so there I was... early for the 7:08pm train... I was hovering outside the entrance for tracks 1 & 2... where the 7:08 usually is waiting for me when the track number is called...
mind you, tonight the summit express was cancelled and those folks had to go on a different train... then the matawan nj coastline train passengers were told to go on track 1... five minutes later hoards of them were rushing up out of the underbelly of the station from track 1 and running across the length of penn station towards track 14 because of a track announcement mix-up...
cut to me a few moments later outside track 1. there I was and track 4 was called... I actually snagged a seat! was settling in when the conductor announced "THIS IS NOT THE 7:08 TRAIN TO BAY HEAD... THAT TRAIN IS ON TRACK 8... THIS IS THE TRENTON TRAIN"
hell. frig. crap. I knocked an old woman out of my way and snarled (you people may think to yourselves that I am merely embellishing this story with colour... sadly, I am not. I really did shove her. whatever.)
I ran up the escalator... up out of the bowels of penn and toward track 8...
I managed to get a seat on the rapidly filling train... called TrainBoy... he's a few cars ahead.
I don't know whether to blame NJ Transit or Penn Station.... so at the moment, both are on my list.
::: plunked in on my treO:::
