Re: Public transportation

-- On Tue, 7/24/12, Malachi Kenney <kfringe@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Ellen Rawson wrote:
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> > Luckily, there's a train within walking distance from
> our house,
>
> Luxury! I miss that convenience.

We indeed are fortunate to have a mainline station so near considering that we're in such a rural area..
>
> Hasn't it always? I mean... it's LONDON. It's where all the
> hopes and dreams of the British people go to sputter before
> they die. Whether finance, entertainment, politics or any
> other field, London is where you go to fail miserably at
> being at the top of the game. You'd need to combine New
> York, DC and Los Angeles into one raggedy capital of a
> failed empire to harvest such an array of failed dreams here
> in the states.
>
No, that's Slough, just outside of London, about which John Betjeman wrote "Let friendly bombs fall on Slough" and where the original "The Office" was set.

Ellen, back home from court, on a jury and can't talk more about it. But it's been an interesting day, especially comparing US and UK courts/trials.