What the hell is wrong with the F train... today (or yesterday) I was but TWO stops away from my destination and they go and say that there was a loss of power at Jay St and thus the F would be running on the G line.  Huh????  Well, I know I can transfer to the A at Hoyt-Schermerhorn station (love it), the next G stop.  But it's really annoying because we had to run up and down to the other side.  I got on the A, the next stop being Jay St.  Yeah, the way they made it sound, it was like the whole station was in the dark.  But apparently just the F line?  And they didn't seem to inform the passengers waiting at Jay St for the F what was going on, because I saw a lot of people standing at the F side.

That's not a really out-of-the-ordinary story, but, the F train has been particularly in a bad funk lately.  I went to the last stop, Coney Island, to take the F back up to Manhattan, because my regular way of taking the F requires two different trains, not including the F itself, and I didn't want to do that that day.  And I was only three stops from Coney Island, so I thought, meh.  Well, THE F WAS NOT AT CONEY ISLAND!!!!  I had to take the Q to West 8th St, which was where the F was hanging out.  It went like five feet before it suddenly stopped and then a whole bunch of guys in those bright orange construction vests started bounding through the train doors to check some signal problem in the front of the train (I was in the first car, so I saw a lot), but not before the driver put on his little vest, opened up the door and stepped onto the tracks to check the problem.  I'm not really sure what the problem was, just that there was a signal malfunction and a bunch of guys came to check it out.

So finally it went to the next station, Neptune Ave, but the conductor says that the next stop, Avenue X, IS THE LAST STOP.  NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU that meant I had to go to the other side to take the F train that was going to Manhattan, because they were doing track work.  Well, at least it was going express, but it's the kind of express that's really slow and you just think, "why bother?" :/

I've always hated Brooklyn non-rush hour subway service.  Or maybe it's the one I know the best, schlepping into Brooklyn since I was a wee one, so I know the trains quite well. (I'm the train whisperer.) Subway service in Queens is quite lacking; besides the 7 (that goes to Flushing), all the other trains just travel in a thick rope together on Queens Boulevard.  Bleh.  The worst might be SIR (State Island Railway), but, seeing as I've never been on it I don't know.  But it's just one line that's only traveling on the east side of the island, sooooooooooooooo...  Bronx is kinda like Manhattan service, different trains branching off into different routes, except no crosstown trains.

And I had a whole thing on crosstown trains, but I really have to sleep.  I AM GOING TO SLEEP RIGHT NOW.  GOOD NIGHT.

P.S. I don't know why I like talking about the subway so much.  I already have subway (blanked out, seriously, I forgot it... maybe sandwiches?).  OKAY IT'S SLEEPY TIME.