How to Efficiently Get from A to B

1. Leave your cell phone at home.
2. Hop on the Red line going northbound.
3. Transfer trains at Belmont. Pay no attention to the announcement that you are now on a Purple line train.
4. Realize with dismay that you are on a Purple express, and the next stop will be in Evanston. Ponder the ramifications of pulling the emergency door open switch.
   
5. Consider borrowing a stranger's cell phone to call your dinner companions. Wrack your brain to remember their numbers. Give up when you figure out the only numbers you know by heart are your parents'.
6. Get off at the Howard stop. Leave the station and reswipe your farecard to get back in. Dash onto a Red line train going southbound.
7. Enjoy making every single stop on the way back to Belmont.
8. Get off at the Belmont stop. Carefully check signage before hopping onto a Brown line train.
   
9. Stretch as you get off at the Western stop. You have spent the last two hours on trains. Arrive at dinner 45 minutes late. Reassure people that you were not hit by a car while biking.