unplanned exercise

Gotta love taking Metra. Even though I personally don't, I enjoyed hearing this from Duksim during dinner tonight. She usually sleeps on the train on her ride back to the Glenview station, where she gets off to hop into her car. Usually she does a good job of waking up before the train arrives at the station, or when the conductor announces the arrival over the intercom. This time around though, she kept sleeping and instead heard the conductor announce "North Glenview", the next station over! She immediately snapped awake, which prompted another passenger to ask her if she missed her stop - to which she sheepishly replied in the affirmative. She got off at the North Glenview station - but faced a dilemma: whether to wait 20 minutes for the opposite train to arrive to go back to the Glenview station, or walk back instead. Deciding on the latter, she started to walk. Unfortunately, the walk took her 30 minutes to get back - in comparison to the 3 minutes it would have taken her by train. What's worse, that train passed her up as she was walking back! She finally arrived at her car tired, sweaty and frustrated at the choice she made. Of all the days to have this happen, a day in the mid-90's with high humidity, lots of sun and no wind was quite the unfortunate combination...