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OH MY GOD!!!!!
Posted by shrek623 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:39 AM
HA HA made you look. Just wasting some space with my 100th post. Just got back home on my pool turn and heading to bed.

Take care all,

Shrek
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Posted by csxengineer98 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 5:09 AM
lol..... that is a good game to play with a conductor that is just about to fall asleep..lol....wait for his eyes to close..and then yell OH MY GOD..and when he jumps up and is looking around as panic mode sets in...just say i droped my good pen...... lol
congrats...
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Posted by jeaton on Sunday, April 24, 2005 9:22 AM
csx

That's funny. Maybe alerters on locomotives should have a voice message like that. Probably would be a lot more effective than something like a high pitched beep.

Here's a story. I used to get ride on a company jet. Three of the eight seats were on an upholstered bench accross from the doorway in the forward part of the cabin. I would often take the seat right next to the bulkhead behind the crew so I could look into the crew's "office" and make sure they were doing their job. (Like I would really know).

So we are just about to touch down at Mt Vernon, IL. The nose is up and I can only see sky out of the windshield, the AC is off and it is very quiet in the cabin. And then I hear the pilot say "S---!!" Immediately, I have a vision is my mind of a tractor hauling a piece of farm machinery just drifting accross the runway on the way to the adjacent corn field. So I wonder, "Is this it?" You know those airplane drivers are so cool they don't panic if the wings fall off. But we touch down, get down to taxi speed and roll over to the ramp. Walking to the terminal, I ask our pilot what that was all about. "Oh, I just came about a foot to high and the ground effect on this plane tends to keep the wheels off the concrete just a little longer than we like."

Fortunately, it is in the morning, otherwise I might have gone directly to terminal lounge for some "medicine" to calm the nerves.

Have a good one.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:14 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by shrek623

HA HA made you look. Just wasting some space with my 100th post. Just got back home on my pool turn and heading to bed.

Take care all,

Shrek


Shrek -

OK ya got me...

How is it going out there?

LC
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:23 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

lol..... that is a good game to play with a conductor that is just about to fall asleep..lol....wait for his eyes to close..and then yell OH MY GOD..and when he jumps up and is looking around as panic mode sets in...just say i droped my good pen...... lol
congrats...
csx engineer


Really LAMO that's funny! I would litterly pay to see the conductor jump. Mabe I'll do that when I get hired out on the road and make it to locomotive engineer. If I see my conductor falling asleep I'll yell OMG and then I'll do a little girly scream that'll deffanitly wake him up. Then I can say oh I'm sorry I droped my pen. LOL
LORD HELP US ALL TO BE ORIGINAL AND NOT CRISPY!!! please? Sarah J.M. Warner conductor CSX
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Posted by shrek623 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:42 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

lol..... that is a good game to play with a conductor that is just about to fall asleep..lol....wait for his eyes to close..and then yell OH MY GOD..and when he jumps up and is looking around as panic mode sets in...just say i droped my good pen...... lol
congrats...
csx engineer


hey csx,

just remember paybacks a b*#@%!!!!!![:D]

Shrek


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Posted by chad thomas on Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:59 PM
That reminds me of thia friend of mine that we used to pick on (in good fun). His driving skills left something to be desired. Whenever he was driving, every once in a while we would yell out"WHOA,WHOA,WHOA". And every time he would panic and slam on the brakes. He never did learn. Of course everybody would be laughing but him.
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Posted by shrek623 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:59 PM


Shrek -

OK ya got me...

How is it going out there?

LC


LC,

Going very well, at least it is now that I transfered to Galesburg. It was a nightmare at Aurora because I couldn't hold anything above the brakeman's xbrd. So I made the decision to transfer to here where I have held a pool turn (comfortably I might add) from day 1 of being here. The hardest part right now is I have a place in Galesburg to crash at but my family is still 2 hours east of here. We put our house up and I'm hoping they will be down here soon. I go home when I can(the benefits of being on a pool turn, on the xtra brd's down here that would never happen) so that helps but tackling that drive after working the turn is really difficult. I guess I could take csx engineer with me and have him yell OMG every time I was falling asleep at the wheel!!!!!LOL.....


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Posted by chad thomas on Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:03 PM
I wonder if you could get one of those truckers style head gear alerters that would say "OH MY GOD' every time your head nodded.[:0]

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