The Interesting People

Ok- my "journeys" to and from uni have given me many valuable skills (eg- kill a conversation with just one look; ignore pestering strangers who want to start a conversation; smile kindly at old people so they'll leave you alone because you're just too exhausted to be nice; and finally avoid people who supposedly think they recognise you from somewhere you've never been ten years ago!)...just to name a few.
However, one man, and one man only rendered all my skills useless. How, you may ask?
Well, here's how...It was the crack of dawn (or 8:00am for those who wanna get technical) and I was seated (extremely uncomfortably) on the train to the city. I was with a couple of mates and since there was no other space, we sat in one of those double seaters (occupied by just one man)... so we (being the naive little fools that we were) decided to make ourselves cozy. 3

seconds after my behind had touched the plastic excuse for a seat, the man had me almost jump out of my skin by saying(no, yelling): "I'm your friend!" And everyone in the previously silent carriage turns in our general direction. So, of course, he continues by saying something like: "Don't worry..." (I had bewildered expression and he was addressing me)..."I support your cause." Cause? What cause??? Do i look like someone with a cause? and wat did he mean by cause anyway??

Well, now i was not only sitting on the seat that made noises with the slightest movements, but this man was not finished with us- even though I had turned a never-before-seen shade of red (partly from embarrasment and partly from trying to supress laughter at my 2 friends' facial expressions).
"I'm your friend, really..." he continued..."even though my name is Krishna, but i'm not really Buddhist..."
Krishna! For the love of God- I met a man with the tattoo of a snake spiralling all the way up his forearm who likes to be called Krishna!!!!!!
Help me out here dagz, snowman and mutant... do people like this really exist or do you think he was practicing for a play of some kind? Or maybe he's part of another one of those twisted reality shows??

But wait, he was not done yet...At the next stop 2 more ladies decided to squash in next to us (to their everlasting regret, i bet). Now, I'm not sure why the train stopped moving and why lights and the aircon turned off at that point... to be continued at a later time...