"Rainy days and Mondays always get me down" is the song I always reference to days like this, Thank you, "About a Boy." My alarm was a little crazy this morning and went off every 2 minutes after I snoozed it, unlike the 7 minutes it usually does. I got around, and sat to eat breakfast. Bread and orange-alope. I don't know which melon it was, but it's a tongue-itchy one. I only ate three or four pieces out of it and no drink. Grabbed my stuff, and saw the bus pull away jam-packed. No big deal. The bus I waited for wasn't busy at all which happens occasionally. I even sat for a bit. I sat next to a classmate on the green bus, and one of her friends stood up next to us. Then, all was fine. Then, all was not fine. The bus next to us about 15 minutes into the drive rear-ended a car, who hit a car, who hit a car, who hit a car. Yes 1 bus and 4 cars. That delay made me late to class..blah blah blah, sour mood not because I was late to class.
I want to speak of my Ecovia experience yesterday. I got my foot shut in the door. No big deal, it was packed, driver was moving right along. I finally managed to wedge myself into the aisle and away from the door. The driver shut the door on people at the next 3 stops. No one got on at the next two, and then the next stop... A man with an arm cuff crutch got on the silver platform (piece that is the dock more or less, it flips up on top of the two doors that open out). The two red doors shut before he got past them. The driver leaned out his window and hollared something, and everyone was saying, "cuidado! Cuidado!" (Careful, careful). The man started to shuffle off the platform, and I turned to look at the driver and then everyone made gasps and such. I turned back around to see a lady (who was waiting for the bus in the other direction) helping up the man who was completely leveled on the ground. The bus driver then re-opened the doors and let him on. Someone kindly gave him a seat, and everyone chittered the rest of the way about what happened. The driver looked so incredibly mad. Since I had my foot shut caught between the two doors for a moment, I know he was clearly having morning issues prior to this man. I don't know why he was in such a hurry, because he would be running the same route after he let us all off, but that really surprised me. And not because he had a crutch, but because I haven't seen people here be that rushed or agitated in public like that before. It happens of course, but after 2 months of fair tempered people, it surprised me.
The Internet is on Ecuadorian time today. fun.
On to great news...LAURA IS AWESOME!
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