After 30 years of my existence, I was able to finally ride a train, not an MRT train or an LRT train but a PNR train. I used to just hear that crazy sound of the PNR train at our backyard way back when I was a kid because it's almost a "home along the riles." lol! We live near the PNR, but we are not squatters or whatsoever, it's just that our house is near the railway.
I had to run some errands in Sta. Mesa and my sister told me that the best way was to ride a PNR train...oh my! So the experience began when we went to the PNR station together with my sister, Jamie, and we purchased a 15-peso ticket each for a one-way ride from Alabang station to Sta Mesa Manila. It was a holiday (Araw ng Kagitingan) so I expected less people but I was wrong . We had to wait for 9:00 am for the first trip of the train and paranoia was coming a bit from me (pickpockets and maniacs etc). As we came up to the platform, all we could see was an endless sea of people to think that it's a holiday..Can't imagine seeing myself there on a regular working day...yaiks! Then we went aboard the train at 9:00 am, glad that the train wasn't late...bravo for that!
So as the trip went on, people also started to cram themselves into the train station by station and you could see people pressing themselves into the train hehehe! Funny really, but true.
It was really an experience..Glad that I was finally able to ride one, but I don't think I could ride that train again without a companion hahaha....
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