This morning I woke up to a few inches of snow. Not bad at
all after the big hype! I get ready for work and as I’m bundled up in my
abominable snowman jacket, I read my emails on the off chance that there could
be a delay because I don’t want to stand on the platform… in the snow… with my
back pack…my purse AND a box full of 18 Mint Chocolate Brownie parfaits that I made
for an office birthday (Uphill BOTH WAYS… yes that needed to be added for good
measure!)
The emails keep coming! One train is canceled. The next has
mechanical issues with only a 15 minute delay and needs to be pushed in to
North Station by another train. The next… switch problems with a 20 to 25
minute delay and the one after that… CANCELED! I know that eventually a train
will come get me but really… are these “delay times” accurate? I don’t know and
with all the sh*t I am carrying, do I really want to have to stand on a sardine
packed train that it will eventually turn into? NO!
I check google maps and it tells me to take the bus to the Blue
line and then the Blue line to State. I have never done this before and I really
don’t want to go through Lynn during rush hour. I throw my pepper spray in an
easily accessible pocket and I head to the bus stop!
The bus is there within 2 minutes. I hop on and guess what?
I get a seat!!!!! My sh*t even gets a seat for a while until the bus gets a
little more crowded and I move my parfaits and allow someone who just got on to
sit. We arrive at Wonderland and the train is sitting there…waiting for us and
get this… I get a seat again! This is great! I check my phone as the Blue line
whisks me in to the city. The train still has not come for my fellow commuter
rail folks. They are still waiting and I’m halfway to work!
I arrive at my office a half hour late but this pales in
comparison to where I’d be had I waited for the train that was only 25 minutes
delayed. I check my phone again and while I am at work, my fellow commuter rail
people are still on the platform an hour and a half after a train should have
got them.
Thank goodness this was a mild winter and thank goodness
spring is kinda-sorta here!
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