well I am standing outside the train at hazlet station right now.
hazlet? GC, you don't normally take the train from hazlet.... what's up?!?!
no, poppets, I don't. but I hopped on the 6:26pm outta penn station nyc thinking it'd be a relatively uneventful trip. and it was....
until....... (insert suspense music) The Announcement.
"ATTENTION PASSENGERS ATTENTION PASSENGERS WE'VE JUST BEEN INFORMED (insert heavy exasperated sigh here) TRAIN AHEAD OF US IS (insert vocal bothered equivalent of quotation marks made with hands) HAVING DIFFICULTY(end verbal hand quote) AND EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE (insert exasperated inflection) ALREADY AT THE NEXT STATION IN MIDDLETOWN, HAVE TO - FOR SOME REASON - REVERSE AND COME BACK TO HAZLET. AND (insert higher pitched angry inflection) THEN THEIR PASSENGERS ARE GOING TO GET OFF (insert heavy sigh) BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. YOU SEE (insert verbal equivalent of italics here) THEY'RE PASSENGERS (end oral italics) ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CROSS OVER TO OUR TRAIN AND WE'RE GOING TO WAIT FOR THEM TO BOARD. SO WE'RE LEAVING THE DOORS OPEN. YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE, SMOKE A CIGARETTE, STRETCH YOUR LEGS... DO WHATCHA GOTTA DO"
so some of us went outside. then the other train gets closer.... the conductor signals for us to get on... we do. they close the doors.
the conductor speaks :
"LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, WE AREN'T WAITING FOR THEM (insert sigh) WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? YA' GOT ME."
yes. verbatim. I swear. I have to find this conductor and see if he's married. I think I am smitten with his attitude.
::: plunked in on my treO:::
