More on Missing Your Train (The Day Before)

The consequences for almost missing our train? Two words—More expenses:

• For the change fee at AmTrak
• For an extra night’s lodging (and hotels aren’t cheap in LA)
• For two extra meals
• And two cab fares

Yep. Seems you don’t want to even almost miss your train. On the other hand . . .

Back in 1976, and speaking figuratively, Charlotte and I missed another train in LA. Because of insufficient funds, I had to drop out of a seminary just up the road in La Mirada.

That unexpected, un-asked-for and unwanted decision changed my life. Without it, I would have never been camp director at Hidden Falls Ranch, nor a professor at Amarillo College.

Hmm. Maybe missing one’s train isn’t all that bad.