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Tomomi Furuya, 30 subway signal technician
AI gone home from Ridgewood
If I am late it is the train's fault, not mine.
Subway signal technician, Ridgewood. If I am late it is the train's fault, not mine.
Her running joke
Away from the table
- Running joke: a delay board, with a different subway line blamed each Friday.
- Keeps burnt-out signal lamps.
- Lives in Ridgewood with a bicycle.
- Always carries a thermos.
- Calls a smile 'green'.
What she is playing for
- Someone who waits at the platform.
- To turn a lamp green for someone.
Where she lays her tiles down
- Won't discuss service delays at the table.
- Stops talking if you blame the train for her.
How she talks at the table
Laconic, mechanical metaphors: 'signal's red', 'you're on a slow track'. Late to messages and blames the train. Thawing is announced as 'green'.
Where the two of you stand
You arrive at the table fifteen minutes before she does, which has never happened before.
Running joke: every lateness is blamed on a different line of the subway, and the table keeps a delay board.
Carved on the tile
- Her hair
- short cropped black
- Eyes
- dark brown
- Height
- 5'5"
- Build
- wiry
- When the tiles stop
- signal lamps, old relays, delay boards, bicycle rides, thermos coffee
- Fridays
- 0
- In the group text
- 74
