This is apparently a real, and true email to the boss, from Down Under. It’s pretty funny, as long as it doesn’t happen to you. But perhaps he’s laughing about it now, too.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Here’s the news story.
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Back in the early 1980s, working in NYC they had so many track fires that arriving late for work was no big deal. My 9 to 5 soon became 12 to 12 (programmer long hours.)
That was a funny email.
There’s a Kingston Trio song in there somewhere…
No mention of the toilet facilities…
I can not off hand recall if that train has toilets.
At least there weren’t any muggerflocking snakes on that muggerflocking train.
> No mention of the toilet facilities… I can not off hand recall if that train has toilets.
From the news story:
“Luckily, he said, the train still had its lights on and air-conditioning, but the on-board toilet was locked.”
Luckily, he said, the train still had its lights on and air-conditioning, but the on-board toilet was locked.
Whoops missed that, why lock the toilet inside a locked train?
You know, I was thinking that there had to be some kind of emergency release mechanism for the door or an emergency window that could be popped and pushed out. Seems awfully strange that there wasn’t at least something like that within the compartment somewhere. Seems to me that if there was a fire that caused the train to lose power a little intercom wouldn’t be of all that much help. “Uh, yea, hello, umm we’re uh we’re on fire back here……whenever you get a chance if you could send someone our way to unlock the door that would be great – cheers.”