What on earth is the reason for limited topic length? It is so lame!

Anyways, back to the point. I am just back from the Beijing Railway Station, where I saw off my cousin. This seeminly innocuous trip was a real ordeal for me, because I will be very uncomfortable in the same space with a lot of people whom I don't know, particularly so if they have not the slightest idea of how to behave in public.

Actually the concourse was not as stuffed as I had expected, but the waiting room was a biblical scene teeming with people thronging together in eager anticipation. As soon as the boarding started, I didn't have to make a conscious effort, because the wave of people literally pushed me forward. It was obivous every one was in a fleeing mood, although from what I couldn't tell. Their life seemed to depend on being the first to get past the checking gate and dart on the train.

This mess reminded me of Dunkirk, where British Expeditinoary Forces made a hasty and embarrassing retreat into the Isle from the fallen France. As is shown on historical footages, BEF soldiers made orderly lines when wading through the shore to reach the ships assigned to rescue them from the jaws of death, while the German dive bombers and fighters were raking the surface of the water.

I am not eulogizing Westerner to spite my people. It is just sometimes you hope more civility from those as were wrestling their way forward at the railway station tonight.
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