PISSED OFF

I am pissed off! Really!

Do I look like a babysitter? A nanny? Or am I an accountant? Or your personal assistant? Or...? Or maybe you think that I am your dog and you can whistle at me and I will run towards you waving my tail?

Well, no! No way! This time you really got me pissed off. I don't intend being any of the above and running to you every time you need something done.

If you need an accountant - hire yourself one. Instead of moaning that you cannot find one, get up in the morning instead of 2 PM; go to town instead of hiding in the house and complaining about the weather and get yourself one!!!
I am not an accountant, neither a VAT expert. Moreover, I am not interested in being one!
Doing you a favour and asking questions for you to get the situation clarified, does not mean that I've taken the "clever" pill and I know everything.

I've found you the declarations. Two pages. Just two pages! And it only takes to fill in the company data and submit them. Everyone can fill them in on a computer or by hand.

Ah yes, you expect me to get on the bus, travel 250 km one way (3 hour ride) and get to the village, to your latest hermit place, to take you by the hand and take you to the revenue agency, so that you can be present when I submit YOUR declarations. Or maybe you intended to give me a Letter of Attorney, so that I can travel another 60 km and submit them on my own?

Because you have such a short fuse that 10 minute waiting will be too much for you. Well let me tell you something. I had to wait more yesterday, when I submitted my papers.

As for the car, just to let you know, if you do it on your own - it will take at least one day waiting on the different queues. Don't know about the electricity company. Your region is serviced by a different one.

So, yes, it will take a minimum of 2 full working days to get these 3 things done. But I don't have the free time to travel around and cross half of the country, just because you're living in that house since last summer, but you haven't found yourself a new accountant yet.

And no, I don't intend to be your babysitter or show patience to your grumpiness.
I have more important and more interesting things to do than bear your moods.

So get up and go find yourself an accountant, because this time I am really pissed off!

A trip less than ordinary

You want to travel round Bulgaria? Well, if you do so then you need a car. If you don't have a car then the usual 2 other options are trains or buses.

Locals do know that trains are slow and dirty. They are permanently late, despite the fact that they are just a bit cheaper than the inter city buses.

Thus, if you want to travel faster you get the bus.

So, I was off this weekend. Decided to visit a friend of mine who's staying in a village close to Veliko Tarnovo.

I picked the bus option as a means of transport. There are plenty of companies going through Tarnovo on the way to Sofia every day. I wanted to get there faster, so my first option was Biomet.

Biomet are known for their regularity, nice new good-looking buses and the fact that they don't stop in every little village to drop or collect more people, thus ensuring faster travel.

I went to their office and bought myself a ticket on Thursday.

I was thinking .... finish work at 6 p.m., and go straight to the bus station. Bus leaves at 7 p.m., so hopefully I'd be in Tarnovo around 10 p.m. So, I'd have enough time for dinner, chit-chat and a lovely Friday evening.

But as per Murphy's Laws destiny had other plans. Ten minutes before the departure time the speaker system at the bus station announced that bus won't perform the trip.

I rushed back to the office of the bus line. The explanation of the ladies there - the bus's been broken and they were expecting it to be fixed by 7 p.m., but it wasn't.

My options - to get a refund for the ticket or take the next bus which was planned leave an hour and a half later - at 8:30 p.m.

Despite the list of bus lines available it appeared that there were no other buses leaving round that time. The competition options were due to depart around 10-10:30 p.m.

...and all of this happened on a Friday evening - usually a very busy period of the week.

Having no other options, I agreed to travel with the later bus. I wanted to enjoy the weekend and meet the friend. I was also hoping for some sightseeing in the area, but I'll leave the sightseeing part for another post.

There was this girl at the second guichet. She also had a 7 p.m. ticket. And a plane to catch which was leaving at 5 a.m., considering the fact that the trip to Sofia takes 6.5 hours and that the trip between the bus station and the airport is 30 minutes itself. I'll leave the calculations to you...

So, stuck at the bus-station for an hour and a half. Not enough time to go home and no place to have a cup of coffee, as all the shops at the station close at 7 p.m.
I was so annoyed that I didn't even think to take some photos of the shabby outlook of the area there. The inter-city bus station is there for ages, but seems that no one has ever considered to do some renovation.

At least I had a book to read and entertain myself.

Finally the 8:30 bus was positioned and we got on board. I had the feeling that at least 30% of the people there were like me - waiting since 7 p.m.

We were on. Just when the bus got on the highway the stewardess switched on the video. It was time for another movie to help time pass. The movie was called 'Giallo'. We had only watched about 15 minutes of it and she stopped it. Disk change. New movie. 'Daybreakers'. This one was more interesting. We managed to watch an hour out of it. Then it was scrolled forward and stopped.

By that time we were at the suburbs of Shumen. And we stopped. To let some people get off and some more to get on. Five minute break.

New movie: Sand snakes ( or sth like that). New stop - at Targovishte. Movie only lasted like 10 minutes and was replaced by 4th one - 17 again.

Well, this one survived till Veliko Tarnovo.

Yay, I made it. with 90 minutes delay at the start and four movies (lol) I finally reached my destination point.

I do hope that your trip will be more pleasant than mine. I really didn't expect it.