A Day of Coincidences
Tim and I had a full day planned of meeting people. Late last night we decided that we were going to buy an all-day ride pass on the RTA and see if it appeared practical to ride to all of our meetups with various people.
Our first meeting was Tim’s Brooklyn Circle B-to-B Connect meeting at Theo’s at 7 a.m. Since it was such an early start time, I wasn’t sure that we would be able to make the connections we would need. Off I went to the RTA Transit website where lo and behold, there is now a trip planner! All I had to do was put in our address and the address of my destination. Then I put in the day and time. I had five options to choose. Maybe you are aware of this little added feature, but I wasn’t.
Our next meeting was at Talkie’s on Market Street at 10 a.m. So my start point was Theo’s, and I ended up at Talkie’s. Again, I had five possibilities.
We arrived at the West Side Market with so much time to spare that we had breakfast at the Westside Market Cafe. I posted about this great restaurant once before, but Tim hadn’t had the experience of eating there yet so it was a good place to stop before our 10 a.m. I of course, not being an adventurous sort with food went for my tried and true Eggs Benedict. Tim had Market Hash with poached eggs and creole mustard sauce. He said it was some great Andouille sausage, and he was very impressed with his poached eggs.
After we ate, we still had some time to kill so we strolled through the market. We saw Mr. Leu who has now retired but still shops at the Market on Fridays. We always stop to say “hi” to Janet Woyma, a neighbor and friend who has worked for Ed Dabstuter for years and years.
As we walked out the front doors, we ran into two of our neighbors who always do their shopping on Friday morning. They wanted to know where our packages were, and we said that we weren’t shopping, that we had come to the market for breakfast.
After our meeting at Talkies, we again hopped on the bus and saw another one of our neighbors who had decided she had had enough of the corporate world for one day, so she took a half day vacation. We walked down the street with our friend, stopped off at home to check the RTA Trip planner one more time, and decided to hop back on the bus to deliver some paperwork to Roger Bundy’s Law Offices on Broadview. Since Roger was not at his office, we dropped in to see Janie at Janie’s Sewing Corner. She told us to just leave the package, and she would see that Roger got it.
All in all, with the sun shining in the midst of a blue, blue sky and fluffy white clouds, Tim and I had a very satisfying day riding the RTA talking to other passengers and visiting with friends and neighbors. We even squeezed in two business meetings.
And why, did I post about our day on the RTA? This is why. We stepped out of our breakneck pace of rushing back and forth to home and out again for another meeting and back again and out again. Instead, we deliberately slowed down and thoughtfully planned our next move. We both felt that we had an incredibly productive day.