Experience Worth Sharing

I just spotted the Guardian's "Experience" series this morning and it's fascinating. From the looks of it, the paper takes submissions from people who have interesting experiences to share. Some strange ("I'm obsessed with the number twelve"), some horrifying. Saturday's headline reads, "Last year I killed a man."

At 9.45am on Saturday, June 23 2007, I killed a man. A perfectly ordinary man, on a perfectly ordinary summer's day. CCTV pictures show him entering the station, unremarkable among all the passengers going to the West End. He waited at the front of the platform until he could hear my train approaching, then he calmly stepped down on to the tracks and looked directly at me as he waited for the impact.

The rest is one man's first hand account of being in the wrong place at the wrong time... What was in his head the moment it happened (he prayed it was a prank), the reaction of his passengers ("Do you know there's a person under your train?"), and his own attempts to deal with what he saw (it didn't really register until he was faced with the man's name, and identity, and history).

I don't know how many people could tell a similar story, but the idea of a series dedicated solely to people's interesting life experiences has endless possibilities. Any strange, bewildering, hilarious, disturbing, or otherwise fascinating experiences you'd like to share?

Scott Cameron

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