"quick" errands
You know what's great about leaving the building to pick something up at home?
Getting stuck in traffic with a train going less than 1 mph, s..o.. s...l...o...w, til it finally comes to a dead stop, blocking a major thoroughfare. And that train is stopped long enough for me to get agitated, then angry, then accept the absurdity, then write this blog entry in my head, and finally to type it up on my blackberry.
We are now at 10 minute mark. No movement, and the traffic is stopped as far as the eye can see in both directions.
That clanging sure sounds great, and me without my ipod or a CD.
Wait! Movement! Don't you tease us, train.
Woohoo - after 20 minutes, we have a moving train!!! And I'm on my way!
posted at 3:25 PM
5 Comments:
I know that train. I don't know why, but it's been blocking that intersection on the past couple times I've gone by there. Since I'm in my hybrid now, it's actually kind of cool (except when I have an appointment/place to be at a set time) because I'm sitting there listening to music and my hybrid's just got her little electric motor running -- no gas burnin'. ;-)
Why it slows down that much at that intersection, I do not know. The train out by the Quarry never goes anywhere near that slowly and it's usually hauling a full load of coal to the Southside lake power plants (Braunig, Calaveras).
6:34 PM, March 15, 2006
that train is a forced, involuntary illusion in your mind. you haven't left the building at all - something is interrupting your synapses signalling that you cannot get home ("give up").
seriously, watch Brazil. it's all there. You're not crazy, you're just on the way to indoctrination. see? simple.
8:25 PM, March 15, 2006
but the train happened on my way back to work - so what does *that* mean?
5:16 AM, March 16, 2006
what the hell is skorloff talking about? dude, lay off the mushrooms you find in your yard.
10:21 AM, March 16, 2006
... a follower of the "There is no train," school of thought. ;)
5:38 PM, March 16, 2006
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