A frustratingly awkward train ride.
July 18th 2010 07:34
Despite the whole generalised idea of public transport being the number one culprit of spreading the smell of piss from one town to another, I am quite the advocate for using it and its services. And don't believe anything that movie 'Speed' may tell you - nobody climbs on top of trains these days.
So on one warm/cold/tornado-ripping day (the average day in Melbourne as you'd expect) I hailed a train to catch to satisfy my morning. Usually the fellow commuters are the very bright and exciting kind in that they don't talk or anything. A real sense of community I feel. In my mind, I am naturally inclined to go against the norm and create scenarios that I and others will deem memorable in hopes of enriching the lives of those involved and how I go about in doing that, some may frown upon it but it's 150% effective and is the only way to measure a person of worth.
Upon tapping into this stunning trait, I unwittingly decided to read a newspaper. Not my own one. But one next me, held by an indie-looking dude. The article that grabbed my attention masqueraded as an opinion piece on how the homeless epidemic is spreading due to the spike in "cruise" zones forming around the inner-city area. Basically stuff concerning the everyday man.
I reached the last sentence of the last paragraph when the callous possessor of the paper turns the page. At this point, my intellectual trance is broken and when that happens, I instantly react in the most unorthodox of ways.
"I WAS READING THAT," I snap.
Surprisingly, he turns his head and hands me this look of shock and disbelief. After a few seconds of intense staring, I realise my knee-jerk and somewhat untoward behaviour and pretend to observe my surroundings, taking control of the situation. Keeping within my dark stature, I slowly get up and follow with, "You're lucky my stop is here," and I exit, subtly but quickly wiping a sweat bead walking across my already shiny forehead in the process.
Seriously though, in all fairness - wouldn't you get upset if someone endangered your only way of learning about the seedy underbelly of society?
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