Post-fin

‘You Were Trying So Hard . . ..’

After Train Man’s departure, the netizens of the thread start to fear something.

458 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 12:19

One day . . .

H:	‘Hey Mr Train, did you post something on a bulletin board online?’
T:	‘What? What do you mean by something?’
H:	‘Umm . . . my friend was telling me about it . . . and I’m wondering if . . .’
T:	‘I don’t understand. What was your friend saying?’
H:	‘Well . . . that our story is featured on a bulletin board called 2-Channel . . .’
T:

459 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 12:20

wawawawawaw

now way can we have that

462 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 17:56

long time no see. got a little report for you.

463 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 17:57

Train heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!!

466 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 17:59

ah yeah!

467 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 17:59

ah yeah--!

469 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 17:59

Train heeeeere!

471 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:00

Train—how’ve you been?

483 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:01

Train----

484 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:01

did something happen?

490 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 18:02

This thing you’ve been worried about, that she would find out about the postings, well, you don’t need to worry about it anymore. I showed her the entire log last night. I really wanted her to see everything.

I was confident she would read it and understand.

All I was worried about was that I was risking exposing her identity.

It took a long time to read everything but she was really surprised and said ‘There really are such good people out there, huh’

I’m watching the thread as I write but man, does it move fast!

Let me post this first.

498 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:02

you serious?

505 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:03

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! you showed her???

516 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:03

Hermes is the best . . . . . . . . . dewy-eyed.

517 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:03

you showed her!

518 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:03

my god . . .

522 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:04

>>490

really . . .

is that what Lady Hermes said . . .

that day, that time when we cheered you on . . . did not go to waste.

makes me happy happy.

535 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:05

have you come clean about your anime fetish?

536 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:05

This means she knows about Keroro and Sailor Moon and Pretty Cure . . .

548 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 18:05

About coming out about my anorak-ness, I didn’t really address that part but she has anorak-like tendencies herself so I was pretty confident that she’d be able to accept my leanings. I can’t divulge what exactly her fetish is as that may expose her indentity . . .

621 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:11

Is Lady Hermes . . . there with you???

647 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 18:13

I’m at home now so she’s not here.

726 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 18:27

Yesterday I went over to her house around midday. So I could show her the log.

I also wanted to check to make sure her PC was working OK. And I took the teacups again.

Her mother was home this time. I was supa-dupa nervous . . .

‘Hello.’

‘Hello, come on in . . . make yourself at home.’

‘Nice to meet you asd98@#^*#_+K_ihui’

I was dead nervous in the beginning so I don’t remember what exactly we talked about . . .

But her mother seemed like a sweet person. Since she was going to make tea for us, I handed her the teacups.

I made it up to her room that day.

I was kinda taken aback because her room definitely had a semi-anorak vibe floating through it but I pretended not to be shocked because she was coming out to me in her own way that day.

I’d love to be able to give you the details but . . .

I quickly got to the point

‘That thing I’ve been talking about wanting to show you . . . ’

I was confident but still nervous . . .

‘Yeah. Show me, show me.’

She seemed really interested . . .

730 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:27

ah yeah!

746 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:29

went right for the jugular didn’t ya

747 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:29

and that’s how the location of our slaughterhouse was exposed . . .

793 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:34

hey you lot

there’s a chance Hermes may be checking this thread later on.

Behave like gentlemen, please.

() huffpuff

837 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 18:39

‘Have you heard of 2-Channel?’

I needed to explain before I showed it to her.

‘The bulletin board?’

‘Right, the anonymous bulletin board. It’s a vortex of all kinds of people and their feelings,’ I said, to which she replied with a ‘?’ on her face. I got all lyrical about the dirtiness of anonymity and the flip side, the beauty of it.

In reality, my explaining went on forever.

‘Remember when I said I asked friends for advice? I was talking about these people.’

Then I told her a bit about the thread.

And I owned up to writing a blow by blow account of our relationship, from the moment we met till the day I poured my heart out to her. She didn’t say anything right away and I was relieved.

