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As you may have gathered from above I am feeling much more perky today. Went bowling with the gang from work last night which was pretty cool although I didn't do very well - I have a very strange swing apparently! By some freak coincidence all the people who were good at bowling ended up on the same team (no-one had done any for so long that we had no idea who was going to be good!) so they won both matches by miles. I then managed to catch a bus after some faffing around at Marble Arch and get back, collect my bike (which had spent a whole day at Glouster Green without being stolen - practically a miracle) and get home by 10:30. Which meant that I actually got some rest this evening. Its amazing how much difference that extra hour (going to bed @11 as opposed to @12) makes - it must be a sleep cycles thing I think. Now I'm back at work, I'm meeting up with Suz this evening and I've got my Josie and the Pussycats CD so I'm happy. It's great although really it needs somewhere I can bounce up and down while I listen to it but this'll do.
I think it's time for another one of my perennial rants. Last night went I went to catch the bus back to Oxford they started coning off 3 of the 4 lanes of Park Lane leaving only the innermost lane. I was rather worried by this as I wasn't sure how the bus would stop so I went over to ask one of the workmen who assured me that the bus would pull up just past the cones. In the event however the bus just zoomed straight passed us. As you can imagine, I was rather annoyed so I decided that it would be foolish to stay and jumped on the tube to Notting Hill Gate - and in the end I beat the bus there! What really bugged me though was that there were about 10 other people at the bus stop. None of them made any effort to find out what was going on and when the bus went past us they didn't seem inclined to actually do anything - no one else came down to the station anyway. I wonder how many buses had to sweep past them before they moved. I just don't understand it - people are so passive. And they're so easily lead - each waiting for someone else to make the first move and sure that if the other people are waiting they must know something that you don't. I can't imagine when it would be better to sit around in a situation like that than actually do something definite to improve things. Even if you didn't get to Notting Hill before the first bus you'd defiantly get there before the second one. Maybe its all linked with my rant about logic. If we could just encourage people to think and reason a little more they might be less likely to just sit around and let things happen to them. The only excuse I can think of is that they might not have any cash for the tube left but I find that hard to believe somehow.
I think it's time for another one of my perennial rants. Last night went I went to catch the bus back to Oxford they started coning off 3 of the 4 lanes of Park Lane leaving only the innermost lane. I was rather worried by this as I wasn't sure how the bus would stop so I went over to ask one of the workmen who assured me that the bus would pull up just past the cones. In the event however the bus just zoomed straight passed us. As you can imagine, I was rather annoyed so I decided that it would be foolish to stay and jumped on the tube to Notting Hill Gate - and in the end I beat the bus there! What really bugged me though was that there were about 10 other people at the bus stop. None of them made any effort to find out what was going on and when the bus went past us they didn't seem inclined to actually do anything - no one else came down to the station anyway. I wonder how many buses had to sweep past them before they moved. I just don't understand it - people are so passive. And they're so easily lead - each waiting for someone else to make the first move and sure that if the other people are waiting they must know something that you don't. I can't imagine when it would be better to sit around in a situation like that than actually do something definite to improve things. Even if you didn't get to Notting Hill before the first bus you'd defiantly get there before the second one. Maybe its all linked with my rant about logic. If we could just encourage people to think and reason a little more they might be less likely to just sit around and let things happen to them. The only excuse I can think of is that they might not have any cash for the tube left but I find that hard to believe somehow.
