Jen Stewart took the above photo at the Oak Grove Orange Line station this morning. She reports that it wasn't bad enough that the T bus driver told everybody to get out in the street, way away from the station. When the refugees then straggled up the road because the T didn't shovel the sidewalks, the bus driver honked at them for getting in his way.

Jen Stewart asks:

Nothing says 'Summer on the Orange Line' quite like being stuck next to a sweaty, smelly drunk who is trying to grope your thigh, wouldn't you say? ...

Should Patrick take the Metro or BostonNow?

They park like this.

Jen Stewart reports the answer to the riddle is six:

Two to pass out brochures, and four to stand with their hands in their pockets, staring longingly at the Dunkin' Donuts stand 5 feet away.

Her mood this morning was not further brightened by the fact that they had taped off all but one of the Charlie machines at Oak Grove to funnel commuters toward those two cops. She wonders whether it might make more sense to have those perpetually angry "customer service agents" hand out brochures nobody reads and have cops do stuff like, oh, preventing more stabbings.

Some rolls of paper towels:

... [T]he 136 bus this morning had over 15 seats that were full of dirty water puddles, rendering them unusable. Let me repeat that: more than 15 seats were unusable. ...

Dinane tries to get on the Orange Line at Oak Grove this morning, only the CharlieCard readers keep rejecting her card:

... Look in ticket window. No one there. Look in other ticket window. No one there. Stand there confused. Get approached by MBTA employee. Try with her watching. Light says "already used." She tells you to wait 20 minutes. ...