The train.

I have no recollection of a bedtime ritual at all; I must have been about 6,7, with a small single bed, wooden floors and in other ways simplicity. I remember so many nights getting out of bed and laying on that wooden floor, waiting to the feel or hear the train in the distance. If you laid on the floor being very still you could feel the vibrations in the house from a great distance. As the train neared the house it was so loud, and there was so much vibration. I am surprised we could function at all with the nightly hubbub, but, we did :-)