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What's the story with these people getting off the train?

Asked by wundayatta (58722points) June 7th, 2012

The commuter rail station is a quarter mile away from me. Everyone is going somewhere on campus, and they all have to pass me before they get there. By the time they get to me, they are spread out over several hundred yards.

So tell me a story. Who are the people who pass me first? Who are the ones in the middle? Who are the ones who dawdle? What makes them end up in these positions relative to each other as they pass me?

Feel free to make up realistic stories or completely wild and silly stories. Let your imagination get into it. It’s a cool summer morning and you don’t have anywhere else to be other than to watch the people.

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elbanditoroso's avatar

There were a number of reptiles on the train this morning – sort of like the movie, but this time on the railroad.

One of the snakes has a specific venom that causes people to need to urinate immediately. So the people that were running past you were in a hurry to get to their office buildings to that they could take care of nature’s business.

Some of the slower people had been bitten by the Komodo Dragon under seat 4B. Komodos are relatively slow moving, heavy reptiles, and their venom acts as a soporific. In fact, the bite victims were so poisoned that the train started moving to the next station even before they last person could get off.

erichw1504's avatar

They had places to see and people to do.

YARNLADY's avatar

Personally, I don’t like pushy crowds, so I always take a few extra minutes to fold up my newspaper, drink the last of my coffee and let all those “gotta get there first folks” get off before I take my leisurely walk to my destination.

MilkyWay's avatar

It’s exactly the same on air planes. I do the same @YARNLADY :)

Berserker's avatar

Bill is in a hurry, because a Xenomorph is after him. Some other guy named Bill has to run to Safeway to apply for a job, which involves pretending to be a thief and to see if the security there actually works.

The guy in the middle is named Billy, and he doesn’t actually know where he’s going. But he does think he’s Jesus, and he gives himself credit for making up skyscrapers. Guinevere de la Victorianna might be in a hurry, or not, but she doesn’t care. She’s some kind of vampire, the ones you find on the Internet, only in real life. She must absorb the land and let in the power, and admire nature and people, and accept that she’s just human, and not part dragon. She always does that. She’s fucking weird, but she never hurries for anything, whether she should or not. Her friends like her, but they are in a hurry. Samantha left the train long ago to go feed her parrot and Peruvian Boomslang. She has two jobs and one boyfriend, who himself keeps getting arrested for climbing over public property.
Jason is in the middle, because he doesn’t really have anything to do. He just took the train, because you know, trains kick ass. He dreams about train graveyards, and sometimes about eagles, too.

Montgomery is taking his sweet ass time, because he just don’t give a fuck. He’ll be there, he promised. He doesn’t break promises. This other guy who’s name probably isn’t Bill is lagging, because he’s busy explaining to Lizzy that people lost their relationship with their hands. But actually, he’s just bored, even though he should probably be somewhere. Lizzy wishes he would just go away. She’s not too much in a hurry, and likes to sit back and relax, but that dude talking about hands is just being freaky.
Gisèle is in the back too, she passed out cuz she drank too much during the trip. She’ll probably miss her destination, but that’s cool, she’s a survivor, man. Some guy named Wundy is there too, wondering what the hell these people are all up too. He’s smart and wise and a little twisted, but he knows where he’s going. He knows where he’s been. For now though, he decided he wanted to observe people.

Then for some reason, some old dude with a big white beard and long hair comes up to him and goes, wizards are never late. They arrive precisely when they mean too.

Then one of the guys that was really in a hurry runs back to the train and randomly yells into the window, where the two previously mentioned men are seated, this is fucking Sparta, bitches! Then he just walks off, pushing over Mireille, who’s a middle person. She gets back up and wonders what it’s gonna be like when she rules the word. She swears revenge on that weird Greek guy. But she’s actually really nice and sweet, and makes it to work at the daycare where she works at. She no longer has megalomaniac fantasies.

Dude. Don’t laugh. The real world, without any stories from online forum people, is probably a lot like that. Except for that wizard. He’s just busy in some imaginary place, not letting ancient demons go by.

Also Xena is on the train, telling people she has many skills.

Earthgirl's avatar

@Symbeline You have one wicked ass imagination! I can only imagine the stories you could dream up for the people I see on the subway everyday.

Berserker's avatar

I thank thee kindly, but I don’t have much imagination, I just like movies satire a lot.

wundayatta's avatar

Yeah, well your (non) imagination is (not) (not) funny! Thank you very much for that story.

@Earthgirl Where’s your story? I bet you got a wicked ass imagination, too!

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