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    >   The cable company also a weather channel, where a camera merely panned   
    > back and forth a series of screens with time, temp, forecast, etc.   
      
   The weather channel's humble beginning, eh?   
      
    >   Trinidad didn't have any tv until the cable arrived in 1966 and   
    > departments stores (we had two) had signs in the window reading "We now sell   
    > televisions!"    
      
   Trinidad being a town you lived in, & not the island next to Tobago?   
      
    >   The cable company we had at one time did that a lot, shuffling local   
    > stations around so Channel 3 would be on 4, etc.  Then after one learned   
    > where the channels were actually on they did it again.     
    >   Like stores that move things all over the place and where you brought X   
    > they were now selling Y and X was somewhere else.  I hate when they do that.   
    > Its to keep people in the store longer hoping they will buy more.   
      
   Frusterating, indeed., It don't work with me -- theur ghoal may be such, but al   
   lit does is frustrate me into rushing only to gety the desired items, tyhen get   
   out & never return (cue Golden Goose moral)   
      
    >   I like to joke that at my age nothing much surprises me any longer.   
      
   I'm in wonderful shape for the shape I'm in, I joke.   
      
    >   I generally traveled cross country (WV to CO and back to visit my mother   
    > who was still in CO) on the train.  C&O (now CSX)to Cincinnati, connect to   
    > the NY Central to Chicago, then the Santa Fe to CO.   
    >   I went on the bus just once, and that was enough.   
    >   I missed the through bus from Cincinnati to Denver, and had to take a   
    > local to Trinidad.  That thing stopped at every wide spot in the road and if   
    > someone flagged it down in the middle of nowhere, it stopped, day or night.   
    >   Pull into some diner and told "20 minute rest stop", order the food and   
    > maybe it would be served at the 19 minute mark, then grab whatever one could   
    > carry and run back to the bus.   
      
   Sa,e up here on my one big Greyhound trip.  I've used it for smaller trips just   
   fine, but now they've pulled out of BC completely.  I liked they could take me   
   in my wheelchair, if I called ahead to say when I weanted the accessible coach.   
      
   Only for East-West, though. Never did take them up on it.   
      
    >   I was born in 1950.   
      
   Definitely got a few years on me! You were a senior(17 in grade 12?) when I was   
   born!   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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