It didn’t end up that badly (for me) but yesterday I was on the light rail and this group of obliterated drunk people get on. One is this incredibly large woman who proceeds to plop down in a seat, pinning the guy already in that row against the window (and the were tons of empty seats). She then proceeds to take nips…

I was visiting friends in the Bay area and took the BART into SF in the middle of the day. I was aware of its rep for crazies, but I ride public transit in Chicago all the time, so I’m not easily intimidated. At S. San Francisco, a disheveled man with a large shopping cart boarded and sat behind me. After a stop or…

I had a woman hurl ableist abuse at me on a bus.

This takes place in a subway station rather than on the actual subway, but I feel like it should be close enough to count.

I once had a nursing mother accidentally spray me with breast milk while we were on the subway.

I’m gonna be THAT person that not only missed last week’s topic, but is posting about a different topic! But it’s still a sportsball playoff thing!

Aside from the ubiquitous jack-offers, there is always someone who can’t contain their various excreta.

Well, I’m sure I am someone else’s Trimet horror story. I was carless and had to pick up my cat from the vet, so I packed him up in a little carrier and got on the 17 to go home. I thought nothing of it until I was halfway there, when I felt some weird ...WARMTH spreading across my lap. Turns out my cat, in his sad,…

15 years ago I was fresh out of college and newly arrived in NYC. My daily commute involved the F train which was, and still remains, the sewage train of the NYC transit system. On my way to work one morning at around 8am, the train wasn’t super crowded for some reason so I had an unencumbered view of the doors as I…

Oh my god.

This one isn’t so much gross or horrible but sadly weird. London underground about 15 years ago. Middle of the day, a young man wearing only ragged shorts, no shoes gets on the tube sits down opposite me and starts rubbing a croissant all over his body while muttering to himself. He seems to really be trying to…

On the train, I started to smell something foul. I glanced towards the back where there was a young woman changing a poopy diaper. Not the greatest situation, but I shrugged it off.

I used to ride public transit so much that all the bad smells and inconveniences have sort of blended together at this point. I thought of myself as being pretty numb to the horribleness of it all. One day though, a man sat down next to me on a crowded bus in dirty, smelly clothes holding his backpack in front of him.…

14 yrs ago. 11PM. F train.

My wife and I are in escrow on our first house now. I’m 28, she’s 24. We were living in Orange County, California and for a while were looking at buying a condo or townhouse because it’s all we could afford (still like $500k to $600k). It would have been tight but with our combined salaries and around 5% down we…

So yeah, this is the story of how I came to own a house instead of ending up on the streets.

In August 2018 my rental house with my friend was ending and we didn’t want to renew. We looked for a new house but couldn’t find one in time so he moved into his parent’s house, I moved into my parent’s house. I immediately got pre-approved, got a realtor and started checking out houses. I’ve been saving money since…

I bought my first home last year, new construction, a small townhouse-condo with a single garage.

Bought my house at 29 back in 2013.
I bought my house because the rents in my area are skyrocketing due to a housing shortage but home values weren’t increasing at the same rate, so I wanted to insure myself against stupid high rents. From that perspective, this was one of the best financial decisions of my life.…

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