You're on your way to your first Twine workshop and you decide to take a tram.
You arrive at the stop, but there's no sign of a tram yet.
You could [[wait here->wait at Stop 24]]...or you could [[walk to the next stop->walk to Stop 25]].
You put in your earphones and catch up on a podcast until the tram arrives, standing quietly next to the other waiting passengers. It doesn't take too long.
You get on and survey the options for spare seats. The only ones not [[next to a person->sit next to someone]] are those [[weird sideways one->weird sideways seat]]s where you're still mostly standing up, or [[one that's facing backwards->backwards seat]].You start walking confidently, but it's a little hotter than you thought, and you get a bit sweaty. Suddenly you hear a ding behind you - its the tram! You run to the Stop and get there just in time to be the last one on.
Not many seats left now. In fact, if you want to sit, you'll have to [[sit next to someone]]. It's that, or just [[stand]].You "sit" (if that's the right word) on the weird sideways seat, which at first seems like a terrible choice - but then an old friend catches your eye! They wouldn't have seen your face if you'd sat in the backwards seat. They wave you over and you sit and chat together.
You nearly miss your stop, but they know where you're going and make sure you don't; you wave goodbye, happy at this fun coincidence and in a good mood for learning about Twine.
**The End**You decide you'd rather be going backwards and be slightly comfortable, so you take a seat facing backwards. Luckily it's a pretty straight road without too many big turns, so you don't get travel sick...but unluckily, you haven't been on this route before, and since you're not looking ahead, you miss your stop!
You get off at the next one and walk back to the workshop, but it's not too bad - you're only a couple of minutes late.
**The End**You muster up some courage and sit down next to the nearest person, smiling a little apologetically. They are doing something with their phone and briefly smile back. It's not that awkward after all, really. Why do we all avoid this so much?
You look around you and observe your fellow passengers, hearing a snippet of work phone conversation, noticing the way the person opposite you is tapping a pencil against something they're reading and annotating. When the tram reaches your stop, you wonder if maybe this could be inspiration for a story?
Nah. Surely not.
**The End**Being a good Melburnian, you decide to stand rather than sit next to a stranger like some weirdo. You were really hoping for a sit down after running to make the tram, though, and your legs are a bit annoyed.
To distract yourself, you play a game on your phone - research for the workshop, right? But unfortunately *Fish Tank Crush 4000 XL* is a little *too* absorbing, and you go quite a way past your stop.
You get a tram back, but you miss the first half hour of the workshop.
**The End**