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How about a laugh, (hopefully)
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@2011panc That reminds me, when I was young, it was common to ask what your father did for a living. We were confused. We asked our folks how to answer that question. We were told "your dad is an engineer". From then until I was in high school, it was customary for me to wave at any train going past our house, in the hopes of waving and greeting our dad. It wasn't until later I realized he was an electronic engineer, nothing to do with trains.
Hopefully it made the day for some of those guys who got greetings from someone on the sidelines.
Ginger
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@gingerw Speaking of trains . . . the men in my family all wore bib overalls; my father was the only one that wore "railroad" bibs. I never did learn why, but it was always easy to pick him out from a distance.
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@gingerw It's always funny to hear what goes through the mind of a child. My father was a manager and generally got home at 5:30 like clockwork. If he was late my mother would say he must be tied up at the office. This was back in the days of cowboy shows so I would always picture my father being tied to his chair by someone!
JK