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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Roy. I may try that next time they call and I am in the mood to play.
Murph

[John Webster]

A major aggravation is doctors and hospitals. You have their number with their name in your cellphone and use it to get their receptionist. They call you from a different number with no name attached and wonder why you don't answer.

[Roy]

Thank you, Roy. I may try that next time they call and I am in the mood to play.
Murph

I wasn't thinking of play. Is your phone a land line, which you shared with your wife? Is it possible some of her friends or relatives haven't found out about her passing?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Roy. I may try that next time they call and I am in the mood to play.
Murph

I wasn't thinking of play. Is your phone a land line, which you shared with your wife? Is it possible some of her friends or relatives haven't found out about her passing?

You're right. I better calm the whole thing down, and not be so hostile. It's just that after I deliver a pleasant greeting, to have total silence given me in return is offensive and unsettling to me. And I don't think uninformed distant-friends of hers would do that on our shared line. (I'm pretty sure everyone knows, by now, of her passing, though.) Yet, you're still right. I'll just be civil, polite, and simply hang-up. Maybe, I've been venting pent-up tensions.
Thanks, Roy.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's just that after I deliver a pleasant greeting, to have total silence given me in return is offensive and unsettling to me.

Sometimes that silence is the timed pause from the bot on the other end before it starts its spiel on your insurance, warranty, etc. They put a delay in to check if there's a human on the other end and that the phone has not rolled to a voice mail box. When it rolls, they disconnect; when you answer and confirm your human, then they start.

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Rufus.
Murph

[J. S. Bach]

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[rogruth]

Every time I see a container train I think how many more trucks would be on the road if there were no trains.
I also know that we can't do without the trucks.

[J. S. Bach]

Every time I see a container train I think how many more trucks would be on the road if there were no trains.
I also know that we can't do without the trucks.

I agree about the trucks. Just picture these two mile-long truck trains on the road:

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Note that these seem to have been close to an hourly each way service.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A very well made point, Roger and J.S.Bach.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Every time I see a container train I think how many more trucks would be on the road if there were no trains.

They do provide the bulk transport.

I also know that we can't do without the trucks.

And they fill in the in between connections.

[rogruth]

Every time I see a container train I think how many more trucks would be on the road if there were no trains.

They do provide the bulk transport.

I also know that we can't do without the trucks.

And they fill in the in between connections.

Yes, IMHO we, as do most modern (?) countries, rely on our transportation system that is based on land, sea and air systems.
If any one stops we are really hurting very quickly.

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Refreshing candor.