cloud 9 blog

i don’t know where to start with this post. as some of you know i have started a new job in town, which i will blog about next week sometime. this post is mainly a bitching session and a rant and rave.
my car gave me issues about 3 weeks ago when a water pipe burst. i sorted that out but then she would not start. so monday night Nick offered to tow my car all the way to a guy’s workshop to have a look at it. tuesday morning the guy has a look at it and says it’s a blown head gasket. cool…not too bad just gonna cost a couple of grand no probs. now being a bit low on cash and did not budget for this i decided to make a trip to the bank only to sit there for over an hour and spend a whole 50 seconds with the consultant to tell me no i can’t get a loan cause i started a new job and need to be 3 months employed. nice one absa, you just lost yourself a customer AND business, cheers.

now i take the bus to work to town which i must say is awesome, no traffic stress and all that stuff! anyhoo, when i first started going on the bus i got the shock of my life.

“1 ticket to cape town please” while handing over a R20 note.

“that’ll be another 70c”

“it is a oneway ticket you know”

“yeah, it’s R20.70″

so like, geeeeeeez….that’s more than i pay for petrol to town on my own. are they for real?
anyhoo, i payed that for a couple of days R20.70c. then yesterday i went with Carl to the bus station after i got to cape town and bought a weekly ticket. that gets clipped each time you ride the bus and it has a 2 weeks expiry date. so basically i buy one of these every 2 weeks (as i only take the bus to cape town…i take the train home). one of these weekly tickets costs me….wait for it….R67.50. let’s work it out. R67.50 divide that by 10 clips. R6.75. now where the hell is the logic in that? R20.70 without a weekly ticket but R6.75 with one? are they for real? if you buy a month ticket, it is even less! what a fraking ripoff!

no, not finished with the bus yet…this next one also frustrats the hell out of me. the bus to town in the morning runs from about 06h00 to 07h20. not too bad as most people start at 08h00 anyways. but now the reason i am taking the train after work is because i work till 17h30. the last bus out of town leaves at….17h15. now what the hell is up with that? most people work till 17h00. which would leave one to get to the station or a bus stop in 15 minutes. now the place where i work is about 20 minutes fast walk to the station. so if i finished at 17h00 i’d still miss the bus. why not make one last bus out of town leave at 17:35? if the last bus leaves at 17:15, how many buses actually leave at that time cause i am damn sure that bus would be full as hell.

reading over this post, i sound more mellow than anything else…hmmmm