Thursday, September 18, 2008

stuck in a hole - for now

well, all was well and going to plan...I left last Friday from Chicago to Toledo, staying the week with my brother and sister. A little partying, a little chilling, a little watching the baby niece...and here it is, Thursday morning. I should be on a bus right now heading to Pittsburgh!!! The station opened at five in the morning, the bus left at five fifteen...I got there at four and the station was locked up tight and dark, so i chilled in the parking lot in the front. An hour later the lights popped on, it was five-five...I packed the few things i had to amuse me for the time and walked to the front...only to find the doors were locked!!! I jogged around back to find that my bus was about to leave...and I still hadn't claimed my ticket! I get inside, where a couple just approached the desk...I ask if i could go ahead, since my bus was about to leave. But, NOOOOOO!!!1!! The clerk already started with them...I was freaking out my friends, FREAKING! The bus pulled away just as they got there tickets...I went up to the clerk, and it literally too five seconds to print my ticket...my pre-paid ticket!...my pre-paid ticket for a bus that just left ten seconds ago!!!! I was PISSED...I still am pissed. So, here I am...stuck in Toledo, Ohio for the time being...till I can figure what to do, with a useless ticket...and another bus that i can't catch, since I HAD to catch the first one out! My b/f doing his best to keep me calm...but it's so hard with all this crap going on. I want to see him...I can't wait to see him...but I wanted my plan to work out...which it hasn't. Now, it hasn't failed, it's just gone so horribly astray. I might be able to catch the next bus from here to Pitts at eleven fifty...which gets there at six...and the only bus from Pitts to Morgantown leaves at two! FOUR HOURS AGO!!! I might be able to try this again tomorrow if I can convince the other bus company to shift the day...for another ticket i already bought! But no matter what, I have to pay at least fifteen bucks to change the ticket from Toledo to Pittsburgh from the one I missed to any other date. I'm just so pissed...I almost cried! The bus was literally next to me as i stood in line to get the ticket to get on it...I watched it pull away. That was the worst part...if I missed it before hand...and it was already gone, maybe not so much freaking out on my part. BUT I WAS THERE FOR AN HOUR BEFORE HAND!!!