ridiculous morning
As I've mentioned before, I live in the town of Penicuik, which is about 10 miles outside Edinburgh, normally 45 minutes to the city by bus. My usual commute is considerably shorter. I catch the bus outside my house and it takes five minutes to go to the town center, then five more minutes back to the area where I live. (About a 10-minute walk from my house. When I've missed the bus, I've been able to walk around to the main road and meet the bus on its way out of town.) Then it's another 5 minutes down the road to where I get off to walk to my office. Not so much this morning.
I got on my usual bus at 7:40. It took the usual five minutes to get to the town center. Then it stopped. There was an accident or something because of the two inches of snow on the ground. There is really only one road from Penicuik to Edinburgh. There is noplace to re-direct the traffic until you get out to where I usually get off the bus. I stayed on the bus for two hours. That got me to where the bus was still in Penicuik, and a ten minute walk from my house. Two hours, to get a ten minute walk from home. A distance that should have taken five minutes on the bus. If I stayed on the bus, at that rate I wouldn't get to work until noon. And I had to pee. It there were only four people on the bus, so it was freezing cold. My toes were going numb.
So I got off and went home. I called in and took a day of unpaid leave because it is just not worth it today. It seemed like a "know when to fold 'em" kind of start to the day. I'll try again tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow I'll just walk to work.
Alana
