Normally I love my bus drivers. This one was very passive aggressive. She stomped on the accelerator before I was seated and I almost fell. They have mirrors, they know if someone is seated yet and I have a disabled pass.
Not cool. Then she passed my stop and I rang the bell plenty of time in advance. I said "I wanted that stop" when she passed it and she said "We'll just go to the next one". I said NO and got out my cell phone, she stomped on the brakes in the middle of an intersection and I would have fallen if I'd been standing. Not professional at all. Bus drivers make GOOD money, no cause to do that.
I also went by the store to get some batteries for Ron (he gave me money), when I checked out they gave me a big paper bag.
I came home and put the stuff away, fed Ron, checked the mail. Long story short I will have to get "real ID" by going to DPS and giving them a bunch of paperwork I TOOK LAST TIME AND THEY DIDN'T WANT. Super frustrating.
The last time Chuck to me to some weird DPS office out in BFE near his favorite Denny's and it was packed, we were hours in there. He "isn't helping us anymore" (not that we were calling) - to me if I am paying you $40+ to help me run an errand, and we will need to use the trunk, you get rid of the empty box and the big box of garbage. But he didn't, and got a MASSIVE attitude when I asked him to move them. So I realized - he doesn't want to help us - even for pay. Him calling Ron and "firing" us was just the end of a long road.
Including him making overtures to me and bringing Ron vodka after I asked him to stop (not at the same time).
So, I will have to find a DPS on a bus line, I can do that. Worst case I can take a cab there. Ron seems to be OK for real ID but I am not.
And I need this if I want to go anywhere next year. My Dad could get sick, etc. He is almost 80 and I would like to say goodbye when it's his time to go. I can't do that without this...so I will go and do it after the holidays.
It's just frustrating because I brought all my stuff last year and they said no they didn't need it. Admittedly I have "just" an ID card so they probably didn't think of it.
Spotty got in the box and flung litter everywhere, about the same time I gave the cats the paper bag with the catnip in it. I also gave Biscuit some straight nip.
I made a short video of them. The banging noises you hear at the start of the video are Torbie thrashing around in the paper bag.
Baby Girl doesn't respond at all. It is a little sad.
Google made this out of my video, I thought it was pretty funny: Biscuit on 'nip
Ron woke up, was hungry, I fed him and cleaned him up. I took out the trash. My computer was acting up again, I got it going for now.
I will try calling my parents in about 20 minutes. I texted my friend who had the stroke but they didn't hit me back, I assume he is asleep or something.
I know Ron was a sleep MONSTER the first year or so after his injury, even now he would rather sleep than just about anything. A head injury, no matter how you get it, takes a lot out of you. Which is why I didn't call. I did a hug emoji in the text. :)
I need to do a load of laundry but not super urgent this minute. I am glad I made my deposit so I can buy presents and get my groceries delivered.
I am really proud of us, we've been getting rid of so much junk we are almost out of garbage bags. Go, us.
I like what we did today, worked for about 5 minutes throwing away junk, filled up a trash bag, ended it while we were still fresh. I could do that every day.
That's it for now. I am going to go start that load of laundry.
3 comments:
What a nut case that bus driver sounds like. You should still report her. That bitch shouldn't be working with the public.
If your dad is on his death bed they will probably give you a day and time frame that you can say goodbye or visit just like with the weekly phone call. I wish i could call him and tell him to leave something for you in his will because he probably won't. I feel bad for baby girl being rons cat. She is fairly young and just lays around in bed with him day and night. No exercise or running around or interacting with the othet cats. Ron dying would probably turn her into a different cat. She is probably depressed feeding off his emotions that come off if him. Animals sense these things.
Well, BG has toys and other cats to play with, I just don't see her very engaged. Torbie is a pretty big slug, just sleeps various places but she is old. BG is only 7. The other cats are pretty active, Biscuit plays with anyone and Mama plays a lot with Spotty. The kittens play a tremendous amount together although some of it is Spotty trying to mate.
I did talk to my parents tonight and told them I would be calling Sundays, Dad gave his approval.
The disturbing thing for me about the driver was the fact she saw I had a disabled card and she still did all that. She did not know I have invisible disabilities, I could have arthritis, a bad back, any number of conditions aggravated by rough treatment. And it is unheard of to force a disabled person to walk a block just because you didn't want to stop. I doubt she will last long as it is a pretty rough route with 2 hour rides each way through really bad neighborhoods.
It was remarkable because all my other drivers have been great.
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