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jianantonicThings are a little intense in the office today. Lots going on. Deadlines looming. I feel like now is not the time to be asking questions about low-priority issues like my own job...so...I'm laying low. I thought I'd tell a story. It's a true one.
Yesterday, I got up to go to the bathroom, and I heard the now familiar rumble of a train going by. This bummed me out, because I love watching the trains pass - the tracks are right outside my office window - but, being in the loo, I was going to miss it. Sigh. When I took my seat at my desk again, I noticed a lone boxcar outside. I asked Emily if she knew how it had gotten there. I had definitely heard a train pass, and the boxcar definitely hadn't been there when I got up. We studied it to see if there was a driver or even a place to drive from, and we determined that no, there wasn't. I was so confused, and kind of ticked at Emily for not paying better attention...but we pretty much decided that it was a runaway car. Still, how does that happen? Anyway...I was getting steamed that I'd missed it. Wouldn't it be cool to see a train go by, followed by a detached car? Lucky for me, I didn't miss the whole show. A few minutes later, we hear a train slowly creeping down the track, westbound on the eastbound track. An engineer hops out and runs to the rogue boxcar to prepare to reattach it. The parent train slowly bumps into the runaway, making an unbelievably horrid sound, the engineer hooks them up, and the now whole train chugs eastbound once more. It was cool to watch.
That's my story. Now I'm hungry, but feel like if I take lunch now, I'll have too much of the rest of the day left over when I'm done. Not to mention my dinner plans aren't until 8.
Peace.
Yesterday, I got up to go to the bathroom, and I heard the now familiar rumble of a train going by. This bummed me out, because I love watching the trains pass - the tracks are right outside my office window - but, being in the loo, I was going to miss it. Sigh. When I took my seat at my desk again, I noticed a lone boxcar outside. I asked Emily if she knew how it had gotten there. I had definitely heard a train pass, and the boxcar definitely hadn't been there when I got up. We studied it to see if there was a driver or even a place to drive from, and we determined that no, there wasn't. I was so confused, and kind of ticked at Emily for not paying better attention...but we pretty much decided that it was a runaway car. Still, how does that happen? Anyway...I was getting steamed that I'd missed it. Wouldn't it be cool to see a train go by, followed by a detached car? Lucky for me, I didn't miss the whole show. A few minutes later, we hear a train slowly creeping down the track, westbound on the eastbound track. An engineer hops out and runs to the rogue boxcar to prepare to reattach it. The parent train slowly bumps into the runaway, making an unbelievably horrid sound, the engineer hooks them up, and the now whole train chugs eastbound once more. It was cool to watch.
That's my story. Now I'm hungry, but feel like if I take lunch now, I'll have too much of the rest of the day left over when I'm done. Not to mention my dinner plans aren't until 8.
Peace.
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:56 am (UTC)I think I spent too much time watching shining time station as a kid or something...
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:56 am (UTC)