The First Discovery of Christmas Morning
Batteries not included.
The First Discovery of Christmas Afternoon
Give a kid a new toy- Dad will play with the toy, the kid will play with the box it came in.

A long bus journey

A long class, a long TA and a short workout at the gym, made it a very long day. Made me very tired and famished. Made me go to the bus-stop closest to the gym and take a bus without seeing the bus route number.
Too little too late.
I realized that it was an express version of bus route which I usually do not take, 10 minutes into the journey. As it is, the normal version of that bus route's closest stop makes me walk 10 minutes to reach the apartment. But this being an express bus, its closest stop was more than 20 blocks away from my apartment. So there I was, sitting in the bus, and having requested a stop, I was waiting for the bus to stop. But it kept rolling on and on - until it reached that place so far away from home.

All was not lost, I thought. After all, I could take the normal version of the bus in the opposite direction. I crossed the road and waited. For 10 minutes. No bus. Chance made me look at the bus schedule - which made me realize the fact that there was going to be none for the next half hour, half hour within which I could reach home walking.

So I did that. Walking, that is. And using a combination of walking, jogging, and, literally, galloping, I reached home in half hour. Home sweet home.

A journey which usually took 15 minutes, sometimes by walk even, ended up taking an hour.

A total waste of time.