tales from an ordinary world

2000-01-09

Platform 5, Flinders St station. Another excuse to play with my new toy, but hey. I like railway stations. And airports. All those people going somewhere...anywhere. I remember times spent long, long ago on platform 4 and 5 waiting for the Glen Waverley line train to arrive and take me home with my new purchases. I was almost surgically attached to my walkman back then (I'm slightly better now, honest).

I remember one Saturday morning during my mid-high-school years when a group of us went into the city. We were coming up the escalators at what was then Museum station. My friend Scott exclaimed "my god, I'm wearing odd shoes !". We all looked down and noticed that yes, indeed, he was wearing two different sneakers...