Well, Damn
Apr. 25th, 2025 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ryanreactsTonight I clocked out at 10:40 and did not get home until 11:59.
When I clocked out at 10:40, of course I knew there would be a wait. I had just missed the 10:30 shuttle, so the next one wouldn’t leave the EDR until 11:15. With this in mind, I was in no hurry, so I walked to The Gulch so I could sit down at their stone picnic table while I waited for the shuttle. Driving from the EDR to The Gulch usually takes about five or six minutes. After ten minutes, I wasn’t totally sure what to do about it but was totally sure that I had somehow missed the last shuttle of the night.
At 11:28 I called the front desk (note: I’m fairly certain this is the front desk of The Ranch, not The Inn) and explained that the shuttle had not shown up. I was kind of thinking they could use their radio to track down the shuttle driver, but the front desk guy said “I’ll call FLS for you” and then hung up without asking me to identify myself or confirming my location. I wasn’t 100% certain that FLS would actually show up to give me a ride, but was 100% certain that if I had known the shuttle wasn’t gonna show up I could have walked home by now.
Anyway, yeah, FLS did pick me up as I was walking home, hooray. And they did confirm that I had done the right thing by calling the front desk, but also assured me that in this situation I could have called them myself. So that’s good to know.
But, gosh, the whole thing could have been avoided if I worked at The Ranch, which is maybe a seven-minute walk from my dorm room. And that’s only if I walk real slow. (I could also move to The Gulch to be a short walk away from where I work, but then I would have to live with a new roommate and would no longer be a short walk away from the warehouse and the ice cream parlor.)
When I clocked out at 10:40, of course I knew there would be a wait. I had just missed the 10:30 shuttle, so the next one wouldn’t leave the EDR until 11:15. With this in mind, I was in no hurry, so I walked to The Gulch so I could sit down at their stone picnic table while I waited for the shuttle. Driving from the EDR to The Gulch usually takes about five or six minutes. After ten minutes, I wasn’t totally sure what to do about it but was totally sure that I had somehow missed the last shuttle of the night.
At 11:28 I called the front desk (note: I’m fairly certain this is the front desk of The Ranch, not The Inn) and explained that the shuttle had not shown up. I was kind of thinking they could use their radio to track down the shuttle driver, but the front desk guy said “I’ll call FLS for you” and then hung up without asking me to identify myself or confirming my location. I wasn’t 100% certain that FLS would actually show up to give me a ride, but was 100% certain that if I had known the shuttle wasn’t gonna show up I could have walked home by now.
Anyway, yeah, FLS did pick me up as I was walking home, hooray. And they did confirm that I had done the right thing by calling the front desk, but also assured me that in this situation I could have called them myself. So that’s good to know.
But, gosh, the whole thing could have been avoided if I worked at The Ranch, which is maybe a seven-minute walk from my dorm room. And that’s only if I walk real slow. (I could also move to The Gulch to be a short walk away from where I work, but then I would have to live with a new roommate and would no longer be a short walk away from the warehouse and the ice cream parlor.)
