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Eavesdropping Gone Wrong: Woman on Train is Actually Super Boring

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You’re sitting on the Amtrak coming to Philadelphia from New York. You’re rubbing your eyes, yawning profusely, and are slumped over out of pure exhaustion. Everyone on this train definitely can tell that you were at Göspel (New York City's hottest club) yesterday night. 

As you’re about to listen to a podcast, you realise you’ve lost your headphones. “Ugh they must have fallen out at GÖSPEL yesterday,” you say out loud, just in case, again, the passengers couldn’t tell that you were at Göspel yesterday. You stare at the window and begin to eavesdrop on the woman next to you. 

She just got engaged. She has plants on her desk. Her wedding is in the summer in Rhode Island, but from what you’ve gathered she’s not a Kennedy, or a Culpo. Ugh. This is boring stuff. 

Oh wait, the woman said that she just cheated on her fiancée with this guy who she met at… Göspel. Oh my gosh. That’s insane - you literally were just at Göspel. You perk up, Pavlovian style. She notices how attentive you are. She suddenly stops talking. 

Silence.

Finally, you fall asleep because you’re tired from your night (at Göspel) and never find out how your fellow train passenger’s story ended.

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