Turquoise yoga mat
Oisin had always been so brilliant with his yoga. I walked with him to the yoga studio in park
slope when he was small, and as he reached the top of the stairs -in awe
whispered “Yooogaa!”
Today we had an impossible travel in front of us, as my
errands were put back a day for a delay in the storage unit. I had just enough to pay the storage unit
fee, and travel for the weddings. I had
been looking at these yoga bags for weeks, thinking it might be nice to give to
Oisin. Today, I thought why not. I bought the bag and mat, and after looking
for a place to sit to go over travel times and details, I found no space, and
left, only to be stopped by security. Apparently
there were some bar codes left on the yoga bag.
So the bright colorful stress reducer rewarded me with a quick search
through my bag for the bar code. I ran
out for the train, saw one closer than I normally hop, and hopped the train in
wrong direction back to Brooklyn. Then
turned around, went through the underpass and waited for a train back to
Manhattan. I got out, thinking I would
catch a rare cab to meet my boy, each one that I asked to take me to Allen
street said no. It was off duty hour for
the cabbies. Many were heading back to
Brooklyn. I ended up walking a circle
looking for a better spot to catch cab.
I walked back to pace university.
I saw a bus, and thought it might head towards Allen, though I wanted to
check the route. The bus driver said I looked too anxious and he wasn’t sure he
should let me on. He had stopped the
bus, parked it, and stepped off to take a cigarette. I asked when he might go again, no rush- he
said an hour and a half. I asked which
way to walk it, and described some fun details of trying to catch a cab at the
change of duty hour when the cabbies were heading home, and I was just trying
to get to the bus stop and meet my kid.
Steve called, and I could not answer the phone, the touchscreen
interface was not responding to touch.
The driver still on the sidewalk with his cigarette, mentioned it
sometimes works to turn off the phone and re -set it. Of course.
The driver was very nice, and finally the bus began to roll towards Allen
street, with me on board, the tiny suitcase and bright blue yoga bag, all of us
barreling towards Steve and Oisin.
I got to Oisin finally, and wanted to hand him the nifty new
yoga bag, although he looked quite ticked as he had been trying to call, and
two buses had come and gone already while he was waiting. Poor kid, we were facing a complicated trip
to begin with, hence the purchase of a yoga mat. I kept trying to charge and fix the phone- a
dismal battery life along with mysterious new ways of ceasing to function- all
while I was trying to contact family to mention that we were really delayed,
and arrange transportation to get Oisin in quick. Meanwhile, I was not talking as he still
seemed so ticked. 6 o’clock came and we
waited outside in a cue, and got notice the bus was going to be delayed. Oisin
looked so done. We waited 30 minutes,
and the bus rolled in, we boarded, and I promptly put the thin light-weight
yoga mat and bag in the overhead. I forgot about it as we rolled off finally on
our way, and I finally made contact with family. The bus arrived, we hopped off, the bright
blue yoga mat stayed tucked away in the overhead compartment. Oh boy. The moral of the story is to just let
go.
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