This morning I woke up at 7am like always and began to prepare for school. I got all my stuff together, noticed that if I was going to make my 7:46 train I would have to hustle. I ran down the street, up the steps of the station, and on to the plat form only to see that my train was non-existent! The station attendant announced that due to technical difficulties, the train I normally take was not running. This wasn't too bad, as I could take a different train and transfer once and still make it to school with plenty of time.
It almost seemed I would too, until I was two stops, 10 minutes away, and my train stopped. The conductor came on over the PA system and said that there was a train stopped in front of us and there would be a short delay. The conductor then continued to repeat the same message, for the next 45 minutes, while all of us on the hot, crowded, stuffy train stood waiting. It turned out that some traffic signal the at the station was messed up, and we had to get off at the stop before mine and take another train on a different line to get to it. Of course with no trains but this one line running to my stop, there were SO many people they were lined up down the stairs of the platform. I finally got a train, and made it in time for the last 30 min of my first class.
Normally my commute take 45-50min, give or take. Today took 2 hours.
Yuck
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