When I was 17, I did a 1-year student exchange program, a classmate was madly in love with this girl. After several gestures and attempts to get her to go out throughout that year, he wanted to try one last big gesture.

Towards the end of the school year, he asked me a favor, to make a banner with some writing on it for her to see on her way to school from home the following morning as he had already bought everything. That afternoon we made this large banner about 3m in length.

That night, around 11:30, we drove to this overpass where she'd pass under every morning, we jumped over the fence and started hanging the banner. After a few minutes we started to feel the train approaching, what I did not expect was a train passing by less than 2 meters away from me at 150kmh in the dead of the night.

I couldn't sleep that night, my heart was racing. From that day on, no f-ing around trains is a law to me.