Some people called it the subway, we called the metro and I think in Ireland they also called it like that.

 

Have you seen anything more exciting than that? I love it, there's nothing like it. If you look at the economic side, they are clean, fast and cheap (people say te tickets are expensive, but I don't think they are). If you look at them, they look like scary giants, but when you get to know them and go inside, they are very nice. Just like people (most of them, not all - I would say).

 

When you go inside, things just flow outside your window; you are inside and that's your world, you have your own world for about 30 seconds, which is the time that takes it to get from one station to the other.

 

Inside, you see many different people; some sitting on the chairs, others on the ground, others holding on/in the bars and others on the doors, where it says "Do not sit in here". It gives you an idea of how many different people and ways of thinking we can have in the same place, at the same time. Then you can see the colours of their dresses, what they have, read and eat, and you can make up all sort of stories. You can hear what they say and look what they do. It's amazing.

 

Each day is different to the other, and you get to know really nice people in those 30 secs or more, depending on the number of stations.

 

And well, I see them as the start of all stories, and they can also be then end. It's sure that If you throw yourself to the railways, you'll die. People use it to kill themselves there too.

 

Where else can you see all those stories? I know there are probably many places, but there isn't one as lovely as the metro. At least for me.

The subways in New York smell. And France too.

next stop....Joyce station! :lol: :lol:

 

 

Is true! :P ...I went there!

the metro here is a free newspaper that I pick up every morning :wink3:

 

we also have the metrolink tram system but most mancs call it the met, not the metro :stunned:

sky train..... and sub!!!.....in Canada!... :D

Well, I called it the metro!

 

and I think it has a huge artictic potential.

 

I was there on Tuesday and a woman killed herself; she throwed herself onto the railway. You should have the faces of the people on my bagon when we got stuck on the middle of the tunnel (there power cuts off automatically when something fals in the railways). I wish I had had my camera there; people was evacuated and I had a Palestinian and a Sirian next to me, and there were University students, grands and people going to the bank and so what I heard was hilarous, sad, different, strange... I thought it was great, I wouldn't had mind to wait another hour there.

And I got to see the tunnels from the inside

and people with a face like "huh?"

and the police...

I think I was lucky :D

:stunned:

:o

What!?

 

I loose, you win

doesn't that makes you happy?

She died, I saw it (not her, I saw what happened inside the metro when we were told that)

I couldn't feel sorry for her, I just feel happy

For me and for her

She got what she wanted and I saw something that I won't see again

Simple logic! :idea2:

:o

:stunned:

Uh, yeaaahh... Im gonna try and deal with this touchy situation...

 

So.... Uhm...

 

:o :stunned: :/

 

Yeah.

im not the only who can read that, right??? :stunned:

here we call it metro.

 

That´s shocking Carla ! :stunned:

Sternly's logic kinda reminds me of Arnie.

 

Baby. :cool:

:worried:

Somebody killed themselves the same way at the subway station just a few blocks from my house awhile ago... I wasn't there at the time, but I was horrified just reading about it, so I can't imagine having as positive a response as Carla. :stunned:

 

Uh....... anyway, the subway here is... somewhat dirty, and somewhat uncomfortable. Everybody seems like they're in a hurry all the time, and there's always two or three idiotic high schoolers somewhere on the train carrying on really loudly. I feel like such an old man saying that. :lol:

It's seems I'm the only one finding the beatiful side of it; here most people is always in a hurry too, but I sit and watch them, even If I was in a hurry, I wouldn't misss the oportunity to watch them.

 

And I don't understand why you find it shocking; my logic must be as simple as Arnie's logic (way of thinking you might say) but it makes much more sense than what I've seen. At least to me. :)

Actually, one of my favorite things to do when I'm not doing anything else is just sit and watch people. I always find it amusing how everybody seems to have such an atmosphere of self-importance, and they don't look around themselves and realize that they're stuffed in a train like cattle, and that everybody else is in just as much of a hurry to get somewhere. In other words, I find a train ride to be very humbling in a way. :confused:

 

This makes me have to refer to my favorite movie, Koyaanisqatsi. Toward the end there are lots of shots of people in a train station and in a market and places like that, and the footage is sped up or slowed down to some really insane degree. It does a fantastic job of portraying that feeling of anonymity that I get in a crowded place.

 

I'm all about rambling on about nothing tonight. :P

:lol: I didn't get the last part, and I've never seen that movie, but I can get the picture.

 

You can explain things much easier than I do, what a priviledge you have there! :lol: Yes, you do! :)

It's nice to be able to speak my native language on this message board, otherwise I'm sure you could explain them just as well. :D

Not sure about it; Spanish si much more complicated and misterious! :D

I call it the Metro when i'm in Montreal and the Subway when i'm in Toronto. You'd be surprised at how touchy Montrealers are when i say "subway"...weird.

 

In Montreal, someone is almost always killing themselves on the metro. In Montreal, i think the people call it a "521" and everyone knows that they'll be late for work or something.

 

In Toronto, I find that people pushing someone else in front of a train is more common (or more talked about). It's kinda scary..there's very little space to stand by the trains.

Yipe!

 

You fools and your technology, your killing us all. :stunned: