1. It is impossible to get anywhere quickly.
At first I thought that this was some magic trick that the railroad did. Slow tracks, constant delays, waiting for other trains, not to mention the occasional mile hike to do something minor. The more I thought about it, however, the more it seemed to apply to everything else. By car there is traffic and stop lights. Not to mention the fact that no road ever goes straight to where you want to be and there is always some asshole on a bike taking up too much space on the road. Planes go zoom fast, but they are always behind schedule, and it takes forever to get through the terminal. God forbid there is bad weather.
Really, it never pays to rush because causality enforces a speed limit of its own.
2. Pheasants are not more durable than trains.
This should be self-explanitory.
3. Once you get away from the city, it gets really dark really fast.
One thing people often don't realize is that it is actually really dark at night, we just happen to be irradiated by all the lights that are on in the city. Even small towns produce enough wattage to make the darkness not so bad. Once you get out to the country you can't see shit. To illustrate that point the engineer turned off our headlights and all I could see was the nose of the engine illuminated a soft blue by the moon.
4. Wisconsin has possums.
I did not know that.
5. "Dogfucker" is a surprisingly versitile pronoun.
Our engineer really likes that word, and it can be applied to seemingly anything. I don't think I've heard it so many times in my life.
That's it for today, although I'm sure there are many more lesson my exciting life on the rails has to teach me.
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Your life is so much more interesting than mine. By that, I mean I think you could make my life more interesting if you were living it. Like instead of getting pissed and doing nothing when people are blasting music at 1 AM, you would either A) Go over and ask if you could have a drink with them, or B) Go over and ask them if you could rearrange their face with your fists.
Ha ha, kidding of course.
I need sleep, so good night.
Actually, I did threaten to kill somebody over such an issue... freshman year, I think? I'll have to ask Jon, he was there...
You did actually. I was not present but I remember hearing about you threating to kill Chris, Ben Dos and company for playing jeopardy and yelling answers at the screen, thus interrupting the sacred act of sleeping.
That not entirely true.
I said, more or less, "If you people don't be quiet, I'm going to kill someone, probably you." I then pointed at them vaguely and walked off. I believe it was Chris that it turned out I had singled out.
He was displeased.
The difference of accounts being that I didn't threaten to kill them all, merely one of them as an example.
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