I know I haven’t blogged in awhile but honestly I haven’t had the time to. My schedule consists of waking up at 6AM to be out the door by 7:30AM in order to catch the 7:45 train to work. I get to work at 8:30AM and work until around 4:30PM where I then embark on my journey back home on the light rail. Every Tuesday and Thursday, I get home around 5:30PM, grab a snack and head straight back out the door to take my niece to dance practice and attend my 8 o’clock classes. At 10PM, class is over and I’m now on my way back home which I arrive at around 11PM. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Tuesdays and Thursdays are my long days. Wednesdays are my fun days. That leaves Mondays and Fridays to either catch up on sleep or go out with friends. I don’t even know what I do on Saturdays and Sundays. Probably homework. Anyways, I’m writing all of this to prepare you for the series of unfortunate events I am about to share. Lack of sleep and overload of work can drive anyone insane and these past few weeks have really gotten the best of me.

• What I am about to describe has got to be closest to the worst thing that has ever happened to me! On a regular cold and chilly day, I’m simply minding my own business, walking towards the platform at the light rail station. Five steps away from the doors, suddenly a spitting sound comes from the left of me while a small clear substance flies across the front of me. It wasn’t too long before I realized somebody ALMOST spit on me. This man hawked spit right in my path as I was walking. Adrenaline rushing and furious with anger, I stopped dead in my tracks and looked at him. If looks could kill, I’m pretty sure my eyes committed first degree murder only for the man to mutter out the words, “My bad, I’m sorry.” Sigh.
• As if ALMOST getting spit on isn’t bad enough, the following day I got put off the train. ME of all people! Someone who wasn’t even disturbing the peace or causing a ruckus. I got put off the train because I forgot to buy a ticket! See the way the idiotic Light Rail works is that there is no gate or ticket checker before you board the train like the DC Metro. And on this day, I had bought a one-way pass to work and was supposed to buy another one-way pass to get home. Not even realizing I forgot to buy a ticket, I was completely taken aback when the fare inspector checked my smartrip card and seen I had not bought one. This man was so petty as to check the balance of my card which was $16 and STILL put me off the train for not buying a ticket. Then had the nerve to walk me over to the ticket machine as to show me how to buy one. I was SO livid!
• Now I remember this Friday clearly because I sat on the train platform for an hour! It’s yet another routine day for me taking the light rail to work, when suddenly the operator speaks over the intercom telling passengers he has to restart the computer on the train. I’m like okay, this is going to be about 2-5 minutes no problem. Welp… the train didn’t restart. Similarly to how you turn the key in your ignition and you get a static noise and it just doesn’t start is exactly how the train sounded. 15 minutes passed, 30 minutes passed. At this point, I’m like let me make my boss aware of the fact that I will be an hour late to work because the stupid train won’t start and hopefully I’ll make it to our 10 o’clock meeting on time. 45 minutes passed and now the train is full of rowdy people just wanting to get to their destination. Thank God the train finally started 15 minutes later and wait it gets better! At the stop right before mine, the operator gets on the intercom to say this is the final destination. What?! How do you change the destination of your route at the last station you’re stopping at? Why not let riders know ahead of time? I had to wait in the bitter cold for another 15 minutes for the next train. I was pissed!

I like how all of these events somehow involve public transportation.

Needless to say, I handled each situation very well. Stay tuned, I’m pretty sure there’s more to come.