I grew up in a small town named Larroque in Argentina. When I finished High School, my friends and I decided to live in Buenos Aires which is the biggest city in Argentina. The best universities are there, and you can find jobs more easily than in smaller towns. Because there were a lot of us, we divided in several groups for rented apartments. The day after my roommates and I arrived, we decided to visit one of our friends' apartment, so for the first time in our life we took the subway.

The subway in Argentina is large. It has very old lines and new ones. We took the oldest one, the "A" line, which is beautiful. Everything is like in the old times, the lamps, the ticket cabins, the wagons, and murals. Everything is carefully preserved. When we got there, we felt like being in the earlier 1900s but with modern clothes. After we bought the ticket, we ran to the wagon which was ready to leave. The wagon was made in wood and so were its seats. It had lamps hanging from the ceiling, and the doors are manual. The subway station and the wagons were full of people because it was rush hour.

When we got into the wagon, we stood near to the door. One of my friends, Jo, saw that some young people opened the doors before the machine stopped completely and got out quickly. She wanted to do the same, so when we arrived at our stop, she opened the door with a very confident expression while the wagon was still moving. She stepped out, but she lost stability, and she started to fall. When I saw her falling, I grabbed her, shouting her name. Then we both fell and rolled on the station's floor. Because everyone heard me when I shouted, everyone saw when we fell, and everyone was laughing at us. We could not stand up because we could not stop laughing. After some seconds our other friends gave us a hand. Finally we arrived at our friends' apartment without more complications.

Three days after, Jo and I were traveling in the same subway line when a 5 year old boy looked at us and said to his mother - Mom, look, they are the girls who fell on the station's floor last time.

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