Hey! Where is everybody going?

Saturday morning, I was so concentrated on reading my Chinese textbook and so closed-off from my surroundings because I was also listening to a podcast with earphones, that I didn't notice that the bus, I was on, had broken down.  I just happened to look up to see everyone leaving the bus.  Since the bus was by the train station, I had first assumed that this large departure was the normal bunch going to catch a train or bus.  But then I saw I was the only person still sitting and the departure was absolute....