Weird thing about Halloween this year is that it seems like no one has any sort of plans for it. Maybe it’s because it’s on a Monday or just some general vibe going through the air. Oh well. In 2008 it’ll be on a Friday night like it’s supposed to be.
I hate when this happens. Especially since they don’t usually tell you that. You just have to find out when you wait ten to fifteen minutes longer for the next train you didn’t want in the first place.
At first this was true, but then I figured out the exact time I needed to leave my apartment so that I could catch the right train. There’s no written schedule for the subway, but I’m actually rather impressed that the train I take in the morning always comes at basically the exact same time.
The new subway service that started during this year has been great for me because I don’t have to transfer when I go to work, though the train that allows this doesn’t run on weekends which sucks.
Wow, I had a lot of comics early on about subway construction messing up the commute. This comic is based off of a situation that never really affected me which had to do with some local stops in Brooklyn. Sometimes there would be no uptown service to R and W stations in Brooklyn. Which meant that people would have to take the train all the way to Manhattan, and then get a downtown subway back to Brooklyn in order to get to the local stops. We’re talking something like a fifteen to twenty minute detour including going to Manhattan and coming back which is pretty ridiculous.
There was a time when it seemed like the construction on one of the primary subway lines I take would never end. During that time taking it on the weekends meant that getting into Manhattan would take at least ten to fifteen minutes longer than usual. It doesn’t sound like much when you read it, but when you’re in a subway car and you’d rather be somewhere else five minutes can be too long.
This doesn’t happen to me too often, but when it does it really really sucks. What’s really annoying is when you have to take the subway to someplace far away from your actual stop and take a shuttle bus that goes to your stop. Though every now and then one particular subway line isn’t running so I come up with an elaborate system of transfers just to get home which ends up adding an hour or more to my travel time.
The worst is when I get to a station where I have a choice of trains to get back home, I miss one, run to the other one, and miss that one too. Then at that point I say that I’ll just stick with that particular train, because if I go back to the other one I’ll just miss it again. Then of course you wait for half an hour at which point you can’t leave just because you’ve already waited so long so it would’ve been a complete waste of time. This is largely why I’ve made the effort to figure out how to walk home from subway stops that are one or two stops away from mine.
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