Have you ever been distracted and missed your stop?
I was taking the bus on a route I don't normally travel to pick up my car, reading away (good book), when I realized I had gone a mile past my stop. I hopped off, and wandered back. Have you done this before? And in the interest of full disclosure, the worst I ever did was miss my stop on a train and end up in Frankfurt rather than Paris. Try explaining that to the conductor using remedial German...
Never been on a bus, but I see how it could happen.
I've never done it riding a bus, but I've been driving before and day dreaming I guess (or just in conversation with a passenger) and have passed exits and not even realized it and have had to turn around. Sadly this has happened more than once!
I've been distracted and hopped on the wrong bus before. Took a while before I realized I didn't know where I was.
When I took my driving test, I was so distracted that I missed a stop.... sign. I was extremely nervous and the guy said "Go on through this upcoming street here," so I did. Unfortunately I didn't see the stop sign thanks to some spectacular tunnel vision and automatically failed the test. I passed with flying colors the next time though.
I rode the bus every day to school and the same thing happened to me:
Absorbing book + bus ride = missing your stop
Luckily, I only missed it by a couple of blocks.
I fell asleep on a bus once. Only one left on the bus when I woke up, got off and started walking. Took me almost an hour to get where I needed to be.
I do it all of the time; in my car. Unless it's going to make me late for something like a Dr.s appointment or someone relying on me to pick them up, I've decided not to get upset about it. Life's too short to use negative energy; I just turn around and go back.
I have done this on my university's bus system several times. There are 10 different bus lines during the week and the routes change depending on the time or on weekends. Some routes use double long buses while some use normal length. I've accidentally gotten on the wrong bus at least 3 times when the switched a long bus with a normal bus or vice versa. Other times I've just missed my stop or gotten off too early because I was reading, playing games on my phone, stuck in the crowd, coming back from the bar, or deep in conversation. The nice thing in these cases, however, is that all the buses are free and I could just hop on another one.
Hope this helps...
ha ha. if you mean, have I ever stopped at an establishment after work and then started talking to someone along the route and then suddenly realized I hadn't looked outside in a while and then did and didn't know where I was? ahhh...uhh...no.
I've had basically the opposite happen once and exited too early. I was driving back from Chicago at night on I-80. It was pouring, and I was pretty much just following the taillights of the semi in front of me. (I guess you could say I was too focused.) The semi driver took an exit, and I just followed right along behind. If anyone here has ever gotten off at the Coralville exit, you know you can't immediately just get back on the interstate.
I've never had any issues with public transportation, but that's primarily because the only public transit my town has is the school bus system. We did use about every form of public transportation when we visited South Korea, but I was hyper-vigilant as to which stops/stations we were passing and how much further we had to go.
If there's a way for me to "miss" something I'll do it.. Frequently.. and normally in an embarassing manner :-)
yes, next question.
Did it yesterday, in a car, was suppose to pick up my friends son, was driving and starting looking around and was like "where am I?" Oh, my gosh, I passed right by the house, turned around and he apparently saw me drive by the first time and had already ran inside, told his dad, called his mom, so that by the time we got to our destination, everyone already new about my "faux pas."
Done that on BART (San Francisco's subway) and the Metro (D.C.'s subway). Thankfully, you can usually switch platforms and catch the next train going back the other way without going outside the pay gates.
Incidentally, the BART and Metro are very similar in look and feel. I lived near BART but grew up near the Metro, so it was always sort of oddly deja vu everytime I rode both systems.
RECALCULATING!
I swear my GPS has to lecture me a few times a week as I pass the spot I'm supposed to turn
Distracted, not really. Unsure of where I am going, absolutely. :)
I missed my stop a couple times when I used to take a short 20-minute bus ride coming home from work. Luckily it was always just the next stop and it was just a couple blocks. I needed the exercise anyway.
I used to have a 45-minute ride along the entire length of a subway line to work every morning, and so I'd get a good seat and sleep the whole way. One morning I slept so deeply that I missed the LAST STOP and woke up in an empty train in the maintenance area.
You would think I'd have stopped sleeping on the train, but you would be wrong.
I've done it a few times! My commute is a little over an hour each way, including dropping my daughter off at daycare or at her grandma's house...one day she was at her grandma's, but I went to the daycare because she'd been there the two days prior and I was still caught up in my head about things that had happened at work. Ooops. Thankfully, the daycare is not too far out of the way to grandma's.... :$
Happened several times to me... one time I tried to get a girl's number and missed my stop by a few seconds. It turned out that I got the number a bit wrong... lol.
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