I saw the most beautiful sunrise this morning as I pulled into the parking lot to catch the train. As I admired the beauty, the little ditty "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning" kept running through my head. Pshaw! I thought. That's stupid. I don't live in a state of hurricanes or any other type of "Act of God" events. OK, maybe a volcano might erupt, but I'm not terribly worried about it.

Still, every time I looked at the sky I thought about that stupid warning.

I got on the train, as usual. I didn't sit next to someone annoying or talkative, so as far as I was concerned, I was off to a good start. Until.....

GUM POPPING lady got on the train and sat next to me. She looks classy and I'd guess she's in her 50's, so surely should be way past the gum popping stage, right? WRONG! Every single chew created that extremely annoying POP! POP! POP!. Imagine listening to that right.next.to.your.ear for an hour. Of course there were no other seats available, and (yes, I'm this stupid) I would have felt bad getting up and moving. So, I listened to it for the rest of the ride to town. I swear, it kept getting louder and louder.

I do admit looking at her a few times, but she was oblivious to it all.

Sweet sanity was within my reach as we pulled into the train station. As per usual, I ran up three flights of stairs, walked three blocks and ran down three more flights of stairs to get to the bus tunnel. I like the bus tunnel because I can catch any bus and it will take me where I need to go. However, you get the bus lottery when you just hop on any train. You just never know what kind of situation you'll run into when you hop on any old bus.

Normally when a bus stops, twenty or so people get off before new people can get on the bus. Nobody got off.

Bad sign.

I got on the bus and my nose was immediately assaulted by a combination of urine and booze. I had to literally climb over legs that were sprawled out in the aisle. There were no seats available because most of the bus riders were asleep and laying down across both seats. It was just down-right nasty.

Thankfully, my final stop is just five minutes away from where I get on, so I did my best to not throw up all over everyone. Although, truth be told, I doubt anyone would notice because they all seemed to be in an alcohol-induced (AND most likely drugs) slumber.

I just hope that my clothes didn't absorb any of that atrocious smell. I have three important meetings to attend today and I just don't need that kind of reputation.

Red sky at morning. I'm going to take that a little more seriously from now on.