Light railing it

kenleigh:

So I want to visit my friend Ryan over in Tempe tonight and I took the light rail because I didn’t want to waste gas in my car and stuff. So I stayed until like midnight and then headed back. Well there were only a few people in the car I was in and there was one guy in the adjoining car. Well the adjoining car guy kept glancing over and it was weirding me out. So then he actually came into my car and sat down across from me and started chatting it up. It was super awkward. I think he was drunk and he introduced himself like 3 times. It reminded me of the “Hi I’m Tom” guy from 50 First Dates. And coincidentally this guy’s name was Thomas.  So after like 10 minutes 2 police officers came on the train to check passes and obviously they stayed on after that because they saw that the guy was being a creeper. They stayed on all the way until I got off which was really awesome. It made the guy seem a lot less creepy and a I saw the humor in the situation a little more. And the male policeman yelled at the guy for saying the F-word, which was awesome.  Anyways, the guy kept jabbering on about being an alcoholic and getting a ticket for walking across the train tracks and telling me how you shouldn’t drink because then the Devil and spirits take over your mind. It was super weird. I just started ignoring him after a bit, flipping through my Bible and saying “yep” every so often. And a couple minutes before I got off one of the other passengers came over and sat down and asked me if I was ok. Even though the police were there watching out and everything. It was such a genuine thing to do.

So that was my first crazy light rail experience. I really hope something like that never happens again. Next time: first car near the driver instead of the last one. More people ride there. I am exhausted now. I think I am going to collapse in bed with my normal clothes on. Yeah, I’m that tired. Goodnight.

My first time going on the light rail was in the evening with quite a bit of people on it and with my youth group, but there was this guy who had to at least be drunk and he threw candy at me from across the train. It was completely random and a piece of candy just hit me on the head. Took me awhile to find the source. Then when we got off he followed us for about 3 blocks, while foaming at the mouth. Very strange indeed.