‘The record includes my hearfelt but dirty thoughts as well as some secrets but I’d really like you to read it,’ I added, as I handed her a CD-R of the log. I brought both the log and the edited version but I decided to let her read the real log first.

840 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:39

real log?

841 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:39

da da da . . . real log???

842 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:39

realloioipoklloooooo log??!?!?

843 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

845 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

>I decided to let her read the real log first.

>I decided to let her read the real log first.

>I decided to let her read the real log first.

>I decided to let her read the real log first.

>I decided to let her read the real log first.

847 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

omg, the real log . . . lol

849 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

rrrrrrrrrrrrreal lllllllllllllllllog????

850 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

real log he says

you sure thats ok? ()

865 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

you showed her the real deal, raw and in the flesh!

Real log. That would be the uncensored version of the posts. On the Flash site, the dirtier posts had been edited out just in case Hermes found out and came to the site. Feeling as though their depravity had been exposed, the netizens became flustered.

867 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:40

you say you showed her the real log to start with? wouldn’t you usually work your way up to it? Wouldn’t you first show her One of Us’s site and then show her the real log? No matter how you look at it, once a Train, always a Train . . . you make me hot.

872 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:41

>>837

it looks like you’re not just any old couple. it’s like you’ve already got some deep trust going . . .

If it was me, I couldn’t even show my family or friends my posts . . .

919 Name: ♦ N/WAG/OonQ Post Date: 16/05/04 18:45

>>Train

way to go

984 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 18:55

After reading for about 2 or 3 minutes, she moved the scroll bar all the way to bottom and said ‘There’s . . . so much here’ ‘Yep, there’s two months’ worth.’

We decided to put my screen name as a search and read through. The posts about the train incident gave us a little jog down memory lane.

She laughed out loud at ‘It says Hermes. Guess they’re some household goods brand.’ I thought I was in the clear . . . after she read the part about me calling her and asking her to dinner, she said

‘You were trying so hard . . . ’

‘No kidding,’ I replied, and we smiled.

Then she told me that seeing how hard I had tried made her heart flutter.

991 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 18:56

ah yeah---

She’s giving you points for all your hard work . . .

I guess that’s the way it is for two people in love with each other . . .

286 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 19:24

In the middle of this, her mother came in with tea and biscuits.

They were homemade again . . . They were yum. and yeah, I asked for Benoist tea . . .

As she got to the end she said

‘It reads like a novel’

as if it was somebody’s else’s story

When she finally finished reading, she sighed and said

‘I’m glad I got to know what you were thinking about. Thank you.’

And then

‘Why didn’t you tell me sooner?’

‘But really, I’m so happy it turned out this way,’ she said and squeezed my hand. And then as if signalling a kiss . . . the vibe shifted suddenly and . . .

I reckon it ended up being a positive thing.

Other than the fact that men are pervs.

She did say that it was because of people cheering me on that I was able to work up the courage and that was how we ended up together.

And finally, she said

‘Why are these wonderful men Geeks?’

297 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:25

>And finally, she said

>Why are these wonderful men Geeks?

('A `)

318 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:27

ah yeah

357 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:31

>‘But really, I’m so happy it turned out this way,’ she said and squeezed my hand. >And then as if signalling a kiss . . . the vibe shifted suddenly and . . .

Train. Train.

You is far ahead . . . so far ahead . . . I can barely see you any more . . . . . .

359 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:31

comin right atcha

366 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:32

Train, you’re a bullet train

367 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:32

>>357

I imagined a Geek running for dear life after Train . . . lol

387 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:35

409 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 19:37

She really gave me a hard time about my anime obsession and porn mags.

‘Sailor Moon . . . wow, it’s been so long since I saw it . . . ’

‘Why do you need those magazines?’

‘Well, I’m just a healthy male’ I said, skirting the issue, to which she replied

‘I see . . .’

and then came this hot-hot line

‘But with me around, you don’t need those magazines anymore, right?’

She hit the nail right on the head

Before I knew it, I said

‘I won’t buy them anymore’

And that shouldn’t be a problem.

