I was really concentrating on a project at work today and wasn't paying attention to the time. This is a dangerous thing to do because I am tied to a train schedule. Doesn't make a bit of difference if you're one minute late for the train or two hours late. When it's gone, it's gone.

I looked at the time on my computer and panicked a bit. I know that I need to leave my office at least 15 minutes before the train departs. I could get very lucky and do it in 11 minutes, but that's cutting it a little close and is exactly what happened. Apparently I wasn't the only one who was cutting it close.

I have to catch a bus to get to the train. There is one stop between where I get on the bus and the train. The bus seemed to stop an extraordinary amount of time at this stop. That's when I noticed the man sitting across from me. He was getting very irritable. He was muttering under his breath about how he's going to miss the train and how it's all his wife's fault because she didn't get off the phone so he could leave the office. I worried about his anger management skills. Then he said the most absurd thing I've ever heard.

Apparently the bus was stopped for so long because there was a wheelchaired person getting on the bus. That requires a lift to go down, the wheelchair to get on the lift, lift goes back up and then the wheelchair has to be strapped down before the bus can proceed.

This man actually said OUT LOUD, "Great, it's a G--damned wheelchair". I'm sure the look on my face showed exactly what I was thinking. What an idiot. Too bad that my thought bubble didn't pop.