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Amtrak7 wrote:Everyone's now shouting at me that trains are "junk", "garbage", "forbidden", "old-school", etc. They start advocating planes and cars. They shout at me lies that "Amtrak has been shut down by the president" to try and scare me away.oh holy crap! thats the same as my situation!
Nobody, with a few exceptions, understands that rail usage is currently rising and they don't even believe the statistics.
Amtrak7 wrote:Everyone's now shouting at me that trains are "junk", "garbage", "forbidden", "old-school", etc. They start advocating planes and cars. They shout at me lies that "Amtrak has been shut down by the president" to try and scare me away.
daylight4449 wrote: oh holy crap! thats the same as my situation!1) You are probably very sensitive. They are saying things to "push your buttons."
Otto Vondrak wrote:Stop making high school harder than it already is. Believe me, I was there.trust me, i have toned it down quite a lot over the pas two years, but the sad part is that the high school i go to just plain sucks! the pricipal hates me, the Vice pricipal is a jerk, and i hafe two dozen people who want to rip out my lungs, so real fun.
ns3010 wrote:If it's that bad, have you ever thought of transferring?absolutely, but i missed the baypath aplication the past 2 years, and i can't think of any school that is a choice school within the worcester county area
daylight4449 wrote:Try out for sports. Not kidding. Track team, baseball, football, something. Hanging out with the team is a good way to make people forget they want to rip your guts out. Because I helped the football team train in the off-season, I was able to make a few friends and people stopped trying to beat my brains out every day.Otto Vondrak wrote:Stop making high school harder than it already is. Believe me, I was there.trust me, i have toned it down quite a lot over the pas two years, but the sad part is that the high school i go to just plain sucks! the pricipal hates me, the Vice pricipal is a jerk, and i hafe two dozen people who want to rip out my lungs, so real fun.
Otto Vondrak wrote:I'm on the baseball team, but unfortunately my town is the kind of town where there is nothing to do other than drink on weekends so while the rest of the team is out drinking, I'm out chasing the SU-99 or photographing CSX freights. I'm lucky, one of my teachers is an HO scale modeler and the superintendent is an O gauge modeler and I am real good friends with both of them.daylight4449 wrote:Try out for sports. Not kidding. Track team, baseball, football, something. Hanging out with the team is a good way to make people forget they want to rip your guts out. Because I helped the football team train in the off-season, I was able to make a few friends and people stopped trying to beat my brains out every day.Otto Vondrak wrote:Stop making high school harder than it already is. Believe me, I was there.trust me, i have toned it down quite a lot over the pas two years, but the sad part is that the high school i go to just plain sucks! the pricipal hates me, the Vice pricipal is a jerk, and i hafe two dozen people who want to rip out my lungs, so real fun.
Trains will always be there for you to enjoy them.
-otto-
ErieLimited2914 wrote:unfortunately my town is the kind of town where there is nothing to do...My town is exactly the same way, and it sucks. You have to go somewhere else for everything
I'm lucky, one of my teachers is an HO scale modeler and the superintendent is an O gauge modeler and I am real good friends with both of them.