Sunday, December 18, 2005

Waiting for a train.

Finally I got home around 2am. I had been stuck at Ikebukuro station which is 4 or 5 stations far from Shinjuku for 1 hour. My bicycle was at Harajuku and the line takes me home was sure called it a day. Anyway I did not expect that I would be that late. I knew I would not get my room before it turned to be 18th.

Why I had got stuck at that station was due to an accident. As is often the case with any night, there are millions of drunken people anywhere, wherever you open your eyes. And as a matter of course, last night, I should say “last night” because the dawn is breaking now!! , there was one drunk guy stepped out from a platform. If one is dead or alive it takes every time looooooong time for train to run again. A station attendant kept saying they were rescuing the guy. But anybody else except children were was thinking they were collecting the guy. Besides, no child was supposed to be there, of course. That was late in the midnight. Anyway, people were whispering about that the guy would have been dead. I do not know. But it was sure I did not feel like getting on that train which ran over the guy. Do you want?

Anyway, after one hour later, after I started waiting for a train. The train wheeled into our platform. There were thousands of people waited for the train for long. It’s not kidding there must be thousand. Everybody wanted to get on the train. Another train would arrive in before long, in 5 minutes, should be. But everyday wanted to take “that train” I thought about I would be pressed as canned food like sardine and all. I didn’t want to be. I decided to take next train. I watched them pushing themselves into the train. There was no law or anything, were just pushing people. If you were there you would have thought that was nasty and ugly looking. I was glad as I watched that I did not try to smash myself into it. If I did I could do it, but I would be a nasty guy. And I had to bring that regret into the bed. I don’t use bed, so I meant the desk.

I got to Harajuku station. At the entrance of the station I saw a guy complaining to a station attendant. The guy was asking who stopped train. Obviously he was drunk and lost his point. I guess he was supposed to transfer to another line, but the line was closed when the accident line started. So he had nowhere to go and could not help but ask about who stopped the train. It would not help his circumstance a bit, but he could not help it. I felt sorry for the guy and the station attendant and the guy who fell off the platform and got some accident. Come to think of it, at least I was lucky that I could get home. I have to thank.

However, one problem is, that I am supposed to go to same place and fear for anther train accident that will probably make me stop.

Hey, you know I cannot sleep, because of the caffeine from coke or just could not sleep. I want to write about what happened today at my work. Actually I worked different place today, so this is why I had to take train. Anyway, I went there and worked. There is a new manager struggle to be settled down to his new position, a manager. After all the other workers went home, he started grumbling about stuff’s behave. In his opinion workers are not motivated enough. And it was true those workers were really reluctant to work. For one thing, those workers have been working so long and lost their zeal about work. Another thing that café is practically leisure. As most people know too much free time makes human beings lazy. Moreover, one worker told she wanted to quit even right away. But for make money she won’t. My friend the manager knew that he would have to do something for them. He said he was going to be stern to them, and made up his mind if those workers would leave from him. I think being stern is necessary now for him, otherwise the café would turn for the worse.

It is 18th 3:30am now. I should shut my PC down and go to sleep.

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