• Trapped On A Tram

  Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jun 1, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Trials And Difficulties

  Denomination: Lutheran

TRAPPED ON A TRAM

It was a beautiful sunny day in Ostrava, Czech Republic, a city of 300,000. It was 1995, and I had just moved there to take an intense Czech language course. After half a day of Czech grammar, I was tired. I got on the tram and spaced out for my 20-minute ride to the suburbs where I lived.

As usual the tram stops, people get on and off and it continues on its way. But suddenly I noticed that after the last stop, everyone got off and no one got on. The doors closed and then the tram went around the corner into some dead end and stopped. The driver in the first car got off and left. To my shock I was left alone – trapped and locked into this Czech tram. It was not a good feeling.

Have you ever been trapped? Panicked? Alone?