I've just had a veryveryveryvery bad past hour.

So I'm walking to the bus stop, the one on Tenth street, rather than 16 Ave, because I now make a habit of avoiding the Jr. High kids. It's incredibly windy outside, and my hip still hurts. It's a bit hard to walk and I'm worried about my hat blowing away so I take it off. I'm about 20 yards from the bus stop when I see drive by, okay, I say to myself, should I run, and catch the bus and possibly get home a bit earlier than usual, or do I wait for the next one, it's about 20 minutes away and my leg is hurting pretty bad. I decide to run. The bus is JUST pulling away as I run up beside it, so the bus driver stops cause he's the nice one, and not like the others who simply ignore us when we run. So I get on and sit down in an empty seat. At the next stop a guy, mid to late 20's, with braids in his hair and a pointy face like Snoop Dogg gets on and sits down beside. Alarmingly close to me, so much so that I can feel his butt next to mine. Eeeugh. Obviously this guy has no respect for personal space, and doesn't realize how poor my temper is. All goes on uneventfully for the next few stops, until it's my turn to get off.

There was a huge accident at the intersection I usually have to cross, and where the buss turns at. There were three police cars in the intersection as well as this tiny green car. There was very little space for traffic to move. So the bus driver opened the doors for us to get off before he turned, cause he does that sometimes. I got off, and followed this woman who was wobbling her way through the intersection, and the wind was blowing really hard by this point. I couldn't really see anything because my hair was blowing everywhere, and I was getting dust in my eyes and mouth.

I make it safely across the street but I still have to cross again to get to my side of the street, I wait for the walk like, unlike the wobbly woman who just walks through the cars, almost causing an accident herself, then the walk light turns, but the cars that are turning and crossing the cross walk I'm on keep coming, but there's cars coming from two directions now and I'm in the middle of it. I almost got hit, by two different cars at the same time. By that point I was near tears, from the sand and from the cars.

I finally manage to get safely across the intersection and start limping towards my house, it's about two blocks away from the whole mess, and when I've gone one block I realize that I am no longer holding my hat. That was the breaking point I suppose. My hip was shooting pains up my back, my mouth and eyes were full of dust, I was almost in an accident AND I lost my new hat. I started crying, and I cried while I walked through the school yard, and I'm sure most of the parents who were picking up their children probably though I was right mental.

I can't believe how crappy everything got in less than an hour.