rush hour
You know those horror movies where the hero, feeling safe, peaks out of his window into the night only to see the ghostly silhouettes of thousands of undead licking the glass? Yeah, that was my BART ride this morning.
Stuck. Delays. 10 minutes.
Ok, 15 minutes.
Ok, they can't move the train. They are going to push it. 15 more minutes.
Ok, we are going to the platform. We are going to hold at the platform. 15 minutes.
So we slowly pull in, push past the hordes, the throngs of featureless faces. We stop, and they gather to the doors. We pull forward and they shuffle alongside, a horrible lifeless mass twitching toward the doors.
Maybe the doors won't open. There is a pause, a long, hopefilled pause broken by the hiss of air as the door opens and suddenly every available cubic centimeter is filled with flesh.
The announcer comes on: We are not moving. We are delayed. We will move later. And no one gets off the train. Everyone just squeezes in tighter and tighter.
I couldn't take it-- I had to fight my way off the train and up to the surface were a drunk man tried to hand me a flyer and then yelled at me for not taking it. Then walk up a big hill in my work clothes. Then get on the J-Church, which was also packed with terrestrial zombies, but at least it moved.
Stuck. Delays. 10 minutes.
Ok, 15 minutes.
Ok, they can't move the train. They are going to push it. 15 more minutes.
Ok, we are going to the platform. We are going to hold at the platform. 15 minutes.
So we slowly pull in, push past the hordes, the throngs of featureless faces. We stop, and they gather to the doors. We pull forward and they shuffle alongside, a horrible lifeless mass twitching toward the doors.
Maybe the doors won't open. There is a pause, a long, hopefilled pause broken by the hiss of air as the door opens and suddenly every available cubic centimeter is filled with flesh.
The announcer comes on: We are not moving. We are delayed. We will move later. And no one gets off the train. Everyone just squeezes in tighter and tighter.
I couldn't take it-- I had to fight my way off the train and up to the surface were a drunk man tried to hand me a flyer and then yelled at me for not taking it. Then walk up a big hill in my work clothes. Then get on the J-Church, which was also packed with terrestrial zombies, but at least it moved.
posted by unrepeatable at
15:08
2 Comments:
terrestrial zombies are way better than subterranean zombies. don't believe me? watch shawn of the dead next to resident evil. they're like 800 times faster and stronger underground.
By
KCH, at 11/5/06 16:42
ha ha ha. second person to mention shawn of the dead parallel.
i don't think i'll be watching resident evil anytime soon. i'll take your word for it.
but today's zombies were underground and not particularly fast or stron, just extra soffocate-y.
By
unrepeatable, at 11/5/06 18:31
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