"All for want of a quarter" or "The exam that cost me $10.65"
So I slept in this morning after only sleeping for 3 hours the night prior. Got 10 hours, but did put a damper on the time I had to prep for my exam this morning.
So I decided to drive to campus and just pay a meter. I frantically searched all the usual spots for enough loose change to last me the two hours I estimated it would take. Scraped together the last change I had and ran out the door.
Got to campus and as I paid the meter, realized that a stack of dimes doesn't rack up many minutes. I'd forgotten that I'd given my second quarter to a professor yesterday so she could pay her meter. Note (for the irony factor) that this was the same professor to whose exam I was now headed. So I didn't have time to do anything about it and ran off calculating that I'd have to finish the exam in 45 minutes to get back without getting a ticket (assuming the meter-nazis pay that much attention).
Well that was impossible. When I got back, I had a ticket. And for the irony: if I had that quarter that I gave to my professor, I would have gotten back just in time. :-p
So I decided to drive to campus and just pay a meter. I frantically searched all the usual spots for enough loose change to last me the two hours I estimated it would take. Scraped together the last change I had and ran out the door.
Got to campus and as I paid the meter, realized that a stack of dimes doesn't rack up many minutes. I'd forgotten that I'd given my second quarter to a professor yesterday so she could pay her meter. Note (for the irony factor) that this was the same professor to whose exam I was now headed. So I didn't have time to do anything about it and ran off calculating that I'd have to finish the exam in 45 minutes to get back without getting a ticket (assuming the meter-nazis pay that much attention).
Well that was impossible. When I got back, I had a ticket. And for the irony: if I had that quarter that I gave to my professor, I would have gotten back just in time. :-p