An adventure

[auntiemeesh]

This is why I still get a little anxious when I'm on an unfamiliar bus route, even though I've been using the PAT system here for a good 18 years.

So, the plan was, grab the 74A to B's house to help him prepare for his garage sale, which takes place tomorrow. Sounded simple enough. I looked at the bus route and a google map of the area, and it appeared as though the bus ran pretty much right past B's house.

Yeah, not so much. According to B, the bus stop is only about a block away, but on some random other street that I didn't recognize. So I sat on the bus for a good half hour until we were circling around Greenfield. At this point, it was blatantly obvious that I had missed my stop. So I got off the bus and started walking. This was at Murray and Hazelwood, for those of you familiar with the area. I knew where I was, and I knew where I wanted to be, and I knew I was within reasonable walking distance (just over a mile). Problem was, the street that I wanted and the street I needed to take to get there are like incestuous siblings, merging, diverging, crossing, rejoining. And so, at any given intersection of the two of them, it was not exactly obvious which direction I should take to get where I wanted to be.

I did eventually get where I was going, however, and spent the day putting stickers and prices on a wide variety of his stuff. I also scored myself a cool new backpack to replace the old one with the hole in the bottom, a set of hand weights (3, 5, and 10lbs) and a kitty nail clipper, which the cats are in desperate need of.

Tomorrow I'm scheduled to go back and help with the garage sale itself, but I'll skip the bus and walk the two miles. It's just easier that way.

Comments

[shirebound]

Good thing you didn't have that Adventure here! It's about 90 degrees today.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

It's a nice temp for walking, here, somewhere in the mid 60s. It's been raining off and on, but I lucked out in that, as well. :)

*hopes you're staying cool*

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a true Pittsburgh moment - you know you are in the general vicinity of where you want to be, but there seems to be no way to get there.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I was having difficulties with Beechwood and Monitor. If you look at a map, they are both all over the place and not all of their bits and pieces really meet up in the way you'd think they should. Very confusing.

[feaxede-steorra.livejournal.com]

LOL, couldn't the driver have notified you at the right stop?

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

You would think so. But when I realized I hadn't seen the stop I thought I wanted, I asked the bus driver, and she hadn't ever even heard the name of the side street I was looking for, even though it was listed as a stop on the schedule. Oh well, it all worked out in the end.