Your Daily Metrofail

So the Kleiner is commuting from the Kleinette's Mt. P pad, from Columbia Heights to Pentagon City. So, of course, the Branch Ave. train breaks down at Shaw Howard. And of course the next Branch Ave. train is two cars shorter so the Kleiner can't even get on. And if course the NEXT train closes its doors while folks are still boarding and there's still room, so the Kleiner is nearly dismembered. And so the Kleiner has to wait 25min to take a Green line train ONE STOP so he can switch to the Yellow line so he can get to work, woefully late and profoundly irritable.

Metro, I love you, but you're bringing me down.

The 3G Underground

The revolution, as it were, will be telephoned.

Though I had not the time to post this from below the Earth's surface, you can imagine the Kleiner's surprise when he was reading his usual selection of blogs as he descended into the DC Metro after work last night to discover that, unlike every day that came before it, his service...continued! "No," he thought, "this cannot be" - yet, sites were loaded, e-mails sent, calls receieved. Yes, Metroers - your phones now work underground! So long, that is, as you're in

Ballston, Bethesda, Columbia Heights, Crystal City, Dupont Circle, Farragut North, Farragut West, Federal Triangle, Foggy Bottom-GWU, Friendship Heights, Gallery Pl-Chinatown, Judiciary Square, L’Enfant Plaza, McPherson Square, Metro Center, Pentagon, Pentagon City, Rosslyn, Smithsonian and Union Station.

The rest of the stations, along with the entirety of the system itself (!!!) is coming by 2012. I found the service to be pretty impressive. I consider this unadulterated good news, as I think all folks will aside the usual batch of Luddites and curmudgeons. Any thoughts/experiences to share?

-The Kleiner