On the phone… Waiting for the train
Trains are very important to transportation for people in India. With so many people, there are always crowds waiting for the trains at the stations. Indian freight trains and the passenger trains run in parallel and sometimes on the same tracks and pass through the same towns. So it was that the regular crowd waited at the Purulia station in India’s West Bengal state. As they watched, a 45-year-old woman walked across the multiple tracks to get to the platform. She walked right in front of an oncoming freight train. The crowd yelled to warn her, but she was talking on her cell phone and until the last second did not notice the train. She fell down between the rails as the fright cars rumbled over her and the folks yelled: “Lay still, lay flat.” “Keep your head down.” shouting that she should “close her eyes and lie still” as the train passed over her.
To their amazement the woman continued talking on her phone as freight car after freight car passed over her. The folks were afraid that some dangling wire, brake line or debris would hit her or drag her down the track as they watched. The video below, taken by one of the commuters, shows the women’s recovery from the incident. She sat up, got up and made another call. Many people have wondered who she was talking to at the time. She escaped with minor scratches and told the newspaper that caught up with her later, “I have got a new lease of life. I could not have survived if people who saw the incident had not prayed for me.” The crowd had mixed reviews of the incident from: “Thank Heaven she survived” to “somebody ought to smack some sense into her.” Just another day in India.
Who you gonna call?
One day a woman found Aladdin’s lamp, she rubbed it and Genie jumped out and asked her for a wish.
“I wish my husband loved me like nothing else, I wish he looked at me as first thing in the morning, I wish he spent all his time with me, I wish he touched me a lot and was always by my side.”
So Genie turned the woman into a smartphone
A guy was drinking coffee in a coffee shop.
He had no laptop, no smartphone, no iPad. Doing nothing but just enjoying a coffee.. what a psychopath.
Give a millennial a smartphone and he’ll live for a day…
any longer than that and he’ll become a mindless, soulless, social media zombie.
I use my cell phone as an alarm clock.
I call it Veriz’n shine.
April 18th Birthdays
1946 – Hayley Mills, 1921 – Barbara Hale, 1961 – Jane Leeves, 1985 – America Ferrrara
1954 – Rick Moranis, 1963 – Conan O’ Brien, 1947 – James Woods, 1984 – Miguel Cabrera