My mom was making a phone call then the call didn’t go though…
and for context… I was always a curious kid and want to touch everything… I messed around my parents phones alot… I mean what’s a 10 year old (approximately… forgot how old exactly I was) to do when bored?..
So my mom instantly was like “oh I can’t make phone calls now, what the fuck did you do to my phone?”
…
So I was just confused… did I touch a setting I didn’t understand? I mean I was still sort of learning the English language as a child immigrant and didn’t really understand all the words… maybe I accidentally touched a wrong setting?
But anyways I felt scared and sad, I think I started crying…
But you know what actually happened?
A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE LMFAO WHAT THE FUCK?
A very small one… so its sort of undetectable… especially when we were standing in the subway station… those over-the-ground stations built on top of the street (search “NYC Subway Brooklyn 86th Street D train” and you’ll know what I’m talking about)
I think a train just passed by as that mini-earthquake was happening… so the vibrations completely masked the earthquake…
I remember my mom literally just said “the way they build this station feels kinda unsafe, vibrates/shakes too much” like moments before making that call… so she felt the shaking, just thought it was the train passing… 🙃
So then later someone called and talked about some earth quake… and because everyone was calling each other it clogged up the phone lines (there was no 5G… so I think 4G gets overwhelmed much easier) which is why it took so long to get a call through… so then hearing that through the phone call… my crying then turned into anger…
So from then on, every time I get blamed for something, I just say “OMG it’s 紐約地震 (NYC Earthquake) again”, bascially saying that I’m being framed/wrongfully blamed…
Like its just a family joke now… it’s a special moment that my mom and I share… omg wtf was that coincidence lmfao
Edit:
So I found this image… 25th Avenue Station on the D line… that’s the exact station it happened.
There’s like one “floor” below the trains that run above it… like you go in this area, pay the fare, go through turnstiles, then go up another flight of stairs… so its like 1st floor… and the trains are on top like a “2nd floor” basically…
So I was in the turnstile area… on the “first floor” of the station… Omg I can’t ever forget that day.
My mom was making a phone call then the call didn’t go though…
and for context… I was always a curious kid and want to touch everything… I messed around my parents phones alot… I mean what’s a 10 year old (approximately… forgot how old exactly I was) to do when bored?..
So my mom instantly was like “oh I can’t make phone calls now, what the fuck did you do to my phone?”
…
So I was just confused… did I touch a setting I didn’t understand? I mean I was still sort of learning the English language as a child immigrant and didn’t really understand all the words… maybe I accidentally touched a wrong setting?
But anyways I felt scared and sad, I think I started crying…
But you know what actually happened?
A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE LMFAO WHAT THE FUCK?
A very small one… so its sort of undetectable… especially when we were standing in the subway station… those over-the-ground stations built on top of the street (search “NYC Subway Brooklyn 86th Street D train” and you’ll know what I’m talking about)
I think a train just passed by as that mini-earthquake was happening… so the vibrations completely masked the earthquake…
I remember my mom literally just said “the way they build this station feels kinda unsafe, vibrates/shakes too much” like moments before making that call… so she felt the shaking, just thought it was the train passing… 🙃
So then later someone called and talked about some earth quake… and because everyone was calling each other it clogged up the phone lines (there was no 5G… so I think 4G gets overwhelmed much easier) which is why it took so long to get a call through… so then hearing that through the phone call… my crying then turned into anger…
So from then on, every time I get blamed for something, I just say “OMG it’s 紐約地震 (NYC Earthquake) again”, bascially saying that I’m being framed/wrongfully blamed…
Like its just a family joke now… it’s a special moment that my mom and I share… omg wtf was that coincidence lmfao
Edit:
So I found this image… 25th Avenue Station on the D line… that’s the exact station it happened.
There’s like one “floor” below the trains that run above it… like you go in this area, pay the fare, go through turnstiles, then go up another flight of stairs… so its like 1st floor… and the trains are on top like a “2nd floor” basically…
So I was in the turnstile area… on the “first floor” of the station… Omg I can’t ever forget that day.