Due to the extreme dearth of time I have before leaving for China and the many things that I have not yet written about, this post is going to be in a different, perhaps more interesting, format.
Idiocy #1: "Lost Phone."
When: 2 Sundays ago (Apr 5), 8a-12p.
Where: Yachting Club.
Who: Me (Well, the whole team was there, but this incident involves only my).
What: Cell phone, previously stuck inside my spandex shorts due to the lack of pockets in the particular jersey I was wearing biking that morning, went missing. After sticking it in the shorts, we ate lunch, and I rode home. Upon reaching my house, I felt for my phone where I had placed it a few hours before (on the side of my short-leg), but could not find it. This was somewhat disheartening because I had been sick for a few days and I went home somewhat early in order to rest. But now, I had to go look for my phone. So, I took a taxi back to the Yacht Club and searched around that area for about 20 minutes. After finding nothing, I decided to walk back on the rode that I biked home on incase my phone had fallen out of my shorts during the ride and somehow magically survived the busy roads of Busan. After walking for abotu a half hour, I decided to just take a bus home, accept my phone's dire fate, and try to get psyched about getting a nicer phone (on a note about the quality of my phone, Coach's wife bought their son a phone this weekend, and the quality of my phone prompted my teammate to say "hey, his phone is better than Catie's." Hahaha. Oh man. It's true, though), although not psyched about attempting to do so before leaving for China. However, in the end, this was not necessary, because...
Why: ...I got home, saddened that I had wasted 2 hours that I could have spent resting / watching movies. I went to undress, and lo and behold, my phone dropped to the ground. Apparently, it was hiding in the back of my shorts, having slipped from the side where I had initially put it. Seriously Catie? You don't take the time to check the full circumference of your leg before spending money on a 9km taxi ride and 2 hours of your rest time to go search for a phone that is protruding out of your spandex?
I recall that I asked some women if they had found a phone at the Yacht Club, and they said no. I wonder, when I walked off, if they say my phone sticking out of my spandex... go me.
Idiocy #2: "The Agonies of Reloading My Subway Card, Despite Having Reloaded Numerous Times Before"
When: Last Saturday, 9pm.
Where: Some subway stop near Seomyeon.
Who: Me. And other onlookers getting their fill of entertainment for the night.
What: Attempting to buy another traffic card (which you can put money onto for the bus and subway so you don't have to pay money every time you use transportation) because mine has been somewhat falling apart for a long time now (even though it still works in its feeble condition).
Why: At first, I went to the machine which had the traffic cards behind a glass screen, and thus knew that that machine sold the cards. But after attempting to buy, I realized that the machine was all in Korean, and since I was a little tired, I was not going to attempt blindly guiding myself in this adventure at this point in time. So I moved to the next machine, one which I knew had an English option because I use it all the time to reload my current traffic card. So I went to "purchase card" instead of "reload card", and put in 20,000won (that's how much I wanted to be put on the card - well, that's hoe much I wanted to spend on the card and putting money on the card). So, it is processing, and I start to feel a little relieved and proud of myself - but that feeling only lasted about 2 seconds, because after that time, numerous plastic cards started falling out of the machine. I was first confused because the cards were rectangular in shape, and the card I wanted was much smaller, usually of a circular or other shape, but I thought, huh - whatever. I can deal with this for a few weeks and then I can get another card that I can hook onto my keys. But after the 4th card fell down, I started to get kind of confused. 'How many are going to come out? How much money is on each of these cards? Can I only use each card once?" Well, 10 cards came out, and apparently zero money was on each of the cards. Apparently what I bought was 10 cards which I can put money onto AFTER buying the cards - each blank card costs 2,000won. AWESOME. (I found this fact out a few days ago when telling Coach what had happened.) I knew there might be an issue with the cards because of the fact that 10 came out (which seemed really strange), so I had my old traffic card with me to quickly back me up if the new cards didn't work, which they didn't. So now I have 10 traffic cards in my home that I have no intention of loading money onto (because they are more or a hassle to carry around than the ones you can attach to your phone or your keys) and I'm out 20,000won for being an idiot. AND I gave Korean people something to amuse themselves over (which I have no problem with, but still).
Aaand now there is no time to finish with the weekend's beautifulness, so I'll hit you up with that later.
Oh and I have some new pictures! Yay. :) To be continued..
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It's funny, I looked at your post today and thought, "man she's way off her game. I'm glad I'm so on top of things". Ok so I didn't think that but pretend I did so the following seems more like just desserts.
After reading your post I went to the gym, came back and then had to run to class. As I was leaving the apartment I realized I had left my key in the gym. So I figured I'd leave my room door open and grab the key on the way to class (cause the gym is on the way). Unfortunately, on the way to class I forgot to get it, I got to class and couldn't get into my locker without the key. So I couldn't get my books. I also realized I'd left my binder at home. So we finished class and I figured I'd work from home because that's where I'd left my binder. I got home and realized the notes I needed to weren't in the binder, but in the locker, which required the key that I still had forgotten to go get. Finally I go to the gym, and don't find the key. A little irritated at this point I go to get my phone out of my pocket to check the time (forgot my watch this time), and find the key was in my pocket the whole time.
I'm usually so good about patting myself down before I leave the apartment. I hope that makes you feel better.
Haha thats an amazing story - you are awesome. That makes me feel a lot better! :)
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