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Sep. 20th, 2008 09:26 pmI am in NY. It is very cold here.
Ben was sweet and got up at the crack of dawn to take me to the train station. (Well, 8am, but that is close to the crack of dawn for a guy that normally gets up at noon.) Getting to the bus stop after that was really easy. It was right outside metro center with a big helpful sign.
My bus was not marked with the name of the company, so I was a little confused at first. Luckily that was the worst part of the bus trip. It was mostly college students and twenty somethings--all people who understand the benefits of quiet and hygiene. Everyone either slept or texted or listened to music. And no one smelled like urine.
We hit some traffic in Delaware, but we made back the time in NJ. I slept through most of it. We got to Penn Station right on time.
I had just missed the train home, so I used the hour I had to kill by grabbing lunch and window shopping.
I mildly embarrassed myself when the train did arrive by dropping my suitcase at the top of the escalator when I had already started going down. I had to run up to grab it.
I am always surprised that the LIRR still uses such an antiquated ticketing system. You still need to present them to an employee who punches holes in them. Every other mass transit system I can think of just uses a flat fare or uses automated gates to register where you enter and exit.
Which is a long way of saying I really annoyed the employee who needed to punch my ticket because I had fallen asleep without taking my ticket out and putting it where she could get it.
I didn't sleep long though. Because a baby started to cry and would not stop. When I left, the baby was still on the train crying. I feel bad for the passengers that were still stuck listening to it.
After my parents picked me up, we got chinese food! Good tasty ny chinese food! It was wonderful. Mom bought a lot, so I'm going to eat it for the rest of this trip. You have no idea how bad chinese food is in va.
Despite doing mostly sitting and sleeping today, I am really exhausted. I might go to bed early tonight.
Ben was sweet and got up at the crack of dawn to take me to the train station. (Well, 8am, but that is close to the crack of dawn for a guy that normally gets up at noon.) Getting to the bus stop after that was really easy. It was right outside metro center with a big helpful sign.
My bus was not marked with the name of the company, so I was a little confused at first. Luckily that was the worst part of the bus trip. It was mostly college students and twenty somethings--all people who understand the benefits of quiet and hygiene. Everyone either slept or texted or listened to music. And no one smelled like urine.
We hit some traffic in Delaware, but we made back the time in NJ. I slept through most of it. We got to Penn Station right on time.
I had just missed the train home, so I used the hour I had to kill by grabbing lunch and window shopping.
I mildly embarrassed myself when the train did arrive by dropping my suitcase at the top of the escalator when I had already started going down. I had to run up to grab it.
I am always surprised that the LIRR still uses such an antiquated ticketing system. You still need to present them to an employee who punches holes in them. Every other mass transit system I can think of just uses a flat fare or uses automated gates to register where you enter and exit.
Which is a long way of saying I really annoyed the employee who needed to punch my ticket because I had fallen asleep without taking my ticket out and putting it where she could get it.
I didn't sleep long though. Because a baby started to cry and would not stop. When I left, the baby was still on the train crying. I feel bad for the passengers that were still stuck listening to it.
After my parents picked me up, we got chinese food! Good tasty ny chinese food! It was wonderful. Mom bought a lot, so I'm going to eat it for the rest of this trip. You have no idea how bad chinese food is in va.
Despite doing mostly sitting and sleeping today, I am really exhausted. I might go to bed early tonight.
