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- [ Friday The 17th ] [ By The Chief ]
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- For some, it's Friday the 13th. For others, it's some other day.
- You all know what I'm talking about, right? Well, when THAT day
- crawls upon you, you're never prepared. You might prepare for
- years, but when the day comes, it is the day you never suspected.
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- My "day" is Friday the 17th. Let me tell you what happened last
- time it was that day (namely January the 17th) to me and a friend
- of mine.
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- BACKGROUND
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- I'm currently doing my military service in a town far away from
- my hometown, and when going home on vacations, holidays and other
- miscellaneous times, I have to take (in order) a BUS, SUBWAY, TRAIN,
- BOAT and last a CAR to get to my house. This makes for a great story
- right? True. Sad but true. Let's start this special friday then..
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- THE BUS
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- The bus leaves the base at 17:00. We're finished with the training
- at 16:15. This leaves us with 45 minutes to take a shower, pack, clean,
- eat dinner, and go (read: run) to the bus. No sweat. If you don't
- make mistakes that is. At 16.20 we were off to clean the barrack.
- Quickly, quickly now. The clock on the wall showed 16.35 when we
- were ready for inspection. Amazingly enough, everything looked ok to
- the captain, and as he went out through the doors, I hit the showers.
- At 16.50 I was packed 'n ready to eat dinner, so me and a friend of
- mine, let's call him Eric, went over to the dining-hall. WHAT A QUEUE!
- It went out in the street even! We decided not to have dinner (what
- a surprise eh?), but to wait and eat when we reached Stockholm at
- about 19:15 with the bus. Said and done, we were off to the bus.
- The second not-so-surprising fact was that the bus was full. They had
- just ordered another one that would "be here in about 5 minutes, so
- don't go away, or you'll miss it.". 30 minutes later the bus arrived.
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- ARRIVED AT STOCKHOLM 19:50
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- As you can see, we were 35 minutes late, so we ran to the nearest
- Pizza Hut (after taking the subway to the train central to send our
- luggage to the boat) and grabbed a Large 'Spicey N Hot' to share.
- During the dinner, a couple sitting next to us started to act strangely
- walking around the restaurant, with luggage, sleeping-bags and stuff
- like that. When they'd finished eating. The woman took the luggage,
- the sleeping-bags and their clothes and went out the door. The man
- just sat there at the table. After about five minutes, he stood up
- and tried to run to the exit. (No, they hadn't paid). A waitress
- caught him, and dragged him back to the table. "Ok, Ok! I'll pay!"
- he said, and when the waitress had gone to get their bill, he ran
- upstairs to the toilets and locked the door. The manager called the
- police, and they arrived (two squad cars and a van) with flashing
- blue lights (which they didn't turn off). After about 30 minutes
- of "talking with the criminal" he came out, and they took him downtown.
- We actually had time for a couple of beers too, before it was time
- for us to go to the train.
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- THE TRAIN
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- The train were to leave the station at 21:39, so we ran to the right
- track, and jumped on the train five minutes ahead of time. Talk about
- making it! 5 Minutes! That wasn't bad. Suddenly the train started to
- move, 4 minutes before schedule. We just sat back, relaxing and thinking
- that they probably just made up for some delay or something. It wasn't
- until we noticed some strange stations the train stopped at, we started
- to question if we were really on the right train. So, we asked a girl
- sitting behind us. "I don't know if it's the train to the boat. I'm
- only going half-way this line, and this train goes my way. Sorry.".
- We decided that one of us should jump off at the next station and ask
- the driver if it was the RIGHT train. At Huddinge Station I jumped off
- ready to start running to the driver. The doors opened and....
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- When I crawled back up on my feet again, blood streamed out from a
- hole in the left leg of my jeans, my hands were covered with blood
- and gravel. Well, I didn't let that stop me, though my friend also
- jumped off the train and helped me. The driver said "No, you took
- the wrong train. You have to go back to the central and take the next
- train to the boat." To check when the next train would leave, we had
- to go to the ticket counter and ask. Of course the old crow behind
- the counter was Finnish, and didn't speak Swedish very well. We tried
- to get through to her for 15 minutes (the queue behind us grew and
- soon started to shout and scream too). Finally, I grabbed her train-
- book and went out to check for myself. That's when my watch died. It
- just didn't work. As if that wasn't all, the last train to the boat
- had left the central-station ten minutes ago and we had missed it.
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- BUS THEN?
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- We ran (I walked with a straight, bleeding leg, my friend ran) to
- the bus central to see if there were any busses going to the boat.
- "Sorry, you just missed the last one. It left fifteen minutes ago.."
- What about Taxi then?, we asked. "Well, it'll cost you about $175.00
- if you want to get there in time for the boat."
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- TAXI
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- We ran (once again, I walked) outside to grab the nearest taxi.
- What did you expect? If we didn't make it to the boat, we would be
- stranded, with no weekend to spend with girlfriends and so on..
- Jumped into the nearest taxi, and shouted "TAKE US TO THE BOAT
- AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!". The driver, aged about 25-27 just stepped
- on the gas, and we screeched out into the traffic. As you might know,
- there's a lot of "black" taxis out there. People driving to make
- money, taking "special price just for you" and also criminals who
- drives these cars, just waiting for some unsuspecting victims to
- rob and kill on some nearby, small, dark street. This guy looked
- like one, and we didn't have time to check the car before we jumped
- into it. He really started by saying "So, how much do you want to
- pay for this trip, guys?". I just waited for him to make a turn
- somewhere and pull out a gun, BLAM BLAM, and we're history.
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- But, what the hell, we said "We'll pay $90.00". And the driver
- just nodded and didn't say a word. We zzwoshed down small roads
- at a speed of 190km/h (yes, it was a Mercedes) listening to him
- talk about his 'friends'. One of them apparently was in jail. Not
- a Swedish, comfortable one, no no, he was doing time (12 years for
- stealing a safe) in Greece. Then he started to discuss the drug prices
- these days. Boy, was it expensive these days or what?!. Oh yeah, he
- got his drivers licence back last week. The cops had taken it for
- "reckless and drunk driving" three months ago. He went on and on
- and we started to write our wills.
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- Amazingly enough we arrived at the harbour 10 minutes before the
- boat would leave, and he charged us $90.00 as well. We didn't believe
- it first, but when the car drove away, we did. Pretty cool guy really.
- <grin>.
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- THE BOAT
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- When we opened the door to the cabin we'd got, we couldn't but notice
- the two other old dodderers who were also to share the cabin. Ok, I
- cleaned my wounds, and tried to get some sleep. What a joke! One of
- the oldies snored like a couple of elephants and the other moaned and
- groaned in his sleep. All night. I'm surprised the sea was calm though,
- because the last time we went by boat, it was storm. But, we finally
- arrived at 05:45 in the morning.
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- THE CAR
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- Of course we got the latest model, the fastest, the best equipped car?
- Hahhahaha. Well, a Renault R5, model 1980-ish. I couldn't drive very
- well with my leg in the shape it was, but I made it home at least.
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- Well, that's what happened that friday. I won't go into what happened
- when I went to see a couple of doctors (both civilian and military)
- about my leg, and how they differed in judgement (amazing).
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- So what can we learn from this story? Hell, I don't know. I'm just
- entertaining those who enjoy having fun at other people's misfortune
- here. If you want to learn, go read a school-book or something.
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