Remembers me?
OK. Funny story. Too long to put on Twitter or Facebook.
I'm going to get a haircut before work. The place I normally go is in the opposite direction from where I work, so I leave with plenty of time to spare. Between home and the hair place, I am forced to cross some train tracks. No big deal.
I get to the train intersection and the barriers come down. A train is coming. No big deal.
I stop and wait for the train to pass. It only takes two or three minutes. Still no big deal.
The barriers don't go back up. Another ninety seconds pass and I finally hear the whistle of another train coming the opposite direction. I still have time. Not that big of a deal.
But this train chugs along a lot more slowly than the first. It almost seems as if it's slowing down. It is slowing down! The damn locomotive comes to a complete stop directly in front of me. The deal grows.
I see the conductor / engineer / asshole get out of the locomotive, plod over to the gas station next to the tracks, go inside, buy himself some fucking snacks and then get back into the train and continue on his way! The guy in the car next to me and the woman behind me obviously share my disbelief. I was tempted to get out of my car and see if he had left the keys in the train.
Wanted to start it up and let it ride on.
I'm going to get a haircut before work. The place I normally go is in the opposite direction from where I work, so I leave with plenty of time to spare. Between home and the hair place, I am forced to cross some train tracks. No big deal.
I get to the train intersection and the barriers come down. A train is coming. No big deal.
I stop and wait for the train to pass. It only takes two or three minutes. Still no big deal.
The barriers don't go back up. Another ninety seconds pass and I finally hear the whistle of another train coming the opposite direction. I still have time. Not that big of a deal.
But this train chugs along a lot more slowly than the first. It almost seems as if it's slowing down. It is slowing down! The damn locomotive comes to a complete stop directly in front of me. The deal grows.
I see the conductor / engineer / asshole get out of the locomotive, plod over to the gas station next to the tracks, go inside, buy himself some fucking snacks and then get back into the train and continue on his way! The guy in the car next to me and the woman behind me obviously share my disbelief. I was tempted to get out of my car and see if he had left the keys in the train.
Wanted to start it up and let it ride on.