When stress met boredom; A conference tale

Where do I even start from? Today was a very dramatic day of my life where I literally had a combination of stress and boredom. My day started uneventfully like it usually does with my early morning online prayers and in between it, I was called by my hair stylist to start coming over to the shop to complete my hair styling which we couldn’t finish the previous day cos it was already late.

I had my bath early and strolled over to get my hair done. When I finished, I started hurrying over to the house to get ready for the meeting I was to have by 10am. I got dressed and hurried waited for my companion to join me who delayed us a little.

Soonest We were on on our way to the meeting and I didn’t know that I was in for a great time of stress that morning. Thank God I didn’t wear the shoe I wanted to wear out that morning else it would have been a tale of pity.

We hadn’t been to the event place before and hence we were going with the address on the flier. My colleague told the conductor of the bus were we would stop and we paid our fare which was the bus stop on the flier but on getting into a discussion with the driver, he told her it’s a different place.

When we got to the bus stop, the conductor was expecting us to alight but we were still moving forward according to what the drivers describe that caused a problem between us and the conductor and we had to pay extra fare. As if that’s not enough, When we got to the supposed right place as directed by the driver. It was the wrong place. OMG. I was already tired even before the journey began.

We had to take another ride back to where we were supposed to stop initially and paid extra fare again. On getting to the bus stop, It was number 1 and the address we were going to was number 20. The second bus conductor said he doesn’t know the place so we have to get all the way to the main bus top and then from there start tracing our way to the number twenty.

The frustrating things about the way the express was number is that the buildings are so wide apart that to get to the number twenty is another long walk. We were frustrated and tired from the going back and forth. As we walked the long distance looking for the right address, we were reminiscing amongst ourselves that if only we had enough money, we would have booked a ride and not be frustrated like this.

We walked for along distance as people kept helping us with the address suggestions until we got there. My saving grace was that I wasn’t on a heel slippers like I wanted to. It would have been another drama entirely. When we finally saw the place, we registers and entered. There were many others there and the meeting started.

I was expecting something really engaging but the first speaker in the conference bored us to life. I was so irritated maybe because of the kind of suffering I had already been though trekking that morning only to be hearing the most boring presentation of my life. I was feeling very sleepy and the AC wasn’t helping as it was too cold.

At a point I began feeling that I had just wasted my day and money to come there. I had to even go outside to have some breathing space. Soonest the boring speaker was done with his boring speech and the second speaker was introduced. Thank God for the second speaker and his approach to his presentation else It would have been that I just wasted my time and money.

He talked about team work and the 5 ways to know a dysfunctional team. It was so impacting. When he was done, other presentations were to come but I was full for the day. We took our leave and on my way home, I branched over to a shop to buy some cakes items for making a cake.

The prices of things are so exorbitant that I even saw a cool chocolate and thought to buy it for a bite but when I heard about the price, I just told myself to respect my cravings. It only pointed out to me that I needed to expand my means of income. Wahala for who not get money!

I carried myself home to go and eat garri and soup. When I finished, I laid down to sleep cos I was knackered. I woke up later from my nap a bit refreshed and I proceeded to join an online meeting I had by 7pm. It was quite a day of stress and boredom but am glad to be alive. We hope for better things.

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