Yeah I told the story once of working for a tourism company in DC and dealing with a Chinese guy who got really upset that no DC tour packages included a brief side trip to New York to see the Statue of Libertyhttps://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1211087142748737537 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That's not even that far! Also China is pretty big too, it's not like Beijing and Shanghai are that close together.
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Replying to @atonal440
Yes, well We established that the train would take four hours and the only faster method was to fly, upon which he asked why the train was so damn slow A decent question really
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Replying to @afwaller @arthur_affect
Yeah basically. But basically, we never put money into trains in the postwar era while everyone else did.
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Replying to @atonal440 @afwaller
The question "Why even build a train if it doesn't go any faster than a car" is a good question, if a bit ahistorical
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It was a really humorous encounter in hindsight He even ended by going "And I suppose Los Angeles is completely out of the question" with this huffy look on his face
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