Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Dan Kennedy. This week we're talking about crowds, getting lost in them, or maybe even finding your place in the crowd. First up, Terry Figueras Negretti. Terry told this story at a Miami StorySlam where the theme of the night was the fast lane. Here's Terry live at the

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So how many of you guys have experienced the magical wonderland that is Miami-Dade public

transportation system? So I take the train every day from Civic Center on my way home.

So the other day like normal, we are chugging along southbound when all of a sudden the train

rolls to an ominous stop.

No big deal what happens, but we all kind of look up from our cell phone and see what's going

on.

When all of a sudden a woman yells, oh my God, there's a man on the tracks.

Sure enough, there's a guy, normal looking guy, kind of looks like Alton Brown.

It is not Alton Brown.

But he's like booking it down the tracks.

We hear helicopters in the distance, police sirens.

I found out later that this guy was shocklifting at Merrick Park, and Coral Gables Police have launched like this SEAL Team 6-level manhunt,

because you know, like, Coral Gables, right?

So we are stuck on this train with no power until they catch this guy for three hours.

It is a dismal hellscape.

There is no air conditioning.

There's like babies crying, why there's so many babies on the train.

The conductor keeps wandering in with these, like, sassy but unhelpful updates.

Like, I think that guy must be smoking that flaka like not useful information

so I decided to make the best of it and introduce myself to my neighbors um on one side there is Tony a very cool 20-something who I assume is either like a DJ or a graphic designer.

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