Re: [Mind] subway

看板EngTalk (全英文聊天)作者n3oanderson (T. J.)時間15年前 (2010/07/07 17:30)推噓1(1推 0噓 1→)

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The tube indeed is an ecosystem. You can observe many interesting behaviours amongst passengers, ranged from the office workers to people live with underground. Those behaviours can be observed from various kind of facial expression, which may tell you e.g. the destination s/he is heading to. For instance, in the morning, most of people with poker face generally tell you that s/he is heading to office; whereas if you discover people who are chatting with smile, usually they are tourists. After six o'clock, it is a tremedous truned over, loudly noise is everywhere. Also, you may notice that many people concentrate on playing games using mobile phone. Interestingly, if a person takes out iphone starting to play games, people surrounding may be with their head slightly moving closer to that person. When finishing the game, everyone surrounding would be back to his position as if nothing happens. In addition, some may hang aruond the ticket office asking for changes, from Monday to Friday. You might be under the impression that his occupation is remittee. C'est la vie! ※ 引述《Tabrith (血糖瑪琪朵)》之銘言： : Not talking about the sandwich subway here, : It's the subway system in New York City, and (almost) everyone hates it. : Every morning I have to take subway to go to work, : I have to make 1 transfer, and then walk about 20 minutes. : The stations I need to stop at aren't on the express train route, : so I can only take local trains, thus it takes a lot longer than usual. : It's not really a big deal, since I enjoy reading (and sleeping) on the train, : but recently, due to "construction", the subway system is totally out of : control. : Sometimes, the train would sit in the station for nearly 10 minutes, : I guess the operator wants to wait until it's full. : But right before it departs, the indicator would change from local : (which is a green circle) to express (a purple diamond), : and IMMEDIATELY the doors close. : Are you serious? Is this some kind of trap? Trying to make everyone : on the train late for work? : Sometimes, the indicator will say it's local, with that shiny green circle. : Ok, I get on that train, but the train doesn't stop at ANY local stations... : When I finally get off the train, I realized only that section of the train : I was on has green circle, every other section of the train have purple : diamond for EXPRESS. : Fine, I was careless, next time I will waste 10 minutes and check all 10 : sections of the train before I get on! : Sometimes, when I finally got on the right train, but the operator would : announce, with the most annoying voice you will ever hear: : "Dear passengers, because of construction, this train will now make express : stops ONLY~ ^_<" : Wow, thank you so much, next time why don't you take us all the way to : New Jersey and THEN tell us when we get there? : Sometimes, well, nice things can happen. : Due to a sick passenger in a train, every train behind it were delayed. : However, when things like this happens, no one on the train complains. : (Contray to popular beliefs, New Yorkers can be nice.) : You will see people making phone calls explaining why they will be late, : you will hear operator apologizing for the situation, : but you won't see or hear people complain. : Sometimes, sitting in a delayed train, 30 minutes late for work, : so crowded you have to fight for fresh air, : can still make you smile :) -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 124.9.131.228 ※ 編輯: n3oanderson 來自: 124.9.131.228 (07/07 17:31) ※ 編輯: n3oanderson 來自: 124.9.131.228 (07/07 17:32)