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i'm still fighting the plague. its a tough nut to crack... i just am really susceptible to bugs this year...probably all of the stress, weakened immune system... yadda yadda.

anyway, so i took a late morning, showered, shaved, dressed... usual routine... got out the door, walked to the t station... feeling pretty worn out. by the time i got on the train and headed over to harvard square. i was feeling progressively more tired by the time i walked the two blocks to where the shuttle bus parks.

here's where the story begins.

i had to lightly tap on the doors of the shuttle bus, the driver was taking a snooze... the buses run every 25-30 minutes after 9am, and you just hop on and wait until they are ready to go. so, the driver smiles, lets me on... i find my usual seat and promptly fall asleep.

at some point during my slumber we make it to the arsenal (the campus i work at) but what happened was, the driver sort of forgot he had someone in the back (i was the only one on the bus). i remember waking up, and realizing two things. one, i am not at the charles hotel in harvard square anymore (where i pick up the bus) and two, that i am indeed at the arsenal, but in a strange parking lot (the arsenal is a rather large complex made up of about a dozen or so buildings, one of which is the one i work in... all the way across [i guess] the complex). i walk up to the front of the bus and quietly say, "did you forget about me?"

the driver, a little startled said, "oh! i forgot i had someone."

i tell the driver where i'm supposed to be, and he takes me there.

so, i get to work, 40 minutes later than i planned (if you knew how short a distance it was from harvard square to the arsenal, you'd be really laughing... 2 miles maybe?) hell... on nice days in the spring/summer i would most likely just walk.

anyway... i got off the bus, and made it into work... and immedialty shared the story with the project manager i'm working with, and his response was, "wow."

heh. so yeah... that was a little embarrassing.

*blinder curls up under desk for a nap*

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  • At least the driver didn't molest you. Oh yes. I said molest. It's a fun word. Molest.
  • Ya, its been a really tough year for me too.
  • you're not well!

    Stay home so you don't get sicker or contaminate everyone else!

    Good grief.

    STAY HOME.

  • There are two buses that run by my house, the 96 and 76. The 96 is an express to downtown Portland, the 76 runs locally through the SW Portland area. So one early morning on which I am more blurry eyed than usual, I get on the 76 instead of the 96. They follow the same route for a mile or so, except that after a certain light the 76 turns left and stays intown while the 96 turns right and heads for the freeway.

    So, per my norm, I get on the bus and start reading. After a while something just doesn't fe

  • I didn't know you were a gunner!
    • lol! i sure as hell am! gunner, first class! just gimme a target!

      heh, i wish it were that interesting, but alas... its just a dressed up corporate zoo [taotc.com] not unlike the sorts that decorate 270 and 495 around dc. oh sure, its nice... and uber hip to be seen in (gag) but still... just a place one goes to work.
      • Wow! I loved reading those company blurbs! I think I got a contact high from all the buzz-werds!

        I think if I were to launder money, it would be through iInfoSysE-Com, a leading edge integrator consultant of network centric corporate thought-synergy utilizing longitudinal metrics for a globalized economy.

        Yeah, we don't know what we do, either. But I'm sure it involves a lot of Excel and PowerPoint.
        • lol! and yet after reading all of that ****crap**** your brain didn't explode. how nice!

          i wonder if a human wrote those descriptions, or they just used a bullshit pr generator. ugh... long are the days past when people simply used real words to describe stuff.

          Longitudinal metrics? huh? thought-synergy???? what the fuck? are you serious? ugh.
  • But I do regularly get involved in the book I'm reading and wind up many stops beyond where I wanted to get off. It usually means getting off, crossing the street, and catching a bus back in the other direction with a determination to not get distracted again. The one saving grace is that I live and work off the main line which runs every 12-15 minutes most of the day (tapers to hourly at night, but runs all night). The one problem is that both are near the middle of the route, so I can wind up nearly an

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