As you’ve probably already heard, a Metro train derailed at Farragut North station this morning and wreaked all kinds of havoc downtown. What you didn’t know, is that your man Leon was 5 minutes from being a passenger on that train. I ended up on the next one directly behind it, and was stuck at the Gallery Place station for a very long time.
I turned around and took an alternate route in to work, but before I did, I discovered that Metro incidents bring out the true ugly nature of humanity.
For example:
- I have never seen so much borderline child abuse in my life. I saw this one woman damn near yank her son’s arm out the socket while cursing at him and his brother. I heard another cursing out her little daughter, and even witnessed some chick use her stroller as a battering ram when people weren’t getting out of her way fast enough!
- An old man and a girl who looked like “Precious” almost came to blows in one part of the station. Normally, I’d put my money on Precious the heavyweight winning the fight, but this wasn’t an ordinary old man. This was one of those Jim Brown type of old guys. The ones that look like they’d whip your ass, and tell you about it while they’re doing it. Just beat you and say stuff like “Young man, I told you to STAY DOWN! Alright nigga! You ‘gon need a steak for that eye! Keep on getting back up…”
- I was on an Asian news broadcast. I went behind an Asian reporter speaking some language far removed from English, and did the rock & roll devil horns with both hands while nodding my head.
- The down time at the train station allowed me to take a look at my drunken twitter updates from last night. I am quite the belligerent asshole! I guess I should just go ahead and accept it.
- I stopped off and got a chicken club sandwich. Hell, it was lunchtime once I finally got to that part of town. I earned it!
- Everybody I encountered looked pissed off, confused or some combination of the two. That said, I’m happy I missed the train that actually derailed. That would have probably put the fear of God in me. My morning would have been worse had I been on there, and started screaming like a schoolgirl bitch in front of a train full of people.
the worse were the idiots who were standing on the platform blankstaring and lack of metro employees telling us the train wasnt coming and was single tracking
I also felt like a lab rat in a maze UGH..I cried when I immersed from down below.