Abandon hope all ye who enter here (here being winter)
Fri Nov 7, 09:43 | RandomThe first snowstorm came, and so did winter – not with a whimper of a few Charlie-Brown-like flakes, but with a bang of wind that literally took the breath from your body and with shards of ice rain feeling as if it ripped through skin as it fell.
I missed my bus thanks to the combination of several factors.
The first was Winnipeg Transit neglecting to post any sort of delay on their “new improved site” (the only features of which are any use whatsoever being the ones that still existed in exactly the same form on the previous site) and reporting a ten minute delay on their Telebus service, then neglecting to respect either and the bus driving away five minutes late from its normal schedule.
Another contributer to my delay was a broken watch. How is it that my last watch from Walmart (shudder at the thought, yes) lasted two full years and only needed retiring because of a broken glass face, yet my new Zellers watch lasted less than eight months and the silver wore away to reveal the dull coppery colour of coated cheap metal in less than two months?
Yet another addition to my morning was the unfortunate discovery that the city had neglected to fill a foot-deep hole on either side of the sidewalk directly across from my aunt’s house this morning. The snow had nicely smoothed out the ground, and so I nearly broke my ankle. As is, it’s fairly sore, and will most likely get worse as the day goes on.
At least if I were at my apartment I could walk to work (or better yet, not be stuck with one bus an hour going anywhere but here). It might take me longer to get there, but I try to arrive twenty minutes early anyway and would just show up on time instead.
I woke up early, dressed appropriately. I did everything right to deal with the oncoming horrible season. And yet I’m still going to be late for work for the first non-scheduled time ever. I feel awful about it, and don’t even have a lunch packed so I can work through lunch to make up for it.
I despise winter, I despise the fact that the malls are already completely bedecked with gaudy holiday cheer, I despise the snow, and most of all I despise the fact that from now on, nothing will change for at least seven months.
This horrendous beginning does not bode well for the rest of the season.
Biting off all you can chew, then adding a wafer thin mint Weekend Reliance and Unlife Compliance