Friday, February 20, 2009

Green Line Rant

I haven't taken the Green line in almost two years. Last night I got on at Fenway and traveled to Park street.

In that time, a girl puked on another girl's "expensive" jacket, and a large homeless person wanted to Sumo Wrestle people on the train.

I was afraid a tidal wave of puke was going to take over the train, a la Stand By Me and ruin my new glasses. Luckily, the train just started moving when I started to feel overwhelmed with the savagery known as commuting.

To make things worse, the train got stuck in between stations because the wheelchair device became stuck.

I could see Park street station from my oiled up window...

The 1.5 mile trip took 45 minutes.

Why do Bostonians put up with this crap. Seriously.

2 comments:

RMM said...

My first "adult" bicycle was purchase from Broadway Bicycle School immediately after a similarly frustrating commute via MBTA.

I have been an urban cyclist ever since.

It was only later than I came to competitive cycling.

I am glad that your new glasses made it through this traumatic experience unscathed.

Yash Katsumi said...

Thank god.

If my new glasses got trampled in the chaos that ensued, I would have been ripshit.

Also, the puking thing reminded me of watching a crash from the Heli. You see a hole in the peleton, and then there is this rapid fanning around the incident.

I could only thank god that I was in the right place during this horrific incident.