Oh God!!! I Missed my Bus...

The way I started the day today would rank very highly in my list of worst possible beginning of a day in my life.

It started off as usual, the alarm at 5:45am, the second ring at 5:55am after I had snoozed it. I slowly woke up from my bed with the I-want-to-sleep-for-5-more-minutes syndrome. Got ready and left home for the bus stop 7:05am.

There are 5 buses (company buses) from my bus stop to my office between 6:55am and 7:20am. When I came out of the gate of our residential layout, I saw two of my company buses going one after the other. Since the time was 7:15am, I knew that it was the 3rd and 4th bus, leaving just the last bus for me to take.

Time started flying, and soon 7:25am, but there was no sign of the bus. The only good thing which happened during this 10 min wait was that I got a chance to catch a glimpse of our neighbour’s daughter, while she was on her way to college. The last time I saw her was 2 months back; thanks to my long hours at office. It’s still a mystery as to where she disappears during weekends; I will solve it soon.

There’s another bus which starts 2 stop away from my bus stop, at 7:30am. After I had enough of waiting, I got into an oncoming BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan transport Corporation) bus. Just as I took the ticket and got into a seat, I watched the 7:20am company bus overtake the BMTC bus. The bus was late.

I consoled myself by saying that I could catch the 7:30 bus from the next stop and still reach office before the bus which I just missed. The BMTC bus slowly, but steadily moved towards my new destination. And as luck would have it, the moment I got down from the bus, the other bus started moving. Since it was moving in the opposite direction, I had no chance of catching it. I watched helplessly as it slowed down twice to let a few people get in.

So my next wait began, the next bus from the new bus stand would be at 7:45am. But I was so determined to reach office before the 7:20am bus, that I decided to chase down the 7:30am bus. I got into a taxi, which offers lifts at nominal rates. They are usually taxies who are on their return journeys and take people in to earn some extra bucks.

After 10kms of hot pursuit, the taxi managed to overtake the bus and I got into the 7:30am bus. Rest of the journey was uneventful, except for the small tiff our bus driver had with another bus driver, after the latter hit our bus in a small accident. No one was hurt and the only causality was the side mirror of our bus.

After spending a painful 40 minutes in Hosur Road (Hats off to the person who has written the article on Hosur Road), our bus finally reached our office, and as we got into our bus stand, I saw the 7:20 bus coming out of the stand.