Comment on Passengers thought mass train attack 'was a joke'
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 days agoI was held at gunpoint when I was 19 and worked in a post office. It doesn’t really sink in until after. In the moment, it does appear pretty calm. You don’t really expect someone to start waving a gun in your face. So I just got up and did what they said. If you were on the other side of the shop, it would only be the alarms blaring that would tip you off.
cman6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Whoa, that is incredible. So you felt calm as it all unfolded? Did it feel surreal?
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Yeah, I can’t process things in the moment at the best of times 😅 I don’t know about calm. You don’t really expect someone to grab you and hold gun to your head. I was just on autopilot, I suppose. I didn’t get upset until after. But it gave me the perfect excuse to quit that job and I got enough pity points to get offered a paid position at the place I was volunteering at haha.
But tbh it was one of the less traumatising things I’ve been through 😅