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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Millions of Americans found tortured on Nation's roads
Message-ID: <147@ihu1g.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 16:21:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 16:21:46 1984
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The last bus trip I took was about 3 years ago, from Toledo, Ohio to
Columbus, Ohio, both of which are places I used to live.  I took the
(canine often used for racing in uncivilized parts of the U.S.)
because it was the only transportation available.  By auto, the Toledo
to Columbus trip is about 2 1/2 hours, if you drive at a pace inoffensive 
to the state's  notorious highway patrol, but the bus ride took a bit over
5 hours.  Seems that it has to stop in every dinkle-<expletive deleted>
little town in Ohio, to variously pick up and drop off a wide assortment of
passengers.  These include tobacco-chawing country types who've never used
indoor plumbing, assorted winos and bums, complete with muscatel-bearing
paper bags, various denizens of small-town life who seem to come from a
culture where bathing is considered a semi-weekly custom.

I can certainly say that was the worst trip I've ever taken in my life!
I'd have been much better off thumbing my way, something I did often
when I was a lot younger.  I can't imagine what it must be like to take
the bus cross-country, but it must be something like jail, or maybe,
premature burial.  I sure hope Amtrak can survive.


                                Bob Fishell