After several minutes of sitting on a train that wasn't moving, we were told that it was being taken out of service. It wasn't until we disembarked that most of us noticed the station was filling with smoke from an electrical fire beneath the front car. We were hot, we were sweating, we were breathing through our shirts. As we waited for another train, we were treated to this exchange from a mother and daughter who had apparently notified the station agents about the smoke.
MOTHER: Two-twenty-five. And this is what we get. Nobody's doing anything.
DAUGHTER: Just sittin' there. Don't even see the smoke.
MOTHER: All these people working here and we got to be the ones to tell them the station's full of smoke.
DAUGHTER: They woulda done nothin'.
MOTHER: And nobody knows what this shit is. Doesn't smell like smoke.
DAUGHTER: Maybe it's not. Did you see The Happening?
MOTHER: Oh, Kim, shut your mouth! Please! Don't tell us that shit.
DAUGHTER: I'm just sayin', if you see people breathing it in and then killing each other, you better run.
MOTHER: STOP THAT!
DAUGTHER: I'm serious!
MOTHER: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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