Lies the T told me.

[saxikath]

"There's another train right behind this one that's empty. Virtually empty."

Apparently the definition of "virtually empty" is "just as crowded as this one."

Grumpy way to start the morning and the week.

Comments

[dcltdw]

hee! That reminds me of a friend of my brother who worked as an usher at the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles open-air ampitheatre -- essentially the Tanglewood equivalent). Patrons are funneled in from the side in a few rows, so there are these mad insane totally bonkers crushing chokepoints where patrons are asking ushers where section C or D or Q or whatever are.

"Three rows down" is their universal answer. Even if it's patently false, it's 1, a very fast answer that 2, diffuses the crowd. So what if they have to backtrack? They'll go up or down, and essentially you're modelling red blood cells in capillaries.

I treat anything the conductors say as equivalent to "Jesus is on the next train", which at least leaves me amused, if not going any faster. :)