Beginning of a Good Morning?

6:04 AM – Wake up to the sound of Mike going to the washroom. Man, I would be livid if my body woke me up before my usual 6:45 AM wake time to go to the washroom.

6:10 AM – My alarm goes off.

6:11 – 6:45 – I do my regular thing. Get into the car.

6:46 AM – Decide to take Mike’s advice and drive all the way to Place D’Orleans’ park and ride instead of the Trim Road one.

6:58 AM – Get to the Park and Ride. Park the car. Notice that AChannel and Majic100 are here giving out T-Shirts and coffee mugs. I promptly ignore them to go look at the bus schedule.

7:02 AM – Am waiting for the 7:05 bus which awesomely enough will be bring me right to work’s door. No transfers for me! Driving to Place D’Orleans has its perks!

7:02:30 AM – Realize I forgot my bus pass along with my security pass at home.

7:04 AM – Back on the road back home. Grumbling all the way since I’m 4 kms away from home as opposed to the 1 km I usually am if I went to the other Park and Ride.

7:15 AM – Get back to the house, grab the pass, get back on the road. Please keep in mind that I’m usually at work at 7:30 AM.

7:16 AM – Realize that traffic is just plain dumb if I take the highway so I decide to take the side streets there. Surprisingly enough, no traffic encountered. As Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan would say “Excellent!”

7:25 AM – Get back to the Park and Ride at Place D’Orleans.

7:28 AM – Get onto the packed bus which coincidentally does NOT have an empty seat for my ride downtown. Automatic deduction in Mike’s theory of driving to Place D’Orleans. I was trying to explain to him why I didn’t go to Place D’Orleans to take the bus and I couldn’t put my finger on the reason. This was the reason! Everytime I go there I had to stand up on the bus, whereas if I go to Trim Road, it’s the first stop on the line so I have the pick of the litter in terms of bus seats.

8:00 AM – I get to work. Now I have to stay until 4:00 which in itself is not too bad considering I have class tonight anyhow so I have to kill some time.

Oddly enough, I have discovered the following facts that actually made the trip worthwhile:

• If I take the 95x bus from Trim Road, it takes me usually between 45-50 minutes.
• Even though I had to stand up on the 27 bus from Place D’Orleans, it managed to only take 30 minutes to get to my work. That was a surprise.
• Usually, the 27 bus is a double decker long bus so they would have room.

Verdict: I’ll give the Place D’Orleans one a shot again. I can’t hold the forgetting of the bus pass against Mike. I can hold the fact that I had to stand up on the bus against him. But that was at 7:30 in the morning. Perhaps if my original plan went through and I got on around 7:00, there would have been a seat.

Plus, when I get to the mall, I can just get into my car and drive home. Sometimes I have to wait for the 95x to bring me home which can take up to 15 minutes. Sure, I may use a little extra gas and mileage but the difference is 6 kms a day. Sure that adds up, but at some point you have to find a balance between environment and convenience. Ha! I’m laughing at that statement considering the environment posting below which is all about being inconvenient but necessary. This morning, I am a walking contradiction.