I was meeting a friend in Harvard Square after work, so I needed to take the Red Line. Under normal circumstances, I would have just walked to Park Street, but the weather was absolutely miserable, so I thought it made sense to just dart into State and hop on the Orange Line to switch at Downtown Crossing. Why do they make you walk a mile to get to the Orange Line platform at State? It's so absurd. You walk so far that you can literally see the Downtown Crossing Orange Line platform from the State platform. I mean, it's convenient that the walking happens inside instead of out in the elements, but it just makes little sense having two platforms so close together.
At any rate, I finally got to the platform at State at 7:16, and a train pulled in at 7:17. We got to Downtown Crossing almost immediately, and I walked to the Red Line platform. To do this, I had to walk down a hallway through which a gang of teenagers had decided it sounded like a brilliant idea to practice bird calls. Excellent.
I got to the Red Line platform at 7:23. While I was sitting there waiting for a train to show up, the clock skipped forward an hour right in front of me. Weird. A Red Line train arrived at 7:27, and I grabbed a seat. Two people got on at Park Street and decided that it would be a wonderful idea if they sat right next to me and began laughing uproariously in such a way that required them to clap their hands together and rock back and forth in their seats, which drove me to stand up and move to another area where I would not be assaulted.
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