So, after I left the Progressive Nation 2009 show last night and got on the MARTA train NORTHBOUND, I heard the nice voice come over the speaker say "This train is bound for North Springs Station."  Well, hot damn, that doesn't happen often to get a North Springs train at 5 points that late at night...

Well, as it turns out, the train LIED to me.  It was actually bound for Doraville... I only realized this after noticing the train stopped at the Lenox station... Of course, I (i was reading the booklet inside the new CD I purchased... CD's are awesome, btw) wasn't paying much attention to this until it dawned on me that Lenox is on the NE bound train to Doraville... and I missed getting off, so I had to stay on until the Brookhaven station (I was not the only one, thank God...).

Getting off at Brookhaven to go back south to the Lindbergh station where I can catch a North Springs bound train... About 10 minutes later, the train arrived and 20 minutes later, I was on a North Springs bound train... so, all-in-all, thanks MARTA for wasting 30 minutes of my time.  No, I didn't need to sleep...

I will say that... I have ridden the MARTA enough to know that, to that point, there are no North Springs bound trains that run out of 5 points... Every train is Doraville bound and one has to get off at Lindbergh and wait for a North Springs bound train... I allowed myself to be fooled by the nice voice on the train that kept reassuring me that it was "North Springs bound."   So, was it my fault or was it MARTA's?

I was upset, but what could I do but get back to Lindbergh and then to North Springs as best I could... getting pissed off would have not changed the fact that I wound up on a train going somewhere I didn't want to go... So, lesson learned.  I did get home and I did get sleep and I did make it to work (albeit, a little