Weird Day

So yesterday was a weird day. I got up. Thats not weird, but it all went a bit wonky after I left the house. I was on the bus when I realized I had forgotten my travel mug. This was annoying because you can't get coffee as a bus passenger if you don't have a travel mug. Unless of course you feel confident in your abilities to hide the coffee in your bag without spilling it, which I didn't. So coffee mission was a failure. It was a gorgeous day out so I had left for work super early to wander around and try to get some shopping done. It was gorgeous until i hit the bus stop and the wind picked up and I realized it's not quite spring yet. Still. Not too bad. I arrived at Value Village, my clothing store of choice, and completely failed at buying ANYTHING. Not a book to be had (that I wanted. In all fairness I was ONLY looking for a copy of Lolita). Then it was really busy and annoying. I hate March break. I still have to work and all the stuff I enjoy about having a weird retail schedule (the quiet daytime shopping times etc...) is not available during March break. So I got quickly pissed off at the crowds and left in a huff. Immature, but true.

While waiting for the bus (a theme for the day) a deaf guy came up and gave me his deaf card thing and asked me for money. Then pouted when I smiled and said no. Then I made the grave error of signing 'thank you' (he was somewhat polite about my refusal and smiled and 'thank you' is one of the few signs i remember. also a sign i use on the deaf guy who frequents my photolab). NEVER sign to a deaf person to whom you have just refused money it just renews their quest to get money. If i had money I wouldn't be taking the bus and I would have a car. Anyway now I'm annoyed at Value Village, annoyed at myself for being a bitch and annoyed at the deaf guy for making me feel like i was a bitch for not giving him money I didn't have. (On a side note I've since heard he's a regular around bayers lake and rumour has it he's not deaf). It's also weird to be panhandled in an industrial park. Although there he has zero competition, whereas downtown it's a different story.

So... The bus finally arrives and I get on show the driver my pass and go to sit when the driver calls me back, and kind of grabs my arm. I'm like "sorry?" and he asked to see my pass again. And I'm like "i showed you my pass" but i thought maybe I flashed it too quick or something. It's not like I do this every day (i do it like 4 times a day). He proceeds to take my pass out of my hands and examine it closely. Then he tells me there have been alot of fraudulant passes lately and he has to check them all and that he gets "5 or 6 a day, not that I think you have a fraudulent bus pass". Obviously he suspected or he wouldn't have pulled me back. This bus pass fraud is kind of news to me, but I didn't really care because I don't have a fraudulent bus pass and it was kind of funny.

So... I get to Videoquest, which if you have been to bayers lake is near nothing else of interest, but i really wanted to stop in and check out the previewed dvds for Nick and Noras Infinite Playlist. Which they had!!! My luck was changing. Now previewed dvd's there are buy 2 get one free. So am i goign to buy just 1? No! So I quickly pick out Saw V (to complete my set) and then have a debate over the third. Should I get RocknRolla, the new Guy Ritchie? or Choke based on a Chuck Palaniuk book? Hmm.... I ask the clerks because they aren't too busy and they're bound to knwo more than me. The first guy recommends Rocknrolla and as I'm putting Choke back on the shelf he kind of spazzes out and says that he especially recommends Rocknrolla because he can't sell Choke until tomorrow. But then tries to assure me that Rocknrolla is indeed a better movie and he's not trying to get me to pick that because he can't sell me Choke. The clerk at the counter as i'm paying agrees and we have a nice three way chat about the merits of Chuck palaniuk books and movies. Sweet! Good times at Videoquest and I have the thing I went in for. Things are looking up!

So... I get to the bus stop almost 10 minutes early, having not killed the 30 minutes I needed to. It really is an inconviently located movie store for a transit girl like me. I like them alot though, they are locally owned and operated and have good prices and usually good staff. So whatever 10 minutes isn't too bad in the cold. It isn't until it turns into 25 because the effing bus is late because of all the march break kids. And as it turns out a bus driver new to the route. No problem I still have an hour to kill before work. I opt to hit walmart for lunch at mcdonalds, it's cheap and i haven't had it in awhile and i sadly still like it. Now, on my way into walmart I set of the security alarm because of the videostore dvds in my bag. Ugh. Fine, I have to go the bathroom anyway so i head in and figure I'll pull out the security tags while there so I don't embarrass myself all over town. i open up the dvd case to pull out the tag and there is no dvd in it. Well shit. A quick check reveals that the clerk i was chatting to hasn't put ANY of my dvds in their cases. In my confusion over the missing dvd's i forget to remove the security stickers.

At McDonalds it takes me 4 tries to work the debit machine. 4. I swiped, the clerk said something i didn't hear, I swipe the other way and he repeats "you have to wait until it says 'swipe card" oh. So i swipe again, the wrong way. and he says "stripe inside" at this point i'm laughing and so are the two people behind the counter. At me. The fourth try works. And I comment on how the debit machine is complicated. Because when in doubt self depreciating humour never fails. He laughs and says "well, all the machines are different everywhere you go". (which is what I say to customers when they are idiots who can't work the debit machine). And I say, no it's just me. Anyway now I have lunch. Before I can eat I call videoquest where they do remember me and the guy promises to leave a note for when i come in to collect my missing movies. Things then go smoothly until I get to work and jam my finger not once, but twice in the cupboard where we keep our stuff. The cupboard where we're not supposed to keep stuff, so i'm lucky I don't break my finger because then I'd have to explain why i was putting my stuff there in the first place. More wackiness ensues at work where I generally make an ass of myself and the day is done. I did buy a lottery ticket on my break, assuming that all this bad/weird luck means I must be due to win the lottery. While I'm buying my lottery ticket I ask the girl to check the ticket that's in my wallet. At this point the machine makes a crazy noise and I get excited until the girl informs me that the noise indicates I have asked her to check a ticket for a draw that hasn't taken place yet. I already have a lottery ticket for that night. I buy another one for good measure and leave.

Believe it or not the bus ride home was just as weird, but I'd say that's all the news we need for one day. Phew!

ps.... If I have even a single reader at this point I'll be shocked. Julie are you still around? You're my only reader anyway.

pps. So obviously it has yet again been ages since my last post. My goal now is to try and post at least once a week. I can manage that right? I miss writing, and i enjoy writing. More to come soon. Next week even.

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