Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?
I was 18 years old and going to a local Technical College. It was in the middle of my home town, I was on my way to pick my little girl up from Granzy’s house on my way home from the college. I could hear the train, but I could not see it as there was a huge building right up to the tracks. Crossing did not have guards. And well, since I couldn’t see the train I just followed the car ahead of me over the tracks. They made it, I did not. The train was behind the building and I just didn’t get out of the way fast enough. It hit my rear end, swinging the car around into the opposite direction.
I know I always say this. But to make a long story short, the only injury I sustained that day was the breakdown of my ego.
A few days later I was in school. A Soo Line RR spokesperson came to the school to talk to me. We met in a conference room after I was called out of class.
He had with him a briefcase, which he sat on the table and pulled out a typewriter and personal business check. He asked, “How can we make this right today?”.
Me, being the stupid, naive, young person that I was, I just cried about my car.
The man asked me, “So, how much did you pay for the car?”.
‘$250’ I sobbed. I had no car. I’m even sure whose vehicle I used temporarily until I could get a different one.,
The man opened his suitcase and took out a typewriter and a blank check from SooLineRR. He typed me a check for $250 and I never heard from him again. I’m assuming cashing that check was the agreement we needed.
Oh, if only I was smarter…..Guards arms were finally put on that crossing, within one or two(2) months of my accident.
The Wiccan Christian 
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