One of my distant relatives during the Nazi occupation and just after it was engaged in the trade village on the line - the city. Of course, it could have been mythologized to spin the story as it heroically risked their lives to hunger przymierających sourced populations of cities. In a sense it was, but man just wanted to make the lives of their own and their families. My father even told me his story as a child, especially an interesting episode which happened to just after the "liberation". Well, one day my enterprising relatives traveled as usual with a bag stuffed with goods. To reach the goal he had to change to another train at one of the provincial stations. Logistics was an extremely important and accurate measurement of time at a premium. Because sure enough, that the liberation army soldiers flushed a special desire to acquire the spoils particularly in the form of watches, having a timer, and industrious to hide it was a matter of strategic level. My nephew came therefore quite an innovative idea. He took a bit longer and watch strap przyczepił it to his feet. Hidden under the trouser leg, however, the chronometer had one flaw: embarrassing reading time. Once, while standing at the station, relative decided to check what time it is. First, looked around, then kucnął and pretending to tie a shoelace glanced at his watch. Unluckily, he noticed that a soldier. He ran to him immediately and asked to give his watch. He examined it carefully and took out one of his pockets several chronometers. One of them gave the frightened trader. Seeing the surprised face and again said the Pole in his native language:
- I have different watches, but the foot has not yet. - I went watching with interest its precious booty.
Station? Train? Clock? Pendulum? I do not know why, but this story reminded me this morning when I heard on the radio about the plans to purchase through our Pendolino train station. This is a train, whose name in Italian is just "pendulum." Owes her ability to swing is not in the corners, which allows for not reducing their speed without fear of about falling out of the tracks. The contract for the supply of trains is expected to cost several hundred million euros. To save money, the railway authorities have decided to buy a version without an wychyłowego. One radio commentator compared it to the alcohol-free vodka highlighting the fact that the application of this type of composition in our conditions is pointless, because our paths have relatively few turns.
This is certainly another example of our national dummy booster without the fans and stadiums and motorway fata morgana. For me, this is also another analogy to the "Bear" which is not known why, but maybe someone has him as a consultant for 20% of the total cost?
beyond what I already know the title pendulum is the reason for this association! Why renovate or build a track in order to chase after them fast trains? Just buy the assumptions of modernity as a useless dummy nightmarish money to improve your mood. But just what does not drag on the bar to watch the traditional was regarded as a luxury product, which can be praised over the other fans of the mechanical wonders. One gets the impression that the board work station resembling those weird love for gadgets railway station Soldat. The adventure of my cousin ended happily. But do not count on that for some time come to Polish an eccentric, wealthy collector of railroad depots, who discovers that she has had all kinds of Pendolino, but no such wychylanego chassis does not yet exist. We should not delude up. The railway no miracles.
Let's just hope that the pendulum of political choices of his countrymen have already tipped in the right direction. Time passes. That's probably impossible to change.
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