Sharing is Scaring

While patiently waiting for my bus home earlier today I was approached by a stranger who asked if I had any ring tones on my phone I could share with him. After taking a few seconds to get over the initial shock of this obscure question I was more than happy to share my impressive library of music which consists of 6 songs on my mobile phone.

After some teething problems in the beginning, entirely due to him not knowing how to accept ring tones onto his phone I soon began to share my music. I had only sent one song when my bus came, so naturally I was thinking 'Sorry complete stranger, I won't be able to send you anything else’

Oh, how wrong I was.
To my surprise this guy was catching the same bus home as I was so I had a few more minutes to give him ring tones.

Just as the bus approached my stop I finished sending him my last song. Being the gentlemen that I am, I stood up, shook this strangers hand and was on my way. Thinking I'd never see him again.

Oh, how wrong I was.
I got off the bus thinking to myself ‘he seems like a nice guy’.
But those pleasant, harmless thoughts soon turned into scared thoughts and the feeling that I was about to be murdered.

I heard footsteps following me.
And to put it lightly I was incredibly frightened to turn around and see him standing there behind me, staring me in the face.
After what seemed like a lifetime of an awkward silence as we stared at each other, I bravely managed to say 'So do you live around here?' Hoping the answer would be 'Yes' and not something like 'No, I'm about to kill you'

By reading this story about something that just happened to me you can probably tell I wasn't murdered by this guy. If anything I was amazed, in a weird kind of way.

The answer to my where do you live question was 'I don't live anywhere near here man, I was just catching this bus to get your ring tones, I'm catching the next bus back the opposite way now'

I'm amazed by this because I couldn't believe this guy had nothing better to do in the middle of the day on a Wednesday. He has so much time on his hands he can catch buses to places he doesn't need to be at just so he can get ring tones on his phone from people he doesn't know.

His ambitions clearly aren't sky high, and if I'm to be judgemental for a second I would assume he hasn't already taken the business world by storm, made his millions and settled into a life of retirement at a young age.
I would guess he is unemployed and not really looking to hard for work at the moment.

He could be some of those things I just described, or he could be none. Whatever he is I don’t really mind. I’m just happy I haven’t been murdered today...

Yet.