The 2-hour train delay that turned into my best Sunday

Missed my connection in Chicago and ended up eating pie at a diner counter with a retired railroad guy who told me how he started over at 54 after his plant shut down. Has anyone else had a boring delay flip into something that actually reset their week?

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parkerbrown14d ago

Walked into that same kind of nothing happening situation once, missed a bus in Pittsburgh and ended up in this dusty old barbershop across the street. The barber was cutting some kid's hair and just started talking about how he used to fix pinball machines for a living. Next thing I know, he's showing me this beat-up box of old parts and telling me about the time a machine caught fire mid-game in 1987. I sat there for two hours while he finished the cut, and honestly, that weird story stuck with me more than most of my actual plans that week. Sometimes the universe just forces you to sit still and listen.