It's the middle of the night, so why not overshare? Here is my sad story which has made me terrified of hanging out with people. Prepare to be horrified, future me. That's what the edit button is for.
The Saddest Story
So, once upon a time, I was madly in love (eh... Vaguely in love? Obsessed with someone?) with this guy. Who was a tool. Let's call him T-bag.
So, I was fairly young and T-bag was older... Perfect age gap and everything. I didn't have a car and T-bag lived an hour away from me. One day - and honestly, I can't remember if I decided to do this or if it was requested - I decided that it would be completely reasonable to go visit T-bag after school and work because he was so awesome, perfect, funny... Whatever. Yes, we all make terrible mistakes at times.
Anyway, I'm still awake enough to not finish this story. It involves a lot of buses, being forgotten at a bus station, having to take additional buses to meet up with this gem and hiding in a basement. I was an idiot.
The moral of the story is that I now hate and I mean HATE being dependent on other people to pick me up from anything or have expectations that they will in any way shape or form be reasonable. I mean, most people are. The only person's who's ever ditched me at an airport is my best friend of like... over a decade and it was ditched only insofar as she didn't show up to say hi in time when I had a two hour layover. I was displeased, but not terribly surprised. Flakiness is not a deterrent to friendship. I can be... flaky-ish at times. Like I'll show up for things, but I'll probably get lost on the way. Years of being ridiculously late because I got off on the wrong highway exit and didn't realize I was going the wrong way have made me obsessive when it comes to being on time for really important things like work and interviews and such. It's taken a while, though...
*** Sidenote, I just googled myself to see if this would show up and one of the results was a wikipedia entry for Karl Rove. What is that about? I'd love to hang out with Karl Rove, honestly.
Yeah, so it's taken me forever to get the hang of this being on time thing. And I still only really do it for work and other official things. That may be why traveling is so stressful for me. You're always super dependent on others, whether it be friends, family, that limo driver, etc. Whatever. I have no clue what I'm saying right now. It'll be good.