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customerserviceguy

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5. Back when I was a kid in Indiana

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Nov 6, 2019, 02:04 PM

Nov 2019

we lived very near a train track, and while I would cross the track to go to the other side of the neighborhood to play with a friend over there, my dad made damned good and sure that he taught me that you spend as little time on a track as is possible. In his youth, he worked on a railroad, and saw all kinds of tragedies where someone didn't follow that advice.

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Back when I was a kid in Indiana customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #5