Chance encounter

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

So I was done for the day, the lecturer was kind enough to release us 10 minutes or so earlier than planned, so I rushed to my bike, rushed to the station, nearly ran someone over, rushed to lock my bike, rushed to padlock my bike rushed back to the platform because I saw the train standing there.

*smelt a very familiar smell*

Turned out a train was standing still in the station because its breaks had caught fire *that smell* so now no trains were allowed to ride between Den Haag and Rotterdam because the Fire Department had said so. There was not actually a fire to be detected, as the train operator had extinguished the fire himself using his emergency fire extinguisher, but now, with all the fire fighters crawling over the train tracks, train traffic had been halted.

Anyway, after a few minutes I decided to go to the tram and just take the tram to Den Haag and continue my journey to my Japanese class from there.

So I got to the tram, and it was -really- packed. Next to me was this not so tall woman reading 2 mangas, or Japanese style comics, at the same time. So I looked a bit closer and I noticed these peculiarities:

Caucasian female reading manga (maybe not so strange but I swear I have never seen this before)
Adult reading manga in packed tram in the Netherlands (the tram was -packed- i tell ya)
Person reading 2 mangas at the same time (who the hell does that?)
Person reading 1 manga in Japanese (who the hell knows Japanese in this country xD )
Adult readong shoujo (= name of genre translating to basically mean "little girl") (that genre is for -little- girls!)

Turns out she had 2 of the same mangas (Cardcaptor Sakura) but one in Japanese and one in English "for comparison" as she had put it. Anyway, as you may have guessed, I began asking her about those mangas and she said she was heading to Japanese her lesson so I promptly replied "me too". So that was a very funny coincidence. So we talked all the way untill we got to the train station in Den Haag and we parted after exchanging e-mail addresses. That was quite a funny encounter.

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Chance encounter