All in a Days Work

Today Farron's office had a workshop from 12-3. Since I am not currently working and sit around all day with nothing to do I decided to join them after they invited me. So I had Farron set the alarm for 9 to give me plently of time to get ready.

Well 9 comes and goes and finally at 9:45 I literally roll out of bed, from what I can remember atleast. I run downstiars to check the bus schedule to see what time I have to leave to get there on time. Well I decide the later bus is too late, so I have to take the 10:26 bus.

So I rush around, muttering at how I don't want to leave early and how I am not sure why I am even going. And finally the time comes to leave. I have to take the alarm clock with me, because Farron's watch stopped and he took me watch. So whenever I wanted to check the time I had to peek in my bag and hope no one saw the alarm clock. Then when I got to Farron's office I took the battery out so no one would hear me ticking.

I have a half hour bus ride where I get to read my book, Zodiac. Then comes the train, and another 20 minute wait for the second bus. I could have walked but I would have been super early so I opted to sit on the bench and continue reading my book while waiting for the bus. So there are 3 empty benches, I pick one open my book and within a minute a man and woman arrive. And where does this lovely lady choose to sit? Right next to me. There were two other completely empty benches and she sits next to me. I have this thing with personal space and just do not understand why if you could sit alone you would choose to sit next to a complete stranger. The worst part is she was waiting for the same bus, arriving 20 minutes later, and she proceeds to kick her feet which aren't hitting the ground against the bench for the entire wait.

I arrive at Farron's office and everything goes smoothly. It's a bit late getting over, but no big deal, or so we thought. We decide to walk the 10 minutes to the train because it'll be a 15 minute wait for the bus. We walk about 2 minutes and then, complete down pour.

So it is raining cats and dogs , thundering, and we have no protection at all. We see the train coming, towards the end of our walk and have to run to try to get it, well we miss it. Luckily the next one wasn't too far behind. We get on the train and we only need to go a few stops, we make it to the first one and the driver comes on saying there will be a delay due to lightening. So we wait, he then informs us we need to get off the train it won't be going anyfurther. So we are stranded at the station, about 10 minutes later another train arrives and after a long long wait on the train without it moving, it finally proceeds to our destination.

We get off and go to the bank to cash Farron's check (we discovered we hate taxes today by the way). Well he goes to deposit it and the machines aren't accepting deposits. It's now 4:55 the bank is closing in 5 minutes. We get in line with 20 people infront of us. We finally get the check cashed at 5:10 and realize we have 10 minutes to get take out and make the bus home, which is a 5 minute walk away.

Just as we get ready to cross the street my sandal breaks!!!! I have to walk barefoot down the street. Hard to say what diseases I contracted. We decide to eat in and wait the extra half hour for the bus since we know we're going to miss the early one.

While Farron's ordering I see that our bus hasn't left yet. And by accident he ordered it to go. So we get our food. Run across the street, me in my bare foot (yes foot i kept the other shoe on), and have to flag the bus down because it has now pulled out to leave. Luckily he stops for us and after a 3 hour adventure on Calgary transit we made it home.

If the workshop would have ended on time, we would have avoided this whole fiasco.