I think I talked to a ghost...

For cereal.

My brother and his girlfriend had a baby on Tuesday. Over the weekend I went to Butt-Fuck Egypt (not their real location) to help them out a bit. To be honest, I just wanted to play with the baby for a while.

On Monday morning, I was rudely awoken by my alarm clock. It was time to go home. At 5:30 AM.

My brother drove me to the train station. Because, let's face it, I would have gotten lost during that 5 minute trek. But he just left me there. He didn't even walk me to the ticket place. Just dumped me in the parking lot.

Okay, so first things first ...

          1) I've never been to this hill-y suburb (seriously, too many hills)
          2) I have never taken the Metra to or from anywhere.

I crossed the tracks to go buy my ticket. Easy. But then the train I wanted to get on left while I was trying to cross the tracks. Since I'm against dying via stupid ways, I decided not to run across while the train was coming.
Once I was on the other side of the tracks, I kept looking at my phone to see when the next train came by. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone coming towards me. I thought "great, some weirdo is going to try and talk to me"... well... yeah, he did talk to me. But he wasn't necessarily weird.

"Are you going to Chicago?" He asked while still a good distance away.

"Yeah ..." Still thinking he was a weirdo trying to kidnap me.

"You can get on that train" he said while pointing at a parked train "It leaves at 6:08, and you can wait inside".

I thought, oh cool. This weirdo isn't a weirdo after all. We even crossed the tracks together.

He continued, "Are you going all the way to Union Station? This train skips a few of the suburb stops, but stops at every station in the City. And you can sit anywhere on the train."

I've never been on one of these trains so I was pretty mesmerized by it all and I just kept thinking to myself, why is this guy talking to me in the first place?

He pushed the button that automatically opens the door. It made a weird sound like when you open package and it lets out air. I said my thanks for him helping me out and I sat down near the train car's back door.

In the five seconds it took me to slide across the seat and look at my phone to check the time, the guy was gone! No one else was in that train car at the time. And I know for a fact he didn't leave. If he did, the door would have made a noise that would have echoed through the train car.