My lone non-Amtrak experience with trains was the year I spent in Australia. Cheap, clean, fast, convenient. Much better than the trip I took to New York on the overpriced slow-machine that was an Amtrak train.
The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
BartlebyFink - Nov 28, 2005 9:46:54 am PST #6547 of 10001
One Hot Burrito!
Strega - Nov 28, 2005 9:51:22 am PST #6548 of 10001
Strega! I need your address. Please to send?Sure -- email me, so I remember when I get home.
Where is the land of the great customer service? Somewhere in Europe, I'm thinking, on the continent.
Heh. Somewhere in Berlin, a friend of mine is in hysterics, and he doesnt know why. In the U.S., we are rich, selfish capitalists, and we expect excellent service. We are often disappointed in that, but... I suspect that in Europe, consumers would be impressed by the kind of service we'd grumble about here.
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 10:01:11 am PST #6549 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Or it could be that service jobs suck because customers suck, and therefore service is commensurate with customer behavior and with payscale.
Nah. I blame Amtrak.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 28, 2005 10:10:49 am PST #6550 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
A date of mine once told me a story about a friend's trip to Germany and said friend's Ugly American behavior toward a conductor while touring the country by rail. Suffice to say, the tale ended with the conductor shouting "The trains do not run to Auschwitz anymore!" in his face.
Vortex - Nov 28, 2005 10:18:03 am PST #6551 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Suffice to say, the tale ended with the conductor shouting "The trains do not run to Auschwitz anymore!" in his face.
ouch.
evil jimi - Nov 28, 2005 1:43:28 pm PST #6552 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Forget about trains, I'd like to see the return of massive Zeppelins. The "balloon" could be covered with cells so they're solar powered, and they could quietly and majestically waft across the land and sea in luxury.
msbelle - Nov 28, 2005 2:08:26 pm PST #6553 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ATTN: Jesse, sumi, Matt & Kristen
msbelle "When come back bring tape" Nov 28, 2005 4:03:58 pm PST
copied from ...Tape and crossposted in Natter.
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 2:18:29 pm PST #6554 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The "balloon" could be covered with cells so they're solar powered, and they could quietly and majestically waft across the land and sea in luxury.
Can we all wear bias-cut satin and be photographed in black and white?
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2005 2:24:13 pm PST #6555 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are no jewel tones in black and white!
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 2:37:47 pm PST #6556 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yes, there are; they just photograph as black. (I think red photographs as black, doesn't it? Isn't that why Max Factor invented Pan-Cake? ) *I'd* know it was sapphire blue.