Great time gone so wrong!

BigP50

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Could I get any more excited? How Could I! I was about to go celebrate the 2010 Stanley Cup Championship with my friend and hundreds of thousands of other Hawks fans. Me and my friend are jacked so we want to get there about an hour before it starts. We are at the train station and there are like a few hawks fans there. As the minutes go by more and more show up. We here a voice from the PA system and he says there is a 6 minute delay because the cars were so crowded. So were excited, that means the train has to be coming any minute. Every couple of minutes I check my phone and and the time is flying but No train? Eventually like 30 minutes later the guy says, "There is a police situation near the Glen Ellyn Station" (my stop) every couple of minutes the same announcement comes on. AN hour later after no info we finally find out that a train hit a car right before our stop. At 9:15 we see the train coming and we are pumped, and everyone is clapping, unfortunately the train didn't stop! We are freaking out, 5 minutes later we see another so we are like here we go! Once again train doesn't stop. We then find out that next train would come at 10. Unfortunately I had basketball at 1 and all the trains coming back were delayed. So I took my self home on the 1 mile walk and went into my room and watched the thing on TV. lol.
 

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yeah dude the trains were insane. i got on in barrington and i couldnt get on the 1st train that came through the station because it was packed full. the 2nd one that came through i barely squeezed onto. that train went express though so at least i didnt have to stand for that long. i got lucky and got to sit down when i took the train back. i dont think anyone thought that there was going to be that many people there for the parade and rally. last i heard over 2 mil?
 

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that was my prediction.
 

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the best part was people following the buses.
 

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The trains were RIDICULOUS! I boarded one and almost died of claustrophobia lol. We had about 20 people packed in the little cart where the doors open, I had to face the doors on the very last step and my face was seriously inches from the window. Everytime it opened to let people in/off it whacked my knees lmao. None the less, great time downtown today. And Pat, I definitely heard about the accident and at first thought a person got hit, not a car. Good stuff today.
 

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