All right, last post of the day.
Mar. 29th, 2004 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I know you're all ready to kill me for spamming your friends pages, but I can't believe I forgot to post this.
As I was going up the escalator to the downtown side at Bowling Green today, I suddenly hear the tunnel fill up with horrified screams. I actually understood for the first time how the story of the banshee started. And I keep going up, and hear "somebody fell onto the tracks". What? "Somebody fell onto the tracks!"
Oh. Damn. Now I'm torn between:
Concern for the woman who'd fallen
Worry about seeing gory stuff
Worry about being late/losing a fare
Guilt for the last feeling.
I finally make my way upstairs, and all is well. She had done the stupid thing of leaning over the edge, which is how she fell, but the train stopped without really entering the station, and everyone was all right. And it was the uptown track anyway, so no delay for me! Aside from which, even late, I was the first one to Latin... bunch of lazy bums, all of 'em!
As I was going up the escalator to the downtown side at Bowling Green today, I suddenly hear the tunnel fill up with horrified screams. I actually understood for the first time how the story of the banshee started. And I keep going up, and hear "somebody fell onto the tracks". What? "Somebody fell onto the tracks!"
Oh. Damn. Now I'm torn between:
Concern for the woman who'd fallen
Worry about seeing gory stuff
Worry about being late/losing a fare
Guilt for the last feeling.
I finally make my way upstairs, and all is well. She had done the stupid thing of leaning over the edge, which is how she fell, but the train stopped without really entering the station, and everyone was all right. And it was the uptown track anyway, so no delay for me! Aside from which, even late, I was the first one to Latin... bunch of lazy bums, all of 'em!
