So over reading week my ordered business cards/hang tags arrived and UPS attempted 3 times to deliver but I was at home so I had to go to UPS today. Let me just say…mission and a half and to add insult to injury I had to pay customs. Let me explain why my day rocked so much.

Here is a map of where I had to go.

The estimated time was 23 minutes BY CAR for a distance of roughly 10 miles. Of course, I had to bus/walk so this 23 minutes I expected would be 3 hours round trip. Boy was I wrong.

At 11 AM this morning I left for my trek, not know what I was getting myself into. I took the bus to stop 1 and transferred to the 13A Wellington to get to White Oaks Mall. Of course, the 13A takes 15 minutes of detours compared to the 13 regular. So we finally get there at around 11:55 and as I get off the bus, I ask the driver how often the 30 Newfield or something comes.

“Oh, it doesn’t start until 2 o’clock PM”

and I think to myself “WOW! Wtf. This is so stupid”.

Bus driver. “Oh, but I can take you to Wellington and Exeter Rd.”

Exeter Road sounded familiar on the map so I accepted and rode the bus. I got off at about 12:00 and I saved about…2 minutes of walking. Now, here I am at Wellington at Exeter with my makeshift map (I was out of printer ink). Of course I didn’t draw where I am now so I just blindly follow all of the Route 30 stops until I find myself officially lost. At this point its about 12:50. I call George for directions, after finding the nearest house for MapQuest, I get directions to UPS. I start my hike again and finally find UPS after circling for a few minutes.

JUST MY LUCK! I walk up to the door and read “Sorry! We’re Closed. Back at 5:00″ and I think to myself. FML, for real though. Its only 1:15 and I just spent 2 hours and 15 minutes getting here. There is no way in hell I’m coming back any other day so I just decide to wait.

Oh, and in this part of London (my whole walk) there are no sidewalks so I walk the whole way in the snow on the grass or on the road into oncoming traffic. Wonderful.

I find a Tim Horton’s only to remember I deposited all my cash yesterday. I scrounge up enough cash to buy a Vanilla Dip donut and savour it for….2 minutes. I saw an un-rolled Roll Up The Rim cup at the next table. Being the cheapass I am I planned on snagging it. There were people around so I hesitated and decided to wait it out. After about 5 minutes the cleaning staff came and took the cup. DAMN! I thought to myself.

I managed to wait…about 30 minutes from walking to Tim’s and eating my donut. I hit the road again deciding to take the 30 BACK to White Oaks Mall and just chill. Remember, I am in the Warehouse district of London so there is nobody walking and everyone in their cars probably thinks I’m a bum. AND to make matters worse, the 30 doesn’t have normal stops, all of them are at random snowbanks, so here I am sitting in a snowbank for 30 minutes, my ass completely numb and the bus finally comes.

At this point I don’t even know what time it is, all I know is that I have been gone WAY too long and this trip is bullshit. I eat KFC and my day gets a bit better when I get a free extra chicken thigh hahahaha. Sad, I know. Anyway, I walk around the mall and just sit on benches until 4:25 when the 30 comes back. I take the bus back to UPS and meet a random fellow Westerner. We wait until 5 o’clock just talking, and I tell him that the 30 stops at 5:20 so we basically have to hurry or we have to walk back in the dark. Right before Five a Spanish lady gets out of her car.

She’s waiting for a package now too and we all just take and wait. She offers both of us rides to Westmount Mall on Wonderland which is a hell of a lot closer than where we are AND White Oaks Mall. We gladly accept then enter UPS as it opens. I get my package without trouble. This lady, unsure of what she’s getting is told to wait because they think its on a truck. My UWO buddy has the same problem. We wait and just talk when they bring out the lady’s package as they found it in the back. The guy has to go and unfortunatly the lady doesn’t have time to wait. Sad to say he gets shafted and I feel bad for him.

We get in the car and she makes a stop at a random house to pick up some Tamales (Mexican food). She gives me two of them which I found was very kind of her. We talked about Canada, school and a bunch of random stuff as she dropped me off. I took the bus home and got in around 6:35.

So, I spent over 7 and a half fucking hours picking up a measly 250 tags/cards. WASTE OF MY DAMNED TIME! But I got two tamales and met two random people. That made my day because they were both so nice, so thank you strangers.

That’s all. Getting in cars with strangers is probably dangerous, as is accepting food but I took my chances. I was cold, starving and tired.

-stay thug people.-

PS. fucken overnight prints made the back of the tags/cards upside down so that was kind of gay.