Lord have mercy

Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 5 p.m.

Upon entering the turnstiles for the station, a woman stopped up the line of 9-5ers rushing to get on the train and exclaimed "Lord have mercy, here I am thinking I am a lady thinking she does not have to pay for her train ride."

There was a man who blocked my path many times. Very nervous man who needed to be on the train. When he got on the train, he rushed to his seat and placed his iPod buds in his ear and lost himself in the music. He looked in a meditative state and obblivious to the world around him.

I screwed up my soduku puzzle and was embarassed by the man across the aisle who had a full soduku puzzle book he was very serious about.

When I was leaving the station I almost fell down the stairway. I missed a step and started to fall forward and had to jump three steps to get my balance back. I was rushing. Not a smart thing to do while going down steep stairs. Thankfully it was not the second level at U.S. Cellular Field.

Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:11 a.m.

First train ride in a week. What I realized is that I was not in the same place as the other train riders. The debilitating thing about the morning commute is that pervailing feeling that everyone is not happy to be going to work. It is really sad to have that dread when going somewhere you are spending 40+ hours a week.