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This guy wan’t annoying just an oddity. I could never get a full on pic but he would sit down, pull out a laptop, 360 controller and massive bose headphones and play COD or whatever.

One time he came with a bonus dawg:

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#42

Is he controlling the dog with the 360 controller?

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#43

I was walking along a street in Athens, Greece, a few years back and turned a corner only to find myself face to face with a man who was almost always on the same Tube train every morning. That was very weird.

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#44

I see the same woman when i’m driving to work everyday. I know whether i’m going to be later or not depending on where she is

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#45

I drive in now because I work in the middle of nowhere. When I used to walk to work I used to walk past too many clothes man, who would invariably be wearing about 15 different garments regardless of the weather. This would usually include a beanie hat, scarf, fleece, technical jacket thing and gloves. He was always incredibly punctual as well, which meant I could gauge how late I was from where I saw him.

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#46

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#47

No hat, gloves, scarf or glasses. TMCM would consider him indecent.

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#48

this will be an excellent start to your new short story collection

#49

so regular bus / train people

how do you think things would pan out if you and your co-commuters found yourselves in a Speed type situation? Would you be the plucky Sanda Bullock type or the hysterical annoying one?

#50

I’d remain seated with my headphones on and staring at my book at all costs.

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#51

Being an English man I would huff, roll my eyes and go “bloody typical” with the hope of eliciting some curt nods of assent from my fellow passengers.

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#52

“Bloody network rail eh?”

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#53

Loads of people who cycle at roughly the same time as me: Man Who Always Wears Grey, Man With My Favourite Bike, Lady I Overtake On A Green Trek. My favourite is “Hi Viz Man” though. He stands on a horrible blind corner in Nunhead waving traffic across every morning.

#54

Find the people who do this much, much more annoying than the delay itself.

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#55

Sat down on the train this morning and about a second later the women I had sat down next to just got up and moved to another empty seat.

Not sure what I did to upset her.
I’ve spent all day wondering if I smell bad.

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#56

Nah she just wanted her own space! I’ve deffo done this in the past, although I admit I’ve silently wondered why they didn’t just sit in the empty seat I’ve now sat in… I’m v. anti-social on public transport though.

#57

quite like ‘bumping into’ the same people catching the flight back that were on the flight there.

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#58

A friend of mine was in the queue for a flight a few years back. Both going to Valencia on the same day, on the same flight, by coincidence.

I was sitting on the balcony of an apartment in the old town of Valencia on that same trip when I heard someone calling my name. A mate of mine who lives 50 or so miles from me was walking down the road.

This sort of thing seems to happen to me frequently.

In New York I walked out of my friend’s apartment on W24th Street just as a friend of mine from Fulham was walking past. The same friend happened to be in a bar that I went into in Silverlake, Los Angeles a year later.

I have at least half a dozen other examples of how small the world is too.

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#59

There are a couple of students who get the same train as me who speak in some kind of code. Like a pig Latin where every word starts with the letter G. It’s kind of impressive.

#60

They’re all fairly nondescript to be honest, sadly. I do occasionally get the bus into town in the evening and there’s a couple of characters on there. There’s two twin brothers, in their sixties I’d say, always immaculately turned out, brylcreemed hair, etc, who I always think of as the “Kray twins”.

When I used to regularly get the bus in the morning, there were two old Afro-Caribbean guys who’d regularly tut-tut about school kids only travelling a couple of stops (“Had to walk 4 miles to school in my day”, etc) and would refer to British people as “the natives”.

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