Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Hammer and Knife

Most recently I was thinking about the most interresting stories I can come up with. There hasn't been one that stands out at the moment but with valentines behind me I can focus on my blog.
It has been brought to my attention that I should be alittle more vague on details I leave on this site in case it helps vandles understand how we operate out here.
Which reminds me, a friend of mine, an engineeer, was picking up a train in a bad part of town. Well, they’re all bad if thery're near the railroad. Any way, it was about 2am when he was inspecting his locomotives (about 3 of them) when suddenly on the 3rd motor a vagrant came from out of the shadows and hit him with a hammer then knifed him. He said it happened so fast he didn't have time to react.The conductor went to see about him since it had taken about 20 minutes before he was found bleeding by the conductor who immediatetly called 911. We were all freaked out, we never found the lunetic.
Well on a lighter note, about 8 yrs ago, we stopped our train in this most remote desert and I had to walk and inspect the rail cars for some reason. It was pitch black no stars no moon nothing but black and with my lantern I couldn't see more than 5 feet infront of me.
You know how your mind wanders and my friend was on my mind and that lunitic never being caught.I had walkon dirt and rocks for about 200 yards then I could swear I heard foot steps behind me. I turned around shined my lantern on nothing but tumbleweeds. I thought I was just being ridiculous so, I shook it off and took a few steps. Suddenly, I felt something on my arm I scearmed like a little girl climbed on the nearest rail car turned to shine my lantern on the nostrils of the biggest scariest looking COW you ever saw. Yeah you might laugh but I will never forget the insane look in that animals eye. Dumb cow.