There are no more words
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The subway broke for some reason today. Only for a little while though, and long enough for the fuzzy unintelligible updates to stain my Madonna listening experience.
"Gonna dress you up in--"
"Attention all subway passengers, we are munamuna blah blah St. George Station waffle waffle munamuna. Shuttle bus whawhawha platform blah blah."
"From your head down to your--"
"The delay we hodgepodge oogle blah blah munamuna shortly. Thank you."
Yeah, I lost my groove by the fourth subway stop. Le sigh. At least the problem resolved itself while Madonna went through five more tracks. Shoo-be-do-be-do...
Then a woman yelled at me because I stopped at the curb. She actually tried to push me forward, but then held off when the car I'd seen approaching sped around the corner.
Her words: "Oh."
My words: "Next time someone isn't moving fast enough for you, go around them instead of pushing them into traffic."
And I hadn't even gotten to the office yet. Someone had colored my day in with a thick black crayon. They didn't even try and cover up the bits that went outside the lines and dipped into all my happy spots.
An innocent colleague sent me .docx files all day. I'm on a Mac for this particular gig. Le sigh.
Feedback on an article made it look like my words were bleeding. Gotta love track changes. ;)
But then, I thought about how I lucky I am to have a happy home, a happy husband and a kitten of mass destruction who has been known to be happy on some occasions.
Leaving the stress of the subway, the near-accident, and the evils of my workload behind me, I raced up the front porch to burst through the front door and greet my happy family...
And stepped in cat poop.
Apparently this was not a good day for kittens either.
"Gonna dress you up in--"
"Attention all subway passengers, we are munamuna blah blah St. George Station waffle waffle munamuna. Shuttle bus whawhawha platform blah blah."
"From your head down to your--"
"The delay we hodgepodge oogle blah blah munamuna shortly. Thank you."
Yeah, I lost my groove by the fourth subway stop. Le sigh. At least the problem resolved itself while Madonna went through five more tracks. Shoo-be-do-be-do...
Then a woman yelled at me because I stopped at the curb. She actually tried to push me forward, but then held off when the car I'd seen approaching sped around the corner.
Her words: "Oh."
My words: "Next time someone isn't moving fast enough for you, go around them instead of pushing them into traffic."
And I hadn't even gotten to the office yet. Someone had colored my day in with a thick black crayon. They didn't even try and cover up the bits that went outside the lines and dipped into all my happy spots.
An innocent colleague sent me .docx files all day. I'm on a Mac for this particular gig. Le sigh.
Feedback on an article made it look like my words were bleeding. Gotta love track changes. ;)
But then, I thought about how I lucky I am to have a happy home, a happy husband and a kitten of mass destruction who has been known to be happy on some occasions.
Leaving the stress of the subway, the near-accident, and the evils of my workload behind me, I raced up the front porch to burst through the front door and greet my happy family...
And stepped in cat poop.
Apparently this was not a good day for kittens either.
Labels: adventures, blahs, kitten
posted by Bonnie Staring at 11:25 PM
7 Comments:
Oh, Bonnie. Big big ****Hugs****
What a day -- and grrr on that woman who nearly pushed you into traffic, I wouldn't have been quite so polite to her.
May today be a better one--and hey, there's a long weekend coming up to give you time to stretch out with your kitten of mass destruction and your hubby. *more hugs*
You nailed the voice of those subway announcements. Crazy thing is, it's not the sound system. Those messages from the mayor telling us to yell at our MPP for cutting funding to the TTC came through clearly.
sorry you had a crappy day. hope the weekend is better!
Thank you both, ladies! I think that bad day made my long weekend seem even more awesome! And the cat poo came off my shoes easily enough. ;)
I shouldn't laugh but I couldn't help it! I'm of the belief so long as you can make a good story out of it, the day isn't a complete loss. :)
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Oh Kelly, laughter is the best medicine for whatever ails us! And I'm sure one of my characters in an upcoming novel may experience at least one of these things...
Yes... after the fact, this was a funny story but it must have sucked rotten beans through a straw at the time.
Can't believe someone tried to push you into traffic.
(bwahaha - my disguise worked!)
Oops - did I write that out loud?
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