Epiphanies come easy when the sun sets on the Q

[ Scene: a subway car. Three people of interest to us ride, as a group; dub them Nominator, Vocator, and Apostrophor, for clarity. Another, Announcer, is never on stage. ]

[ The doors close, to the rapid firing of seventeen short electric beeps. ]

Apostrophor: So I thought half an umbrella would be the thing.

Nominator: What thing?

Announcer: [ Always loudly, overwhelming other dialogue. ] This was Morton Station. Hobart is next. Thank you for riding MyTra. This is the Green Line.

( I was going somewhere specific with this premise, although the longer I wrote the less sure I was that it might ever get there. I'm still not positive where it ended up.  )

Apostrophor: No ... I'll tell you when we're lost.

Vocator: Thanks.

Trivia: The City and South London Railway, as the first electrically operated underground system, dispensed with unnecessary things like windows in the train carriages. Source: London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd.

Currently Reading: The Circus: MI-5 Operations, Nigel West.