Jan Ormand made her way through the crush of rush hour pedestrians and literally fought her way to the stairway that led to the subway beneath down town Chicago’s State Street. “Good grief I pray my car’s ready for tomorrow,” she muttered under her breath while slipping a buck and a half to the toll taker who sat in an air conditioned booth one flight above the tracks. It was hot in Chicago, at least ninety with about eighty percent humidity! For the past week Jan had been forced to use public transportation since her car was in the shop with a bad transmission. The fifty one year old insurance executive stood on the platform with thousands of the commuters waiting for a north bounder. As a Green Line train slowly slid into the station, a voice over the loud speaker announced, “This train will be non stop all the way to Fullerton!” “If you need to get off at an earlier stop please wait for the next train!” There were hundreds of groans as the doors to the just stopped cars popped open,...
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