[PRCo] Re: November get-together

[Fred Schneider]

I may end up buying a turkey sandwich on the turnpike and eating it  
in Motel 5 15/16ths.

On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:

> When you have a very good friend who hands you a business class
> ticket to Munich and says, in effect, Lets take a vacation together,
> only a fool turns that down.   Besides, you guys all know me well
> enough to know that, after roughly 42 months of my life spent
> wandering around Europe, I really like it.   They are not paranoid if
> you want to take a picture of a transit vehicle.   They do a much
> better job recognizing a terrorist.   We wouldn't know one if it  
> bit us.
>
> I dissolved the first marriage in Mexico, in that interim period when
> Mexico demanded that party A file and party B show up to agree to the
> filing.   My first wife's boy friend moved in.   I suggested that he
> pay for the divorce or I would under terms he didn't like.   He
> borrowed on his life insurance and sent me for a weekend vacation in
> Juarez.   The court appointment was 9 AM.   By 10 AM I was single and
> my Mamiya was aimed on trolleys.   I finished the day having a
> Mexican dinner with the late Henry Leinbach.
>
> This one will be a lot more difficult.   Reno you say?   Well, Herb,
> Nevada actually contributed to the breakup.   She absolutely loathed
> the drive across U. S. 50 from Lake Tahoe to Carson City to Fallon,
> Austin, Eureka and Ely.   I thought the loneliest highway in the U.
> S. was actually pretty ... I would actually drive that road again.
> It is probably the shortest route from San Francisco to Denver (U. S.
> 50 and then I-70) but it is unused because Americans believe that
> only Interstate highways are suitable for going anywhere.
>
> I still like the blue highways.
>
> On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
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>> Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> 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.
>>
>>>>> I know who you are speaking of. He does, however, like PCC  
>>>>> cars ;-)
>>>>> Surely he doesn't sleep there year round..............then maybe
>>>>> he is stranger than fiction.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>>>> What Kenny Rogers said was, "you gotta know when to hold em, you
>>>>> gotta know when to fold em, and most of all you gotta know when
>>>>> to walk away............He forgot about the 'walking away' part.
>>>>> After all, discretion is the better part of valor !
>>
>>
>>    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 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. 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?
>>
>>>>> Might I suggest a trip to Reno, NV rather than Europe.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Edward H. Lybarger" 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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>> Herb Brannon
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