Exhaustion for the win!...?

I had another shit-happened-but-I-just-shrugged trip. Though I'm also beginning to suspect any route that takes me south to Bundang to go north to Seoul.

I was planning on going to a meet-up for people from the TEFL certification program I completed. The suggested route by Citymapper (I would literally not attempt to go anywhere without it) was to take a bus south to Bundang (around 15 minutes) then take one all the way north to Seoul, with only 4 stops.

All went as planned until, well, the usual traffic jam going up into & once in Seoul. True, this is only the second time I've done it, but yet again, I was but ONE STOP away when the bus driver ordered us all off. I was debating taking another bus, but was wondering at the nonstop stream of people walking in front of the bus stop & crossing the street. I saw a guy talk to a bus driver for a completely different bus ask him some questions, then not get on, & several people to get off. It was around 1.6 km & a 29 minute walk. I was cold, but meh, I decided to try to see this trip through as best I could.

Best I could was surrounded by historic buildings & people walking around in hanboks (traditional Korean dress, mainly women). Citymapper's one problem is it often can't get you DIRECTLY to the door-- when it says you're there, you could have another 2 minutes in whatever direction to go. I was in some street without cars, lots of hanbokked-people, but no idea where the place I was looking for was. Though hell, the street I was looking for was DEFINITELY nowhere that I could see either. After wandering for 15 minutes or so, my phone's battery was just under 50%, & I needed to use what was left to get me back out of there, so as seems to happen with some regularity these days, after an hour on buses & 30 minutes walking, I gave up, found the train & went the hell home. All I could think was I spent 1.5 hours to get nowhere & go back home, which seemed about right.

When I got home an hour 10 later, I tried watching Law & Order on one of the pirated sites I usually use, but the buffering was constant & annoying. I spent another 30-45 minutes searching for the different sites I use (some of which were no longer working), exhausted but too exhausted to be angry.

This exhaustion thing isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me, if that's what this is.