[PRCo] Re: November get-together

[Fred Schneider]

Herb:

There is a rather crazy member of the museum that sleeps there.    
There is no way on God's green earth that I would stay in the same  
caboose with that character.   I am not prejudiced about people by  
race, ethnicity, national origin, etc., but I reserve the right to  
dislike certain individuals just because they are stranger than fiction.

By the way, they say that trouble comes in threes and I hope the  
count began with my wife's stroke and the third strike hit last  
weekend.   I really don't want to see another one after this last  
weekend.

Oh, you'd like to hear about it?

Well, I popped in on my granddaughter yesterday.   She was a little  
sullen.   I asked where her live in lover was, i.e. the father of my  
great grandchild.   Amyne Mohammed, it turns out, didn't understand  
the song lyrics that go, "You gotta know when to hold, and know when  
to fold."   He didn't fold.   He made the mistake of drinking in a  
rural, small town bar in northern Lancaster County.   Why, I haven't  
a clue.   Some other men (idiots, maybe) called him a nigger.  He  
decided they were fare game and tried to punch out their lights.  I  
guess that worked in a black neighborhood in Philadelphia where he  
came from but not in white suburbia.   Probably no one will remember  
the hate crime that precipitated it but they will remember Amyne's  
fists.   He is now in Lancaster County Prison in default of $200,000  
bail which Shannon doesn't have.   She also cannot afford an  
attorney.   I'm fighting my wife so I really cannot afford any  
additional attorney bills.   I suggested that since the provocation  
was a hate crime, Shannon should perhaps start by calling the ACLU  
and see if they can find a pro-bono attorney.   Of course it gets  
worse.   He was the stay at home dad while she worked as a nurses  
aide to pay the bills including the mortgage and try to put herself  
through an RN program, which is actually pretty awesome for a 19-year  
old whose father refuses to pay a dime.

She said she can't go to Grandma because she "will probably have a  
nervous breakdown."   I can see her stone drunk over it.   And she  
can't go to her mom (my daughter) because she is the other alcoholic  
in the family.

I'm really glad, Herb, that Marie's father isn't living to see  
this.   It would kill the man to see this.   He was the opposite  
pole ... a self made man who rose to be one of the highest regarded  
thorasic surgeons in Lancaster County in spite of an Italian  
background at a time when the German's did not suffer Italians  
gladly.   His father's surgical partner was my school board president  
back in the 1950s.

I understand my wife has been doing a lot of crying over this.   The  
museum is probably coming out the winner because they are going to  
wind up with my collection long before I die in order to protect  
it.   I understand that Ed Lybarger and John Swindler are going to  
spend six days packing it while I'm in Europe and then the museum  
president, who just happens to own a moving and storage company, will  
haul the archives, the darkroom, and the shop machinery to PTM.    
Then I guess we can dissolve the marriage and sell the house.

Of course, if she has been crying, why did she start all this?

Fred

On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:32 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Is the 'caboose' at PTM available for rental ?? That would actually  
> be a fun place to stay.
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>   Thanks Cleveland Indians For A Great Win  --  Now, On To Boston  
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>   "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   No one has made reservations here yet!
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> Race Track Road area has a Holiday Inn, a Comfort Inn and a brand-new
> Hampton Inn.
> Murtland Avenue area has a Motel 6 and a smallish Hampton Inn.
> Off Route 19 by Wal-Mart is a Spring Hill Suites.
> W Chestnut Street interchange area has a Red Roof Inn, a Ramada Inn  
> and a
> Days Inn, plus a new Comfort Suites.
> Near the Canonsburg exit there is a Super 8.
> Off the Southpointe exit is a Hilton Garden Inn.
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> So there's something for all tastes and finances.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Bob
> Dietrich
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:04 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] November get-together
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> Our planned get-together is but a few weeks away and I haven't heard
> anything about making room accommodations. Have you folks made  
> arrangements
> other than staying at Ed's place? If so please clue me in. If not  
> should
> we try to get into the same place? How many of us need rooms? I  
> know there
> are a few places on Race Track Road, I can call for rates. Any other
> suggestions?
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> Bob
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> Herb Brannon
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