Sunday, May 23, 2010

Train of Thought: Early Day 2

As I had already overstayed my welcome at student housing and Ronny’s apartment, I woke up in some hotel on 33rd and wandered, groggy, to Penn Station with suitcases ripping open with t-shirts.

Here’s a note for the uninformed: Don’t pack all of your t-shirts. You won’t wear them, or, you shouldn’t wear them.

Also, second note, if you don’t know locations or directions in New York, likely every major city, you shouldn’t necessarily expect assistance from train, plane or mass transit staff. They have better things to do and enjoy misleading the general public.

We followed poor directions so we almost didn’t make it onto our first train to Philadelphia. My dad and I somehow lacked intuition and were far enough back in the line for the conductor to personally bark at us to “Get on the Train! We’re Leaving Now, You damned Fools!”

He looks more and more like a whip-wielding Egyptian in my memory.

Maybe that’s unfair. Maybe He’s unfair.

We loaded half of our luggage into someone else’s compartment and wandered the train for seats.

“Is this seat taken?”

“Yes. He’s coming right back,” they all said.

Ladies, you liars, we’ve already seen the rest of the train. You are alone and you should be, you fraud.

We were left with one seat in the lounge car. Because I am not ageist, I stood next to the garbage can and smirked at the lounge attendant (she prefers Snack Specialist). She didn’t say much to me, I assume because I look like a 19-year-old in a band that’s not very good.

With this much excitement early on, when I arrived in Philly, I was overpowered and napped for the rest of the day.

1 comment:

KurdstheWord said...

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