| Home | Open Account | Help | 238 users online |
|
Member Login
Discussion
Media SharingHostingLibrarySite Info |
Passenger Trains > Dude, You're Too LateDate: 09/11/22 22:06 Dude, You're Too Late Author: walstib Sorry, dude, the train has departed.
A tardy passenger waves at the conductor of a southbound Caltrain at Menlo Park today, hoping she will stop the just-departed train for him. She didn't. Perhaps next time he'll think twice before running over to the 7-Eleven for a beverage. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/22 07:32 by walstib.  Date: 09/12/22 01:13 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: dan Well he didn't waste time buckling his belt correctly, so that didn't hold him up, and probably as we speak, still not holding him up.
Date: 09/12/22 06:11 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: jcaestecker Put your hat on correctly. Then pull your drawers up. Next buy a ticket. Only then will you be fit to travel.
Oh yeah -- show up before departure time. -John Date: 09/12/22 07:25 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: portlander jcaestecker Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Put your hat on correctly. Then pull your > drawers up. Next buy a ticket. Only then will > you be fit to travel. > > Oh yeah -- show up before departure time. > > -John Dang. . . That's a whole lot of "boomer" for one post. Date: 09/12/22 07:55 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: joemvcnj Yes Baby Boomers know back from front of their hats, pull their waist band of their pants up to their waist (what a concept), can tell time, and show up wherever when they are supposed to.
Date: 09/12/22 08:09 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: ShortlinesUSA Don't forget keeping their cell phones in a holder on their belt. Wouldn't want to lose track of that!
Date: 09/12/22 08:18 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: ExStarlightHog We commute engineers had an unwritten rule about runners: Whether we "saw" them or not depended on how short their skirts were.
Date: 09/12/22 09:24 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: robj Gee, maybe he is just waving goodby to his girlfriend on the train? Smile.
I think we all know riders have missed trains thru every generation but the photo depicts a profile of a personality type. Bob Date: 09/12/22 09:36 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: walstib No, Bob, he was not just waving goodbye to someone.
I was actually there, and saw the situation unfold. Posted from iPhone Date: 09/12/22 09:42 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: WM_1109 ShortlinesUSA Wrote:
> Don't forget keeping their cell phones in a holder > on their belt. Wouldn't want to lose track of > that! Hey, I resemble that remark! /Ted Date: 09/12/22 09:55 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: robj walstib Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > No, Bob, he was not just waving goodbye to > someone. > > I was actually there, and saw the situation > unfold. > > Posted from iPhone I know, why I said smile. Good catch, sometimes we see stuff like that and think later we should capture. Bob Posted from Android Date: 09/12/22 11:51 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: TAW ExStarlightHog Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > We commute engineers had an unwritten rule about > runners: Whether we "saw" them or not depended > on how short their skirts were. BN had a rule in Chicago suburban territory that they only wait for someone actually touching the train at leaving time. TAW Date: 09/12/22 17:31 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: arrow611 At SEPTA we always said they were just "early" for the next one! I got "chewed out" one time by a Road Supervisor because I didn't stop the train and "wait" for a passenger that was running down the platform. My answer was that I received no signal from the conductor - who was in a better position to assess the situation - to stop the train.
Date: 09/12/22 17:55 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: ProAmtrak I for one learned how to be early no matter what, it's sad how late people are at times with the train, or even at station stops which I've seen here in Flagstaff where people go inside the depot to use the restroom, and then they wonder why the train left without them!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/16/22 17:13 by ProAmtrak. Date: 09/12/22 18:04 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: wabash2800 At least give him credit for not grabbing onto a moving train...
Victor B. Date: 09/12/22 20:59 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: BoilingMan Once I left San Luis Obispo at about 1:00am with a bus full of sleeping passengers (I had just relieved an LA driver). All was quiet and routine until I got to about Santa Margarita where a CHP officer came flying up out of nowhere and pulled me over, every light possible flashing! Apparently a woman got herself left behind in SLO- and her baby was sleeping soundly on my bus!!
So… I turned around and went back for Mom- we lost about 90mins in the process. Couldn’t do that on the RR! Greyhound was a different world from Amtrak. SR Posted from iPhone Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/22 22:10 by BoilingMan. Date: 09/13/22 14:24 Re: Dude, You're Too Late Author: MojaveBill When I loaded baggage for a small airline at San Fracisco International Airport in 1954, a guy who missed his flight ran out and grabbed the tail of a DC-3 that was taxiing for takeoff to try to stop it. Unsucessfully, of course.
Regarding clothing, every generation has its ideas of style, including mine. (born 1935!) The guy loolks to me like he's waving to someone on the train. Bill Deaver Tehachapi, CA |