Mo I hate being late! No, really! I hate being late to anything! I hate running late and I hate not arriving early anywhere, which would not allow me to observe the scene. I like to absorb new surroundings with little affect on the natural order of things. I guess it just goes along with my laid back personality. I mean why rush? If you prepare ahead of time for what it is you are too be doing, then there would be able time for mishaps. Sometimes even in being the person I am, I overlook small "things" like my children. Forgetting they are little people, I forget they can wake up on the wrong side of the bed and drag along in the mornings because they didn't go right to sleep when they got into bed. Variables like children makes ETAs extremely hard to maintain. Rushing only increases the chance of making mistakes.
While rushing to Staples to print out resumes for this informal meeting at nine o'clock this morning, I saw that Staples was closed. Proceeding to the train station without looking where I was going, I got on the wrong train heading in the opposite direction. The next stop I got off and waited 7 minutes for the next train to take me back to my starting point, which was already 30 minutes later than I would have liked to stay the commute. Never the less, Google Navigation Beta told me, I would arrive around 9:05 AM. Seeing how the Green Line DMV Metro Train crosses paths with the Red Line on more than one stop, I took a chance on getting off my current train that I would have transferred to the Red Line at a later stop. Normally I would have taken it easy and did just what Google said, but the anxiety building with every minute passing assisted in the aid of not doing my norm. It paid off, the new path of travel saved me 7 minutes! Upon arriving at the Bethesda Metro Station, I also arrived at my point of interest. I can count on Google to tell me where to go, but I didn't count on the City of Bethesda having two 7500 buildings across the street from each other. Noticing a partial sign for the company, I took an educated guess that the other building, which was a bank, was not the building. Like many office buildings, there are many floors and many companies that occupy the building. Nice! I'm extremely analytical, I can simply look at the Directory Board and go to that floor. That is assuming, the intended company is not on multiple floors and does not have a similar name add another company in the same building! Great! I Called my wife, who has been to the office, and who has spear headed the entire meeting. She was unsure, then I figured, why not call the person with whom I am meeting? After all the mishaps, I wish I could say I was on time, but I ended up being 2 minutes late, which is still driving me crazy nearly two hours later! God help and you all pray for me!
