Only if I...

would have walked just a little bit faster. Or if I would have crossed the street because there were no cars in sight even though the sign read DO NOT WALK. Or if I would have just waited to check my email at home. Only if I would have...the list goes on and on.

Only if I would have just kept walking instead of taking a picture of some white squirrel. Only if.

These were exactly the thoughts racing through my mind when I saw the bus start to accelerate just as I was seconds from the bus stop. There is probably nothing worse than knowing you have just barely missed the bus. The only thing that can top that is arriving at the stop only to see that you are the lone person there which confirms that you just missed the bus.

You have been on campus the whole day and you eagerly await to get on the bus to go home and relax. These dreams are shattered because you decided something else was just a little more important than walking to the bus stop. You can't read the newspaper while waiting because you already read it on the way to campus. Maybe you can fill out the daily sudoku, but you don't feel like taking a pen out of your backpack. Or you can just think about how you now have to wait 15 minutes to take a 45 minute bus ride because rush hour has officially started...because you thought taking a picture of some squirrel was too cool to pass up.

I was in this same situation about a month ago when a guy walked up to me and asked me, "Has the bus come yet?" Well, no sh!t, it hasn't or else I wouldn't be sitting here. Idiot.