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Wrong Train

I remember getting on the
wrong train at Oxford — a town, I
suppose, about Charlottesville's size
— because, even though the Oxford
station has four platforms, so many
trains were there it was necessary to
put two trains on one platform at
once and, as luck would have it, I
boarded the wrong one.

But what a pleasant mistake: it
could only happen in a country
where there is a train to anywhere
at almost anytime. England (and
much of Europe) is the
transportation future. It works very
well and I hope we are not far
behind.