On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:15:56 +0100, "Ophelia" > wrote:

>Giusi wrote:
>> "ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>> ...
>>> Giusi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Who fills wine glasses to the top?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, the check is in the mail. It's in zlotys.
>>> Kewl. It might just might cover a ticket to Macbeth in Warsaw. I
>>> just love those witches... don't you?
>>>
>>> Now
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>> Chatty Cathy
>>
>> There is a bus from here to Poland that costs ?16 each way that the
>> hired caregivers use to go back and forth every 90 days. I am going
>> to take it with them soon. Really, it seems silly not to. I've
>> never gone anywhere on a bus, so 24 hours ought to satisfy that
>> curiosity.
>
>Feh! You'll never want to do it again!! I did it.... once. Years ago I
>took a coach to visit friends in former Yugoslavia. Never again!!!
>
Back when I was young and immortal and Richard Nixon was newly
ensconced in the White House, I took a bus from Dallas to Mexico City.
In Brownsville we switched from a US bus to a Mexican bus. I learned
a lot about my mortality at night outside Ciudad Victoria riding
behind the driver as he switched the lights off on the hilly curves so
he could see the lights of the oncoming traffic. But later that night
in the mountains of central Mexico, when the transmission fell out of
the bus and our driver fixed it in the dark and changed his uniform
out in the chaparral so he wouldn't look like a grease jockey after
his ordeal, I learned a lot about maintaining your dignity in the face
of mundane troubles. The guy was a mensch.
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