The train I'm on (a big double-decker diesel train) has been stopped for 20 minutes because someone is on top of it.
Seriously. We even heard the person running over the top of our car.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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tommyrot - Feb 24, 2014 4:03:09 am PST #20770 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2014 4:06:18 am PST #20771 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommy, are you sure you're not in an action movie? Maybe take cover!
I am back at work, and ugh! I would like more vacation.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2014 4:10:06 am PST #20772 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh
The authorities are here. They're still trying to get the person down.
-t - Feb 24, 2014 4:30:56 am PST #20773 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's wild, tommyrot!
My symptoms seem to have subsided today, which is nice for my experience of living through the day, but kind of annoying in that I have my doctor's appointment this afternoon and will have to go in and say "well, I'm fine now, but..." and hope she doesn't just say "come back in if it happens again".
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2014 5:10:52 am PST #20774 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I got to work 35 minutes late. I suppose I shouldn't complain--if it had been a suicide it would have been a two hour delay.
Amy - Feb 24, 2014 5:19:22 am PST #20775 of 30000
Because books.
That's actually kind of miraculous.
I kept envisioning the NYC subway, though, and wondering how earth someone was running around up there. But you were on the El, right?
Tom Scola - Feb 24, 2014 5:21:56 am PST #20776 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Commuter rail.
The guy is lucky it was a diesel train, and not one that's powered by overhead wires.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2014 5:26:38 am PST #20777 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I really wish I knew more. Like, was the guy on the train since it left downtown Chicago and was only noticed after I got on, or did he get on the train at the same place I did. (The train stopped a minute after I got on.)
Then there's other questions: Was he ranting like a crazy person? Why didn't he come down until the police arrived? Was he naked?
All things I need to know for it to be a great story....
-t - Feb 24, 2014 5:47:37 am PST #20778 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I agree, these are questions that demand answers.
Connie Neil - Feb 24, 2014 6:19:36 am PST #20779 of 30000
brillig
All things I need to know for it to be a great story....
If you knew more, stealthy killers in ninja suits would crash through your office window and spray the room with automatic fire, forcing you on the run in the company of a mysterious blonde who may or may not be out to kill you.
As things do.