For Red Line regulars, some rides on the weird side

Is there something about the Red Line that inspires weirdness? Or are bloggers who take the Red Line just more awake than their counterparts on the T's other lines? In any case, the past couple of weeks have seen a burst of postings about unusual goings-on on the T's longest subway line:

Not mellow yellow
Sarah Feldman, who works in Cambridge, reports on her Sense of Taste what happened when a man fainted on the Red Line between Central and Harvard: '' 'Bananas,' he mumbled as he slowly sat up. The man who came over to help asked if he was OK. The man, putting his Red Sox cap back on, explained that he sometimes passed out and that he was OK. 'It hasn't happened in about five years,' he noted, rubbing his face. 'Something in bananas makes it happen, the doctors can't explain it. . . .' "

Look, the Bat Signal!
Shannon Turney, on her way into town on the Red Line from Quincy, got to talking to a man and his son headed to the Museum of Science. At one point, she writes on her Shannon Goes to Boston blog, she mentioned she was 18:

''One of the guys a few seats down overhears and says (rather loudly) ''You're only 18?!?!" and the entire car turns and stares at me. Yay for me. Haha. Anywho, he was a bit of a weirdo whose girlfriend hadn't paid the mortgage while he was out playing cards every night. But then we got distracted watching a guy dress up like Robin and completely change clothes between T stops."

Superman, call home
A South Shore blogger who goes by the online name Johnny Dice reports: ''I'm waiting for the evening train in South Station and I look across the tracks to find a man changing his clothes!!! Literally took off his shirt and pants, was stripped to his boxers. . . . "

Downtown train
Dee, a South Boston resident, writes on her Queen Dee's Life about two kids, maybe 11, waiting alone for the Red Line at Andrew at 9 p.m. on a Saturday, who ''were surrounded by sketchy looking adults, heading downtown on a Saturday night when they should be safely at home. . . . "

Calling Mr. Bond
ITA Software of Cambridge has Red Line ads that invite would-be employees to solve this problem: ''What is the sum of all the integers between 1 and 100 billion that are divisible by seven, and when the digits are reversed are still divisible by seven?" Jarrod Trainque of Somerville offers some tips on getting the answer: ''I created a table with the first 14 multiples of 7 listed alongside their reversal, and checked to see if any of the reversals were divisible by 7. A pattern came up, namely that only the reversals of multiples of 7 created through 7x where the digits of x were either a 1 or a 0 seemed to work. For example, 77, 7007, 70000707, and 7000077777 are all divisible by 7, as are their reversals."

Table for four?
Ellen McCullough of Lexington reports on a particularly selfish Red Line rider on her Commuterrant blog:

''A young man with gobs of product in his hair and gallons of cologne on his body boarded the Red Line and promptly splayed himself across four -- yes, four -- seats of the train. He fixed his gaze on his Metro newspaper for the entire ride, so he wouldn't have to trouble himself should anyone within eight feet of him need a seat."

Plus, she adds, he was wearing Nantucket Red pants: ''I think he deliberately took up that much space in order to establish a perimeter, so no commuter would obstruct any other commuter's view of his Nantucket Red pants."

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