Attempting to buy a ticket to Furongzhen
02.01.2014
After work today, I headed down to the train station to try and buy a ticket to Mengdonghe from where I could take a bus to Furongzhen. Or so my guidebook said.
The ticket lady said there was no train station to this place, so I went to the biggest bus station I knew, the south bus station. When I got there, they told me to go to the west bus station to get my ticket instead. This was an hour away by bus. At this point I was ready to give up my Furongzhen quest and just go to Wuhan for the weekend. She sold me a ticket to Wuhan which was supposed to leave in two hours.
Great, so I ate my lunch and waited for the bus. When the time came to get on the bus, I went to the right gate and a man there literally grabbed my ticket out of my hand, got a refund and then tried to push me onto a city bus that was going to the train station, because he thought I wanted to go to Wuhan. At this point I was really mad because he still had all my refund in his hand. Apparently they had just randomly decided not to send this bus to Wuhan and I had to get there some other way. I ripped my refund out of his hand and stormed off, on my way to the west bus station, where I should have gone initially.
When I finally got there, they said, yes there was a bus leaving tomorrow morning for Furongzhen. I bought it and went home to sleep.
