Alex:
When I was in the 9th grade our English teacher said "tomorrow come in with a good reason why you can not hand in your homework. The best answer gets no homework the next day." Well everyone comes in the next day with two or three pages of complicated scenarios that Miss Porter shot holes through with no effort at all. All except this one kid. His answer - "I put my books on my dad's car and turned to get my bike. My dad zoomed off to work." Needless to say who had no homework that evening.
Moral of the story - make your effort to convince you parents short, sweet and to the point! Maybe tell your folks they have right all along and you will go to college and become the doctor they want you to be............and working on trains will help prepare you to be a better surgeon. If they ask how - your on your own!
Good luck
Joe
