My sympathies Joanna. Sounds like the train from Marrickville to city
most days. You get used to it - but, gosh, some days you just don't
need it. I bet that bloke turns up on our line one day.
Best,
Jill
On Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 01:19 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> My, Joanna! - it sounds like the train to Werribee -
>
> I've often thought that a major problem with politicians is that they
> don't
> use public transport. They would understand society better if they did.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
> On 27/10/05 9:24 AM, "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, a bit discombobulated at the moment. Went up to Newcastle this
>> evening to hear Jane Hirshfield read, which was a marvellous
>> experience. On
>> the way back two different sets of drunks, one violent and the other
>> merely
>> very loud, had to be taken off the train by police at two different
>> stations. The loudest confided, fortissimo, that he was a Geordie
>> (i.e. from
>> Tyneside) Irishman who lived in the Village in New York, where he was
>> a
>> policeman who had killed ten men, and if the man he decided to sit
>> next to
>> didn't confess he would burn him. The guard asked me if I was all
>> right
>> (they were in the seat behind me), and when I said I thought so, he
>> disappeared for the next half-hour. Talk about an evening of
>> contrasts!
>
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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