Don't drive...fly...with Metra...or something like that

I had a class downtown today and decided I didn't want to drive. For once. I thought, I'll use public transportation and maybe save a few bucks on gas. There are only a few Metra trains that stop at my station, one that left at 5:34 and the next the left around 6:30. I wasn't sure how long it would take me to get down there so I took the earlier train. That means I had to get up by 4:15, so I could leave at 5:00. That is just wrong. So, I got to the station, bought a round trip ticket and boarded the train. It was actually kind of nice to be able to spend the entire trip relaxing. I even read a few chapters of my text book.
After the Metra, I hopped on the blue line. It only took like 20 minutes to get to my class building from there. I was actually an hour early to something. So, I went to Caribou Coffee. As I sat there drinking my Turtle Mocha and thinking about how nice it was to take the train, I realized...I actually spent more money on the two trains and the coffee than I would have spent had I drove. How wrong is it that I would actually save money utilizing the horrid $3.00/ gallon gas than public trans? Just to add icing to this bitter money guzzling cake...I got back to the train station to find a parking ticket on my car.
So, to recap, it took me twice as long and cost twice as much as driving. Will I do it next week? Probably. I don't want to have to sit in stop and go traffic. Pfff