I'm sick of the stupid bus, and living in Cape Breton!

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Today I planned to take the bus down to Wal-Mart to hopefully find something decent to wear for Halloween. It was grey, wet, windy and raining, but I have to go down to a nearby strip mall and wait across the parking lot in a shelter for the bus because it simply cannot pick people up in front of the main store for some unfathomable reason. Anyway the Zellers store is gradually being changed into Target from the US, and they're even completely reconstructing the parking lot in front of it. I was just about to find a way to get around the construction and to the bus shelter when an older man walks up to me and asks me if I'm taking the bus and he starts mumbling something about the types of buses being switched around and basically I was now supposed to walk all the way to downtown and get on one of the buses there and get a transfer. I really didn't feel like walking downtown and I had already been at the strip mall for around an hour. So I started my maybe 50-minute walk to Wal-Mart. In the rain. My sneakers getting soggy from walking in the grass because there's no sidewalk. And even if there was I'd half to walk a few feet away from it because cars are plowing through puddles and sending up tidal waves of dirty water! So I get to Wal-Mart but I don't get anything for my costume because I saw a couple of other items I decided to buy and after that I had a lot less money and couldn't really focus on what else to get. And when I was ready to leave, the rain stopped, the sun came out and it was BEAUTIFUL, especially for October! But my feet are really starting to kill me. Even so I decided to walk down to the big mall, The Mayflower Mall. But as I was crossing the parking lot a car with some idiot teens drove by and they started screaming at me and saying something I didn't understand. I only caught something like, "AAAAAHHHH Wah-Maht ovah dere!! !" And then I did something that would have utterly shocked my parents. I "flipped" them. I was in a horrible mood when I finally got inside and my feet were ready to fall off. So I called a cab. I don't even know if the bus would even pick me up at the usual time, and I wanted to be dropped of at my door and not have to drag myself from the bus stop again. I HATE not being able to drive or afford a car. And I HATE living in Cape Breton. Everything is too isolated, too far away and absolutely boring! I'm sick of living in almost constant isolation, even in what passes for a city, no real jobs, almost everyone I knew as a kid left just to find work. the hopeless lack of resources, and the garbage that the teenagers drop everywhere they go. Paper plates and cups and empty cigarette packs everywhere. I thought younger people were supposed to care about the environment! I'm sick of being too dependent on my parents and I wish I could live in Halifax or even Ne Brunswick where my brother is. Well not as far out in NB as he is but maybe in one of the towns I've been to on trips or something. But that's never going to happen and if it did, I'd just have a whole pile of new problems on my hands. My feet are still sore... Don't know if it's my shoes or my not going out walking as much because there's hardly any place or thing worth walking to anymore.

Yah...People can be so annoying eh? I see people throwing garbage on the ground all the time. Sometimes they even roll down their car windows and empty an entire bag of garbage onto the street. I hate it. I don't get it.