Painful Memories

Jack

Sept. 4, 2023

Every time I recall the situations of me taking vehicles in the nineties, I still feel horrified.

My first workplace was in a county that was in another city, so from my home village to that county was a long distance, about two hundred kilometers.

At that time, I only returned home before Chinese New Year. When I went to my workplace after the New Year, I had to go to a town near my village to take a long-distance bus. Since the bus was not departing from the town, when it arrived in the town, it was already full of passengers.

Every time I took the bus, I always needed my older brother to help. He threw my luggage into the bus through the bus windows first, and then he tried his best to push me into the car from the crowd. He often disliked me for being a coward. Every time he helped me to get on the bus, he was panting with fatigue, but was very proud.

One time, I took a bus to Hangzhou. Many passengers didn't have seats. They could only stand on the bus shoulder by shoulder. I was the one among them. After not long, I had to squat down and fall asleep because of fatigue. Suddenly I felt extremely uncomfortable and I felt I was going to die.

I tried my best to stand up and I heard the sound of something breaking. It was my waistband - while I was standing up suddenly, something scratched it and it was broken.

It was more than six hundred kilometers between Hangzhou and my home city. Even now, I still can't believe how I can get through the long distance on a bus without a seat. If I had done it at my current age, I would definitely have died.

Another embarrassing thing was also taking place on a long-distance bus, and I can't figure out the reason even now - At midnight, the driver didn't stop the bus if someone wanted to pee.

One time I was on a bus in Zhejiang province at midnight and I wanted to pee. The driver told me that I could pee through the bus window. Of course, I couldn't pee that way, and I could only find some wide-mouth bottles or plastic bags.

Taking a train back then was also a struggle. There were only those ordinary green trains, and they were slow and crowded. Passengers often had no seats and had to bend their bodies and lie down under train seats. I did that several times too.

It is always a pain recalling these unpleasant things. I hope they never happen again.

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At that time, I only returned home before Chinese New Year.

When I went to my workplace after the New Year, I had to go to a town near my village to take a long-distance bus.

Every time I took the bus, I always needed my older brother to help.

He threw my luggage into the bus through the ~~bus~~ windows first, and then he tried his best to push me into the car from the crowd.

This is correct, but omitting the second "bus" makes it more concise.

He often disliked me for being a coward.

Every time he helped me to get on the bus, he was panting with fatigue, but was very proud.

One time, I took a bus to Hangzhou.

Many passengers didn't have seats.

I was ~~the~~ one among them.

or "I was just one among them."

Suddenly I felt extremely uncomfortable and I felt I was going to die.

I tried my best to stand up and I heard the sound of something breaking.

It was my waistband - while I was standing up suddenly, something scratched it and it was broken.

It was more than six hundred kilometers between Hangzhou and my home city.

Even now, I still can't believe how I canould get through the long distance on a bus without a seat.

Another embarrassing thing was also taking place on a long-distance bus, and I can't figure out the reason even now - At midnight, the driver didn't stop the bus if someone wanted to pee.

One time I was on a bus in Zhejiang province at midnight and I wanted to pee.

The driver told me that I could pee through the bus window.

Of course, I couldn't pee that way, and I could only find some wide-mouth bottles or plastic bags.

Taking a train back then was also a struggle.

There were only those ordinary green trains, and they were slow and crowded.

Passengers often had no seats and had to bend their bodies and lie down under train seats.

I did that several times too.

It is always a pain recalling these unpleasant things.

I hope they never happen again.

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Very interesting read!

I was the one among them.

I was ~~the~~ one among them.

or "I was just one among them."

They could only stand on the bus shoulder by shoulder.

After not long, I had to squat down and fall asleep because of fatigue.

If I had done it at my current age, I would definitely have died.

Even now, I still can't believe how I can get through the long distance on a bus without a seat.

Even now, I still can't believe how I canould get through the long distance on a bus without a seat.

Painful Memories

Every time I recall the situations of me taking vehicles in the nineties, I still feel horrified.

My first workplace was in a county that was in another city, so from my home village to that county was a long distance, about two hundred kilometers.

At that time, I only returned home before Chinese New Year.