On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:48:35 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> English has an expression "you come from the wrong side of the tracks", 
> i.e., you grew up in the poor neighborhood close to the noisy railroad 
> tracks, unlike us rich snobby folks.
>
> You don't even need to be particularly close to the tracks. I was in a 
> dorm room in university about two blocks away, and when the train with 4 
> locomotives pulling 450 cars behind it hit the horn, it set off the car 
> alarms for like 3 blocks.

I lived my childhood in a vicinity of the railroads, and I grew fond of
the sound of trains, and of the railroad announcements. It took me a long
time to forget how I missed those sounds when I moved.

-- 
Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/

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