On wheels

What an eventful Sunday I had!
I have never wanted anything so much in life as much as I wanted the train to stay for a few minutes more!
Imagine, despite waking up two hours prior to train departure, if one had to make a dash towards the train,... seriously!!
I had called the taxi service at 6.20, the train was at 7.17. It was 7.10 and the taxi hadn't showed up. God bless the soul who gave us a lift. We managed to catch the train just in time. It was extremely dramatic, as we ran shamelessly across the road, the passengers looked at us in amazement mixed with amusement. Some cheered. Lol that was indeed funny. Needless to say we were proud of ourselves. Achievement No 1.

Train ride was a long rigmarole. After transferring thrice, taking two buses, we reached Flushing Temple. Phew! It was very mentally relieving. The rhythm of Vishnu Sahasranamam after a long time... was heartening. As the mysore masala dosa entered our empty stomachs..we charted out a plan to do our job..apartment hunting. Getting back to the city was without much pain.

Finally, we reached Newport. Mild wind blew while the sun shone smilingly at us. We halted at one of our senior's houses. Bless them! Poor guys gave us some yummy lunch! Rather we made it too obvious to them that we were hungry! The mall in Newport was our second home during our internship times..obviously we couldnt leave without paying homage to it.
By the time we rode back to city, it was already 5.57 PM and our train was at 6.06 PM.
You can imagine, we dint have tickets. We had to walk from 33rd to Penn to get to the LIRR.
NYC on a Sunday evening looked like all people got out of their homes. We reached the station at 6.04, got tickets by 6.05 ( thats really quick considering the fact that those machines forever have a problem reading your credit cards correctly!!) Rushed to track , jumped into the train at 6.06 exactly. Bingo! Achievement No 2.

We were half dead by the time we returned home. As fate would have it, I met my friend on the way, and was tempted to join them for a game of bowling. May be coz I wanted to kill myself completely. Well, so I did. Guess fatigue helps sometimes. I played well for a change! Achievement No 3.

All good things come to an end..here I am, its Monday afternoon. Back to sq 1, back to thinking what to make for lunch, back to inertia to do everything, back to watching Law n Order on TNT, back to on wheels!!