The season has had the Gang all disbursed on varying train schedules, annual leaves, medical leaves to recuperate from a myriad of elective procedures. Just as we are wondering about the extended absence of a valued member, he or she suddenly shows up again.
Raven had been on the train but earlier or later according to his commuting needs, not our cohesive social ones. He did say that the other trains were "more relaxing" even if not less occupied. So Raven is stressed by a ride with the Gang, I guess. Actually, that would not be so surprising, nor are we incensed by the possibilities.
Princess Carly breezed in to the membership area with the announcement that she and 22 friends will be heading to Deep Creek with 5 caigs. This of course, raised the question of what a caig was. Raven stepped in with a linguistic analysis of the varying pronunciations of the "e" in egg as being either a "eh" or an "A". This consumed about 10 minuted of our daily commute interval. That digressed into how many glasses of beer or gallons were in a caig or half-keg. No matter how one looks at it, 5 of them is a huge amount of beer for 23 people on one weekend.
Trish continues to collect the email and phone numbers of the Gang so at to be up to date on party time when Friday pizza calls our name.
The renovated platform at BWI is nearly complete. Actually it is only the Phase 2 portion at the north end that is nearing completion. The south end segment was completed earlier this year leaving only a small middle section to do. It won't be long now before they switch us to that north end and our "official car" will nave to be switched again.
Some neophyte posed the question as to why we were the Car 5 Gang when we were actually in car 4. I said that that was a long story and it would be changed again soon. Once Car 5, always Car 5. Semper Five!
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