1979...5 hour train ride to visit my folks back home....traveling at night ... just got off of work...train almost empty but a middle aged woman with a young child happens to be in my same train compartment...
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At a certain point the child complains of not feeling well... the lady and child leave for a period of time.... 20 minutes later they rush back into the compartment in a panic...the child had just vomited ...the nefarious event took place in the corridor, just outside the bathroom door....what should she do ?...help me please...I don't speak the language and I don't know what to do....she says...
So this 18 year old kid gets up and looks for the train conductor...
Surprisingly after having heard the details of the event, he callously says it is not his problem, there's nothing he can do, but it better get cleaned up...
I relay the message to the panic- stricken woman....she practically goes into hysterics...
Feeling sorry...I decide to clean up the mess myself....nothing heroic in that...nurses clean up after strangers all the time, and probably don't even get thanked ....
At least I got thanked!
