True story:
Three or so years ago, I flew into Burbank. Across the street is the Amtrak platform where I had hoped to take the train Burbank -> Oxnard. The schedule was tight. I raced from the plane to the station platform where I missed the train. The next one was in an hour.
After 90 minutes or so, and a big crowd standing around, somehow, someone found out there were problems, and the train would not be running.
Long story short, I took a taxi to Oxnard Amtrak, I bitched and moaned and finally they paid the taxi drive (standing there waiting patiently) around $100.00.
Come to find out the train I just missed, hit and killed a couple of folks in a truck, the train derailed and lot's of passengers got hurt.
There was a bad Kurt Russell film (I think) where he was in a plane wreck and survived without a scratch, and it changed his life, I kind felt like it was a brush with something. And I always remember how petty and upset I was at simply missing a train.
--Chris
Three or so years ago, I flew into Burbank. Across the street is the Amtrak platform where I had hoped to take the train Burbank -> Oxnard. The schedule was tight. I raced from the plane to the station platform where I missed the train. The next one was in an hour.
After 90 minutes or so, and a big crowd standing around, somehow, someone found out there were problems, and the train would not be running.
Long story short, I took a taxi to Oxnard Amtrak, I bitched and moaned and finally they paid the taxi drive (standing there waiting patiently) around $100.00.
Come to find out the train I just missed, hit and killed a couple of folks in a truck, the train derailed and lot's of passengers got hurt.
There was a bad Kurt Russell film (I think) where he was in a plane wreck and survived without a scratch, and it changed his life, I kind felt like it was a brush with something. And I always remember how petty and upset I was at simply missing a train.
--Chris
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