We've Been On This Shift Too Long
Nov. 8th, 2004 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
philthecowI was sitting alone in the caboose today and one of the conductors suddenly said to the other conductor "That's where I killed the guy, you know."
"Back by the corner?"
"He was lying under the bridge. I dragged him for about a thousand feet before I stopped."
"The Route 10 bridge."
"The scariest part was..."
"You had to identify him?"
"I couldn't find the body at first. I talked to my engineer, I said 'Keith, you found the body yet?' and he hadn't and we walked up and down the train two times before we got him."
"Mangled?"
"Yeah. All beat up. Awful. The worst part of it was I was going to Florida the next day and then I got tied up in the investigations for two days and I couldn't leave."
"That was too bad."
"Poor bastard."
I know they kept talking about it but they walked out of earshot and that was all that I got down verbatim.
"Back by the corner?"
"He was lying under the bridge. I dragged him for about a thousand feet before I stopped."
"The Route 10 bridge."
"The scariest part was..."
"You had to identify him?"
"I couldn't find the body at first. I talked to my engineer, I said 'Keith, you found the body yet?' and he hadn't and we walked up and down the train two times before we got him."
"Mangled?"
"Yeah. All beat up. Awful. The worst part of it was I was going to Florida the next day and then I got tied up in the investigations for two days and I couldn't leave."
"That was too bad."
"Poor bastard."
I know they kept talking about it but they walked out of earshot and that was all that I got down verbatim.
