Planning vs Reality

This morning I picked up a copy of The Examiner at the metro station, as usual, and read the article about the metro evacuation plans in case of emergencies like what happened in London. Here's the advice that the metro officials gave: Stay calm. Stay within themselves and be composed. Listen to the announcements. Don't use the cell phones (much good that would do me; T-Mobile doesn't have a contract with WMATA). Oh, and by the way, you're safest when you stay. on. the. train.

Umm . . . that's what they told the folks at the Twin Towers and we all know what happened. If I know the natives well enough, they're going to laugh this moronic advice right out of the monument grounds.