Train Home ~ Berils Sammelthread

[Beril]

Hallo da draussen,
ich habe letztens in der Schule fuer Theaterunterricht (Ja! Theaterunterricht in der Schule! Ich libe das kanadische Schulsystem!) einen Monolog geschrieben. Ich wuerde gerne eure Meinung hoeren:

Good Evening Ladies - and Gentlemen. Um - You probably want me to tell an interesting story
about my life, like everyone does. I can understand that. We all want excitement, change.
But you might consider me being not the right person for that, right? I'm living with my
wife and go to my job every day. Idon't break laws and don't do anything that upsets other
because they don't expect me to. Doesn't sound too interesting, right?
Anyway, I'll try to make the best out of it, now that I'm here. An adventure? Yes, that
would be fun, right? Well let me tell you what happened to me last friday. Afterwards you
can still rate how good it was.
As I told you - It was friday and I was sitting in the train home. My head was leaned
against the the window very lightly - as I allways do it. You might ask me why. Well, it
cools my forehead, I can look out of the window and - whatever. Okay so I was sitting there
wearing my black suit with the white shirt and the dark-blue tie, as I do it now. Don't get
my wrong - I like my suit, my parents selected it. I like my Job, my parents selected it and
I like my wife, my -
Yes, my suit. I change it sometimes. When I have it cleaned I wear my brown suit. Everything
else stays the same: the shirt, the tie, the suitcase. Just to show You -
Okay, my story. I was sitting there, observing. If nobody notices you, you start wtching
them. There was an old Lady, probably on her way home, a man, perhaps a student at a
university, was trying to link up with a girl and a boy was annoying his mother by
missbehaving. I sat there.
I don't have children, my parents didn't want -
I leaned my head back on the window. I started watching out of the window. Things were
passing by - A bit too fast to look at them closer but slow enough to give them attention.
It was that very moment when there was a thought coming up in my mind. One of those thoughts
that you allready have thought through completely when they pop up in your mind, but that
you want to think about step by step, because it is more exciting that way. You know what
I'm talking about? -
That thought was kind of - I can't describe it.
I was thinking: what if I just keep sitting here, not getting of the next station?
You need to know that the next station was mine. My car was standing there at a parking spot
I allways chose. Not too far from the entrance but still leaving a few spots right in front
of it, so that I don't have a too long way and there is still space for people that have to
get there quickly.
So I was thinking about it. I didn't know where the train was actually going after my stop.
What if I only sat there doing nothing? I was sure that I had enough money to buy a ticket
to get back, my car wouldn't be stolen, because it has an alarm system. My wife was cooking
dinner and I knew she would be angry, if I came home late. But I could live with that. We
don't have sex often anyway. -
So I thought: What is stopping me? I was full of tension when we approached the station and
really was clutching my suitcase now.-
When the train stopped I got up and followed the crowd out of the train. -
You might think I should have stayed. Did I have a choice? Did I ever, ever have a choice?
Even now I was just reporting! IT hapened to ME!
I was just reporting.

Okay sorry, dass es in englisch ist. War hald fuer englischen Unterricht.