My life is a maze...ing.

Today is the one day each year that I go into the office.  Not to work, but for a health screening that is required in order to qualify for insurance benefits.  It is also the one day each year that I don't eat breakfast, which is terrifying for all involved because I am not good at being hungry.  It gives me a headache and makes me irritable.  But it is the afternoon now and the screening is over and my belly is full so I'm back to being normal.  But of course, since I left the house, there's a story to tell.  It's actually a pretty common happening in my life and I'm wondering if I'm the only one.  Does this kind of stuff happen to other people?  Repetitively?

I headed into downtown Lincoln and was already cursing all the traffic.  (Anything more than three cars in a one-mile radius is considered 'heavy traffic' to me).  As I neared my work office, there were NO parking stalls free.  I ended up parking two blocks away and I had exactly one minute to get where I needed to go (which changes every year so I had no idea where I was really headed). 

I walked the chilly two blocks to the front doors, wishing I had worn my winter coat instead of my hoodie.  I went straight for the escalators but...they weren't there!!  They were there LAST time, but this time it was as if they'd just disappeared into thin air.  The escalators were now a wall.  How do you take escalators out?  But I didn't have time to be baffled.  I hate elevators but I had no choice so I headed toward the one opened elevator, which contained a whole group of people who only stared at me as the door shut and I was running toward it.  Buttheads. 

I then noticed a big sign that said 'Stairway' and decided that sounded much safer anyway.  Up to the second floor I went, then through one skywalk.  At the second skywalk, there was a sign with an arrow on it that said 'Wellness Check' so I followed it.  And from there, there were at least ten identical signs, pointing me in all different directions, down two escalators (yeah, the escalators were still on the OTHER side of the building), and finally landing me in a foreign part of the building.  I was completely lost, but at my destination.  I looked out the window to try and figure out exactly where I was, and directly in front of the door...my Jeep was parked. 

It was much simpler getting out of there than it was getting in.