Real Encounters

*Homeless guy goes all creepy and crazy*

I live in Calgary and was on my way home from a job interview today when this happened (it went great, fingers crossed!). I left the building and immediately went to the nearest stop for the train. Now, for those unaware, Calgary has a pretty sizable homeless population and it's not uncommon for them to "ride the rails" to seek refuge from weather or to just pass the time, so I'm used to dealing with these types of people. In fact, when I moved here I found it strange how these people were so friendly. Most of the homeless I've run into here were generally really nice people and never do the whole "Got some spare change? no? fuck off" and will often just strike up a conversation.

So here I am, sitting on the train, when I notice this guy sitting across from me. I notice that he is flipping people the bird in a not-so-subtle way. Like, resting his hands on his lap flipping the bird. Now, at this point I'm not about to say anything, but he begins cursing and swearing randomly. There were children on the bus so I said something to the effect of "hey man, there are kids on here". Big mistake. Buddy turns and looks at me and does a throat slitting motion at me and says "I'll fucking kill you, kid" to the shock of everyone on the train. I'm no coward but I'm not about to argue with this obviously mentally unstable individual. Whatever. So I just sit back and watch the show. The guy continues the throat slitting motion, but now it was like some kind of nervous tick. He kept rubbing his face and then making the throat slitting motion at no one in particular and straight up blubbering gibberish. He got off the next stop and just fucking smashed one of the windows in the train with his hand and looks at me through the door and started spitting out obscenities and threats (I couldn't really hear him over the commotion of people exiting the train). At this point I was thinking "fuck this guy, I'm never going to see him again. I will concede that I can be a smartass at times and what I did next may not have been the brightest move, but it felt great.

So buddy is outside the train hollering and cursing and calling me a bitch, etc, so I got an idea. There's about a 10-15 second delay before the train departs after the doors lock. The doors lock and buddy is still going nuts so I just look at him through the window, flip him off and mouth the words "Fuck you, douchebag" Buddy goes absolutely fucking bananas and starts kicking the train while it's locked down and tried to keep pace as it started pulling out of the station.