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Brian's train woes.

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In Montreal, at 6:30pm. I got in an hour ago.

Ten dollars to the person who guesses what time I boarded my train...

...

If you said 9:30am, you win!!!!

Yip, three hours and fifteen minutes in and our goddamn train finally pulls in. The girl across the aisle for me missed her return train by half an hour... she was supposed to be in town for the afternoon. We waited for two full hours while CN people 'inspected the track' before us in Port Hope [i.e. rode their rails into each other's anuses]. So it took us about four hours to get to Belleville. Then there was the forty-minute stop for 'freight traffic' [i.e. CN officials giving it to VIA officials up the butt], then another stop to let the Ottawa-bound part of the train decouple from our part, then there was another ten minutes waiting just outside Dorval while the engineer and the conductor fucked each other's brains out in the Via 1 car. Oh, no, wait, they were actually just FUCKING US OVER. In addition, the former compensation of entire-fare credit for your next trip if your train was super-late (am I imagining this former policy?) has been slashed to half no matter how late your train is. So, after cancelling my return ticket and then buying it back at half price, I hereby proclaim that I will NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, take the train to or from Montreal again.

All the same, it's nice to be back in the land of dope, hot chicks and
jaywalkers.

See some of you suckers soon.

b.