Has anyone else experienced train conductors acting creepy towards them?

A few days ago I was leaving my partner's place to take a train back into the city where I live, and once I arrived to the train station I realized that my train at the very last second had moved to a different track. While I was figuring out where I should go next, I heard someone yelling something across the tracks. I couldn't hear him at first, but eventually my ears picked up: "Where are you heading? You lost?" I looked up and saw a conductor of a train poking his head outside of the window and looking directly at me. He was openly leering and his tone didn't come off like he was genuinely trying to help me. I was pretty much the only person on the track platform so there's no one else he could have been talking to. I turned around and walked away only for him to start yelling, "Oh, so you're ignoring me now?? Alright walk away from me I guess!!" and he wouldn't stop yelling after me even when I left the platform.

I finally find my train and sit down, only for it to be the same train the weirdo conductor was on. I gave him my ticket and purposely didn't look at him and made no eye contact because I was annoyed I had to see him again.

He took my ticket, and then stood right behind my seat for five whole minutes. There was nobody else seated behind me, and there were other people on the train who's tickets hadn't been collected yet, which made the whole thing even more suspicious. I kept looking at him in the corner of my eye, and he was still always standing there and occasionally taking a glance at me.

I was getting more and more irritated, but finally after a few stops he eventually began walking away and began collecting other passenger's tickets and thankfully left me alone for the rest of my ride.

Am I overreacting in thinking this was weird as fuck. I've taken the train for years and I've never had a conductor act this way before. I don't know if I'll make a report since nothing technically happened, but it was kinda unnerving and I'm still annoyed I had to deal with it. Like bruh let me just take the train in peace and leave me alone. Has anyone else experienced train conductors being creepy towards them?

Posted Feb 19, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

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