Italian trains are so paradoxical that my train was late but I got to university earlier
Trenitalia aesthetic:
– they announce a delay but then the train arrives exactly at the same hour as usual
– they do not announce a delay but the train arrives ten minutes later than usual
– Ticket inspectors who exist only for the first two days of the month and then magically disappear
– the announcer’s voice that becomes shrill by saying that one random word of the phrase, terrifying you, and than returns normal
-friendships born due to the disperation / anger at the announcement of the (umpteenth) delay
– the Angry Nostalgic Old Man ™ that “wHE the DuCE waS hEre The TRains Were PunctUAL”
– but the rest of the station is super calm bc they are blatantly used to delays
-first and second class interchangeable
– “how this window is supposed to work”
– the announcer that “the train will arrive with 30 minutes of delay” and then “no wait 25″ “40″ “15″ “100″ “60″ “120″ “the train is cancelleD”
– “we are sorry for the inconvenience”
trenitalia gothic
– a train arrives. it’s 90 years late. you notice that the passengers inside are ghosts of people who lived in the 1920s, listening to jazz music
– you are not sure this train stop existed before
– you are not sure this railroad existed before
– you were sure that a train had to stop at the station by this time but it disappeared
– why is the train stopping in the middle of nowhere?
– passengers in your wagon are now starting to open the train windows. it’s really hot inside. a kind of anxiety lingers in the air: no one knows exactly where we are and what time it is
– suddenly the air is chilly again. oh no, everyone is freezing. everyone rushes to close the windows
– as the mysterious staff members are announcing that you are currently approaching the end station, you notice that you haven’t actually moved at all from your first station. looks like a circular journey, but staring out of the window you can see something odd, the place anyhow doesn’t look familiar anymore…
this entire thread is making me reconsider ATAC
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