Okay so here we are to read the tales of my horrible bus luck today.
First, I am walking down to the bus near my house and I see it go by seconds before I get to the stop, I check my clock, it says 6:40 (so the bus was four minutes early). quickly I turn around and start running in the opposite direction to make the next transfer. This run lasts about 30 seconds, I continue for the next 10 minutes to do run/walk in intervals. Luckily I made it on time.
Next, I got to the Ladner exchange, saw a bus with my number, got on, sadly it went in the opposites direction (wrong name), I pulled the string, but we were on the highway so it didn’t stop for another 10 minutes. When it did I had to cross an overpass to get to the other side of the highway where I waited for a bus that would take me back to the exchange. Finally, I caught one, I get on, show my pass, and the driver says, “you’re in a new zone now, you have to pay an extra $1″, okay sure fine whatever, but all I have is a Tonnie, damn, I toss it in. The bus takes me back to the loop, and now I have a decision to make, do I wait for the next bus, by my estimate the bus ride is only like 10 minutes from here, surly I can walk it right? Wrong choice, I walked, and I walked, and I walked, apparently a bus on the highway goes many multiples the speed of me walking (and the occasional short sprint, but it’s hard to sprint with a backpack). So anyways it took me about 1h to walk leaving me at a loss to the bus by about 20 min and a ton of effort.
Oh and then on my way home I saw a bus where mine was supposed to be but the sign wasn’t lit yet, I got one becuase everything seemed to make sense. Then I noticed it seemed to have left 5 minutes early, strange, then it took a turn where it wasn’t supposed to, oh damn, I screwed up again. I had to get off and walk back to the bus stop and wait for my real bus.
This was one of the strangest days I’ve had in a while