moments

our lives are made up of moments.
all of them fleeting, some happy, some sad, some important, some just fluff.
some moments can change the way you think for the rest of your life.
other moments can just reinforce the lessons of life.

last night was a case in point.
i was out late in a part of london i do not go to often. so i needed the night bus to get home. i had confirmed there was a bus stop i could use near to where i was and it had a night bus going in my direction, even made a note of the times it ran so i could be there for it.
so far so good.
the event ends and i toodle along to the bus stop. i wait. patiently. i am thinking about how much i like being out in the city late at night. i am thinking how quite this part of north london is, i am thinking blimey its chilly.
a bus approaches i stick my arm out it keeps going, even without all its lights nice and bright i can see it is the 55 and i can see its for oxford circus. i am less than happy as i want to get home to go to sleep as i had work later. so thats me at 2am. so i decide,in frustration, to phone london transport's information line. and a helpful man (ross) told me that the 55 was running - just it was delayed. i thanked him and ho hummed.
i heard a bus approaching from behind me, i turned to look and see the bus that was on the other side of the road going in the opposite direction to the one i was waiting for the 55 going to oxford circus. of course by the time my sleep deprived brain could work out what was going on the bus had reached its stop and had moved on.
bugger.

so what does this moment show ?
well it shows and confirms that the luck of pat comes in two kinds none and bad.

so another 30-40 minutes later there is the bus i want. then home to bed.
get to sleep at 4am.

i woke up to the sound of the radio blaring and the feeling my bed was on fire. very odd.