Sooooooo Pissed Off Right Now

You know when you make a massive effort to go out of your way to avoid something but essentially by doing that the thing you were avoiding comes back to bite you even worse. Yeah, no? Anyway, that happened to me today and I am pissed about it.

Here's a quick rundown. I had a meeting in the city and I had places I needed to get to afterwards so I thought I would drive rather than catch the train. Good plan. I left myself heaps of time so I could find a park and not have to worry about being late. Good plan. Plans started unravelling when someone asked me for a lift into the city thereby destroying the heaps of time I had up my sleeve. But hey that happens right. So I go to park at my favourite spot in town (street park that isn't too expensive) but as luck would have it someone in front of me pulled the last park. Time was running out so I was forced to park in the Myer Center carpark, which, as you can imagine, charges a fortune to use. The passenger with me said it's not too bad because he had a card that could get us cheaper parking. I was like, oh, okay, that's not the end of the world then. As we enter the carpark he remembers he forgot to bring the card, so no cheap parking. Okay then, that sucks. But the meeting should only go for about 45 so I'll be able to get out of the carpark in less than an hour. Meeting goes for longer than an hour and I get charged $25 for parking. I cop it and get my car out of there and go and park at my spot (where there are now plenty of parks). Because it's on the street you have to put money into a meter and estimate how long you're going to be. So I put money in blah blah went on my way. I was meeting someone in town but they got held up, and then what I needed to get done took longer than I expected. I had, of course, forgotten that I only had a certain amount of time paid for on the meter. It only occurred to me that I might be running just a little bit over as I was walking towards my car. I then began to panic as I realised I quite possibly may have copped a parking ticket. Guess what... I get to my car to find a lovely Brisbane City Council parking ticket under my windshield wiper. $50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's do the math here. $25 for Myer Centre + $6 for street park + $50 for parking ticket = $81.

I'm not sure about you but $81 is a f#@kload of money for me. Just thinking of the stuff I could have put that money towards is making me nauseous and a little bit sad as well actually.

So there you have it. Moral of the story? Well I'm not sure. Maybe it's just that no matter what you do, sometimes you just get screwed :)

Actually I like to remember this simple equation for this type of situation. Well, it's a little bit dramatic for this particular occasion but still appropriate:

Tragedy + Time = Haha (and that's a good haha, not an evil haha).