Words you don't want to hear on your commuteLadies and gentleman, our brakes won't release and we will probably have to send a rescue train out -- I will keep you posted as the "rescue" takes place. And of course I will send photos ( this was the 7.38ish train from Watchung Cheers Anthony Sent from my iPhone
Update Engineer just announced our train will be pushed into Seacus (sp?)- where we must get off and change trains. -- this came seconds after the vpnducyot announced the brakes were fixed! Cheers Anthony Sent from my iPhone
Passengers in car 5329 calmly awaiting further instructions. [send with photo, above]
Blackberries, phone and iPhoneUsers are calling and texting with the "I will be late messages"Favorite overheard so far"i will be late , the train is dead, we are getting off at seacus where we will be squashed into another packed train.."
Passengers in out car have not moved one ioata since being told to walk off
Cheers Anthony
Sent from my iPhone
We are on a new double decker And finaLly moving....not too squashed -------------------------- Cheers, Anthony Batson
Irony.,,On the muzak Playing at seascus Doobie brothers "what a fool be Cheers Anthony Sent from my iPhone
Finally at Penn
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Next week Baristanet provides live coverage of the Starbucks on 50th and 9th which runs out of half-and-half!
and here's the "tilty" image of the panic stricken mob you can use.
Seacus + Seascus = Secaucus
(Thank you ROC!!! I spit my coffee out laughing... Now who's gonna clean up this keyboard....)
Don't want to brag but I lived through this momentous event. It was thrilling. I never felt so alive. I can fully appreciate why someone would feel the need to share this with total strangers. Life changing.
I can understand, mets. This makes me really jealous that I don' take the train to NYC anymore.
just so's I understand. this was one train delay that didn't snag me...so I want to make up for that by reading this guy's on-the-spot blog?
NNN, LOL!
and of course there's everyone's favorite fish-flavored side dish - Seacouscous
SSP- not to be confused with everyone's least favorite fish-flavored side dish - Seacarcas!
Hey, the train saved my life last Friday night when bus and car traffic literally came to standstill because of a "suspicious package" in the Lincoln Tunnel which turned to be nothing. Is anyone else getting annoyed with the phony terror alerts? This was the second one this month.
I had some seacaudad once, but found it to be very seacaustic.
I'm not a big fan of the "if you see something, say something" mentality. I haven't been trained in law enforcement generally, much less in identifying bombs and other threats. I am certain that the 99.997% of meaningless, bogus tips that are passed on to law enforcement are a colossal waste of time, money and effort.
Speaking of Starbucks, in an effort to maximize savings by brewing our own coffee (on the mornings we drink it; we're mainly tea drinkers) in the morning instead of buying it, and after doing lots of research spurred on by countless under performing travel mugs, my wife and I found that Starbucks has the best one around in the form of a solid wall stainless steel mug with vacuum seal top. It lists for $14.99.
So there we are on the Starbucks line waiting to purchase our travel mugs.
Behind me, I eavesdrop on the conversation two men, who are trying agonizingly hard to be hip, are having. They're playing the part with their matching Macbooks, beatnik facial hair styles, and emo haircuts which while I understand is supposed to look messy and spontaneous, actually looks like it took over an hour to arrange each individual hair.
There they are talking about what they're trying to pass off as intellectual discussion, louder than necessary which makes it obvious they WANT people to hear in hopes others will join their cult and adopt their beliefs as well.
The topic turns to gas prices and how outraged they are about the local prices. This is all being said while chugging their Extremissimo-sized (or whatever the nomenclature for LARGE is these days) mocha-frappalatte's, which strikes me as incredibly stupid as I do some quick math in my head.
1 Extremissimo-sized Starbucks coffee = 16 ounces for $3.65
1 gallon Regular Unleaded gasoline at the Getgo in Clifton = $3.04.
These guys obviously drink at least one cup of Starbucks a day confirmed by their first name basis relationship with the Starbucks staff. And to be honest, I think that's a conservative estimate. It's probably more like 3.
1 gallon = 128 ounces = 8-16 ounce cups of Starbucks = $29.20 for 1 gallon of the Mocchiato they were drinking.
Pardon me Mr. self-indulgent sock-sniffer, but how can you possibly complain about the price of gas when you're willing to pay what amounts to $29.20 for a gallon of coffee?
I realize the whole ratio thing, that being that gas is purchased at one time on a larger scale than coffee but when you're a regular Starbucks visitor the point becomes moot. Because not only are you spending an obscene amount of money on burnt coffee, you're also spending money on your so called overpriced gas to get you to Starbucks to buy your overpriced coffee in the first place.
Some people...
"Seacouscous" - LOL! SSP, you made my day.
If NJT wanted to really rake in the bucks they'd put some mini Starbucks carts inside the trains and then "delay" each train by 30 minutes so they can sell more coffee.
I was on a delayed train this morning as well, and also had an iPhone which does email and SMS, but I did not see the need to live-blog it. Instead, I had a nice conversation with a lawyer dude next to me about white-water rafting and books.
dannyboo,
I think that should be reworked as an SAT question.
" Instead, I had a nice conversation with a lawyer dude next to me about white-water rafting and books."
Wow, hans good for you!
As I am sure you already know: more people should be just like you!
"As I am sure you already know: more people should be just like you!"
Sure, Montclair needs more obnoxious assholes.
Can I share a life changing event? I used to really hate mets2008. Something about those early posts. Annoyed the hell out of me. But I gotta say, he's totally turned around in my eyes. Now he's all right. Don't know what it was, he's a guy I could see skinning a moose with.