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<p>Thanks for setting me straight, Carl!</p><p>Here's something else I remembered after I posted last night -- I'd just gotten my first big-boy car with my own money, a 1994 Jeep Wrangler. Traffic had stopped at that same intersection on Elizabeth and St. Charles and I was on the south side of the tracks. So far, so good. </p><p>The stoplight went green and my traffic started moving. Some turkey blows the light and almost causes an accident. Traffic stops with me on the tracks. So far, maybe not so good. </p><p>The guy who ran the light stopped in the intersection and got in a screaming match with someone who almost hit him. Out of the car pointing and waving. There's three of us on the tracks, I'm in the middle. So far, they are wasting my time and I'm starting to get uncomfortable. Much honking in the column of stopped traffic. Sure enough, the gates go down. So far, so bad. </p><p>Westbound freight's coming, I can't back up because traffic is packed. I can't go forward because traffic is packed. I had time to consider wether or not my roll bar would help my cause and how much trouble I'd get in if I bashed the car in front of me to get the hell out of the way. </p><p>Traffic moved, the day was saved, I'm sure the crew gave us all the finger as we got the hell out of the way and the train passed. </p><p>There was much shaking afterward and swearing and the coppery taste of adrenaline. Sucked.</p><p>That same intersection used to be a great place to get your jalopy airborn when you were a teenager, before they leveled it all out. Or so I heard.</p><p>mxr </p>
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