Category Getting There

Twice I have reached somewhere quickly and easily and felt almost nothing when I got there. This is about why the approach does some of the work, and why I still skip it when I am tired.

I have been sent confidently the wrong way more times than I can count, usually by people trying hard to help. The problem was almost always my question, not their answer. Here is how I ask now.

I have spent whole afternoons unable to enjoy anything because I was watching the light and counting backwards to the final departure. Here is where that dread comes from and the small habits that finally quieted it.

For years I picked between a hire car and public transport on price alone, and kept getting it wrong. Here is the calculation I use now, including the trip where the car was the mistake and the one where it saved me.

I have taken rides from strangers on roads with no other option, and I have turned rides down for reasons I could not fully explain. This is where my line sits, how it moved, and the ride that moved it.

The bus shelter had a schedule taped inside it that had expired twice over. Here is how I actually find out when transport leaves in places where nothing is published, and what it costs me when I guess wrong.