Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Public transport sucks

My journey home from work tonight...

1. Miss metro by 30 seconds
2. Wait for another metro
3. Get on this metro but get chucked off en route because it decides to terminate three stops up
4. Wait for another metro
5. Get on this metro and get to Centraal Station
6. Miss a train by 30 seconds
7. Hang around wasting time in the CD shop, eventually go to Albert Heijn to buy a bread roll (starving by now)
8. Wait while the assistant decides that the bread roll needs a price sticker.
9. Wait while the assistant calls someone over to examine the sticker-less bread roll
10. Wait while the assistants argue over which sticker should go on the bread roll
11. Wait while they finally agree upon a price and pay (the twenty or so people in the queue behind me are now tutting)
12. Run to train
13. Miss train by 30 seconds
14. Wait for another train and finally get on one.
15. Get off train and go to collect bike from the bike storage place
16. Manage to impale myself on bike handles as removing bike from rack. Get bruised ribs
17. Cycle home.
18. Spend ten minutes trying to get my key to work in the lock (new lock, new key, Max fitted it so doesn't work)
19. Finally opened door
20. Fell over step with bike. Bashed shin.

Glad to be home!

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