TRAIN DELAYED: 2 HOURS

so, i was already worried that i had missed my train, but when half an hour passed by, i knew it should have been there by then. my love called amtrak and didn't have much luck. when the 718 came by an hour after my train should've been there, he asked the conductors if the 715 had gone by. the conductor said they had not passed it and that it was delayed because of some vehicle collision? well, i took that to mean that it had hit a car. as they were leaving, the conductor had his head out the train and said to call amtrak, which my love tried again. this time he got the right information and the recording said the train was delayed 2 hours 15 minutes and the estimated time of arrival would be 7:50pm. okay, so that didn't really match up with the 2 hours and 15 minutes behind schedule, since the train was scheduled to arrive in antioch at 6:01pm, but hey, i wasn't going to complain if it would get there sooner. i talked to mom on the phone and she said she heard that the train had hit a car near fresno and had been delayed. she had said that some lady had tried to go around the train things that go down when there's a train coming, but didn't make it and the train hit her and killed her. so... we waited and waited and then a little after 8pm, my love called back and was told the train was about 5 minutes away and actually should be arriving in under 5 minutes. well, it finally got there and i made my way to martinez. but then because we had to take the later bus, we had to wait for the other train to get there. meanwhile, the next train (717) came and wasn't too far behind the one i came on. so we waited in the station some, waited outside some, and then finally we got to board the bus and be taken to our destinations. it was 10:30 when i finally arrived in rohnert park in front of the ihop where wendy picked me up and brought me back.

so, wendy says i shouldn't do any more traveling, at least nowhere where i couldn't walk to.

i'm just glad i wasn't on the train when it hit that car.