Wednesday, April 21, 2010
News Don't Let Them Take Away the Bar Car! God, Not the Bar Car...
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM
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Ok, I admit that I don't often find myself on the train to Connecticut, but I've long been a lover of the plastic snack car booths on Amtrak, a peaceful place to drink a cold Heineken as the Hudson River twinkles by in the friscalating dusk light. So the idea that Metro-North might not be ordering bar cars as part of the next generation of trains is most worrisome; because, you see, if they can take the bar car away from trenchcoated businessmen on the way to Greenwich, they can take it away from anyone...
Look, I could probably survive an hour or so away from a bar-like environment, maybe, but I feel like we're really starting to lose something in our society, namely places where children cannot—and should not—go; dark, dingy parlors where men and women can brood, cavort and tell glorious lies to each other without fear of traumatizing some small human.
We are the bar car, the bar car is us.
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