So over the past god knows how many days it's been absolutely pouring down rain. It got so bad that one of the main roads on my college bus route sort of collapsed on itself
Which made my commute today absolutely horrendous...on the way there I made sure to set off really early and was still 20 minutes late to college. On the way back it was so much worse.
I set off from college at 3pm and arrived at the childminders for 4pm, then I waited for the bus home...no bus came...there were several other people waiting and wondering what was happening...I waited for around an hour until eventually a bus driver coming the other way (like the 10th one that had gone by I might add) stopped and shouted across to us that the buses were not running in that direction and we'd have to find some other way to get home.
At this point I called my sister, it would have been around a 20 minute drive for her. She refused to come and pick us up. This surprised me, I didn't think a 20 minute journey to pick up her brother and niece in the pouring rain would be that big of a deal.
We wondered in the rain for a while going from bus stop to bus stop looking for one that might be able to get us closer to home and hopped on a bus that got us to the next town over, where I then waited again for a bus to turn up that would take us the rest of the way. One eventually did show up and a ton of people tried to get on it...only for the bus driver to inform us that this bus was finishing for the day and once again we would have to find another way home.
I called my sister again, begged her to come pick me up, it would have been a 10-15 minute drive to the town we were now in, she still refused, didn't seem bothered and was very much of the opinion I would be fine and should just sort it out myself.
As you can imagine by this point Arisa was very cranky, tired and hungry. Which prompted another person waiting to offer to ring the bus company to see if they could offer a solution. One was offered, and I had to carry Arisa to an alternate bus stop where a diversion was being routed for a bus that would get us sort of close to home - she was too exhausted to walk any more.
The carrying and walking has really set off my back injury and I'm in absolute agony, Arisa was too tired to eat any dinner when we finally did make it home so she's gone to bed without anything to eat.
All of this...because it was too inconvenient for my sister to take a little drive which would have massively helped us out. I'm just so disappointed, I've always thought that if I was in trouble she would be there for me. Yet she couldn't manage such a simple favour.
I could be mad at the bus company for not providing clear announcements or a poster or something informing passengers what to do if they got stuck but I'm too overwhelmed with a huge feeling of being let down by my sister.
I apologise for the long post but I feel like I needed to air this out and maybe get some validation that my annoyance and disappointment isn't an overreaction.
