Wearing Shoes To Cleburne, Texas

[GlobalistPotato]

God I hope Amtrak has a more lively LSA today.

[marquisdejolie]

@GlobalistPotato

: )

[werksdesign]

Oh Wow! I can get Snickers! If I'm wearing my shoes at all times, though.

[marquisdejolie]

@werksdesign

hahaha

[SageofHistory]

I stayed over night in Cleburn once at the high school gymnasium. A kid fell asleep with his eyes open. We shoved all sorts of things in front of his face to get him to blink. He did not blink. The end.

[marquisdejolie]

@SageofHistory

Interesting.

[BigPin10]

this is not cleburn trust me i live ther

[FLATULANTNiNjAZ]

yes it is, its by albertsons. i think. idk its on the store side.

[kimmyjo13]

too funny...go cleburne!

[MTV736jackass]

this is not cleburne tx

[marquisdejolie]

Holey moley! They lied to me! Bastards!

[Beany914]

Yay. I live in Cleburne. A video about it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

[marquisdejolie]

:)

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[foxalito]

Man - am I the only one whose mind is totally fragged by the utter glut of choice available in consumer capitalism.

Just trying to get a coffee can result in brain spasm. I swear if I am forced to decide between cinnamon and nutmeg, ristretto or skinny chai - I'm gonna have a seizure...

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! There was a comedy back in the 80's. A Russian defects, goes to an American supermarket for the first time and faints from all the cereal choices on isle 2.

[fehquig]

I think I'll wear sandals on the next train...

[marquisdejolie]

:)!

[MrRay47]

Now I'm grateful the the government never forced me to wear shoes while walking around on an airplane ...although wearing shoes to the rest rooms is highly recommended. aloha :)

[marquisdejolie]

Highly recommended.

[chevkoch]

They must have seriously overstocked Snickers, the way he's talking about them. Oh the danger of shoeless chocolate snack feeding!

[marquisdejolie]

The government did a 3 million dollar study showing that there was a marked increase in Snickers accidents when walking barefoot. No statistical anomolie, here. They found direct causation!

[chevkoch]

No wonder these train snacks are overpriced; they have to get the money back for that analysis from somewhere! And then, thinking people bring whole roasted pigs on board. It all seems misguided, a wee bit.

[marquisdejolie]

I think that THAT lady, theone with the magic butt, carries a whole roasted pig with her WHEREVER she goes.

[chevkoch]

It's a sidekick AND a snack. Downhill from now on, this world is done.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! You'd think so looking at McGregor, Texas.

[MadBadVoodo]

Cool video!

Five Stars!

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks! I'll make more. Meanwhile, I have 608 MORE videos here on Youtube you can browse.

[marquisdejolie]

Come on a long with the Black Rider

We'll have a gay old time

Lay down in the web of the black spider

I'll drink your blood like wine

So come on in

It ain't no sin

Take off your skin

And dance around your bones

[coloursepia]

the only thing I don't like about Amtrak is that you can't open the windows

[marquisdejolie]

Well actually, you can in certain places...like...uh...if you just HAVE to smoke. Plus, the doors to the baggage rooms are notoriously broken...uh...in case you want to...uh... invite friends along.

[rextangle]

LOL... reminds me of my Amtrak trip. I took it from Chicago to Los Angeles. 3 days of pure hell! SNICKERS!!!!

[marquisdejolie]

Oh, Chicago to L.A.! So you came down across on the Texas Eagle line. You'll be recognizing a lot of the hell coming up, then.

SNICKERS!!!

[coloursepia]

isn't that the zephyr?

[marquisdejolie]

They change names at different parts of the line, which are owned by different freighter companies. Amtrak owns NO tracks! It rents track usage so that our government can operate the passenger rail system at a loss while enriching the freight companies.

[MadBadVoodo]

Actually Amtrak owns some of its own lines mostly in the North East but 4 the most part you are right...

[marquisdejolie]

Really? Then the conductors lied to me....and over the loudspeaker at that.

[MadBadVoodo]

I would not say that they lied they were probably just making excuses for why the train was running so late...The fact is that you were probably running on CSX or BNSF tracks and there was a lot of freight traffic on the tracks and it was beyond there control. Amtrak only owns about 5% of the tracks that they operate on. They own the North East Corridor that they run the high speed trains on and some tracks out by LA that's why those runs actually make money...

[rextangle]

YES! That was it!

[MadBadVoodo]

Hey rextangle did you have a sleeper 4 such a long trip? The only way that I would travel that far on a train would be 2 have my own room with a bed...

[marquisdejolie]

Nah. He toughed it out on the sleep-mangler seats like I did. Hey! Idea for Amtrak: they should have an in-house ....er....in-train chiropractor.

[rextangle]

Oh no, I was sitting the whole time. I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" 3 times during the trip. Funny enough, the train stopped in Las Vegas. Not Nevada, Las Vegas, New Mexico, a scary looking place!

[marquisdejolie]

You don't want to gamble in Las Vegas, New Mexico!

[rextangle]

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!

[GreatGig1]

He really sounded excited about snickers! I don't think they let him have them onboard...lol

[marquisdejolie]

He was a Snickers fiend. I thought Amtrak screened their employees for that. Maybe not. Maybe they do random Snickers testing.

[marquisdejolie]

He left off pizza slices, frozen burgers, chicken fingers, hot dogs, tea and coffee.

[katalina2007]

The announcer is reading off the ENTIRE menu--LOL!! I do like the view from the train--but 59 HOURS on a TRAIN?! You must have ENDLESS amounts of video footage!  LMAO!

[marquisdejolie]

No, it'll just SEEM endless. Instead of TELLING y'all what an ordeal 59 hours on the Amtrak is, I plan to SHOW you.

[katalina2007]

LOL! You are SO clever! You will have to RE-name your channel: AMTRAK24/7!!

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! I feel myself getting closer to my goal of a thousand videos on Youtube. Then I can retire. Besides, I've got a book to write. THAT mule needs a giddiup.

[katalina2007]

Yeah, I wanna read the book! Hurry up and write it pls., so that it will be published and I can BUY it!!

[marquisdejolie]

Well, it's sort of already written. Wrote it over a period of 5 years or so. Problem is, it's all over the place on my harddrive in various formats.

[marquisdejolie]

I've made 11 videos on this subject so far and we've only gone from Marshall to Cleburne, Texas. We still have to hit San Antonio, the great desert, and Juarez before we get to New Mexico, Arizona, the Salton Sea and Los Angeleees.

[bohogirl1]

why do i want a snack all of a sudden?

[marquisdejolie]

They repeated that "Come get our overpriced snacks" mantra over and over and over again, morning, noon and night. At the end of the 59 hours on that train, I could've given this snack call and listed all the goodies from memory.

[popsuckits]

Looks like you are safe...

[marquisdejolie]

So far.