Thursday, July 28, 2005
My Road Trip from Hell
Yes I said "hell!"
So today was all good and dandy. I got off on a good start. Well except finishing Harry Potter 6, The Half Blood Prince. (I'll go into that more later!) I start my head home. Now normally I pick up the #108 on Elliott and ValVista less than a block from work. I normally wait about 5-8 mins. Well 10 min late I start to wonder. 22 min late I start to panick.This bus runs every hour. It's 3:26 and my bus on Gilbert and Elliott, gets there at 3:36. I normally wait about the same time there. So I call the bus people. They tell me its running 20-25 min late. Finally at 3:28 it shows up. So I fiqured I could catch the one at 3:36 maybe if it's running late. Well wouldn't you know it the one day it's on time. So I finally get to the Gilbert stop it's 3:40. No bus. I fiqured I had just missed the 3:36! By this time it's a 112 degrees outside - and today no over cast clouds! So now I have to wait for the 4:06 bus at Gilbert. I see three buses within 20 min time period go the opposite direction. I thought that's odd - they run every half hour on this route. Well now it's 4:16 and I'm getting a little irrated. So I call the bus people. They can't FIND the 4:06 bus!! They send no replacement bus but say I've gotta wait for the NEXT friggin bus! That was at 4:36 if it shows up and it's on time! Oh and has air conditioning! Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't That should be illegal in this state!!
FINALLY at 4:36 (the time I normally am home by 4:14).So I'm pissed by this point. and HOT. I had drank most of my water, but was tryin to save some because when the buses don't have air sometimes that's worse.
There was another lady with me, that was kinda laughin about how absurd it was that none of the buses in this town work. We get back to Val Vista and panick. By this time it's just me the lady and the bus driver on the bus. We had been talking about how we missed both buses. He informed us that the later bus takes a detour and goes down past the Williams Air Force Base and Boeing!! That was another 1/2hr!!!! I started laughing. I was talking to Carl and just laughing. Ya know when you get to the point ya just have to laugh! Yea I was there!
Carl beat me home - WITH the carpoolers dropped off and picked me up at the bus stop!!
So today was all good and dandy. I got off on a good start. Well except finishing Harry Potter 6, The Half Blood Prince. (I'll go into that more later!) I start my head home. Now normally I pick up the #108 on Elliott and ValVista less than a block from work. I normally wait about 5-8 mins. Well 10 min late I start to wonder. 22 min late I start to panick.This bus runs every hour. It's 3:26 and my bus on Gilbert and Elliott, gets there at 3:36. I normally wait about the same time there. So I call the bus people. They tell me its running 20-25 min late. Finally at 3:28 it shows up. So I fiqured I could catch the one at 3:36 maybe if it's running late. Well wouldn't you know it the one day it's on time. So I finally get to the Gilbert stop it's 3:40. No bus. I fiqured I had just missed the 3:36! By this time it's a 112 degrees outside - and today no over cast clouds! So now I have to wait for the 4:06 bus at Gilbert. I see three buses within 20 min time period go the opposite direction. I thought that's odd - they run every half hour on this route. Well now it's 4:16 and I'm getting a little irrated. So I call the bus people. They can't FIND the 4:06 bus!! They send no replacement bus but say I've gotta wait for the NEXT friggin bus! That was at 4:36 if it shows up and it's on time! Oh and has air conditioning! Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't That should be illegal in this state!!
FINALLY at 4:36 (the time I normally am home by 4:14).So I'm pissed by this point. and HOT. I had drank most of my water, but was tryin to save some because when the buses don't have air sometimes that's worse.
There was another lady with me, that was kinda laughin about how absurd it was that none of the buses in this town work. We get back to Val Vista and panick. By this time it's just me the lady and the bus driver on the bus. We had been talking about how we missed both buses. He informed us that the later bus takes a detour and goes down past the Williams Air Force Base and Boeing!! That was another 1/2hr!!!! I started laughing. I was talking to Carl and just laughing. Ya know when you get to the point ya just have to laugh! Yea I was there!
Carl beat me home - WITH the carpoolers dropped off and picked me up at the bus stop!!
