Austin, Texas to Vancouver.
I was sitting down in the middle aisle seats and behind me was this crazily hirsute and clinically obese be-mulleted redneck-type chappie (stereotypes save so much time, n’est pas?) who kept on repeatedly muttering about how he hated flying and he wanted Jeeeesus to save him. I mentally christened him ‘Jeb’.
I could handle this initially but when he then started to whisper it through the gap between the seats into my ear. I got seriously freaked out and asked to change seats. Thankfully the air hostess was sympathetic to my plight and moved me across to the window aisle. Several other people started to do this as well and the hostess approached Jeb and asked him to please keep it down and he was disturbing the other passengers.
Jeb didn’t take this very well.
Jeb stood up and grabbed the hostess by the throat and started to shout what he had previously been whispering.
Several other hostesses and a steward (and me, but just so I could strategically rubberneck from a better position) ran towards him but this guy was really strong. He chucked the poor girl onto the floor, fended off the rest of the hostesses, and ran to the nearest exit and started to pull the levers to try to open the door. He was screaming how he wanted to get off the plane. In all probability he wasn’t thinking about what would happen if he depressurised the cabin (although I am sure that the exits are locked in flight anyway).
Everyone on the plane had craned their necks and was seriously freaked out until another steward ran over to Jeb and injected him with something. Jeb then collapsed and people started to drag him over to his seat. Everyone cheered. I asked the poor hostess what would happen to Jeb when we landed and the hostess didn’t bat an eyelid and said that most flights from Texas had at least one ‘screamer’ so they would just send him on his merry way with a warning not to do it again.
Welcome to Jesusland.
(, Fri 30 May 2008, 11:33, 1 reply)
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