My boyfriend had an appointment in the city so we decided he’d
take the train in with me in the morning. My CEO is in town today so I needed
to catch the early train. We may have hit snooze a few times and may have let
the dog take her time sniffing 500 million things on our morning walk. When we
got home we ran around frantically getting ready and rushed so we could catch
that earlier train that I just HAAAAD to make. The poor guy hardly got in a
good shave, was forced to use my Keurig instead of the coffee maker and wound
up with one of my foo foo vanilla latte sweet coffees…and to boot, I did
laundry last night and set his Armani sweater out to dry not realizing he’d
like to wear it today and he had to throw on an almost dry Armani sweater as we
dashed out the door.
We make it to the train platform on time and wait for the
train as we sip our foo foo coffees. As the train conductor rolls in he says “Good
morning!” to us as he passes by in the open door that we are about to board. He
then says “We have no electricity.” I think I hear him wrong and then he says
it again! Yup! Zero electricity!
As we board, I think we have a shot at finding seats
together since the MBTA has been smooth sailing since it got out of its winter
slump. HA! I was way wrong. Not only do we not find seats together…we don’t
find seats at all! Turns out the train ahead of us was canceled so there are
two train loads of people on this thing and it’s standing room only!
So now, we stand there with our foo foo coffees in the aisle…in
the dark…as the train car slowly becomes a sauna.
We got to North Station and decided against taking the T and
walked the rest of the way. Later on, I realized that the conductor never came
through to check tickets soooo at least his awesome re-introductory train ride
was complimentary.
Welcome back to Boston Honey!
P.S. My CEO never made it to town and I didn’t have to be in
the office early after all! OY Vey!
