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WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS REAL.

Yep, if you believe everything you see you are a pushover. At 54 years of age I think I realize that everything I see is not what I think I see.

Case in point.

My Dad worked for the B&O/C&O Railroad.  In fact he spent his entire working life working for them, eventually retiring at 60 years of age with 30 years of service.  At one point in his career he took on a job on another section of the track between Columbus and Washington Court House in Ohio after working on the section between Washington Court House and Midland City.  He started out as a Trackman but had moved into Foreman when taking on the Columbus to Washington Court House section of track.

Until he found a place for us to move to near Columbus he had lived out of his station wagon during the week, coming home on weekends to be with his family. I had a toy gun that looked very real.  So when he slept in his station wagon at night he kept my toy gun with him so he could pull it out when thugs came around.  Lord have mercy if anyone ever called his bluff, but they never did as far as I know.  I am not sure if he ever had to pull the toy gun out, but if he would have needed to, it would have looked like the real thing.

So the moral of the story, it is better to be safe than sorry, but you never know if it was the real thing or not unless you call the bluff, and if you decide to call the bluff, is it worth it to find out the real truth?