Morning Commute Flubs

Hi Bloggers. This morning I don't have any special anecdote to give or some warm fuzzy feeling of a story. I just wanted to share such a hilarious morning I had.

My car is sick and is at the doctor's. While she is being looked at and worked on, I have had to use alternate methods to get to work over the past two days. I rented a car yesterday and today I took the train. The commute on the train was most interesting. I got to the train station about 10 minutes before the train was scheduled to leave. I got on the train but had no idea which one I was to get on. I asked the attendant and I swear she thought I was an idiot. She begrudgingly told me which car I was to be on to have a smooth exit once we got to our destination. While on the train, I noticed the driver (as he is called) stopped. I am wondering why he stopped. Then I noticed the driver was backing up the train. I asked a gentlemen who was standing near the driver why we were backing up. He said it was because there was construction on the route he was heading. I was like, huh? He didn't know this prior to boarding the train. Sigh.

So we are backing up and heading in a new direction and on our way. It is a pretty smooth ride. I had a nice conversation with the gentlemen who helped me out early. He wound up being an employee of another railroad company (he was helping out for the day since it was a new route). All is well. Then I did the dreadful thing of looking at the time. I was going to be late for work. Great. My first train commute ride and I'm going to be late. Well, as I exited the train (having no idea where I was headed), I noticed, I was on the street. I'm asking another attendant where is the train station. She tells me this is it. I'm like huh??? But then I looked ahead and saw a building. Let me go check it out, I told myself. Lo and behold, it was the train station. See, I am looking for the bus schedule and stop. The train counter person told me that the bus was going to be here any minute and to hurry. I hurried outside thinking that it was coming and nothing. I look at the schedule and it was not the bus route I needed. So I started walking.

Thank God for cellular phone GPS. I mapped where I was and found out that I was a few blocks from the Main Bus Station. And I arrived right as the bus I needed was pulling up. I get on the bus, get to work and breathed.

I don't know what all this was about. Don't know if there is a lesson in it (I'm sure there is and I'll hear it once my heart stops racing). But what I do know is that there is such joy in my heart. That is a huge change from years before when I would have been just fussing all over the place. I'm so cool right now. Why? Because things happen. I know it's just a commute mix-up and I will be getting home later (which I'm so not happy about), but it speaks volumes to the way in which I have changed.

Blessings,
Aurellia