Competitive Texting & Happy New Year!
With the proliferation of texting and e-mails, it has become apparent that there are those among us that take great pleasure in sending their Christmas or New Year greetings from as wacky or far flung places as possible.
This year it has risen to a new competitive level:
My first Christmas text was on the 24th December from the top station on a Swiss mountain railway.
Then came an e-mail with a photo of the correspondent watching the shunters loading the train ferry between the New Zealand islands.
On the day itself: a text from the high speed maglev line in China, quoting the set number and train timings and letting me know that this message was sent at the highest speed possible on a scheduled ground based transport system. Er-doesn’t the maglev float?
On New Year’s Eve an e-mail arrived from the snow covered Rockies with photos of a 70 wagon train with 8 locomotives; 6 at the front and 2 at the rear.
Two texts on the day itself reportedly from the high point of the Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (does this run on New Years Day?), and the next from the Qinghai-Tibet railway. These are between them the current and previous highest railway routes in the world.
Well, I can’t compete. I can only wish you all Happy New Year from the comforts of my own home. Where I want it to be known I have been undertaking repairs to a fuel lift pump, rather than swanning off around the world enjoying myself.
This year it has risen to a new competitive level:
My first Christmas text was on the 24th December from the top station on a Swiss mountain railway.
Then came an e-mail with a photo of the correspondent watching the shunters loading the train ferry between the New Zealand islands.
On the day itself: a text from the high speed maglev line in China, quoting the set number and train timings and letting me know that this message was sent at the highest speed possible on a scheduled ground based transport system. Er-doesn’t the maglev float?
On New Year’s Eve an e-mail arrived from the snow covered Rockies with photos of a 70 wagon train with 8 locomotives; 6 at the front and 2 at the rear.
Two texts on the day itself reportedly from the high point of the Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (does this run on New Years Day?), and the next from the Qinghai-Tibet railway. These are between them the current and previous highest railway routes in the world.
Well, I can’t compete. I can only wish you all Happy New Year from the comforts of my own home. Where I want it to be known I have been undertaking repairs to a fuel lift pump, rather than swanning off around the world enjoying myself.
posted by TonyB at 1:44 pm
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