• socsa@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I was on a train to paris which hit a person. The train made an extremely abrupt stop which spilled a bunch of drinks and made an old lady fall down. Then after about 5 minutes they made an announcement in French and we heard everyone gasp audibly, before they repeated the announcement in English.

    When we got off the train, after a considerable delay, they had set up a tent around the track and the train and - I swear I am not making this up - gave us croissants, before putting us on a bus to the nearest train station.

    To this day, I am still unsure if the strangest part was the fact that my vehicle turned another human into a fine mist, or that I was compensated for this inconvenience with a croissant.

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      1 year ago

      These types of stories are what makes travel worth it. I mean, not the misted dead guy part, but the part where you got free food out of it.

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      The croissants were probably just what they could get the most easily, wherever you are in France there’s sure to be a supply of them nearby.