Let Me Tell You About Trams and Creeps

I have had a couple of uncomfortable experiences in Melbourne so far. The first was on a tram when I went to check out Brunswick. Two men who had clearly been drinking got on and were standing and then sitting near me. They were having a conversation that would make anyone uncomfortable, talking about teaching people lessons and one was saying he was going to go slash some guy's face. Then one realised he was sitting next to a little girl and asked the man sitting opposite if it was his daughter and apologised for swearing, which is fair enough, but then he continued to talk to the father. The father was black and I don't remember exactly what it was but there was some racist subtext going on. One of the drunk guys berated the other for striking up conversation with just anybody and said when they got home "Betsy will teach you a lesson" to which the other responded he would "snap Betsy in half and shove her down [his] throat." Once they got off the lady sitting next to me, a guy who had been standing and took one of their seats, and I started talking about it. The lady said she had heard they guy talk about using Betsy to teach someone a lesson, so we could figure Betsy is a knife, and she also noticed him tapping his Australian flag tattoo when berating the other for talking to the black man. Overall a very unpleasant experience, probably more so for the man and his daughter.

More tram experiences-
Today I was at a tram stop and on a tram which came before mine I could hear two men arguing loudly. The driver put his speaker on and told them to sit down apart from each other and not to talk to each other anymore. I was pretty amused by that.
Then my tram came, the free city circle, which I am now thankful for as I had left my myki card at the hostel and walked a long way.

My other unpleasant experience happened just about an hour ago, sitting here in federation square. I had my headphones in and was about to start a blog post and a man came and crouched by my chair, far too close, right in my personal space. I paused my music to see what he wanted. A few people have approached me here asking if I know where something is or students doing surveys for schoolwork, which is fine. This guy says "this probably seems random, but I saw you sitting here and thought you looked nice so I thought I would say hi." There are times when an intro like that could work out and get a good conversation started, but he was so in my face and too close and had obviously interrupted me and it just seemed creepy. I said yes that was random but ok fine, he introduced himself, asked if I am Australian, when I said no English he asked if I was from London, when I said no Kent he said that sounds like a boring place, which seems to me a very strange thing to say to someone you want to talk to. The feeling was generally tense and awkward so I tried to politely diffuse and said I was going to carry on what I was doing, to which this arrogant prick says "what is more important than talking to me?" So I told him, "Everything. Now leave me alone." He walked away saying "fine, I don't talk to boring people anyway" because obviously a woman who tells him to piss off must be boring.