(This is going to be a long post)
Did I start the day by writing about how I wouldn't work out at all?
Funny this, life has a way of making one do exactly what they don't want.
Talk about stepping out of a comfort zone, I had to almost pitch a tent and do a bloody barbecue outside mine.
My morning post hinted at my anger towards some bank problem I'd been persistently having and how that didn't let me sleep last night..so today I vowed that I'd get it rectified one way or another or at least die trying.
Also there was a question of buying veggies and cat food.
Since the pet store is next to my house I'd decided on tackling that first and then going ahead with the bank work which was really an atm related task, and undertake each assignment one by one and systematically devour them all.
Right, so walking out to get everything done was clearly not an option because not only is it humid out but radiating white heat kind of hot and using a car was completely ruled out as well because there's no parking in front of these shops and it's a lot more messy to keep lugging a vehicle for so many errands dispersed liberally over a 5km radius.
A cycle being my best option I set out braving the heat looking forward to soaking in VitD and growing a healthy tan, and my problems began when I went about cycling, looking for an atm.
So the go to atm that I'd always used, a few hundred metres from my house had been shut down, or I don't know what because it had vanished from there.
Well, crap!
let's look for another one I mused and I saw a bank a couple crossings ahead.
So parking the cycle, which was one of those app cycles one tends to pick from anywhere I walked towards the bank, and I cannot stress enough how miserably incandescently white hellish fire hot it was and then there was a sort of cool breeze in this humidity that confused my internal weather understanding a bit.
Right, so breaking a goddamn sweat I reached the bank only to see it was getting #@%&* renovated!!
I mean goddamn!
Okay okay, don't start fuming just yet I consoled myself and I started walking in the direction of a busier intersection where I knew there were plenty banks and atm's and a huge mall.
The only problem was that it was at least 1Km ahead and I didn't think I'd have wanted to walk in this weather, so I started scanning the sidewalks for a bicycle, and it was littered with hundreds of bicycles, all except the one app cycle that I use, which I use only for its convenience which didn't ask me to scan a hundred different identifications on account of being a foreigner.
It's very user friendly and distinguished by its lemon yellow colour, and not a single mechanical steed of yellow colour did I find.
My shirt by now was saturated with sweat and I was still scanning the horizon, when I realized I'd walked almost enough to close the 1km distance, when like an oasis I say the horizon ablaze with a yellow darling.
Talk about sprinting, what I did was literally gallop through the two zebra crossings and whip out my phone with a flourish to scan the QR code on the bike and with such a satisfying ring did it unlock itself that I almost broke into tears
Back to business then.
Atm's where art thou at?
Cycling ahead, forward on the right and left I went to over a half dozen atm's and the card that needed to be activated didn't, and by this time I had almost given up when across the road I saw a few more banks and atm's..and what am I if not idiotically tenacious.
Wheeling my cycle as if t'were a fire mouthing stallion of forgotten legends I screeched to a halt in front of the many atm's only to have them refuse my card and or activate it.
Dejectedly as I pushed my card into the slot of the last atm, expecting nothing but disappointment, Lo! it worked!!!!!
If it were a movie I'd be getting showered with rose petals..so happy did I feel and there was no one to understand it except that strange yellow bicycle which I hopped onto with such glee it'd never known.
The app informed me I'd cycled almost 12 km's and gods was I far off from my house but did I care?
Not a wee bit my laddie, because my long pending atm related bank work was done! done! done!
Right, so head back and buy veggies, but wait!
I've come this far, gone through such immense trouble. My sweat was dripping on to baked cobblestones and evaporating instantly and for all this madness I needed a treat.
Fried chicken! I'm on my way.
Cycling on the sidewalk, looking for that 'power chicken' shop I cycled in a calm rhythm of making a sudden discovery when the shop, as yellow as my bicycle popped up in front.
Manna from heaven!
I got packed a few things that looked deliciously interesting and sped away much to the chagrin of my calves and halted only when I'd reached the vegetable vendor.
everything else is history.
I came back a sprightlier person, positively buoyant even if drenched to the gills with sweat.
I'd accomplished a lot of things, and found chicken as well.
This day that earlier had all the appearances of being as exciting as a dead fish on seabed and looked to be as morosely disappointing as love handles and gangrene turned out to be surprisingly good.
My long awaited work was done, and I can't be happier about it, it had been weighing on my head like lead and I found me some chicken and, well, I ended up working out even when I didn't want to.
My app informed me I'd cycled almost 16 kms and this includes the rough urban terrain of heavy traffic, sidewalks, slopes, and steep roads.
Not bad considering everything..
As they say, all's well that ends swell (and cycling on a hard seat I could tell you mine are)
Murphy's law probably had an off day.
