I'm going to respectfully disagree with you on this one.
This is your hobby, this is his job. There *are* rules on what he can and cannot do. Some of it is to protect him, some of it is to protect you, some of it is to protect the person in the next car. Same reasons bartenders don't let men buy drinks for 'the blonde girl at the end of the bar' without checking with the girl first. And, yes, some of it is BS designed to foil hungry lawyers trolling for idiot lawsuits. But all of it is real, and if the guy is caught breaking the rules, he's fired. That's not much of a kindness.
I can think of several reasons why a tollkeeper would not be allowed to pass materials or messages from one car to the next.
I can think of a long line of people waiting at a toll booth for someone to finish his argument with the tollkeeper, getting PO'd that the guy can't just drop his cash and go and let them get where they're going.
The RAOK idea is a popular one, and a fun game to play (see Spider Robinson's "rapturists", the opposite of "terrorists". But if the circumstances make it such that you can't play the game, breathe in, breathe out, and move on to the next opportunity. It's like Porky Pine said about life: don't take it so seriously, it ain't perm'nent nohow.
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Date: 2009-05-21 03:20 pm (UTC)This is your hobby, this is his job. There *are* rules on what he can and cannot do. Some of it is to protect him, some of it is to protect you, some of it is to protect the person in the next car. Same reasons bartenders don't let men buy drinks for 'the blonde girl at the end of the bar' without checking with the girl first. And, yes, some of it is BS designed to foil hungry lawyers trolling for idiot lawsuits. But all of it is real, and if the guy is caught breaking the rules, he's fired. That's not much of a kindness.
I can think of several reasons why a tollkeeper would not be allowed to pass materials or messages from one car to the next.
I can think of a long line of people waiting at a toll booth for someone to finish his argument with the tollkeeper, getting PO'd that the guy can't just drop his cash and go and let them get where they're going.
The RAOK idea is a popular one, and a fun game to play (see Spider Robinson's "rapturists", the opposite of "terrorists". But if the circumstances make it such that you can't play the game, breathe in, breathe out, and move on to the next opportunity. It's like Porky Pine said about life: don't take it so seriously, it ain't perm'nent nohow.