Experiences as a trainguard
Now around 08:33 the intercity express should start early now his departure. From tiredness blinded one proceeds half an hour before the departure in the day room and does to himself fast a coffee to hide the tiredness. While the coffee cooks, one proceeds fast in the changing room to dress in the uniform, to make himself quickly fresh once again and to get his equipment from the wardrobe. Now the colleagues with whom one will spend the whole day have also already arrived at the break space.
Now friendly one greets himself and sees in the eyes of the other the same tiredness and listlessness like with himself. Now the coffee fast drunk up, the cigarette finished it goes to the rail on one best of all 10 minutes before train entrance arrives to search the smoker's area and to reach before the big "flood" once again to the cigarette. While one observes the passengers and hopes that everything are with good mood, one hears the loudspeakers which sounding and informing one under big sighing that the train has up to 20 minutes of delay. Well that, besides, one has more than only one cigarette. One hears the passengers grumbling, his uniform cannot hide, because the day is very hot and one carries no jacket and knows that it concerns only seconds, responds to one a passenger and wants to do to his frustration free run.
In thoughts submergedly a businessman on also already comes up, provide with tie and act suitcase, and acts a fierce look. Now he asks what has happened then, which is why the train has delay, and that he would have to do, nevertheless, an important appointment and delays lately happen repeatedly. With a friendly smile put on to which one must force himself in this situation one explains to the worth passenger now that it probably came by another delay and, unfortunately, one cannot change it, however that the train will almost make up for the delay probably during the journey again. With bad look and not completely satisfied the passenger proceeds again back in his starting position and now, finally, one can smoke his cigarette to an end.
Now some minutes later there sounds the sound speech arrangement and announces that now the train drives. Gladly that the delay does not increase, one looks at the railroad engine which goes to the train. Doors open, guards greet who have now end of work, help passengers in the train and visit the guard's compartment. The things are unloaded and one proceeds with key and signal disc to the doors, because the train will immediately drive off. Now once the door broken down, the disc swung and the door goes off unanimously it. The tickets are controlled, the passengers still get excited about the not forgotten delay and one goes step by step by his carriages.
Now 2 hours have already passed, after 3 coffees and 5 flows. One wants to start just the 6-th flow, there one notices as hotly it becomes sudden. The air-conditioning has fallen out because of technical problems and in the engine something also does not seem to be right. " Well, really ", one imagines and proceeds to the train boss to ask what is to be done now. Free drinks and vouchers distribute.
At this request one immediately knows, enough drinks are not there for everything and there will be turmoil again, because some get excited because of to less drinks. Drinks now taken in hand, vouchers in the pocket and a put on smile it goes by the next three carriages, in hope that, nevertheless, at least the train would go on.
Nothing happens, as a guard one is at this moment a Satan even for the passengers and the drinks lean towards to the end. Thank God. The train goes on. Then in just 1 hour the train reaches the purpose city and one may draw a deep breath. The last drinks distributed, passengers calms and tickets controlled this also passes like in the flight. The loudspeaker informs that the journey is at few minutes to an end and one gets a breather in the purpose city.
With the thoughts, how then the return journey runs and what one does now with his free time in the city, one helps the people from the train and then gets out even with a sigh of the train of the bad nerves demanded and is already glad about the end of work coming in 6 hours. The colleagues a nice break desired one saunters with his heavy guard's equipment above the platform in the direction of exit and hopes for the return journey for an expiry more full of friction than how it with the journey there was.