I usually don't get to drive around too much, other than to work or school - but let's face it, Mavis isn't exactly the most challenging drive. Today I missed my GO bus to go downtown for my class and so I had to take the car. Normally I don't mind driving to Toronto, just as long as it's not rush hour. I left about 4:14pm which is rush hourish I guess and I was good until I hit the Gardiner..(but mind you I did end up taking the wrong exit instead of following the 401...thats about the 4th time I've done that and had to exit at Eglinton just so I could turn around!!!) Once I got on the Gardiner I think every truck in the area somehow found and surrounded me. I hate that boxed in feeling on a highway! And of course when I try to change lanes the man in his little Mercedes SLK decides that would be the perfect moment to speed up and block me off. So I finally make it safe off the Spadina exit, whereupon I have to avert my gaze from the guys trying to get money from people waiting at the stoplight (it's not that I'm mean, it's just that I can't ask them to give me change for my only $20 bill can I??).

Thinking I've been through the worst of it, I calm down a little. But then I realize I havnt even come near the Chinatown area on Spadina....and since there are cars parked in the right lane, everyone is switiching in and out of the lanes, little old Chinese women are scurrying between cars trying to get to the streetcar that is making it way to its next stop, and every two inches I manage to crawl forward, I have to stop becuase the light changes. Parking at U of T is a whole other story...I thought UTM was bad, but here they're not so nice. I spotted the perfect place to park right in front of my class, and got cut off by some other person who couldnt wait until the girl in front of me finished her parallel park. I ended parking farther away and speeding to class because I was late, while trying to finish my iftaari consisting of a chocolate chip granola bar. I always find the drive back muuuccch better and without any complications...anyone else have TO driving stories?