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Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning
Author: almo
Date: 10-31-2009 - 23:33

I think it's when you invite a railfan that's never seen your part of the country, and you invite him to come along with you for a day to show him the good places to railfan. Then you realize he has the patience of a 2year-old, and after he paces around the ROW for 15 minutes, and up to, say, opposing signals to see if they're lit, a train shows up, and Mr. impatient ends up in your photo, forever imbedding himself into your photo archives.

I had that happen, and if this guy wasn't in a shot, he was deeply sleeping in the car from the effects of jet-lag, and with the reaction time of a lemur, never got a pic to preserve the memories. The best part for me is that after a few trains, he set his camera back into his bag, and "wanted to fully watch a train pass without the distractions of using his camera". It was his attempt to recover his own pride, hopefully without me feeling sorry for him. didn't work.

I now choose my railfan buddies very carefully.
almo

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  Poll: The WORST things about railfanning Ernesto in Modesto 10-31-2009 - 15:08
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning A.S.C. 10-31-2009 - 18:44
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning Tom McCann 10-31-2009 - 23:07
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning PNWRailfan 10-31-2009 - 23:02
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning P.Kepler 10-31-2009 - 23:12
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning almo 10-31-2009 - 23:33
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning David Dewey 11-01-2009 - 00:15
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning George Andrews 11-01-2009 - 00:40
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning Drew Jacksich 11-01-2009 - 07:32
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning Dick Cheney 11-01-2009 - 08:55
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning JWL 11-01-2009 - 10:12
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning Drew Jacksich 11-01-2009 - 11:37
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning OPRRMS 11-01-2009 - 14:18
  Re: Poll: The WORST things about railfanning Steven D. Johnson 11-04-2009 - 01:26


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