engineer conversations

The other day I was waiting for the uptown 6 train on the platform at union square and a thought popped into my head. As the train was coming in, I happened to notice the engineer guiding it. Within a moment I was imagining the conversations engineers have with one another about their jobs and I chuckled to myself. "God, I really hate pulling into the 14th street platform...it's so narrow and annoying. I can never go fast. I'm always pulling in seeing everyone's unhappy grimaces, thinking, yep, this is my job. " "Yeah, man, I hear ya. The grand central platform is no cakewalk, there's always some asshole that's standing really close to the edge, thinking he's all cool and shit. I can't really control it if his protruding big head causes him a severely painful death. C'mon now." Even if I never get to actually hear what these dudes talk about, I'm happy just putting words in their mouths and watching the train pull in from a safe distance.