Thursday, February 16, 2006

Train Escapades

The train has always been an interesting place for me ever since I arrived in Melbourne.


It's fast and reliable and you can met awesome people and have engaging conversations.

It is also quite eventful. Today as I was coming back from the Richmond, this drunk man pulled this knife on this other guy. They were having an argument about something a rather.

On Christmas Eve, as I was catching the train back home to Keysborough, I picked up a spare newspaper off the seat. Little did I know, as I was lifting it up to read, I had accidentally caused the newspaper, that a man was reading, to prick in his eyes. Of course I didn't know this until I was about it get off.

He was trying to tell us something for ages and was rubbing his eyes, and mumbling something around the newspaper. Oh how I felt so bad that day. :(

And this morning as I was getting off the train during rush hour human traffic nightmare, I stopped suddenly to check for my train ticket. I had completely forgotten that people were flowing out of the train and through the subway, that any stop would caused those people disruptions. I learnt that you should proceed out of the subway before stopping the hard way. I had a dozen of voices screaming at me not stop and keep moving, and all sorts of angry taunts. One women nearly tripped over. Hehe sorry! it's just people are so focused on getting to work that they have this systematic view that everything will go smoothly, including the path in which they are walking.

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