• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I remember a pause for a minute’s silence announced in the upper concourse of a train station (UK) last year. It was disconcertingly comedic as the people walking in either on the phone or with a friend were very confused at why everyone inside was standing motionless and glaring at them.

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      1 year ago

      I think I was working in that station on that day, because I have a very similar anecdote. Actually someone came to buy a ticket, and was annoyed because they thought they might miss their train having to wait for the minute’s silence to end. Not even the most callous passenger I’ve come across either.

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        1 year ago

        Where did you see that? I’m in the UK, can’t remember exactly which station but pretty sure it was a London station with underground