subway to nowhere
Oct. 1st, 2003 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetThis hasn't been a livejournal week for me, really, despite some random posts on Monday and assorted comments. Yesterday I didn't read LJ at all, if you can believe it!
And today, only sporadically, and soon I must return to my efforts to meet a work deadline. At some point I'll type up that weekend thing. Maybe even before the new weekend is upon us.
Incidentally, on Monday night I left work later than usual and got on the Green Line (for non-New-Englanders, a trolley/subway line). I glanced up from my book, saw I was at Park Street, and planned to change one stop later for a Lechmere train that would take me to North Station, where I might catch the 7:30 commuter train to Salem.
I went back to reading, which involved endlessly flipping to endnotes in the back (endnotes: what a stupid concept). Hmm, I began to think; aren't we there yet? I looked up and saw we were at Copley.
In the direction I was going, Copley is three stops before Park Street. What the hell sort of Twilight Zone had I stumbled into?
Then, Hynes Convention Center. I was only a few stops away from where I had begun my journey. Clearly I had somehow stayed on the train after Government Center, where it usually reverses direction. Usually the conductors shout "get off the train, you morons!" before doing so, but either they didn't, or I missed it.
I did, however, miss my commuter train, and then the next subway train I boarded crawled along at such a pace, and idled randomly for such long moments, that I worried I would miss the 8:00 commuter train too, after which there is a tedious over-90-minute gap until the next one. But fortunately I was spared such a melancholy outcome.
And today, only sporadically, and soon I must return to my efforts to meet a work deadline. At some point I'll type up that weekend thing. Maybe even before the new weekend is upon us.
Incidentally, on Monday night I left work later than usual and got on the Green Line (for non-New-Englanders, a trolley/subway line). I glanced up from my book, saw I was at Park Street, and planned to change one stop later for a Lechmere train that would take me to North Station, where I might catch the 7:30 commuter train to Salem.
I went back to reading, which involved endlessly flipping to endnotes in the back (endnotes: what a stupid concept). Hmm, I began to think; aren't we there yet? I looked up and saw we were at Copley.
In the direction I was going, Copley is three stops before Park Street. What the hell sort of Twilight Zone had I stumbled into?
Then, Hynes Convention Center. I was only a few stops away from where I had begun my journey. Clearly I had somehow stayed on the train after Government Center, where it usually reverses direction. Usually the conductors shout "get off the train, you morons!" before doing so, but either they didn't, or I missed it.
I did, however, miss my commuter train, and then the next subway train I boarded crawled along at such a pace, and idled randomly for such long moments, that I worried I would miss the 8:00 commuter train too, after which there is a tedious over-90-minute gap until the next one. But fortunately I was spared such a melancholy outcome.
Re: Eric, whenever possible I will give you a ride if you miss the train.
Date: 2003-10-01 09:35 am (UTC)Actually, it occurs to me that there's a Haymarket bus at 8:20, so if'n I miss the 8 PM train by a narrow enough margin I can get it and be home before the next train even leaves North Station. But I shall certainly keep your generous offer in mind for when it might prove necessary.