Misadventurous Monday

I can be horribly clumsy sometimes and make bad decisions. Although at least I am quite good and organised most of the time when I am with Lily.

However yestearday evening I left without her to go to my special Christmas training. I was really looking forward it as I already missed the Christmas meal although I still had good fun that evening as I was babysitting for Annie.

I was supposed to go to my friend, Jane's place, and get a lift from her as training is quite far and I don't have a car. Although before Lily was born I used to be late from everywhere (except for training and work which is a bit stupid as surely my friends are more important then work) but I improved a lot since. I am almost always on time, or even early nowadays. I arrived to Jane's 10 minutes early when I realised I left my mobile home. I quiclky started to think what to do. Should I just hand around hoping that she would call me and Puil would pick the phone up and tell her I must already be there but phoneless? But I didn't want her entire party wait. She lives in a block of flats and I couldn't remember the number. I should have waited really.

Instead I decided to call Puil from a payphone and tell him to call Jane. I still had 10 minutes after all. I found a phone box easy enough however I didn't have cash. I wish i didn't have my card with me either as then I would have waited. The shops on the street wouldn't give cash-back and all the cash machines I passed were out of order. By then I was already quite far from Jane's place and getting a bit nervous.

And miraculously I bumped into our coach. I borrowed her phone, called Jane and explained the situation. I told her to go without me and that I will take the bus instead as I really didn't want them to wait for me after offering me a favour. Although I had no cash I had bus passes with me for two different bus companies: the one I took to get to her place and the other to take me to training. I got on the bus just on time and started thinking where to get off. I already took the bus a couple of times for training however it was always late and there are 3 different buses going to the same direction parting a bit before the leisure centre. I was not really sure which one I was on and where to alight.

Finally I plucked up my courage and asked the driver. After all most bus drivers are really friendly. This one certainly was although his sense of time was not perfect. Maybe he drives his bus so often he is not quite sure how long it takes on foot. Anyway he told me I have gone past my stop but explained me which way to go which would take 10 minutes.

It took 20 minutes in the end and it was very dark. I kept asking for directions and people were very friendly. I really don't know why am I so afraid to ask things most of the time. Somewhere on the way I also discovered that I left my bum bag on the bad with my CD player in it. At least my phone was home and my bank card was in my pocket. It took me 80 minutes in total to get to training and I was late.  Luckily Jane knew I was going to come so she out me on the list.

Training was great. I couldn't really warm up and I have some back pain today but I had a really good time yesterday. It was good to meet my friends and have some good fun while playing my favourite sport.

Puil was really sad when I told him I lost my CD player. He knows how much I depend on in when doing housework in the evening. I since called the lost property department but it is not there. Not that I expected it to be handed in. I can buy a cheap second hand CD player but there was also a CD in it and it was from the library. I will have to buy the audio book I was listening to. I feel horrible about losing the library's property. I am going to google the book right now and I really hope it is available in the shops.