The PA announcements on Amtrak are 50% helping smokers plan the logistics of what stops are long enough to step outside to smoke and how long they'll have to go between burns
When I got on the train in Whitefish I saw zero security personnel. Here we were funneled through winding rope lines past a drug dog and half a dozen guys with their arms crossed.
Life doesn't have to be like this. There are places in the same country where life isn't like this.
It changes you too... on the Empire Builder I left my bag on the rack downstairs unattended. Here it's overhead, near me, because all signals say that people aren't to be trusted. You close up
Spend a while with a voice to text translation app trying to help a guy who only speaks... arabic?... looking for transportation from the station. well, moreso trying to explain that I cannot help because I've never been here before either. Why does nobody ever ask me for directions when I'm somewhere I know
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