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TIFU by almost getting hit by my bus because my plane was an hour late

I'm typing this from said bus as I'm travelling.

Some obligatory context, I'm flying back to Bulgaria to sort out some exams and visit my gf for a bit. Before I can do that though I needed to go to my home town to drop off some stuff with family.

Since I knew I would be going to my hometown first, I checked which is the latest bus from the capital, which is 5pm local time and booked my plane ticket around that. That turned out to be a Ryan air flight landing at 3pm. For some reason I have yet to figure out, my flight got delayed by an hour, leading to me getting out of the airport with my luggage around 4:05 pm.

At this point I'm panicking because taxis are a scam here, and I don't know the public transport well enough to get there on time. Eventually I just rush onto the metro and find my way to the bus station. I managed to get off the metro and left the underground section at 5:04, and right in front of me is the bus that I needed to catch.

At that point my feet decided to work quicker than my brain and I go full sprint with all my luggage (22kg plus 12kg backpack) and basically dive at the pedestrian crosswalk in front of the bus.

The bus screeches to a halt and honks full blast at me, to which I frantically signal I need to get on, and he pulls over at the nearest bus stop to open the luggage compartment. As I load up the bag, he asks me "Do you have a ticket?" To which I just reply "I do, on my phone"

At that he grumbles a little, saying I should have had it printed since he can't check it, but to just get on. No one would be that crazy without a ticket.

Now I'm sitting, trying to calm my heart rate travelling home.

Tldr: almost got hit by the bus I was supposed to catch because my plane was late

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