An already frustrating and unusual day turned even weirder when Erin Beck received a cat while traveling home.

Beck was waiting for a train in Chicago on Monday when she noticed a man holding a cat. In her mind, the man must've just picked up the cat and was on his way home. She noted he was walking around the platform tightly holding onto the cat.

But when he started walking toward his train, they made eye contact, she told Newsweek. He then shoved the cat onto Beck. She grabbed the cat before processing what was happening, and he wrapped his arms around Beck. He told Beck: "Thank you so much for being a good person."

Before she knew it, he hopped onto the train, the doors shut and he rode off, never to be seen again. No one else on the platform reacted, but that didn't surprise Beck. That was "the most Chicago thing" to happen.

"So many people were like he must've been homeless," Beck said, although she disagreed. The energy he gave Beck seemed like he was sad to be passing the cat off and he didn't look homeless. "This was his cat he loved and something must've come up."

Stunned, Beck shared on TikTok what unfolded on that "anything but normal day." The clip was posted to the account @e.c.beck with the caption "help." She said this wasn't how the cat distribution system typically worked, but she accepted the task and took the cat home on a 45-minute train ride.

To Beck's surprise, the cat didn't make a peep the entire trip. He didn't seem to mind it, she said. He was sweet and chill.

She said she couldn't keep him because she already has three cats at home. Some people suggested she drop him off at an animal shelter, but Beck knew that the Chicago shelters, like the rest of the country, are overwhelmed and overcrowded and she couldn't let the cat enter that environment.

She took the cat home, placed him in the bathroom away from the other cats and fed him. He smelled like trash, so she immediately bathed him.

Thankfully, a friend of Beck who lives in Indiana expressed interest in taking in the cat. They made arrangements and Beck drove an hour and a half one way to drop him off at his new home, where he has settled in nicely, she said.

"This was one of the strangest things that has happened in a while," Beck said, jokingly adding, "I gotta stop making eye contact with strangers."

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