What odd things do you see on your commute?

[LadyOfTheCanyon]

A road near me has at least three houses where people appear to lock themselves in the front porch to smoke. The door to the house is shut behind them, but so is the porch door. Even when the weather is positively balmy they stand there looking like they are in the Mr and Mrs soundproof booth as it slowly fills up with smoke. One bloke even has a little stool he sits on in there.

It completely mystifies me. All these houses have back gardens, as far as I can work out, yet these people stand in full view of the road in their dressing gowns, smoking furiously in their self imposed little cell and probably stinking out their downstairs hallway.

What possible explanation can there be? What odd stuff do you see on your way to and from work?

@Osirus

If I leave work at 4, on the drive home I see a man jogging. He wears light pink short shorts, pink sock, pink sweatbands, pink trainers and a pink bonnet. He carries a Walkman. Has no top on. If I wave at him he looks happy and waves back.

I daren't mention him to anyone else in case I'm the only one that can see him. 

It wasn’t a commute, but I was driving through a west London town and whilst stopped at traffic lights, I saw a gentleman with a squirrel on a lead.

I was on the tube once going to work and the girl next to me was putting nail varnish on. It stunk. I was so tempted to accidentally on purpose nudge her and spill it all over her clothes.

Another time, a young woman was stretched over two seats on a packed carriage fast asleep. Myself and my fellow commuters tried to wake her to free up a seat. She ended up being removed by TfL staff.

Aww bless Faerie Queenes squirrel on a lead.

Thermos flask man. When I was on workkplacement at uni, there was a man that always carried his thermos flask and sandwiches.
Always had a loud conversation with a woman next to him about his thermos. Lived with his mum, took the train to work, didn’t want to drive, “and of course with me thermos I don’t have to pay 20p to drink the tea from the vending machines at work”.
Used to go past a massive graveyard which I wanted to explore!

Appocolypsenowt I suggest googling ‘pink jogging man [local town]. That’s what I did with Penny Farthing man after one of my friends suggested that maybe only I could see him - very reassuring!

Donkey are you in Co Down?
Oh dear am someone's odd story our lovely pharmacy delivery man (rural area) came one day and I was halfway down the lane. He rolled the window down and I pulled the lead and said come on you and he gave me my bag and drove off. Then stopped, reversed and put the window down and gave me a very odd look "That's not a dog you know love"
Me:"yes I know"
Him "That's a GOAT!"
Me: "yes, I know he's called Lovell"
Him:

That should say I am someone's odd story

I have a rural school run, with a choice of routes, the quietest and most scenic route only really has room for one car but I used to choose it sometimes because I regularly saw red squirrels in the woods, stopped after reversing into a ditch to let someone pass and damaging the underneath if the car!

@Squirrel26 I found him! He exists!

Appocolypsenowt

I've seen the same begger on the Circle/Metropolitan line going through Farringdon. Also the buskers moving through the carriage playing a truly appalling version of When the Saints Go Marching In on an accordian and a trumpet.

I used to walk through a London park so would often see Chiwetel Ejiofor walking his dog or Tom Hiddleston jogging.

I pass a lady at the bus stop in North Cardiff every day that we as a family call 'the White Lady' inexplicably with a Jamaican accent (which we seem to remember comes from a film where someone says "everybody know the White Lady'" in said accent, but we don't remember what it is).
She must be in her 80s, she wears white chanel clothing and has white hair, a white bag, white clothes, white shoes, every single day. We saw her inside her flat one day when she got in and put the light on and it was decorated entirely white too. When she has shopping bags of other colours she puts them inside a white bag.

One of our neighbours dresses head to toe in different shades of red.
And every day, Shorts Guy strides proudly to work. I assume he puts his trousers on when he gets there.

I used to commute into Bank on the DLR. One morning there was a man in the Hilton Hotel at West India Quay. He had his curtains open, including the nets so we all had a clear view of him reclining on his bed. He was reading a newspaper so we couldn't see his upper body, but we had a nice clear view of his recently waxed genitals. We were stopped at the station for at least a minute so we all saw it, but being typical Londoners nobody reacted in any perceptible way.

I used to walk down the South Bank on the way to work. Once I saw Nile Rodgers of Chic busking & once I saw this hamster.

Squirell there is a bloke who lives near me who ride a penny farthing but wears all the MAMIL Lycra get up.

I live in the quiet countryside, and used to walk my dog, very early in the morning, say 5.00/5.30 am, to avoid other dogs.
Occasionally, a man with a bowler hat, used to pass me on a uni cycle, most bizarre ! My German Shepherd, hated him with a passion.
I never told anyone about him, because it was so odd.

I see a bloke who is basically dressed and looks like Jon Snow. He's tall, dark curly hair, dressed in a weird leather /bondage type black coat, big black boots, straps all over him - utterly bizarre.

He really marches along too, like he heading for the Wall. He's dressed like that in winter and summer.

Thing is, I've seen him working in the local cheap supermarket so God knows WTF he's playing at really.

I'm rural, so mainly it's escaped farm animals, leading to delays while I try to find the farmers. Unfortunately also some serious motorbike accidents in recent months (being first on the scene has been very traumatic).

A woman dry shaving her legs on train platform whilst chatting on mobile. Another, cutting nails on tube.

When I was a child and not living in this country, our local tramline went past a block of flat with a big window facing the track. The people living there had a bust in the window and changed the headgear every Monday. It was always really exciting to see what the lady in the window was going to wear this week.

Nowadays my commute is walk and tube, the other morning I had to shoo a pigeon away that was trying to get into my tube carriage. My stop is over ground but then it's all underground. Didn't fancy sharing a carriage all the way to work with a pigeon. They are clever though as the station has 3 platforms and sometimes there is a stationary train in the middle platform and the pigeons go through that carriage to the next platform. Saves them flying over the station or walk up and down the stairs.

There are lot of people coming into contact with squirrelly type animals!