Jeeze, LOL, my falling nightmare just flashed back! :-D

catbead

>>>
>The trick was to jump up just as the ship dropped down into a trough,
so that you would rise *FAR* higher above the deck than an ordinary
jump could take you
--Wild Woman

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> I can see that Team Rayvenhaus are people who know how to have fun!
>
I've had worse said about me than, "I know how to have fun", so thanks!
(grin) I appreciate that. In 41 years (Almost 42) I've realized that it's to
short not to have fun. Why else would I come whooping out of a thicket, with
a Tupperware box in one hand screaming "I found it, I found it", as if I had
discovered the lost book of Atlantis, all the while feeling as if I was
Indiana Jones?
>
> I'm curious about this waving-arms-as-if-in-flight near trains, tho... I
> can't say that I've ever experienced this in my (apparently sheltered)
life.
> Does it create the sensation of flight--or something--or is it done to
confound
> people on the train who might be watching you ;o) ????
>
Well, no actually. It's background is shrouded in antiquity. It was first
noticed in the prehistoric times when early man was attempting to wave off
an attacking T-Rex. Alas, it didn't work. The next instance was in biblical
times when the Isrealittes attacked Jericho. The defenders were seen yelling
and waving their arms just before the walls fell. It was next seen in
medieval times when hordes of attacking bandits were storming a castle,
though no one was really sure just what the Earl was attempting to
accomplish by standing on the turret waving his arms in that manner. Next,
we find it in more recent times, used by the crowds of people greeting
Lindenbergh when he crossed the Atlantic and landed in France, although it
almost made him veer off and land somewhere else at first. More and more we
are seeing it at major sporting events and other gatherings of large numbers
of people, perhaps with the idea that a large number of people will reach a
'critical' mass and cause spontaneous flight? One does not know. However,
in this case, it was meant to illicit a response from the engineers of the
train and cause them to respond with a long blast of the train whistle.
Which they were kind enough to do, given that two full grown adults were
standing on the boarded up train station as if they were just waiting for
the 10:12 to pull in from Seattle, wildly waiving thier arms and hollering
their fool heads off. I mean, what else could they do?

All in all, we are enjoying this and it is giving us a chance to do more
together.

Team Rayvenhaus
P0 F39 E0 X1 V8 HH1 PL16 SNL2

When I was a kid, traveling Hwy 99 to Southern CA before the straight, no
signaled Hwy 5 was built, it took 12 hours to travel the 500 miles to my
grandmother's house once a year. Since Hwy 99 parallels train tracks much of the way,
my mother used to ease my boredom by telling me that if I could get a caboose
man to wave at me, it would bring me good luck! I couldn't count the number of
hours I waited for a train and waved nor could I count the amount of luck
I've stored up over the years by this method (lifting my legs when driving over
railroad tracks works too).

Now that there are no cabooses (don't get me started on how big a
disappointment THAT was to me!) I'm switching that good luck waver to the engineer of the
train. At 49, I still can be found rolling down my window in any weather and
enthusiastically waving to any train in my tracks. They DO wave back
occasionally but there is a CAUTION: if you do this in front of your teenagers, they're
eyes are likely to pop right out of their sockets when they roll them.

~~Doublesaj & Old Blue~~
P18 F57 X2 V5 A13 HH1


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