Exams – Part 2

Don’t you just hate how you’re always on time at school/work every single day, but when something extra important requires you to be there at a certain time, something always fucks it up?

I have been using the car to go to school. Not because it’s so far away or because there is no public transport available (heck I have three bus stops near my house, none of which have a bus that goes past my school), but simply because it’s faster. I live maybe ten minutes away from the train station. From station to station it’s a little under three minutes, yet it’s still faster for me to take the car in the middle of rush hour. Funny how time works sometimes, huh?

Now, I have been driving the same damn route for the entire year. I know the choke points in my route. There is a junction with retarded traffic lights and a railway crossing which I have to wait in front of if I leave the house a few minutes late (given the train is actually running on time). When I’m past the railway crossing it’s usually smooth sailing to school.

But wouldn’t you know it. Out of every day and every place a terrible accident can happen in this city, this idiot driver choose this morning and that particular junction to park his car into someone else’s with 70mph. The entire thing was locked down, traffic jams were forming in every direction and you didn’t realize what was going on until you were stuck in the middle of it with no way out.

Since I had exams I was supposed to be there strictly on time, otherwise I wouldn’t be allowed to make the exam. And for a moment I thought the gods were with me because I managed to drive onto the school parking lot at 8:55AM, 5 minutes before starting time. At least on my watch. By the time I got to class it was 9:02AM and I was late for my exam. Access denied.

Luckily I can still do the exam, though I won’t have a second chance to do it in case I fuck up. So I better not fuck up.

I hate strict times. I hate how you can leave your house well in advance and still manage to be fucked over because of circumstances you have no control over. I hate god for hating me for hating him. But then again I probably had it coming.

Robin

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1. Exams – Part 3
2. Exams
3. Hello Sir! Could I Ask You a Few Questions?
4. Vacation!
5. Open School Night