Melanie K. writes in an email to cj@thiscrazytrain.com
Saturday night. Sat in the upper section of the quad on the train so I could head back to Georgetown and was joined by a group of teens who looked way too young to be drinking, let alone drinking at a bar somewhere in downtown Toronto. The whole train ride was fraught with one of the young lads declaring over and over, "Man, I'm gonna be sick", or "Bro, I'm gonna be sick", or "Dude, I'm gonna be sick". Often this rhetoric was met with loud peals of laughter from his buddies.
We all got off at Oakville. The kid who said he was going to be sick stood up and right when the train came to a stop, he projectile-vomited all over the stairs leading down to the bottom section of the train.
I lost my temper, yelling at them and asking why they didn't encourage him to use the bathroom instead of laughing like lunatics? I also told them they were responsible for cleaning up the mess and I was off to report them all to the station CSAs as public drunkenness, especially at that age, is neither acceptable nor legal. Then I got off the train.
I have to ask, who raises these kids? Full-on inebriation at 16 on a public train, not cool!
12 comments:
No, but full-on double rainbows are!
Umm the train doesn't run to Georgetown on weekends. I don't think any of the line does.
perhaps Melanie meant Friday night?
In my email I wrote I usually take the train to Georgetown. I was on the LSW Saturday night. CJ just read my email wrong.
They're kids, they think it's cool when someone hurls all over the GO train. That part of being responsible for their actions isn't really fully developed yet.
I'm surprised they didn't video it and put it on Youtube...
Alas, Dan, they were!
Fixed.
Melanie's email was a wee hard to follow... ! Tho still appreciated!
Thanks. That's better. Guess next time I shouldn't send a point form email. I have no idea how much email you get so I figured point form would be helpful.
How about just publishing people's emails as is and leave them open to interpretation?
Melanie - I wouldn't have spent the emotional energy getting cross with them....just called security and let the underdevoloped sense of responsibility develop. I know I had to learn a couple of lessons that way!
If I were to republish emails how I get them, it would lower my publishing standard. I prefer good grammar so I'll fix grammar and spelling. I'm not really a stickler for punctuation (the verbatim text messages attest to that) but spelling and grammar have to be better than average, so I edit emails. Besides, my own punctuation is lazy as hell because I type on a crappy web phone but spelling, it has to be at a grade 12 level. It's called "effort". Many people don't take the time anymore.
At 16, I was perfectly capable of having a alcohol-drinking night out with friends without any of us throwing up on the train home. It's a matter of knowing your limit.
On the plus side, at least they weren't driving home...
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