[PRCo] Re: November get-together

[Fred Schneider]

I saw this from Herb and mistakenly thought it was to me based on  
earlier correspondence....

So now all of you know the gory details.   And I guess idiocy runs in  
the family because I didn't look closely to see that it came through  
dementia.   Mea culpa.

On Oct 9, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>   10/8/07   ---   Cleveland Indians-6          New York Yankees-4
>>
>>   Thanks Cleveland Indians For A Great Win  --  Now, On To Boston
>> For Another Victory
>>   GO TRIBE
>>
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>>   "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>   No one has made reservations here yet!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So there's something for all tastes and finances.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Bob
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>> Herb Brannon
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