Stopping and Starting

I’ve had a bit of an odd day today.

Not odd as in totally strange and weird, but odd in the way that I seem to have been stopped or delayed in everything that I have wanted to do.

Usually, when this type of thing happens, I take it as a sign that I must slow down. The Universe is giving me the opportunity to take little ‘time outs’ in my day.

Driving to work this morning, I had to stop to pick up the daily newspaper. OK, this is a stop I make everyday, so no Universal intervention with this one. Only I had to wait for someone to come out of the shop before I could go in. The newspaper was in a different place to where it usually was, and it was upside down and back to front, so it took me slightly longer to pick a copy off the shelf. The person who worked on the till, Joan, was reckoning something up on a slip of paper, so I had to wait for her to serve me, and then, I had to wait for someone to come into the shop before I could exit it.

As I got back to the car to drive to work, I had to wait for a man and his dog to walk passed so I could open my door to get in. The junction with the main road is merely twenty steps from where I had parked, so no sooner as I had got the car moving, I had to give way again – this time for a bus. I needed to turn left here, and immediately on the left here, is a bus stop. The bus started to pull in to the bus stop, which would have made me wait behind it, but the driver realised that the person waiting there didn’t want the bus. So, the bus pulled away again, and had to stop for the red traffic light at the pedestrian crossing.

I inched along behind the bus until it turned off to the left, and I needed to take a right turn at the roundabout. Where I had to wait for traffic.

Once on this road, I could move. Well, as far as the roundabout at the other end of the road, and I had to wait in line again.

The rest of the journey into work was like this.

As it happened, I arrived at work early, and got myself ready to start work as soon as I could. Only what I needed wasn’t ready, and I had to wait for it.

I eventually – or finally – got my job finished, and had to start on another one… and this wasn’t ready either.

Finally, home time came, and after the eternal five minute wait until my ‘proper’ leaving time, I was out of the building like a flash. I got into my car, and had to wait for someone walking behind my space before I could back out.

Then, traffic lights, waiting for on-coming traffic, slow moving wagons, and lost motorists meant that my car journey home was remarkably similar to the one this morning.

I’m not even going to mention my nose and my hay fever today. Oops, I just did. I’ll say no more, then.

This post has been typed two letters forward and four back… so, I’m now taking heed of the Universe’s clues. I’m taking things nice and slow for the rest of the day. I’m going to sit back, put my feet up, and stop for the day.

It can all start again tomorrow morning!