A lot of the time, commuting sucks. Especially when going all of the way from one end of the island, to the other, twice a day. This morning, for example, I needed to be in a bit early. So I made sure to get out the door at a reasonable hour. My efforts were, however, thwarted by a tunnel fire, which caused my train to sit idle on the tracks for nearly an hour.
But there are those intermittent moments that occur in the subway, that make it not suck so bad, at all. Last night, for example, I descended the stairs at the south end of the “A” train platform, at Chambers Street, and stumbled upon the scene in the photo above. There must have been 10 of those large bags full of balloons. I was temped to go ride in the car that they got into, just to see people’s reaction. Anyway, it brightened my evening.