I am having a bad day!
Aug. 1st, 2001 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwildeI keep hearing Sandra Bullock saying this in my head...
Woke up this morning and got all ready for today. I was to get a ride from Zoe to the vet. and pick up medicine for one of our rats, Elise, then I would ride my bike home and take care of a couple errands. Got the car all ready and made the trip fine, fixed tire and all.
Get to vet. and pull the bike off the car rack and notice my front tire is now deflated. It was the back tire that I fixed last night. I figure no problem I would just go to a Gas station and refill it. Say good bye to Zoe and send her on her way.
Got the med's fine and walk the bike the two blocks to the gas station. Great, it's one of those stations that charge for air. Rummage around in my bag and find two quarters. Guess air is expensive now a days. Start to fill tire with air. No dice. Struggle some more with it. No dice.
At this point my bag falls off my shoulder. I reach to grab it before it hits the ground, the bike start to fall over, reach to grab the bike and get my headphones caught in the bike's handle bars and watch as the bike crashes to the ground. Ditch the sunglasses, bag and walkman and go back to try and fill the tire. The motor for the pump to the air stops. Patience is worn very thin now. I have no more quarters.
I have cash, I figure I can get some gatorade or something to get change. First I look at the tire and notice that the tire and the inner-tube are pinched. Aha! I think. Go to un-pinch it and a hole creates itself in the tire. I am not happy.
I get to take the bus now. I go and get a gatorade to get change for the bus, walk to the bus stop and wait an eternity for the bus. At least it seemed like one. So then I struggle with the bike rack on the front of the bus (I've never used on of these before). Fortunately the bus driver is nice and gets out to show me how to use it.
I take the bus to Stevens Creek for the next bus. This one is there in five minutes but then takes more then an hour to get to Bird St., my stop.
Next bus is there right away and I head off to homeland. I get off in downtown willow glen to visit my favorite bike shop and get a new tire. Fortunately I already have a spare tube at home.
Get the tire no problem but I spend the next half an hour waiting for the next bus.
Finally get home and read email and notice Zoe complaining to the world about something she had already complained to me about this morning.
(I do acknowledge that she probably wrote that before she talked with me.)
Decide to step back and watch a movie. Look at movies and decide to watch the classic guy film "The Dirty Dozen". In walking into the living room I hit the ironing board and almost know it over. I toss the video onto the couch and go to put the ironing board away. I grab it and the iron on it and the board just collapses. GRRR I pick it up and put it away.
Finally I sit down to watch the movie and the video tape is so old the picture bounces all over the place. Give up and come back here to write it out.
Aside from all this I did not drink, though the thought is tempting. Not enough though. I have used such days as excuses before but I am fasting again and my will is stronger then the worst day.
So today is SD-1 (Sober Day 1)
And look I even used the spell checker.
Woke up this morning and got all ready for today. I was to get a ride from Zoe to the vet. and pick up medicine for one of our rats, Elise, then I would ride my bike home and take care of a couple errands. Got the car all ready and made the trip fine, fixed tire and all.
Get to vet. and pull the bike off the car rack and notice my front tire is now deflated. It was the back tire that I fixed last night. I figure no problem I would just go to a Gas station and refill it. Say good bye to Zoe and send her on her way.
Got the med's fine and walk the bike the two blocks to the gas station. Great, it's one of those stations that charge for air. Rummage around in my bag and find two quarters. Guess air is expensive now a days. Start to fill tire with air. No dice. Struggle some more with it. No dice.
At this point my bag falls off my shoulder. I reach to grab it before it hits the ground, the bike start to fall over, reach to grab the bike and get my headphones caught in the bike's handle bars and watch as the bike crashes to the ground. Ditch the sunglasses, bag and walkman and go back to try and fill the tire. The motor for the pump to the air stops. Patience is worn very thin now. I have no more quarters.
I have cash, I figure I can get some gatorade or something to get change. First I look at the tire and notice that the tire and the inner-tube are pinched. Aha! I think. Go to un-pinch it and a hole creates itself in the tire. I am not happy.
I get to take the bus now. I go and get a gatorade to get change for the bus, walk to the bus stop and wait an eternity for the bus. At least it seemed like one. So then I struggle with the bike rack on the front of the bus (I've never used on of these before). Fortunately the bus driver is nice and gets out to show me how to use it.
I take the bus to Stevens Creek for the next bus. This one is there in five minutes but then takes more then an hour to get to Bird St., my stop.
Next bus is there right away and I head off to homeland. I get off in downtown willow glen to visit my favorite bike shop and get a new tire. Fortunately I already have a spare tube at home.
Get the tire no problem but I spend the next half an hour waiting for the next bus.
Finally get home and read email and notice Zoe complaining to the world about something she had already complained to me about this morning.
(I do acknowledge that she probably wrote that before she talked with me.)
Decide to step back and watch a movie. Look at movies and decide to watch the classic guy film "The Dirty Dozen". In walking into the living room I hit the ironing board and almost know it over. I toss the video onto the couch and go to put the ironing board away. I grab it and the iron on it and the board just collapses. GRRR I pick it up and put it away.
Finally I sit down to watch the movie and the video tape is so old the picture bounces all over the place. Give up and come back here to write it out.
Aside from all this I did not drink, though the thought is tempting. Not enough though. I have used such days as excuses before but I am fasting again and my will is stronger then the worst day.
So today is SD-1 (Sober Day 1)
And look I even used the spell checker.
