Not Afraid

Got an email from my friend Sue, who moved to London just over a year ago. Thankfully, she was not on the tube last Thursday.

She says that this website started within hours of the bombings.

I had a bit of a tense moment yesterday on the Toronto transit system. I was riding home on the Scarborough RT (a Rapid Transit above-ground train that connects with the subway system in the east end of the city). It was fairly crowded. There was a man standing in the non-active doorway area (opposite the doors that opened to the platform). Suddenly, while we were stopped at a station, he bolted off the train... leaving his backpack on the floor!!

A few seconds pass, and I'm thinking "... um ... er...like ...hey...", and then the guy jumps back on again. Seems like he just wanted to drop something in the trash bin, and then hop back on before the doors closed. He made it. Thanks for the heart attack, pal.

At least I didn't jump up and run to the opposite end of the train, screaming "we're all gonna die!" That would have been embarassing.