Thursday, October 6, 2005

So you want to ride the train…

I visited my brother in Boston last week, and picked up 3 more kegs from the local homebrew store. Because of the timing, I was going to have to take Amtrak home rather than the $15 Chinatown bus.

This was a problem because while the Chinatown bus is pretty relaxed - Amtrak has security guards. I got to the train station a little early expecting a hassle - but I walked right by 3 clusters of Boston police with my kegs, and they didn't say anything.

But you should have seen the private security guard's eyes light up when he saw me heading down the platform to actually get on the train. After a couple questions (what are those, why are you taking them on a train) I took the initiative of opening up the empty kegs to prove that they were empty (because I'm clearly so big and strong that I can swing 50lb full kegs around like they're 5lb empty kegs) - and I was allowed on the train.

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