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[cerealjoe]

Some higher up commuter train gods must have heard me and now instead of my usual morning train being announced as late after it was supposed to come, it's shown 5 minutes late by the time I get to the train station. That kind of makes me feel a tad better, even if the 5 minutes turned into 7 yesterday. But really, yesterday morning, this morning, train late - two out of two for this week so far and this, kids, is known as the joys of taking a commuter train on the busiest line in the south! Not to worry, yesterday's evening was also fun as SNCF graciously cancelled my train (the gracious part I guess is that they updated the site in time for me not waste half an hour at the train station) but didn't think that since it is rush hour, they should add extra wagons for the next train. We were packed like sardines! In other sadder local news, yesterday morning, pre-late train, there were some firefighters on the Gineste that were stopping cars one way then the other because there had been an accident. At the time I didn't really think anything of it because it just looked almost like a car engine that had caught fire. Alas it was actually a guy on a motorcycle who hit the rock wall on the side of the road and everything caught fire. He probably died on the spot as his body was on that bike in his riding position till the end. At the time I passed the accident there was no blanket covering the body as the police hadn't arrived yet, just the firefighters. Since it happened rather early in the morning there were no direct witnesses as why he hit that stone wall, there weren't even any signs that he tried to brake. I guess things like that happen, it is a rather dangerous road after all.