My brief version of Bound

[ppowell]

Last night I was sitting on one of those cement benches at the Pentagon City metro to catch the Blue line on the way back home to lovely, tropical Burke. As the train approached, I got up - or rather, TRIED to get up, when I noticed I was literally chained to the cement bench! My chain from my wallet somehow managed to slip between the space between the cement bench and the cement wall, and it was not budging no matter how hard I tugged! I missed my "safety train" (the one that will guarantee me getting to the Franconia-Springfield Metro on time) since I was unable to catch it w/o leaving behind my wallet (doubting it) or my pants (wouldn't you all want that?!). I wound up flagging down a Metro police officer who came over and tried to pull me free. Took him nearly 5 minutes to do so but as a result broke my chain nearly in half doing so.

Tell me this has ever happened to you or anyone you know. I double-dog dare you.

Phil