The Metro Ride to Challenge Our Sanity

The crowd for the Rally to Restore Sanity / Fear was insane yesterday, which made getting down to the mall far more of a challenge than I had expected. Though some of my friends got out there nice and early, by the time we tried to catch the metro, we were greeted with this scene:

We waited for a couple of completely packed trains to arrive at the station where only a couple of shameless people somehow found a way to jam their own body into the mass of humanity already on the mass transit.

With fear starting to win out over sanity, we decided to take the train in the exact opposite direction of the Mall in order to jump on a train at a less-packed station. Though we were worried as we passed through packed station after packed station, heading further and further away, we finally reached a fairly-empty Medical Center station at which point we jumped out to claim our space along the tracks.

Within a few minutes, cheers erupted at the front-end of the station as a nearly-empty metro train pulled up to greet us. We jumped on and one station-later we were shoulder-to-knee-to-elbow-to-stomach with our fellow rally-goers.