25. I felt like the last human on the planet
“I once made all the way home from downtown Toronto to Etobicoke without seeing a single human being.
A long time ago I had a job working for the Ministry of Natural Resources which was at Queen’s Park Toronto. Queen’s Park is where our provincial parliament is located. My job was IT working on an ancient computer that ran Fortran on punch cards, despite it being the late 80’s. I had a shift that went from 3:30 pm to 11:30. Of course there’s not a lot of people around near the end of your shift. It’s a big creepy 19th century building. From, six pm to the end of my shift I didn’t see a single person, not even a janitor or security guard, which is not unusual. Which was always a bit creepy to me, it bugged me.
At the end of my shift I had to hurry to catch the subway because in Toronto they used to shut down just before midnight on a weekday. There are a tunnels underneath Queens Park that connect it to other buildings and the subway. I took one tunnel, completely devoid of people to an automated entrance. So I saw no one on the subway including the guy in the booth. As soon as I got down to the bottom of the stair the train was already there and I just barely made what was likely the very last train.
So I never got a look at the driver, and the train was completely empty.I never saw another person the whole trip home, including the parts of the trip where the train goes above ground. No pedestrians, no traffic in the streets, nothing. I made it all the way to Islington and I’m kinda freaking out because I’m having a ‘Last man on Earth’ kind of feel. When I got up the stairs from the platform I already missed all the last buses and the entrance booth was closed, there was no one in the station.” –Patches67
