I had to take both a shuttle and a bus home from a doctor's appointment today, and the shuttle arrived quite a bit before the bus, so I decided to get some food while I was waiting. While I was in the store, it occurred to me that I should check the time, but I was overly-confident. I sensed that I had oodles of time, and when I finally deigned to look at my cellphone to see just how much time I had left, I found that there was only a minute or so before the bus was due (across the street). I was at the back of the store and hadn't even paid for my purchases yet, so of course I missed my connection.
I was pissed at myself. Once I finally got to the bus stop, I had a half of an hour to wait for the next bus. It irritates me to miss this bus because it only comes once per hour, and the ride is an hour long, time that cuts deeply into my daily language studies at the library (my destination), a routine that is very important to me.
I was 1.5 times pissed at myself because I've done this several times before: trusted my crappy sense of time and ended up missing a bus or an appointment. I should know better by now. I guess I felt stupid digging my cellphone out of my heavy backpack to check the time so many times in a single day, but it should be obvious to me by now that I do that because I need to do it. The amount of time that has passed since the previous time check is invariably a surprise (except for intervals on the order of few minutes), which is a clear indication that my internal sense of time is forever out of sync with the operation of clocks.
I'd revive my wristwatch, but I don't want to buy a battery.
I was pissed at myself. Once I finally got to the bus stop, I had a half of an hour to wait for the next bus. It irritates me to miss this bus because it only comes once per hour, and the ride is an hour long, time that cuts deeply into my daily language studies at the library (my destination), a routine that is very important to me.
I was 1.5 times pissed at myself because I've done this several times before: trusted my crappy sense of time and ended up missing a bus or an appointment. I should know better by now. I guess I felt stupid digging my cellphone out of my heavy backpack to check the time so many times in a single day, but it should be obvious to me by now that I do that because I need to do it. The amount of time that has passed since the previous time check is invariably a surprise (except for intervals on the order of few minutes), which is a clear indication that my internal sense of time is forever out of sync with the operation of clocks.
I'd revive my wristwatch, but I don't want to buy a battery.
