Commute- object writing Dec 29
admin December 29th, 2007
Standing on the platform I look over to the other side and take in the streams of rubbish that have banked up at the lower edge of platform two. I also noticed this as I walked along the tracks on the way to the station. How is it that these pathways become defacto rubbish dumps? At least nobody is throwing away cigarette butts since they were outlawed recently. Soon it will be illegal too smoke at all, now you can’t smoke on the sidewalk or in a cafe, and smokers are banished to the outdoors areas at pubs. which swings me back to 1983 or so. I recall commuting into town on what was then known as a ‘red rattler’. These were wooden railway carriages built in the 1920’s They were made with individual compartments carrying maybe six to eight passengers. They had sliding windows that would always be fully down on stinking hot Melbourne summer days where we would all pant together in unison while the train careened along the silvered ribbons, but, as I have just remembered people used to smoke on the train! Hard to conceptualise now, being in that little compartment with cigarette smoke curling around.
I used to be one of the pariahs smoking on the train adding to the cancerous chemical fog that would be thrown into the air while we all commuted into the city. The train diving into the underground loop just after Richmond on its way to Flagstaff. I’m sure the rattlers used to go down there, like old miners with their head-lamps blazing, probably singing miners songs with their wheels but we all being so busy chugging away on our cigarettes that we didn’t notice how clever the train was . Flagtsaff station we would have to take two sets of escalators, they whirr away and you get that jerky sense of motion as they carry you upwards toward the surface toward escape. Toward the prison of work, where once again we would all be smoking
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