Just Another JET Blog

OK!  This is just a test to see if I can get my blog connection working on Facebook…

 I may as well write one of my Jasper stories eh?

While on the train ride to Jasper, Matt and I sat next to the area where the employees hung out…. I highly recommend this to anyone who goes on a train!  We got to hear the staff tell each other work stories… and this one is by far the greatest that I heard:

 A lady went on vacation with her dog, and this poor dog dies while they’re on vacation.  Now VIA rail has a policy of not allowing dead animals to be shipped on their trains… so this lady just put a blanket over the dog and told the employee at the baggag check that the dog was sleeping in its cage.  The employee buys the story and allows the dog to be put on the cargo car of the train.

Now, during the night another employee is checking on the cargo and gets cold, so he turns up the heat in the car.  He cranks it up so that it will quickly get warm while he’s checking the cargo… but gets called away on his walkie to check on another problem.  He accidentally leaves the heat turned on.  

Now, it takes a few hours before he gets back to the car and realizes that he left the heat on.  He turns it down and continues checking the cargo… only to find a dead dog in a cage!  He assumes that he killed it with the heat… so he opens up the baggage car door and throws the dead dog off the train!

Now, apparently it happens quite often that just before a train comes to a stop the baggage cars get open, and dogs often do manage to jump off the train at this point… so he thinks he has a believable story on his hands.   When the lady reaches her destination the employee approaches her with the manager of the train close behind, and the employee tells her that the dog jumped off the train at one of the stops.  The lady is at first stunned, and then she asks the employee, “that’s your story?  That’s what you’re gonna stick with?”

He tells her, “ma’am that’s what happened.”

She replies, “my dead dog jumped off the train?”

Of course, the jig is up at this point and both of them are now caught in their lies…. and it becomes a legendary story for VIA rail employees!