Once, I was already late for a meeting in the City of London, when, halfway between Brighton and London’s Victoria Station, the voice of the train operator broke the silence.
Passengers took their eyes from what they were reading or from the window and heard the following message:
People shrugged their shoulders, very few began to murmur something, while most of them indifferently returned to what they had been previously doing.
Less than 30 seconds later, the warning was heard again. This time most people had an anxious look on their faces, clearly waiting for something to happen next.
The train engineer got out of his cabin and rushed through the aisle of the cars, as if something really terrible had stopped the train.
He would come back 2-3 minutes later, sharing to us the news that he identified the toilet cabin where a cigarette had been lit. “But no sign of the offender”, he sighed.
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