Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The Tribulations of Transportation

(I'm not usually a fan of alliteration.)

I boarded the N train this afternoon to get to work. In the car was an orgy of teenage snogging and dry humping.

"Oh, for fuck's sake," I thought to myself.

"Of course it's for fuck's sake. Why else would anyone be dry humping?" I chided myself.

Thanks for reminding me how lonely I was at that age, and how lonely I still am.

By the time I opened up the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, they all had the decency to disappear.

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The bi-weekly train service fuckup also happened today. I have to switch at Times Square to the downtown 1 train to get to the office. Once I got to Times Square, there were no local downtown trains on the red line. I took the 2 express down to Chambers street to catch the uptown local. And once I got there, the downtown locals had started up again. Thanks for wasting another half-hour of my day, MTA. Just once, I'd like to be the 'Rick James' to their 'Eddie Murphy's couch.'

Without the reprisal of getting my legs beaten by Eddie & Charlie, that is.

2 comments:

Lena said...

The last time I was in the city (Monday and Tuesday) I took a cab. $7 hassle free.

Jeff said...

Blah blah blah. By cab, it's $20 each way, + tip. I don't have the cash to spare these days. It's also hard to find a yellow cab in Queens. Livery cabs are more expensive.