Florestes
A shard of time embraced by darkness.
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Anyone wants to share any embarrassing/funny/positive episodes from their personal experience?
Here's mine: (it was back in 2015)
Summer vacation in Japan. It's my first week and I'm going out to visit some museums around the big city. Google maps app in hand, I go to the train station and buy a ticket. All good so far, I go down to the platforms and see a bigger crowd than I'd like to. Looking around, I add myself to the back of the least crowded platform and enter the train car among the last people. Some 10-20 seconds after the train started moving, I read the big sign written in English on the door in front of me (or somewhere else). It was something like "Women only train car" big letters and all, basically starring me in the face right after I've got comfortable standing. A quick glance around confirmed the sign's validity and made me curse internally, because I didn't do it on purpose! I really didn't know that such things existed! ...There were too many people standing around, so I didn't do the walk of shame to the next car, no. Like a man, I've faced the door, lowered my head and for the next five minutes pretended to be empty air, just looking at my shoes and cursing the freak chance of fate. Fortunately no-one pointed out my mistake and I was gone as soon as the doors opened. Those five minutes were damn grating on me, mostly because it was an honest mistake that came out of nowhere. Next time I've checked that there are other men lining up before boarding. Though, I've encountered these types of train cars only in the big city and stopped paying close attention soon after.
Here's mine: (it was back in 2015)
Summer vacation in Japan. It's my first week and I'm going out to visit some museums around the big city. Google maps app in hand, I go to the train station and buy a ticket. All good so far, I go down to the platforms and see a bigger crowd than I'd like to. Looking around, I add myself to the back of the least crowded platform and enter the train car among the last people. Some 10-20 seconds after the train started moving, I read the big sign written in English on the door in front of me (or somewhere else). It was something like "Women only train car" big letters and all, basically starring me in the face right after I've got comfortable standing. A quick glance around confirmed the sign's validity and made me curse internally, because I didn't do it on purpose! I really didn't know that such things existed! ...There were too many people standing around, so I didn't do the walk of shame to the next car, no. Like a man, I've faced the door, lowered my head and for the next five minutes pretended to be empty air, just looking at my shoes and cursing the freak chance of fate. Fortunately no-one pointed out my mistake and I was gone as soon as the doors opened. Those five minutes were damn grating on me, mostly because it was an honest mistake that came out of nowhere. Next time I've checked that there are other men lining up before boarding. Though, I've encountered these types of train cars only in the big city and stopped paying close attention soon after.
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