I had to attend a conference for work this morning so I left my house at 5:30 am. I avoided most problems on the subway. I say most because when my E train reached 50th street; the conductor made an announcement that we would be going on the express track. It didn’t change our route any at all. And I reached my destination fine.

This afternoon back home, I took the F from 14th street. They told me the trains were running fine when I took it, and then I quickly learned that this train would only go until Queensboro Plaza. So instead of following the conductor’s repetitive pleas for me to take the non-existent shuttle bus when I reached outside; I just decided to walk…and that helped! I walked over to the 7 train station only to be denied further and was again instructed to take the said Shuttle Bus.

After that I said “ehh, let me walk some more” and did so until I heard some man say “The E’s working!” Sure enough, the attendant inside the subway was erasing the dry erase board about the trains not running and a jampacked E train awaited me at Queens Plaza.

Great, I thought, I can’t make it all the way home but I can get close. And so I went on the E which went local all the way until Union Turnpike. There I took a bus which didn’t go all the way where I needed it to go. So I had to take another bus to cross over to a parallel bus line. Then I took that bus and finally reached home in 2.3 hours.

The NYC Subway has been around for more than a century now. When will they fix the water issue?

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