So many people are sick! Germs are lurking everywhere. I remember reading one of the Laura Ingles Wilder books set in the 1800's and, on the train car she was traveling in, there was a pitcher of water and ...one drinking glass for all passengers to share.
Oh, yeah, they still do that at Catholic Mass...
We took a train out west several years ago and our dining car attendant (we called her 'Pinkie') had raging pink-eye. She would set our table, rub her eye, then write down our order and...hand me her pen to sign the slip...I recall the undisguised horror on Lauren and Alana's faces. We would then race for the bathroom, wash up, and go back to our meal most likely prepared by coughing, sputtering kitchen crew dudes with pink-eye compliments of 'Pinkie'.
(Just to really set the mood, think about all that while bouncing and clattering along the tracks at 6 a.m., with a carload of unshowered passengers, eating runny fried eggs.)
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you certainly have a way with words ;-) S
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