What a bus chase!

So this morning my delightful roommate missed her bus for work. Instead of being upset and starting the day off on an upset foot she and I made an adventure with the present situation! 

Background- I have a red convertible and I live in Vancouver, and it's the fall and it rains almost every single day! Not the best combination. To top it off... I don't have anywhere to park it except for the street! Needless to say I have a moisture problem in my car in that it is always too moist and I have a moldy roof. So my roommate asked me if I could drive her to catch her bus and I was happy to in my MOLDY CAR! (please note I took my moldy car to a detailing place to get cleaned out and am figuring out a different arrangement to prevent future mold!)

We get in the car that, again, due to the excess moisture factor is very foggy! I can't see out of my windows so we had to put the windows down in the cold to be able to see and we are trying to get ahead of her bus to meet it at a stop so she can catch it downtown. We take backstreets and are wondering if we should holler out the windows (that are conveniently down) to ask bystanders whether her bus has come by yet. Then we hit a red light heading north. We see her bus is at the same intersection about to turn left and head north. IT'S AT THE SAME INTERSECTION! I tell her to hop out of the car and make a run across the street to try to catch the bus. "Can I do it? I don't know I don't know!!" she claims.  "YES YOU CAN" I encourage! "If you don't I'll pick you up though!" I see her standing at the corner waiting for the light to go green to cross. At this point she marches across the street and of course misses the bus! I drive up and pick her up and we make another mad dash for it! At least we know where the bus is now!

"You didn't run across the street!" I point out the obvious to her!! "I know I was waiting for the white man!" WHAT??! "You don't wait for the white man when you are about to catch a bus! You wave at the bus and wait for the opposite light to turn yellow and then you RUN! All the while waving your hands and making obscene gestures. You don't know how to catch a bus!" "I don't always wait for the white man!! And the bus never sees you waving and then you just look like an idiot!" 

Oh dear- clearly waiting for the white man at the wrong time- a stickler for order and rules and I love her for it! So we now know where the bus is at least! I go around it and am point out that I am much nimbler than the bus and so I can WEAVE in and out of traffic!! It is helpful being in a little car- by this point I was able to see clearly, which was helpful given the weaving in and out of traffic factor! But then we couldn't recall where its stops were. It was an express bus and doesn't stop at every stop.

You could touch the adrenaline in the car! I felt like I was in a mad car chase- like it should have been on that TV show "world's craziest car chase." But instead it should have been called "world's craziest bus chase"!! I think it would be quite a hit! I think knowing that if we didn't catch the bus that I would have driven her to work anyways was helpful to have in our back pockets!

Well- she made it alright! Everything turned out great and I had an amazing start to my day!! All thanks to a miss of a bus! Turing lemons into lemonade really is just about seizing your opportunities!

Love and Respect!