A stupid way of missing my ballet class

I was supposed to take ballet class every Tuesday.  I said supposed because starting from months ago, it's getting harder and harder to keep that schedule. Mostly it is because of my work.  Usually no one forces me, but if I find myself in too deep on trying to get some coding done, I will eventually keep pressing on work and skip the class.  Today I missed my ballet, but strangely, it's not because of work.

I left office sharp at 6:00 pm.  It always takes about 45 minutes to get to the ballet studio at downtown, and the traffic can be terrible at times.  My experience was that if I leave at 6 pm, I will always be able to make it to the 7 pm class.  So I hit the road, and continue playing the audiobook "1Q84" that I was listening since last trip to Dallas.  Everything went as planned.  The traffic wasn't good, but it was in my plan anyway.

Then I reached Houston downtown.  Things still went ok until ONE right turn.  The next thing I knew, I was in an area that I was not familiar with.  The traffic was pretty bad so there was not much room to navigate around.  Eventually all these one ways lead me back to the highway, and next thing I know, I was leaving downtown.  I was like "son of the bitch"!

It took me 10 minutes to get to an exit, and I U-turned back.  Yet, I had hard time finding an exit that got me back to downtown.  The traffic was slow like almost stop-and-go, and it was 6:50 pm already.  Even if I could find an exit, I will not be in the class room until 7:20 pm, and they wouldn't allow people to get into the classroom after 7:15 pm.  "Screw it" I told myself, and thus I drove back home.  1 hour 15 minutes wasted, and I was like only a few block away from the studio when I made the wrong turn.

Even now, I still don't quite understand how I managed to make that wrong turn.  It was as if some force we trying to keep me from taking the ballet class today for some unknown reason.  I didn't know why but my heart was kind of pounding and felt disturbed when I was heading to the class (but then it could be caused by the audiobook that I was listening.)

Oh well, damn it, need to wait for next week then.  Maybe I should play Dance Central 2 tonight instead.