Good Christ I'm ****ting it!

Ok, heres what happened


I'm on co-op in Ballina Mayo but I live in Tipp. I was home for the weekend and was on the connecting train from Manulla Junction to Ballina, a 30 minute journey.

Things started to get weird about ten minutes from Ballina

The train was fairly empty and I was occupying a seat with no-one around me apart from a lady in her early 40s in the seats across from me.

Then this guy, black hair, shaggy and unshaven wearing a chequered shirt and carrying a supervalu shopping bag makes his way down the carriage towards us and sits in the seat next to the woman.

He's about 20 or 21 and carrying a small can of Guinness. At first I thought he was just drunk but it was when he started to ask the woman for a lighter things got even weirder.


She didn't have one and neither did I. I thought upon finding this out he'd take the hint and leave the woman alone but instead he sat there trying to make weird small talk.

I looked over and noticed a white powder dripping out of his nose. He was clearly on coke.

Then things started getting even weirder.

He took a €50 note from the shopping bag and wiped the coke off his nose with it. He then took a box of Butlers chocolates out of the bag and tried to give it to the woman who politely refused. It was clear at this stage how uncomfortable she was but I decided not to intervene given we were nearly in Ballina and he wasn't being aggressive, more weird.

He took what must have been at least €1,500 in crumpled up 50s out of his shopping bag and started to carelessly count them on the table. By the end of the counting there was about €400 on the floor around him which he picked up and stuffed back in the bag. Just before we got into Ballina he started offering me and the woman a fifty each which we both declined. Then he said he was leaving a 50 on the seat for the "bus driver".

We got off the train and watched him walk across the road to Paddy Jordans pub where he started to try and talk to an old man on the phone at the door. I presumed that he would be set straight in the pub and started walking up the road behind the train station to my flat.

The flat is about half a mile up the road. the road is a cul de sac after about a mile and never busy aswell as being dark.

Usually I get a taxi but considering it wasn't raining and I didn't have much luggage I decided to walk home.

On the way I rang my girlfriend to tell her about the drugged up man on the train. Still on the phone chatting to her about 100 yards from my landladies house (my flats out the back) I turned around around to see the man from the train about 100 yards behind jogging after me in the midddle of the road.

I immediately shat myself six ways to Sunday and hung up the phone. When he noticed I'd spotted him he stopped running.

I sprinted around the bend and into the lane-way of the house. I got into my flat and locked the door and have been sitting here ****ting it since!

Rang the landlady to warn her too by the way

Was anyone else on the Heuston to Westport train this evening and did they notice this guy? The first time I saw him was when he came down the woman on the connecting train to Ballina.

Genuinely terrified and doubt I'll sleep. Sorry if the story of what happened isn't written very well but I've been typing in a hurry!