veggieguy12
The Captain
Just read a post that reminded me of this tiny tale of some kids I know.
Names have been changed to save them any possible ID and embarrassment, because, I dunno, I'm in a good mood so I'm gonna be generous.
Sally and Bill were ultimate punk rock. You know what I mean, or if you don't you'll just imagine that to be whatever you think it is. And that's fine.
So, they hadn't ever ridden freight trains, but they wanted to (and who doesn't?).
Well, while in a northwestern city one day, they see a train sitting idle with and open box car. They wait around for it to get going, hiding in the bushes so they don't get caught by the poe-lease!
When it starts going - and this was an easy catch-out, like north is N and south is S - they run to it; staying close alongside, they each throw their packs onto the floor of the boxcar.
(Do you see where this story is going?)
The train is moving, they're running with it, their gear is on board, but they can't get up onto the floor of the boxcar to ride! And, sure enough, it isn't much longer before they're out of breath or the train picks up speed, whatever.
So they're stuck in [city] while their gear rides south over a hundred miles; luckily trains don't run too fast, so they potentially have a few hours to get down to that destination city and find their shit on that train as it comes in. And even more luckily, they know that their friend "Casey" has gone out of town and left his car with his housemates, so they ask Casey's friend/roommate Angie to give them a two-hour ride (four hours round-trip drive for poor, compliant Angie), which she does.
And apparently their karma was good or something, 'cos they actually do find that boxcar with their packs. But the packs never reveal the adventure that the kids missed-out on...
Names have been changed to save them any possible ID and embarrassment, because, I dunno, I'm in a good mood so I'm gonna be generous.
Sally and Bill were ultimate punk rock. You know what I mean, or if you don't you'll just imagine that to be whatever you think it is. And that's fine.
So, they hadn't ever ridden freight trains, but they wanted to (and who doesn't?).
Well, while in a northwestern city one day, they see a train sitting idle with and open box car. They wait around for it to get going, hiding in the bushes so they don't get caught by the poe-lease!
When it starts going - and this was an easy catch-out, like north is N and south is S - they run to it; staying close alongside, they each throw their packs onto the floor of the boxcar.
(Do you see where this story is going?)
The train is moving, they're running with it, their gear is on board, but they can't get up onto the floor of the boxcar to ride! And, sure enough, it isn't much longer before they're out of breath or the train picks up speed, whatever.
So they're stuck in [city] while their gear rides south over a hundred miles; luckily trains don't run too fast, so they potentially have a few hours to get down to that destination city and find their shit on that train as it comes in. And even more luckily, they know that their friend "Casey" has gone out of town and left his car with his housemates, so they ask Casey's friend/roommate Angie to give them a two-hour ride (four hours round-trip drive for poor, compliant Angie), which she does.
And apparently their karma was good or something, 'cos they actually do find that boxcar with their packs. But the packs never reveal the adventure that the kids missed-out on...
