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Effete Snob

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12. I never get the point of including age in stories like these

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 16, 2023, 11:26 AM

Mar 2023

Mean racist dickheads diss Amtrak employee and other customers by refusing to vacate reserved dining car table at which they were not eating during limited breakfast hours doesn't make as sympathetic a headline.

I don't know the rule that says octogenarians can't assholes....

"At approximately 12:50 p.m. on June 10, 2009, 88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. with a slide-action rifle and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum_shooting

People in their 80's are just like anyone else.

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Two 85 and 95-year-old sisters were kicked off Amtrak train 500 miles from home [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 OP

Except only one of them was kicked off Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2023 #1

true, but NJCher Mar 2023 #2

I havea feeling there's a lot more to this story. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2023 #3

If you book a sleeper on Amtrak Effete Snob Mar 2023 #10

I have taken Amtrak from Santa Fe to Portland, OR, PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2023 #15

They cut back a lot of services during covid Effete Snob Mar 2023 #16

Right. The changes during Covid were profound. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2023 #25

I hope I have the energy to get kicked off anything when I'm 85. Phoenix61 Mar 2023 #4

I'll be happy to make it to 85 (n/t) PJMcK Mar 2023 #7

I never get the point of including age in stories like these Effete Snob Mar 2023 #12

All of your responses in this thread are merely conjecture. hippywife Mar 2023 #19

Ah but everyone else's conjecture is fine, right? Effete Snob Mar 2023 #23

"Shit on service workers all the time" PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2023 #26

Why would Rebl2 Mar 2023 #5

That was my Q. Amtrak has a no card-playing policy? Grins Mar 2023 #6

The dining car for sleeper service is by reservation during meal times Effete Snob Mar 2023 #11

Amtrak could use some compassion snowybirdie Mar 2023 #8

First off Effete Snob Mar 2023 #14

Guess snowybirdie Mar 2023 #17

I have oodles of compassion for abused customer service employees Effete Snob Mar 2023 #18

I Faux pas Mar 2023 #9

White Karens Not Dining In Reservation-Only Dining Car Don't Let Black Employee Push Them Around Effete Snob Mar 2023 #13

There is nothing indicating a racial component to this story at all. hippywife Mar 2023 #20

That's right Effete Snob Mar 2023 #21

Maybe, maybe not... hippywife Mar 2023 #22

Too funny Effete Snob Mar 2023 #24