From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 04:32:08 +0800
To: "Brown, R Ken" <nobody@replay.com>
Subject: RE: airline id
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At 6:46 AM -0500 10/29/98, Brown, R Ken wrote:
>problem. On trains, unlike planes, you keep your luggage with you.
>
>Also people *like* trains. They are cute. Even in America you have
>hordes of trainspotters and steam enthusiasts and model-builders and all
>the rest. It always amazes me that bookshops have more shelves of
>hobbyist books about trains than about cars, but only about 15% of the
>population regularly travel by train and about 60% by car. (In England -
>I guess in the USA that's more like 5% and 85% - and before you say that

	That actually may be the reason. I have traveled a good deal on
both trains, by Auto, and by bicycle, and well, Trains suck. Cars suck
slightly less (execpt in a few cases).

	It is easiest to get romantic about something you don't have to
fight with on a regular basis.

Ken Brown
>
>(who prefers bicycles to trains but had to use the train to get to work
>today because  of a broken spoke he is incapable of fixing. He only does
>software)

	I have 3 bikes. Hell, a spare bike is cheaper than a spare tire.
--
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