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Rude awakening!!!

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Rude awakening!!!
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 6, 2004 8:53 AM
Got off the train in Alexandria, Virginia this morning, after a long tiring night of work. Parked on the outtermost track was a garbage train, parked, with no crew and the lead engine shut down. Even with the few hours of sun hitting it, that stuff started to reek![xx(] MAN, was that a rude awakening!![xx(] That rancid junk is the second worst stench in the world to me, right behind someone or an animal getting splattered across the the front of some locomotive.[xx(] Like I said, rude awakening!![xx(]


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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 6, 2004 9:22 AM
Imagine living beside a train like that.

Forget where it was, but I was reading about some people that were complaining that the the railway was short of crews, so the garbage trains were parked in the yard or siding right next to their house.

In winter time it wasn't such a problem, but once that hot weather started to come round the corner at spring time, all hell broke loose.....

Forget which railway it was, but everything got fixed by the railway leaving the garbage trains parked a few more miles down the line where there was no human population living.


---I couldn't imagine the smell....... YUCK.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 6, 2004 9:44 AM
I figure a rude awakening is when a Train crashes through your house at 5AM!

Now theres rude for you!

but..garbage.. yeah thats pretty bad.

imagine all the things in their.. EWWWW

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