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Don't the neighbors laugh, when they see you staggering down the street, heading to the gas station, late at night? 😷

I assume that if you replied "Then I will take one of those two", they will call the Air Marshall. Though, in TSA jail, I here they are serving Chicken Parm with linguine, for dinner tonight. ;)

True around here too. The trash people will also pick up, and toss into their truck, any "dibs" furniture, by mayor's order. However, the "dibs" people are very united and strong too, and feel they have righteousness on their side. Something along the lines of Dibbed Spots Matter.

That's consistent with my usage. I always thought that the Malt Vinegar being offered, was for the fish part of the Fish&Chip entree (Arthur Treacher's, Long John Silver's, but never McD's). I guess I am one of those dumb "southerns" (living south of the Canadian boarder) who has it wrong.

The only room with a toilet, on the lower level, would be the H or Handicap room, and your head would never be next to its toilet in night-time mode.

I have to wonder if this was a failure on the part of the Chicago food supplier (ordered food was not delivered to the train), or by Amtrak itself (order never made it to the supplier)? I have had problems with pre-ordered food in airlines before. IMHO, the system would be so much more robust...

You had a commode (toilet) by your head, in a roomette, on the Auto Train (a Superliner)?

The shared/common use bathrooms (toilets) in coach are what totally creep me out. By the end of LD trip, they are far worse than any gas station, ever. For the Viewliner roomettes, when one of us needs to use the toilet, the other stretches their legs and goes for a walk. Not a big deal.

Side salads have got to be easier, faster, than fries. McD is simply fishing for an excuse to push their fries. For the side salads, they just have to reach into the cooler, and take it out. Fries, they have to load the basket and wait for them to cook (at the take out window, I am told...

IMHO, "safe" and "safer" are two very different things. One is absolute and the other is simply relative.

I am not so sure that staying at a mom and pop hotel would result in a guaranteed virus free room. 😷

Speaking of salads and McD's, they aren't offering side salads anymore. For adults, it is just their fries now. And it isn't just McD's. A lot of places stopped offering salads. Is it because the lettuce is served "raw" and uncooked?

Corvid-19 is a virus, not a germ nor bacteria. Being a virus, it isn't really alive to begin with, and therefore, is difficult to kill. One really has to disassemble a virus to inactivate it. I personally, have a lot of concern since places are "merely" killing germs and bacteria by...

Flu can be bad, but we are use to them. Plus, we have a vaccine (thought that does't always work... its hit-or-miss each year). A virus brings to mind a bad sci-fi story. While home, I watched some Star Trek re-runs. Its interesting the number of episodes where, even as a minor story line...

@sttom got me thinking (a very dangerous thing to do). A new sleeper car floor plan where the roomettes are basically just like the bedrooms, but much narrower, by removing the in-room toilet and extra chair. There might be some space efficiency by having the hall run down the side for the...

I think one would know that, when it became time to place the order (~ 1/2 hour out from the target station). Though, running that late, train might have a very short stop time (dwell time) at that station.

Honestly, I am paranoid enough that I would not want to leave the platform, and go out to the station's parking lot to meet a delivery vehicle.

I would agree that a "hub" would need to be a station where LD train service starts or stops. I'll add that it would also need to be an express train that ran between two hubs. The only Amtrak train I can think of that would fit that, would be the Autotrain. While this doesn't exist, a...

IMHO, Amtrak might be mighty happy if they had enough ticketed passengers to fill half of the coach seats.

I don' t know about Amtrak, but if it is like others, those other doors are for de-training passengers. This way you have only one-direction of passengers moving, at each door.