Shouldn't Have Bothered, Really.

Alarm bells should have sounded some warning this morning, preferably with those flashy red lights that make you believe that you were stuck in some *seedy disco from the past.

I suppose I could say it all began with a certain degree of reluctance to wake up (on my part), I could hear my brain protesting... "we need to sleep" it said. I ignored the protests and trudged on with my morning routine despite yet another protest from my tummy, which had a strange sort of pain. I could have listened to Chiquita's radiator as well, when it said that there was a problem. Possibly minor... but no. I didn't listen.

So that is how I, upon insisting on leaving the house anyway, ended up reaching the workplace late because there was a bloody accident halfway through the journey. There was no blood, though, but broken glass everywhere and ogling onlookers, and a terribly damaged car. It would have been alright if I was respectably late (for instance if I was 15 minutes late or more, but instead, I was only four minutes late, which seems pretty pathetic)

I really shouldn't have bothered. Should have let the brain get it's rest, done something for the tummy and checked out if the radiator needed any help. Oh well.

*I really have no idea how a seedy disco looks like, it just sounds fitting into that sentence.

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  1. I love your little *'s. It adds a certain pop to your posts. And its good to see you posting everyday :)

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  2. Aw, thanks, Orhan... I must admit though that the little *'s idea was actually borrowed off Terry Pratchett - one of my current favourite authors.

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  3. LOL!!! I'm currently reading Wyrd Sister...and yes his *'s are brilliant!

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  4. Wyrd Sister is awesome... another fantastic story about the witches would be Witches Abroad. You'll be laughing for days!!!

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  5. I was about to ask you about that seedy disco ... LOL!

    When you said late, I was thinking along 30 to an hour late, but 4 minutes? ROTFL!

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  6. Actually, in my place, even 1 minute is considered late, and we're required to fill up the "Explanation Form"... 4 minutes was just embarassing because as I was driving in, the morning exercise had just ended and my 'punching in late' was seen by practically everyone.

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  7. Thank goodness ! nothing serious or else .........


    MsUniCorn Girl

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  8. Oh yeah... nothing serious on my part... but I think the accident was pretty bad.

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  9. I hope you're feeling ok. Perhaps you need a make up hooky day.

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  10. I am feeling ok... Thanks. YEs... I think I do need a hooky day sometime soon!

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  11. I hate hate hate when you have a dramatic reason for being really late that you end up rushing so much you arrive on time, or very slightly late so that no-one cares about your dramatic reasons for getting there at that particular time. I always feel robbed!! In hindsight I always realise it would be better not to rush and to arrive properly late instead of in an anti-climatic flurry which leaves me wrecked for the rest of the day! But it never stops me doing it the next time!! Why oh why won't I learn???

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  12. Yes, Aunty... I so hear you. Yes... robbed is the precise feeling!

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  13. Loved the "respectably late part":-

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  14. Yeah most of the time the hold up from accidents is from bystanders looking on. Best to feed yourself and avoid the commotion.

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  15. lost: LOL! Thank you :)

    Ricardo: That's true... people love doing that.

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