Adventures in Wonderland

Looking Glass Insects: Tickets, Please

End of the Line

This sort of sounds like one of those jokes. I'm on a train with a Clown, a Time Traveler, a Violinist and a Librarian. As the train pulls into a stop in Baltimore. The conductor comes to punch our tickets. He give a nod to the violinist before using a fish shaped hole puncher to punch the musician's ticket. He next punches the Librarian's ticket with a square shaped Hole puncher and does the same for the clown. He takes out a green marker and writes a mark on the Time traveler's ticket and he uses a rubber stamp to stamp the word passenger on my hand.

After the the conductor leaves, The five of us get into a conversation and I find out a little bit about each of them.

The Clown works for a circus in Minneapolis. He has a classic clown look with a giant red nose, tramp outfit and large brown shoes. His act is famous for a fun bit he does involving a trampoline, a guest, a Banana Cream pie and a Seltzer bottle. He is on his way back from visiting his grandmother in Tennessee.

The librarian is a young women in her 20's with red hair and black framed glasses. She is on her way to visit a Book conference in San Francisco from Boston.

The Time traveler is strange looking gentleman in a silver suit. He traveled here from the year 2152. A fan of classic History, he's planning to visit 1920's Chicago to witness the gangster time period firsthand.

The violinist lives in Atlanta Georgia. He is on his way back there after performing with the Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Ok for those keen readers... can you figure out this train's final stop from the story so far?

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Probably not. To be honest it could be any of the locations mentioned.

However the final stop is Baltimore. All of us have to transfer afterwards. That's why the title chosen for this entry is called end of the line.