This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text.
I have the privilege of being able to ride my bike to work. However, I make an exception when it is minus 12 degrees and the transmission freezes as soon as you open the bicycle garage door.
As an alternative, I theoretically have a nice public itinerary. Fourteen minutes on foot, ten minutes on the subway, twelve minutes on foot.
Note the wording “in theory”.
SL ruined this winter for me almost every time. Delayed trains disrupt the plan, I have to improvise, but there are also delays, canceled trains and unwanted changes to the improvisations.
But nothing could have prepared us travelers for this week’s big Monday chaos.
After the fourteen minutes, we reach a subway station that is full of people who, in turn, are black in the eyes of the passive-aggressive morning commuter rage. There are no trains coming. Instead, a loudspeaker exclamation that defies imagination, it sounds something like this: “Line 17 runs between Skarpnäck and Skärmarbrink, line 18 tries to run jerkily between Farsta Strand and Bällsta Bro, but you have to change to platform 9 3/4, line 19 possibly runs from Högdalen until eternity, where a train change takes place, after which shuttle trains run wherever the mind falls. PS: All trains are.” full of bones and the driver is angry.
They didn’t say the last thing, but that was the reality.
The bus stop, which is supposed to provide travel opportunities, is in turn filled with people as if Taylor Swift were playing at Café 44 and everyone is welcome.
All that’s needed now, I thought Where I stood as an atom in this dense and amorphous collection of human particles is a leader, someone standing on an upside-down ticket checker, hooking up to the ghastly public address system and calling on the crowd to march to SL’s fortified headquarters. This train would neither be canceled nor delayed, I can promise that.
The last thing we see when we finally get to the place since Gustav VI. As you pass the T-Central’s broken escalator, you’ll see the famous SL advertising sign in the fog. The one with the message:
“Come with us instead.”
Read more of Helmerson’s Kåser series, for example about the second most embarrassing thing the Kåsören has done.
