I recently saw a very odd sight on my way home. A tram stopped unexpectedly. Within seconds I saw the reason for its halt – a yellow ambulance quickly came into view next to the tracks and a man was instantly taken off the tram on a stretcher.
At this exact moment (something I consider extremely efficient coming from South Africa), a ‘horse-mobile’ (man on some sort of cart horse) crossed the tracks in front of the stationary tram. The horse quickly motioned towards the sidewalk pulling a seated man in a white outfit with a red cap.
It was as though three types of efficiency came into play at that exact second in time – the speed of the ambulance, the modern tram and the more old-fashioned mode of transport (but equally efficient in this instance) – a ‘horse-mobile’.
The moment was framed in time. My jaw dropped.
Elizabeth Joss-Bethlehem
Elizabeth Joss-Bethlehem is the founder and main writer at The Museum Times. She works as a university lecturer by day and is an avid travel blogger and arts and culture enthusiast by night. Elizabeth started The Museum Times out of the need to give smaller, lesser-known museums more exposure.
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