My head's stuck in the cupboard

[skylarking]

Sweet Jesus!!

I left work at 5 o'clock and I've only just arrived home. It's 7.30.

I don't know what was happening in town but the traffic was insane.

It usually takes half an hour from the office into the bus station and it took an hour, then I sat waiting for the number 53 which didn't come, and didn't come, and didn't come and eventually I heard someone asking one of the relief drivers what was happening and she said that for some reason Sheffield City Centre was gridlocked. "I was supposed to be the driver for the 6 o'clock bus," she said and then pointed to the other drivers that were hanging around, "and he was the 10 past 5 driver and he was the half past five driver".

It was 20 to 7 by then so I decided, bollocks to that, and walked home.

It takes me about 40 minutes to walk home from town and I didn't see a single 53 bus in that time. If I'd decided to wait I'd probably still be there.

So now I'm going to drink tea and eat toast for a while.

What else as been happening....I can't think of anything. I think I'll to make some more toast.

Comments

[indigo-blind.livejournal.com]

I've known that to happen before. It's crap.

At least you're home now.

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

It's very crap. It's a good thing I'd had a big lunch or I'd have been bonkers with hunger.

Do you want to get together some time soon to exchange christmas pressies?

[elouisa.livejournal.com]

The last time it happened, there had been an accident on the Parkway clogging up one end of the ringroad and another on the other side of town so the ring road was screwed which clogged up the centre of town.

Sheffield is peculiar like that

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

Stupid traffic. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live in walking distance of the city centre.

You must feel very smug on your bike on days like that.

[elouisa.livejournal.com]

I'm always smug whether I'm cycling or walking (I'm walking at the moment until the lighter evenings return). ;)

Just you wait till it snows.... Sheffield really can't cope with snow. The busses can't get up the hills and slip down them sideways, Abbeydale and London road turn into a carpark and for me, it's hilarious. I walk past all the car drivers stuck in the traffic and snow and I'm always home before them. ;)

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

I am slightly concerned about getting to work in the snow since I work in Fulwood and I catch a double decker bus up a big hill. I think the hiking boots might have to come out...

[elouisa.livejournal.com]

That would definitely be a good idea. That side of town always gets hid hardest it seems. Though we haven't had really bad snow for a few years now but I'd check with your colleagues as to what the busses are like in snow up there and keep a pair of hiking boots at work just in case.

[theshapeshifter.livejournal.com]

Argh! However, there is a sort of grim satisfaction in NOT seeing your bus all the way home, once you've committed to walking. Glad you're not still stranded there.

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

However, there is a sort of grim satisfaction in NOT seeing your bus all the way home, once you've committed to walking

That is true. I would have felt a bit miffed if I'd seen my bus while I was walking; and since I didn't I got to be all "Ha! I win at life!" :)