John Chang
Jedi
I haven't told this story to many people, but this looks like the appropriate place to tell this.
It was the year I was living in Nederland. I was down in Belgium for the weekend - I wanted to see Brussells. I took an intercity to the city center, got out, wandered about and had my dinner.
Then I made my way back to the train station to catch a train back to Holland. And I looked at those Belgian timetables, and got completely confused. The most it would tell you was when a train was leaving, if it was long distance, and the next stop it was going to depart for. Great. I wanted to get back to Rotterdam, and this whole mess of info didn't have Rotterdam or even which trains would go to which countries. Everything was local to Belgium. The rest of the world didn't exist.
So I decided to catch the next long distance train headed in the general direction I wanted to go. I got in, and it pulled into the next stop (North Brussells). This is where the wierdness started.
I got this strange feeling that I should get out now. This feeling kept building and building. It got so bad, I got out of the train about 10 seconds before it departed. So there I am, standing on the platform, watching the doors slide shut, and wondering if I was still sane. However, the train reversed course, and I noticed the destination flashing on the monitor above the platform was French-looking.
And then I turned around, and there was a Dutch train on the other side of the platform with its doors open. This same feeling was now gently urging me to get on that train, so I did. And when it pulled out, it was indeed an intercity to Rotterdam.
Sometimes I get that same feeling, but never as strong as it was that day. I'll be driving somewhere unfamiliar, wanting to get to somewhere, and I'll get the sense that I need to turn here, or there. And if I don't listen to that feeling, I usually find myself doing a u-turn to get back to wherever it was I was tring to get to. :P
Does anyone else here get these sorts of impulses?
It was the year I was living in Nederland. I was down in Belgium for the weekend - I wanted to see Brussells. I took an intercity to the city center, got out, wandered about and had my dinner.
Then I made my way back to the train station to catch a train back to Holland. And I looked at those Belgian timetables, and got completely confused. The most it would tell you was when a train was leaving, if it was long distance, and the next stop it was going to depart for. Great. I wanted to get back to Rotterdam, and this whole mess of info didn't have Rotterdam or even which trains would go to which countries. Everything was local to Belgium. The rest of the world didn't exist.
So I decided to catch the next long distance train headed in the general direction I wanted to go. I got in, and it pulled into the next stop (North Brussells). This is where the wierdness started.
I got this strange feeling that I should get out now. This feeling kept building and building. It got so bad, I got out of the train about 10 seconds before it departed. So there I am, standing on the platform, watching the doors slide shut, and wondering if I was still sane. However, the train reversed course, and I noticed the destination flashing on the monitor above the platform was French-looking.
And then I turned around, and there was a Dutch train on the other side of the platform with its doors open. This same feeling was now gently urging me to get on that train, so I did. And when it pulled out, it was indeed an intercity to Rotterdam.
Sometimes I get that same feeling, but never as strong as it was that day. I'll be driving somewhere unfamiliar, wanting to get to somewhere, and I'll get the sense that I need to turn here, or there. And if I don't listen to that feeling, I usually find myself doing a u-turn to get back to wherever it was I was tring to get to. :P
Does anyone else here get these sorts of impulses?