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Got told once that subway workers have some kind of code to mean "Body on the Tracks" so the passengers don't have to know.
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mnemex's aunt died last week, and we decided to pay a shiva call on this Saturday past, after I ran Cthulhupunk. So, we left with everyone else, and got on the 7 train, which, for a change, was actually running between Queens and Manhattan (and vice versa) during the weekend. We changed for the 1 train at Times Square.
Somewhere between 66th and 72nd street, the train stopped. And the conductor announced that there was a problem at 79th, and she'd update us when she knew more. Then, she walked through the train, explaining to all of us, in plain English, that there was a body on the tracks. I'm pretty sure the implication was that it was a corpse, not a live-but-injured person. She added that it might take an hour for us to move. By now, the locals were being routed to the express track, but we had two or three trains in front of us and as many behind.
Eventually, less than an hour later, the train inched into 72nd, and we all got off through the front car.mnemex and I got on the express train, a number 2 or 3, and went the rest of our way from there. We managed to arrive well before his uncle decided that, while company was much appreciated, so was sleep.
I was surprised that the conductor actually told us about the body. Someone suggested that conductors may be becoming more open in what they tell passengers as passengers are more aware of what conductors have not been telling them in the wake of WTC. You know, "There is a smoke condition at the World Trade Center. Our train is being held in the station."
mnemex's aunt died last week, and we decided to pay a shiva call on this Saturday past, after I ran Cthulhupunk. So, we left with everyone else, and got on the 7 train, which, for a change, was actually running between Queens and Manhattan (and vice versa) during the weekend. We changed for the 1 train at Times Square.Somewhere between 66th and 72nd street, the train stopped. And the conductor announced that there was a problem at 79th, and she'd update us when she knew more. Then, she walked through the train, explaining to all of us, in plain English, that there was a body on the tracks. I'm pretty sure the implication was that it was a corpse, not a live-but-injured person. She added that it might take an hour for us to move. By now, the locals were being routed to the express track, but we had two or three trains in front of us and as many behind.
Eventually, less than an hour later, the train inched into 72nd, and we all got off through the front car.
mnemex and I got on the express train, a number 2 or 3, and went the rest of our way from there. We managed to arrive well before his uncle decided that, while company was much appreciated, so was sleep.I was surprised that the conductor actually told us about the body. Someone suggested that conductors may be becoming more open in what they tell passengers as passengers are more aware of what conductors have not been telling them in the wake of WTC. You know, "There is a smoke condition at the World Trade Center. Our train is being held in the station."