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I<br \/>\nfinished Weinberger&#8217;s <i>Everything is Miscellaneous<\/i> and glanced Rice and<br \/>\nReynolds&#8217; <i>Portfolio Teaching<\/i> pamphlet, which I grabbed from the Bedford<br \/>\ntable at C&amp;W because Old U. aims to add <i>Portfolio Keeping<\/i> to their online<br \/>\nFYC sequence by September.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other than the ticketing agent, I was the only person in the station from 9<br \/>\np.m. until 10:30 p.m. The worst thing about the Toledo station is that the<br \/>\nbenches are deliberately uncomfortable. High, rounded cushion backs and narrow,<br \/>\nslanted bench seats made it impossible to sleep. The second worst thing about<br \/>\nthe Toledo station is that the channel cannot be changed on any of the three<br \/>\ntelevisions broadcasting CNN Headline News (which, on Sunday night, included at<br \/>\nleast three full airings of <i>Larry King<\/i> featuring the whole gang from <i><br \/>\nDancing with the Stars<\/i>). The third worst thing: only Pepsi products.<br \/>\nEven so, I did enjoy one Dr. Pepper. And the fourth worst thing?<\/p>\n<p>The 2:00 a.m. train to Pittsburgh was delayed for a full hour, to those who<br \/>\nwould have boarded it at 2:00 a.m. were mulling around. I talked for a<br \/>\nwhile with a retired elementary school teacher from Saginaw who had many<br \/>\nconcerns about No Child Left Behind and who, for other reasons altogether,<br \/>\nwaited with her NYC-bound artist-daughter to make sure she wasn&#8217;t left behind.<br \/>\nThe late train arrived. Those departing on it went out to the platform;<br \/>\nthose arriving made way into the station. <\/p>\n<p>Next&#8211;ten feet in front of me&#8211;a woman in her fifties was walking into the<br \/>\nstation, wheeling her luggage into the terminal when the floor mat folded under<br \/>\nthe short wheels of her suitcase, instantaneously creating a tripping hazard of<br \/>\nthe worst sort: one that could hardly be anticipated. And she fell with<br \/>\nalarming force to the floor. We helped her up and over to the nearest<br \/>\nbench&#8211;the same one I had been sitting on. She would be fine, although she<br \/>\ninsisted on having the ticketing agent call 9-1-1 and mentioned that her<br \/>\ndaughter was a lawyer at Toledo U. I won&#8217;t go into all of the details of<br \/>\nour conversation, but because I was already sitting there and had all of my<br \/>\nluggage parked by the bench, I was the only one who remained within earshot,<br \/>\nnear enough to listen to her rail against Amtrak (It&#8217;s not even raining! and I<br \/>\njust want my medical bills paid for! and Did you see what happened?). Living<br \/>\nit&#8211;perhaps because I&#8217;ve done a poor job of capturing the mood&#8211;was somehow more<br \/>\nsurreal.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the trip and fall, most of the other incidents were minor. In<br \/>\nBuffalo, a mass of passengers crowded onto the train and there was a tussle<br \/>\nbetween a couple of folks in front of me over who would have the window seat.<br \/>\nNothing major. I will take the train again, but I can&#8217;t say that I have<br \/>\nany immediate plans to do so. For the $57 bucks I spent, I might not have<br \/>\nbeen able to drive a car from Toledo to Syracuse. And all of the flights,<br \/>\nbesides costing several times more and piling on one or more layovers, would&#8217;ve<br \/>\ntaken the same amount of time as Monday&#8217;s eight-hour train ride. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>More about the events I mentioned yesterday: When pulled up to the Toledo Amtrak Station&#8211;third largest train terminal in the U.S. (said an announcement justifying departure\/arrival delays)&#8211;I had no idea it was only open from 9 p.m. until 12:30 p.m., seven days a week. 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