Did I start the day by writing about how I wouldn't work out at all?
Funny this, life has a way of making one do exactly what they don't want.
Talk about stepping out of a comfort zone, I had to almost pitch a tent and do a bloody barbecue outside mine.
My morning post hinted at my anger towards some bank problem I'd been persistently having and how that didn't let me sleep last night..so today I vowed that I'd get it rectified one way or another or at least die trying.
Also there was a question of buying veggies and cat food.
Since the pet store is next to my house I'd decided on tackling that first and then going ahead with the bank work which was really an atm related task, and undertake each assignment one by one and systematically devour them all.
Right, so walking out to get everything done was clearly not an option because not only is it humid out but radiating white heat kind of hot and using a car was completely ruled out as well because there's no parking in front of these shops and it's a lot more messy to keep lugging a vehicle for so many errands dispersed liberally over a 5km radius.
A cycle being my best option I set out braving the heat looking forward to soaking in VitD and growing a healthy tan, and my problems began when I went about cycling, looking for an atm.
So the go to atm that I'd always used, a few hundred metres from my house had been shut down, or I don't know what because it had vanished from there.
Well, crap!
let's look for another one I mused and I saw a bank a couple crossings ahead.
So parking the cycle, which was one of those app cycles one tends to pick from anywhere I walked towards the bank, and I cannot stress enough how miserably incandescently white hellish fire hot it was and then there was a sort of cool breeze in this humidity that confused my internal weather understanding a bit.
Right, so breaking a goddamn sweat I reached the bank only to see it was getting #@%&* renovated!!
I mean goddamn!
Okay okay, don't start fuming just yet I consoled myself and I started walking in the direction of a busier intersection where I knew there were plenty banks and atm's and a huge mall.
The only problem was that it was at least 1Km ahead and I didn't think I'd have wanted to walk in this weather, so I started scanning the sidewalks for a bicycle, and it was littered with hundreds of bicycles, all except the one app cycle that I use, which I use only for its convenience which didn't ask me to scan a hundred different identifications on account of being a foreigner.
It's very user friendly and distinguished by its lemon yellow colour, and not a single mechanical steed of yellow colour did I find.
My shirt by now was saturated with sweat and I was still scanning the horizon, when I realized I'd walked almost enough to close the 1km distance, when like an oasis I say the horizon ablaze with a yellow darling.
Talk about sprinting, what I did was literally gallop through the two zebra crossings and whip out my phone with a flourish to scan the QR code on the bike and with such a satisfying ring did it unlock itself that I almost broke into tears
Back to business then.
Atm's where art thou at?
Cycling ahead, forward on the right and left I went to over a half dozen atm's and the card that needed to be activated didn't, and by this time I had almost given up when across the road I saw a few more banks and atm's..and what am I if not idiotically tenacious.
Wheeling my cycle as if t'were a fire mouthing stallion of forgotten legends I screeched to a halt in front of the many atm's only to have them refuse my card and or activate it.
Dejectedly as I pushed my card into the slot of the last atm, expecting nothing but disappointment, Lo! it worked!!!!!
If it were a movie I'd be getting showered with rose petals..so happy did I feel and there was no one to understand it except that strange yellow bicycle which I hopped onto with such glee it'd never known.
The app informed me I'd cycled almost 12 km's and gods was I far off from my house but did I care?
Not a wee bit my laddie, because my long pending atm related bank work was done! done! done!
Right, so head back and buy veggies, but wait!
I've come this far, gone through such immense trouble. My sweat was dripping on to baked cobblestones and evaporating instantly and for all this madness I needed a treat.
Fried chicken! I'm on my way.
Cycling on the sidewalk, looking for that 'power chicken' shop I cycled in a calm rhythm of making a sudden discovery when the shop, as yellow as my bicycle popped up in front.
Manna from heaven!
I got packed a few things that looked deliciously interesting and sped away much to the chagrin of my calves and halted only when I'd reached the vegetable vendor.
everything else is history.
I came back a sprightlier person, positively buoyant even if drenched to the gills with sweat.
I'd accomplished a lot of things, and found chicken as well.
This day that earlier had all the appearances of being as exciting as a dead fish on seabed and looked to be as morosely disappointing as love handles and gangrene turned out to be surprisingly good.
My long awaited work was done, and I can't be happier about it, it had been weighing on my head like lead and I found me some chicken and, well, I ended up working out even when I didn't want to.
My app informed me I'd cycled almost 16 kms and this includes the rough urban terrain of heavy traffic, sidewalks, slopes, and steep roads.
Not bad considering everything..
As they say, all's well that ends swell (and cycling on a hard seat I could tell you mine are)
Murphy's law probably had an off day.
