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July 22, 2005
The Transit Blues...
"Due to a stalled "A" train at Canal street, there will be no uptown "A" service"
In this space between the ladies first and second spoken line, I will add some internal dialogue, and some information for ya'll to understand how fucking insane this is. I have 2 single points of failure in my commute. The "A" train is the ONLY train that stops at the station I want to go. It is the only train that stop CLOSE to the station I need to go to. Without the "A" train, there is no me getting to work even close to ontime.
So, now i'm contemplating going back into bed and just calling in. Normally, we sysadmins call this "working from home". A good laptop, an old movie and a VPN and a day stuck in bed can turn fun. But we don't have that quite yet... give me time..
*3 minutes later
"Ladies and Gentleman, there is an "A" train approaching West 4th Street"
Unbefuckmelievable. But not half as frustrating to me as it must have been for the hordes of people who followed the speakers instructions to get a Queens bound "E" train in hope of, actually, I have no idea what the point would be..
I get to the GWB terminal at 7:41 and run, and i mean RUN to the bus gate, nearly throwing up along the way. The bus is gone. It is 7:43.
The end result is that I miss my bus by 3 minutes and I am 30 minutes late for work.
Posted by lysa at July 22, 2005 9:54 AM