- HELLO KITTY JUMP AND SQUEAK MOVIE
- HELLO KITTY JUMP AND SQUEAK DRIVER
- HELLO KITTY JUMP AND SQUEAK ZIP
Or perhaps that’s what they wanted their friends and loved ones to assume afterward.
HELLO KITTY JUMP AND SQUEAK ZIP
Maybe it was somebody impatiently trying to zip through the crossing to avoid waiting for the train. I don’t know and will never know why that scooter was on the tracks that night. Some are suicides and some are accidents. The names of the victims are never revealed to the public, nor the details. She cheerfully rambled on and on about Hello Kitty while her parents did their best to keep her distracted.Ĭollisions like this are one of the Netherlands’ largest taboos. I wound up in a carriage across from two parents with their young daughter. The boy focused on the floor instead and counted all the candy wrappers he could find as we were ushered to a metal platform across the gap between the trains. His father had placed his own baseball cap over the kid’s head, perhaps to prevent him from looking out of the windows. Maybe the boy I walked behind while we were evacuated onto another train.
I don’t think anyone on that train is going to be able to erase their memories of what happened. I’ll never forget the sounds of them pulling….something out from under our carriage. I tried to avoid watching emergency workers walking back and forth outside. A few hours of eerie quiet broken by occasional translations for the students whenever the conductor made an announcement. While that song kept rolling around in my thoughts, our wait began. The chorus of an old Radiohead song immediately wedged itself in my head. Someone gasped, the comedy sketch was hastily shut off and we all sat in silence after the woman with the Murakami novel told the students what was going on. All the while, the passengers around us simply stared at them or looked out the window like it wasn’t happening.Īnd that’s what occurred on the train after the conductor returned to the intercom and announced that the train had killed someone riding a scooter. A few years ago, my girlfriend and I got caught in the middle of three soccer hooligans determined to beat themselves bloody on an overstuffed bus. I bore witness to countless families dealing with loss and pain. The summer after I graduated from high school, I worked at a hospital where I ran equipment back and forth between clinics and a busy emergency room. In my experience, this is usually what happens when normal people are suddenly catapulted into the middle of a tragic or violent situation. The rest of us just sat there staring into space uncertain of what to do. Meanwhile, a family in first class gathered around an iPhone to watch a comedy sketch. One of them only had a three minute connection to make at Leiden Centraal. Not understanding the message, the students began muttering complaints. ‘We’ve hit something,’ a conductor said in Dutch over the intercom a moment later. The noise rolled down the train as it ground to a halt.
It sounded like a stick getting dragged across an old wooden fence. I bounced around in my seat like I was on a ride at Efteling. Its wheels screeched against the rails while he pumped the brakes.
HELLO KITTY JUMP AND SQUEAK DRIVER
Somewhere north of Oegstgeest, the train’s driver hit the horn. As the dusk turned to darkness, we rolled through Haarlem and on towards Leiden.
A group of international students were chatting in English across the aisle. I managed to find a seat in a second class compartment across from a woman reading a Murakami novel. As the sun was setting, I joined a few hundred people waiting on Platform 1 at Amsterdam Central to cram themselves and all their shopping bags onto a crowded train.
HELLO KITTY JUMP AND SQUEAK MOVIE
I went up to Amsterdam to see a movie and buy a few early Christmas presents. It was just another perfectly normal Sunday. Photo: Bert Spiertz / HHĪ day trip to Amsterdam to catch a film and do some Christmas shopping ended up becoming a train journey Brandon Hartley will never forget. The Netherlands has hundreds of unmanned level crossings.
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