Do not stop on tracks

Today, I left work early. Very early. Like more than half my shift early. So I went to my friend Lindy's house to hang out with her and her 2 year old son, Carter. Carter has this insane obsession with choo-choos. Don't you dare call them trains. Lindy wanted to get the house cleaned up a bit, so I entertained Carter. He got bored. "Youtube!", I thought.

A quick search brought up about a million and a half videos of this. What I want to know is....why? Why is someone, MULTIPLE SOMEONES, spending valuable time doing this???


Also, oddly enough, Carter was most animated about the 6 kazillion videos posted from Finland, in which the gates come down about 3 hours before the train actually comes through. Not because they were any more choo-tastically awesome than the other videos, but because it took so long for the trai...I mean choo-choos...to show up that he continually shouted "WHERE'S CHOO-CHOO? WHERE'S CHOO-CHOO?" in my face until they showed up.


(A side note, almost every video's commentary went like this...
Carter: where's choo-choo?

Me: hold on, it's coming, can you hear it?
Carter: WHERE'S CHOO-CHOO??
Me: right there, see the lights?
Carter: choo-choo! *engine goes past* bye bye choo-choo!......MORE! MORE! MORE!)


Yet again I say, who spends their time doing this???? And why do I feel like I know someone that would do something like this???