Alright, I'd been saving this post for quite sometime. If this post is a compo, the title will be "My Unluckiest Day".
Last Sunday, I was still feeling sick so I'd to eat some medicine that makes me drowsy before I sleep. The next morning I woke up 5 minutes later than I usually do. I tried my best to leave the house by 6.45. However, when I got into the lift, I was stuck in it! I dunno what the hell was wrong with the lift. It just jerked and some kind of alarm sounded, then it stopped moving. I keep pressing the open/close door buttons but nothing seems to work. As the the bus I usually take is the last bus that will reach school on time, I called Avinash to see where the bus was at already. He said that it was at Lorong 4.
When the lift started moving again, as it went down, it kept stopping for people to come in. So, the lift trip took around eight minutes, from the nineteen floor to the first floor. And obviously, I missed the last bus. So I began to flag for taxi. I started flagging from the road just in front of my block. But there are these two ladies that went to stand ahead of me and started flagging as well. So, I went to the opposite road and then to the road near my bus stop, and back to the road opposite my block. I was kinda worried that I'll be late because I was already late for two times. If I'm late for one more time, my conduct will be fair. Finally, I'd managed to hail a taxi after twenty minutes.
(Okay, here comes the worst part.)
When I got into the taxi, I straight away told the taxi driver that I want to go to Serangoon JC. The uncle say "Orh, at the Serangoon there right?" Then, I replied, "Ya." When he drove towards the road opposite Comfort Delgro, there was a jam. He told me that he will take a short cut. I agreed. I kept looking at my watch when I'm in the taxi to see how much time I am left with. When the taxi turned into a weird narrow road, I felt that something was wrong. I was thinking, "Don't tell me he's driving me to..."
And indeed, HE DROVE ME TO NANYANG JC!!! @#$%^#$%^&#$%
He didn't stop at the main gate some more. He overshot the gate. My heart really sunk when I saw nyjc. Then I told the uncle, "Uncle, not this la. Serangoon JC is the one at Upper Serangoon Road, further down Kovan." Then he say, "Orh! Aiyo, you see me turn wrong you never tell me." I was thinking, you say that you will take a shortcut and I'm not familiar with Serangoon, how I to tell him whether he is going the wrong way or not. The uncle still ask me whether I'll be late and I told him I'm already late. He seems pretty guilty. =/
I reached school at 7.3o. The trip originally cost $14, but the uncle told me to pay just $10 dollars. Luckily my teacher didn't mark me late when I explained my story to her. That's the only lucky thing that happened on that day.
It was the same day that I took back my history and GP essay test paper. Both failed with U grade. -.-
1 comment:
Never mind this incident. Just try not to go for the last but one bus. Give yourself some time and always learn from your mistakes. I enjoyed reading your story, though it had given you worst experience.
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