the back to work nightmare

i, for once, wasn't all too pleased about going back to work. not enough sleep and dreading new client problems. i knew about the snow, but thought that surely by now a) they would have figured out the new bus timetable, b) learned how to drive those new buses and c) someone would have listened to the weather forecast and put some salt on those roads and informed the snow ploughs. but no.

i actually thought i'd be catching the previous bus, thinking it'd be late. i was right on the lateness, not about catching it. after waiting for 15 mns, i overheard a conversation whereby someone was informing someone else that they'd been waiting for a whole hour already. right. another 15 mns later and there were more people waiting for the bus than spaces on the bus. and as people clearly hadn't checked the weather forecast, all those people going back to work after the holidays were clearly surprised, so the roads were chaos (although, to be fair, my town had been nicely taken care of in terms of snow on the road).

i went back home to take the car. i was gonna take the back way. humm... 2 mns later, i was in first gear and stayed there for the next 7 or so kilometres. it took us a looonnng time to get to a place where i luckily veered left into another back way, where i was able to do 60kph (thanks, snow tires!), but as soon as i hit town again, chaos resumed. more so in Geneva, as the ploughs obviously hadn't been around, nor had any salt been used. and 2 of our 3 buses were stranded in the uphill, while a bus-person was trying to help the bus move, with about zero success.

i finally made it to work at 9.45 (i'd left home at 8.15 originally, so not that bad), after parking the car behind some other cars and stranded buses in one of the very few non-paying zones. when i picked it up tonight, it turned out i was parked on the cycle-path, but that people had been nice enough not to fine me for it. lucky me.