ImSchizophrenicThough
Nusoicaca
Oh my hecking soyence sootysoot giving me my own heckin' personal old-school 00's nostalgia internet forum bloggerino or something? Am I awake or still dreaming?
Logistics & bureaucracies harass me in my dreams.
Last night, I was dreaming about the price of train tickets (some time ago I took the train regularly) and complaining to a friend about the price (15$ a piece, needing one each day to go to work and back again). He then explained, confused, that he had a week-card, which cost only 50$ (as opposed to 15$/workdayx5=75$/week). I then calculated this card would save me 25$x52=1450$ every year, and told him I never heard of it before. He insisted I should get one, and that this was possible at the helpdesk of every train-station.
Later that same day, said friend had already left, I went to get mine. The woman at the glass helpdesk was very young and told me that she'd never heard of it before, but admitted she was a new hire and that her supervisor, who'd come back later, would be able to help me. In the meantime I stood in the waiting room, now noticing every wall was made of glass, and the furniture too. I searched for a chair to sit on but there were none, only knee-height glass coffee-tables (IKEA) that I knew come with chairs. When I got a little more tired I decided on crouching awkwardly behind one of them.
When the supervisor arrived she was explained the situation by the new hire and assured me she was on it, and proceeded to stare at an Apple monitor for about half an hour. At least the new hire got me a coffee by way of apology. An hour or so later the supervisor literally threw up her hands and groaned, and told me something was wrong with the system, and she didn't know how to get me one "the old way" but that a recently retired employee only lived two blocks from the station, and that he'd be happy to help me out.
The supervisor went to accompany me to his house, which was indeed close-by. The city had however been hit by a storm in the past week, and his street flooded with vile yellow water. She pointed down the river and told me it was the third on my left, past the yellow vessel repairing affected homes. Shocked I wanted to ask her "What so I'm supposed to swim there?" but she'd already gone, and I was left to decide on my own, coming to the conclusion that 1450$ was worth more to me than staying dry, so I started swimming.
Swimming towards the seniors' house the workers from the vessel called out to me, saying I couldn't swim there because of a loose shark. I didn't believe them and thought they were just messing with me, but I justified my reason for swimming in the stinking yellow piss to them by explaining the entire story (the week-card etc) and that 1450$ was a lot of money. One of them admitted that it was a lot of money, and that it was nearly his yearly salary (2000$) and got an excited sparkle in his beady eyes and blinked one of them at me and smiled telling me that he'd ignore it.
I continued happily until I realized the doorbell didn't function, so swimming towards the window to knock I saw the retiree sitting, a vegetable behind the tv, unresponsive. Realizing this sack wouldn't be able to help me even if he wanted to I swam back the way I came defeated. Nearing the point where I entered the water the worker from earlier shouted at me, and so I stopped to see what he was fussing about, but he was just waving his arms and incoherent. Then I saw a fin peek out of the yellow river, in disbelief I waited, wanting to be sure it wasn't, but then I saw the grey body approach me through the water, and the jaws snap once, then open fully and I cursed the supervisor and the retiree and the new hire for being useless. I'm pretty sure I then died.
Logistics & bureaucracies harass me in my dreams.
Last night, I was dreaming about the price of train tickets (some time ago I took the train regularly) and complaining to a friend about the price (15$ a piece, needing one each day to go to work and back again). He then explained, confused, that he had a week-card, which cost only 50$ (as opposed to 15$/workdayx5=75$/week). I then calculated this card would save me 25$x52=1450$ every year, and told him I never heard of it before. He insisted I should get one, and that this was possible at the helpdesk of every train-station.
Later that same day, said friend had already left, I went to get mine. The woman at the glass helpdesk was very young and told me that she'd never heard of it before, but admitted she was a new hire and that her supervisor, who'd come back later, would be able to help me. In the meantime I stood in the waiting room, now noticing every wall was made of glass, and the furniture too. I searched for a chair to sit on but there were none, only knee-height glass coffee-tables (IKEA) that I knew come with chairs. When I got a little more tired I decided on crouching awkwardly behind one of them.
When the supervisor arrived she was explained the situation by the new hire and assured me she was on it, and proceeded to stare at an Apple monitor for about half an hour. At least the new hire got me a coffee by way of apology. An hour or so later the supervisor literally threw up her hands and groaned, and told me something was wrong with the system, and she didn't know how to get me one "the old way" but that a recently retired employee only lived two blocks from the station, and that he'd be happy to help me out.
The supervisor went to accompany me to his house, which was indeed close-by. The city had however been hit by a storm in the past week, and his street flooded with vile yellow water. She pointed down the river and told me it was the third on my left, past the yellow vessel repairing affected homes. Shocked I wanted to ask her "What so I'm supposed to swim there?" but she'd already gone, and I was left to decide on my own, coming to the conclusion that 1450$ was worth more to me than staying dry, so I started swimming.
Swimming towards the seniors' house the workers from the vessel called out to me, saying I couldn't swim there because of a loose shark. I didn't believe them and thought they were just messing with me, but I justified my reason for swimming in the stinking yellow piss to them by explaining the entire story (the week-card etc) and that 1450$ was a lot of money. One of them admitted that it was a lot of money, and that it was nearly his yearly salary (2000$) and got an excited sparkle in his beady eyes and blinked one of them at me and smiled telling me that he'd ignore it.
I continued happily until I realized the doorbell didn't function, so swimming towards the window to knock I saw the retiree sitting, a vegetable behind the tv, unresponsive. Realizing this sack wouldn't be able to help me even if he wanted to I swam back the way I came defeated. Nearing the point where I entered the water the worker from earlier shouted at me, and so I stopped to see what he was fussing about, but he was just waving his arms and incoherent. Then I saw a fin peek out of the yellow river, in disbelief I waited, wanting to be sure it wasn't, but then I saw the grey body approach me through the water, and the jaws snap once, then open fully and I cursed the supervisor and the retiree and the new hire for being useless. I'm pretty sure I then died.