Shuttle Adventures

 

This morning the shuttle came late for the first time that I have taken it. I got there in plenty of time to catch the 7:58 shuttle, but no shuttle came until the next scheduled one at 8:13. I asked the driver why the previous shuttle had never shown up, and he replied that he WAS the previous shuttle, but he'd gotten held up by a train. I got to work fifteen minutes late, and just then my boss walked into my office, so I told him what had happened and asked if I had to make up the time when it wasn't my fault. He said not this time, but he hoped that it wouldn't keep happening. If it does, I'll have to start taking the earlier shuttle - someone on the shuttle this morning said a train always passes by at that hour, but then why was the shuttle always punctual the other times I had taken it? And as we were driving to campus, we saw a train heading to the crossing, but luckily it stopped, and not on the sensor but before it. I hate when they set off the sensor, so the gates come down, and then they just sit there. At rush hour. Really? 

Oddly, this afternoon I went out at 5:00, feeling like it would be wrong to sneak out early to catch the shuttle at 4:55, and then the one at 5:12 came right on time. I have never seen that one before - it's like it just vanishes, and then I have to wait for the one at 5:29. When we stopped at the hospital, a woman got on and sat across from me, and she had sat across from me this morning too, so I pointed it out, and we talked a bit. She is literally working to cure cancer, and I just move money from Column A to Column B. But we're all important in our own way, right?

I forgot to mention that when Travalon and I went up North, I forgot my toothpaste, but I wasn't too worried since Travalon always packs toothpaste. Only... he forgot too! Fortunately I found a small tube in my purse. I was sure I'd packed floss, but no, and there wasn't any of the little sample size ones from the dentist in my purse. Ah well, two days of not flossing should not ruin my teeth. And we did both manage to remember to pack a toothbrush.

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