Not My Strongest of Moments
There's a small city near Kralupy, just 10 minutes by train. This place is home to a Nuclear Research Center and i think 2 or 3 pubs. There's really not much to this town. And it's train station holds the only pedestrian bridge across the River Vltava as far as the eye can see. I have had a few mishaps with this train station dating back to the beginning of my days here to just recently. The town is called Řež.
Maybe you remember a post 2 and a half years ago I made. I taught English at the Nuclear Center, and it was one of my first times there (maybe 3rd or 4th to be precise) and I was patiently waiting for the train to arrive in Řež. I looked up, and saw that we were there but I was too late, and the doors had closed. I got off at the next stop and had to run back and made it barely in time for my class at 830 AM.
(You see here the station and the little booth where I was sleeping through the train arrival)
(view from the bridge)
But that story is a walk in the park compared to what I'm about to tell you. Anyways, the other day my friend was having a birthday party in his garden and the garden was in Řež. I decided to make it an all day affair and went about lunch time. Me and Joseph went by train and after you get off the train it's about another 20-30 minutes on foot. The day was great and I was talking with friends most of the day and eating sausages and it was great, until the clock stroke 11pm. I was talking to a friend, and I was wanting to take the train at 11 but obviously that wasn't going to happen due to the 20 minute trek back. But I kept getting more tired and more tired. The next and final train back to Kralupy left at 1250 AM so I had to wait. But I really didn't want to any longer. So I decided to head off early and just wait at the train station. I enjoyed the fresh air and walked back to the train station to wait for my train. I got there with about an hour or maybe just 45 minutes to spare and I decided I'd set my alarm and just take a nap. Go figure, I forgot to set my alarm and I fell asleep on the bench. I awoke freezing my butt off and I looked at my watch only to see that it was 110!!!! Oh no, I missed it. And it was freezing and about 8 miles back home. I played around with the idea of walking back, but then pulled myself together and opted against it. I called my friend and asked him to call me a taxi cuz I didn't know the number to any. So, after freezing for about 30 more minutes, the taxi finally came and took me home which took about 20 minutes. The whole time the guy had the heater on and i was just soooo frigid. But the taxi driver was nice. He was tellin me I made the right decision instead of walking and told me I was lucky that no one else was at the train station cuz it's really secluded and I could have easily been robbed. But anyways, I got home and fell asleep to my nice warm homestead.
Maybe you remember a post 2 and a half years ago I made. I taught English at the Nuclear Center, and it was one of my first times there (maybe 3rd or 4th to be precise) and I was patiently waiting for the train to arrive in Řež. I looked up, and saw that we were there but I was too late, and the doors had closed. I got off at the next stop and had to run back and made it barely in time for my class at 830 AM.
(You see here the station and the little booth where I was sleeping through the train arrival)
(view from the bridge)
But that story is a walk in the park compared to what I'm about to tell you. Anyways, the other day my friend was having a birthday party in his garden and the garden was in Řež. I decided to make it an all day affair and went about lunch time. Me and Joseph went by train and after you get off the train it's about another 20-30 minutes on foot. The day was great and I was talking with friends most of the day and eating sausages and it was great, until the clock stroke 11pm. I was talking to a friend, and I was wanting to take the train at 11 but obviously that wasn't going to happen due to the 20 minute trek back. But I kept getting more tired and more tired. The next and final train back to Kralupy left at 1250 AM so I had to wait. But I really didn't want to any longer. So I decided to head off early and just wait at the train station. I enjoyed the fresh air and walked back to the train station to wait for my train. I got there with about an hour or maybe just 45 minutes to spare and I decided I'd set my alarm and just take a nap. Go figure, I forgot to set my alarm and I fell asleep on the bench. I awoke freezing my butt off and I looked at my watch only to see that it was 110!!!! Oh no, I missed it. And it was freezing and about 8 miles back home. I played around with the idea of walking back, but then pulled myself together and opted against it. I called my friend and asked him to call me a taxi cuz I didn't know the number to any. So, after freezing for about 30 more minutes, the taxi finally came and took me home which took about 20 minutes. The whole time the guy had the heater on and i was just soooo frigid. But the taxi driver was nice. He was tellin me I made the right decision instead of walking and told me I was lucky that no one else was at the train station cuz it's really secluded and I could have easily been robbed. But anyways, I got home and fell asleep to my nice warm homestead.
posted by Zach Barnes at 10:39 AM
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