half a million

[totient]

500,000 is a very big number. Especially when it's the number of people stranded at a single train station, in Guangzhou. I say "at" and not "in" because, of course, they don't fit inside.

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[r-ness.livejournal.com]

V and I were stranded at that station one fine morning. Fortunately I called my friend R, who picked us up from the station forecourt and took us to breakfast.

It's a reasonably large station, although the newer Guangzhou East station is larger. I understand they're replacing the existing Guangzhou Main station building with one four times as large, sometime this year.

In any case, a half million people certainly won't fit.

Wonder where they're all going to the bathroom? The food vendors in that neighborhood--and there are many--must be making out like bandits.