Keith brings subway to a standstill

It's Friday morning & once again we're back on the hamster-wheel, boarding the tube at 8am at at Ecole Veterinaire de Maisons-Alfort platform on line 8 which is approx 2mins walk from our hotel, heading for Republique station where where switch over to line 3 heading towards Porte de Champerret where we disembark for Advancia Negocia, the business school where we are based for 2 weeks ending Friday 1 -Oct-10.

Long story short, trains as full as it is and people pushing like you cannot believe, I reach out for wht looks like a hook for a coat hanger to anchor myself for the G-Force of the train ride. What I did not know was that this little coat-hanger-looking-hook thinga-mijighy was in fact the emergency brake which halted the train for approx 10mins whilst the technical crew tried to trace & rectify the emergency device triggered. Needless to say, the whole of line 3 headed for Porte de Champerret was mad as hell because every split second counts here in the subway & the knock-on effect of such is delay is unimaginable. Needless to say, I was officially considered @$$hole of the day/ month/ year or ever in Europe & the looks from all aboard confirmed my suspicion. I kept thinking, the d@mn thinghy-majighy wasn't even painted in red or something to warn someone, or was it just me that missed the point..... again?

What can I say, I would much rather have been in SA braaing on Heritage Day rather than causing such a marrakkas!

Albertyn is not going to let me live this one down so I had to come clean to you guys.