Hello everyone, this is Refried. I am on the Amtrak train and we just left Greenville. I have a good seat buddy at least for about two hours. Then it will be 4:30. There could be a bad one after that but it will be almost daylight and that helps when you have a bad person which I did one time. The train station was not safe this time so I do not know what I will do for the next trip. I felt like after the trip here that I was okay to tolerate the train after feeling too disabled for it in the last several trips. But I think some of that was because I was being tortured at housing.

Basically there was a non passenger who came in the waiting area when I was the only one there at 1:30 in the morning. I said hello and he was friendly but stayed too long in the bathroom like possibly either drugs or just sleeping. So I went outside and waited on the platform. Actually it was a good solution because if someone came toward me it would be okay to call 911. but no one was there until a safe couple was standing outside the building later and I talked to them. They were first timers and I told them usually it felt safer. Well then another guy came into the waiting area and I decided to wait there instead. But then I found out he was not a passenger either. He said “ I wish I could get on this train and go to Philly.” Well I went back outside because it sounded like a drug dealer pickup line. But maybe he was a nice guy. 

So then I waited twenty more minutes and some other people came in the train area and the mystery guys left.

But there was another car with non passengers and they were socializing. So I am going to have to write a little note to Amtrak and say how bad it is that they don’t staff their stations. And I will tell them I am also going to send a note to the hometown newspaper to do a story about it.

People could say not to announce it as a target but there should be some leadership to maintain a functioning train station for a city of a million people.

Well maybe this is that article.

Have a nice day everyone.