One thing leads to another….

I use the onebusaway app to look up my bus rides. Using this, I give myself 10 minutes to walk to the bus stop, and I have 3 minute cushion at the bus stop. Except for today. I didn’t check the app, because the bus is supposed to come at 7:24. So I left at 7:14. And saw the bus go by my stop 3 minutes early. Needless to say, I missed the bus. As the bus drove past, I check the app, and I saw that the bus was 3 minutes early, and I wasn’t supposed to have showed up yet. This is not good. But a quick check of the bus schedules showed I could still make it to work on time. The transfer window was going to be really tight, but I was willing to try. So, and hour later, I head back out the bus stop and wait. And wait. And wait. I check the app, and the bus is running late. Late enough that I’ll miss the really tight connection, and won’t make it to work on time. And I would’ve been an hour late or more. And at my employer being an hour late or more is the same occurrence as an absence. It sounds strange, but those are the rules. So, if I’m going to take the same attendence hit, I might as well call out…

And it didn’t help that at my second attempt to catch the bus, there was an unstable gentlemen at the bus stop having a heated argument on the phone, and I’m really not in the mood to jeopardize my safety waiting for a late bus…