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[evanparsons]

This morning in the pouring rain I sat, for two hours in a rickety wooden booth that shook with the slightest breeze. My view was limited to a road, a series of train tracks, in the distance a Starbucks, and every once in a while, a train would pass, making big important train noises

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[hatstodisappear]

oh my god. i know this is real and all, and intense, but what a lovely piece of writing. thank you.

[christalk]

It wasn't you that got your leg torn off (and that is a very good thing),
but hearing about people experiencing these things, even second or third hand, is a reminder that we actually are living this life right here and right now.
It helps me shed that feeling that sometimes creeps up - that I'm just waiting for something to happen.

[hatstodisappear]

let's just hope you're not waiting to have a limb torn off. funny that you used the expression '2nd or 3rd hand'. i think i want to do some writing, one day, about one-legged-dave, one-eyed-christine, and one-nut-willie. christine and willie only had these as teasing names, but dave was the best. We would use this handle for clarification. Often enough when we didn't need to, but it was just so fun to say. And after all, there are a lot of daves out there.
"dave called."
"dave who?"
"one-legged-dave."
"oh."

[christalk]

Was that the Dave with the green snowpants that worked at the Ski Hill?

And I think one-nut-willie was a justified nickname. Casey was his cousin. She told me.

And Christine really did have a glass eye, didn't she?

[hatstodisappear]

no, different dave. but yes, all of the nicknames were justified. they were all true.

[jellyfishouch]

when i was little my grandma told me a story about a boy she knew who would jump trains. one day, as he was jumping off, the wind tunnel sucked him underneath the train and took off his two legs. i always wondered what that looked like. did you wonder what that mans leg looked like?

[evanparsons]

i love grandmas. actually, i did wonder what it looked like, and how gruesome it was, where exactly the tear was, was it below the knee? and if so, does it really count as having your leg torn off? or should you call it something else? but most of all i wondered if they could sew it back on, using microsurgery, and, how does microsurgery work anyhow? how long can you have your leg torn off for before its just too late to even try and sew it back on?

[withkerth]

i love grandmas too. holy.