October 13, 2024

I was going to be late so my friend offered me a ride to a bus stop to cut down on my transit time. When I got out of the car, I tried to check my phone for which lines go to campus but for some reason all of the time estimates were on the magnitude of days. The buses were starting to leave so I just hopped onto the one that looked right and hoped for the best.

While the bus was moving, I tried to check the map and once again the arrival times were all off. I looked up and sensed a psychic pulse emanating from one of the other passengers. I realized that she must’ve had some kind of time distorting super power that was disrupting everything. My phone said the bus was going to arrive at my destination in 104 days.

A while later, the psychic lady finally got off the bus at which point I looked at my phone again to see that there was only 20 minutes left. I tried to find somewhere to sit but all of the freed up seats had food and trash on them so I stayed standing. Someone on the bus was calling campus to warn them about a bomb threat before apologizing for calling the wrong number and hanging up. The bus entered a blinding white fog as clip art images of fruit starting floating around us. Someone said we must’ve been approaching the “zone”".

I got off the bus to the blaring sound of an MC over the speakers introducing a band onto the stage. I suddenly remembered that I forgot to take a day off today. It was already late into the workday. I mulled over the kind of email I had to write later explaining the situation.