A little Whinge

Today was one of the few really bad days of my life where things just didn't seem to go right.

I got up at 7am! (Usually I'm already at work by then). I had a 9am meeting at Sh. Zayed Road, and had to swing by the office to get my stuff. Went into the office and made my cup of coffee. Water was not hot. Great. So I had cold coffee, with undissolved sugar. The milk was late. So evaporated milk it had to be.

Happily sipping my coffee, I didn't catch the time. It was 845am! My meeting was at 9am. On ordinary non-peak times, I could get there in 5 mins. But... there had to be an accident under the trade centre round about.

Nevermind. I got there in 20 mins. BUT... parking is a nightmare at that hour... I circled for another 10 mins, and decided to park in Satwa and walk! The walk from Satwa to SZR was 15 minutes. In the 40 degree heat and sand storm day, that is not funny at all. Wind was blowing the warm air and a million dust particles all over and on me... so not funny.

By that time, it was 930am. I got to SZR and asked for the Al Attar tower. It was the wrong tower!! I was at the residences block. Great!! Frantic and panic! I rang everyone I could think off. Jordan, Val, Matt, Heath, Elizabeth etc.... no one picked up at first. But thankfully these days, people do return missed calls. Only then I found out that Al Attar towers is on the other side of Sh Zayed Road!! If you don't know dubai, to get from one side of SZR to the other, takes ages. It's not a matter of turning right or doing a U-turn. You have got to get to the interchange, or the round about (where the accident happened) to get across.

I did get across in the end. It was 945am. I'm 45 mins late. Then it took another 15 mins to try find a park. In that process, I nearly ran over 2 indian dudes, and had a little fight with an arab guy. But I still didn't know which tower... because there are just so many Al Attar towers!!! what the.....

Hopping mad, i deicided to ring Val to let me into her carpark (she lives close by to my meeting venue). After parking my car... speaking to Matt to confirm venue... I had a return call from the other consultant. Apparently my meeting was the next day!!!

It was a long morning.... to end the day off.... I had a parking ticket outside the office (i forgot the meters), AND.... I got hit by a little green fruit that fell off the tree where I parked! What are the chances???? There are NOT that many trees in Dubai...

That's my whinge for the day.