But that was the first time I was scared of her.

And then she got into a huff about what I quoted as being spoken by her. Maybe I misheard but at a few points she said

‘I didn’t say that’

Or about her boobs

‘They may not look like much, but they are a C (said while sticking chest out)’

Or about my catching a glimpse of her underwear

‘Perv’

She also said ‘I don’t look like Miki Nakatani’

She was, of course, just being modest.

414 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:38

>>409

>‘But with me around, you don’t need those magazines anymore, right?’

rrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

419 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:38

>‘They may not look like much, but they are a C (said while sticking chest out)’

she’s too cute

432 Name: ♦ N/WAG/OOnQ Post Date: 16/05/04 19:39

>>Train

God has spoken . . .

449 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:39

>‘They may not look like much, but they are a C (said while sticking chest out)’

I can’t take it . . . can’t take it any more . . .

450 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:39

shit

that kind of dialogue

gets me all hot and bothered

452 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:40

> ‘Perv’

Can’t take it no more . . . . . . more than all the bombings this very banal word is stabbing me deep in the heart, non-stop . . .

466 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:41

Diggin the C-cup puts us in a very warm place and comes dangerously close to hotness. But remember that there are many women out there who are not close to being Cs so don’t put down your weapons yet.

476 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:41

>‘I won’t buy them anymore’

Did you keep what you had?

490 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 19:41

‘But with me around, you don’t need those magazines anymore, right?’

This is a great hint-hint nudge-nudge line but at the same time, she’s putting on the pressure.

Not that I was pressured into giving up my porn mags . . .

495 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:42

doesn’t matter dude, just give up the mags

and give me what you got

506 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:43

504 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:43

>>490

hey, couldn’t you have given her some line like

but sex and wanking are two different things, right?

516 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 19:43

>>504

Um, yeah, well, ah, yeah, um, I . . .

525 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:44

>>516

huh? wha wha wha what’s up?

526 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:44

>>516

what is that mumbling stumbling . . .

cou . . . could it be . . . . . .

579 Name: Train Man ♦ 4aPOTtW4HU Post Date: 16/05/04 19:47

I haven’t done it yet. What can I say, I’ll be showing her this site too so . . .

591 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:47

>>579

you serious?

Lady Hermesalicious, wanna go out with moi?

593 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:47

she’s gonna be checkin us out

600 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:48

What?! You’re gonna show her this site?!

Well, er, Train Boy, everybody else may be posting their dirty little thoughts here but I will continue to cheer you on . . . ha!ha!ha!

607 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:48

hmm . . . as we thought . . . Hermes will be visiting this site . . . hold on, I’m gonna go get changed

609 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:48

pleased to meet you sweet Hermes girl

611 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:49

As soon as Train posted that he’ll be showing the site to Hermes, the number of posts drastically decreased! lol

614 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:49

checkin us out here!

would you like some curry?

621 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:49

What? Showing this site too?

ar . . . rr . . . take good care of Train Boy, please.

627 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:49

The moment I read that Hermes would be visiting the site, I got down on the floor and sat with my legs tucked under me like a good Japanese boy for some reason

634 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:50

Hey Train, don’t lose sight of that happiness

you finally got in your hands

and don’t make any mistakes you can’t take back

650 Name: Anonymous Post Date: 16/05/04 19:50

real-time Train Man in da ho-------use

all happiness to ya! Don’t give Lady Hermes anything to cry about!!!

The anonymous netizens, who all remained nameless and faceless and whose whereabouts also remained unknown, rallied behind Train Man whether called for or not and at times partied on in the thread regardless of Train Man’s presence. What they did was something very simple: they offered to help somebody who needed help. It was a simple gesture stemming from a sense of common courtesy we all carry within ourselves.

Seeing the flustered Train Man made the netizens rally round him, which in turn gave Train Man the courage and strength to dial Hermes’ number.

Those netizens who cheered Train Man on. Those who came in contact with the story and reacted by cheering Train along or applauding him are all made from the same thread and spirit.