#WorstDayEver

May 15 2009

i has computer over-use injury

1. I missed an early morning Fedex pickup for an iMac that I needed yesterday because I was sleeping and didn’t catch the phone until the last ring, so I ran down to the street after the Fedex guy in my pajamas, and literally missed him by a second.

2. I gave myself whiplash as I was running down the stairs to catch the Fedex guy and couldn’t turn my head to the left for about 3 hours.

3. The hot water in my shower ran out as I was trying to alleviate my neck pain.

4. I DROPPED MY iPHONE IN THE TOILET when I was calling the landlord from the bathroom. I hit my funny bone on the tap which caused me to “ow ow ow” and kurpluk! Right in the bowl. (Remarkably, due to the fact that I had the Griffin Clarifi case on it and I have reflexes like a cat, it didn’t get completely wet and still worked. For a while).

5. The entire side view mirror on my crappy 1995 Pontiac Firefly fell off as I was driving downtown.

6. I got stuck in rush hour traffic for 50 mins and missed two appointments because I had to stop the car and retrieve the side view mirror wreckage from the road.

8. Returning to the car, I realized that I had lost my car & apartment keys. This was of course when my iPhone died, so I had to use a cafe’s phone to call for help. After retracing my every step for 3 hours, I did not find my keys.

9. Then I got a parking ticket for $60. 

What can you do but cry, laugh a little, and sob until snot is running down your face? Thanks to Ry & Paz for helping me find my way home.

Worst. Day. Ever.

Have you ever had a really bad day? Tell me about it in the comments.

griffinclarifi I will give away a Griffin Clarifi case and a big online hug to the best answer. If you don’t have an iPhone, or you also dropped your phone in the toilet like me, or the bathtub, then I will find some other fun prize to send you.

Follow me on the Twitters so you can find out who won!

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74 Responses to “#WorstDayEver”

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    I think everybody has those bad days, when everything seems to go wrong – although I must say that yours sound particularly bad. So sorry. Just remember: Compared to that day, every ordinary day in the future will appear a lot better now ;-).

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    Wait, are you giving out the case the fell in your toilet?

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    @alex HAHA oh gosh no! A brand spanking new one. Unless you’d prefer the one with toilet juices on it. eww.

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    Oh my goodness…. I hand you my commiserations, Lisa! That really is an awful day to have had. :(

    Shame that Apple doesn’t make waterproof products yet.

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    Dude… That doesn’t sound fun at all.

    Some dumb cow at the petrol station destroyed my debit card in one of those old fashioned card impression roller things because she was a moron and couldn’t work the computer to take payment properly. Following that fiasco I saw the simpsons movie, which sucked, then on the way home I got in a car crash.

    The day i lost my wallet was pretty bad too but that was the only bad thing to happen that day.

    Hope you feel better soon.

    Dan

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    On a side note: How long did you leave the iphone in the toilet? I dropped my iPod touch in the bath with no condom on months ago and it’s still going strong!

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    I suppose a worst month has got to have a worst day. My worst day started off with a city-wide power failure. I should have known. That day I was scheduled to appear in court for a malicious conviction from my slumlord landlady who had started squatting on the property I was leasing. She accused me of malicious damage to her property when I moved her ‘kitchen’ (two refrigerators and piles of junk) out of the garage I was renting. When I made myself available to defend myself in court I was prompty arrested (despite the false accusation and no witnesses) and thrown in jail with a suspected murderer. The case when it came to court was thrown out. But wait, there’s more.
    http://www.nickvanderleek.com/2009/04/slum-wars-jailtime.html

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    the griffin case totally saved the day though! iPhone still works… fingers crossed.

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    I was getting ready to go on a weekend to a lakeside cabin with my friend and felt a little hungry so I made some quesadillas. When I was finishing eating them my friend called me saying he was outside so I leave in a rush. Along the way I take the wrong route which makes me drive an extra 2 hours before getting there. Finally I get myself ready to jump into the pool when my mom calls me on the phone. Apparently I took both sets of keys to my car which is blocking hers. So I get to hear her scream at me for a long time until she hangs the phone on me.
    About two hours later the phone rings again and it’s her again. She is crying telling me how she had to call the firefighters and that I could have filled my brother. It turns out I had left the gas open while cooking those quesadillas.
    Feeling so bad about it I went to lay down on a subbed next to the pool. I was crying and as I saw my friend approachingvi brought myself to sit down, but when I put my foot down I stepped on a scorpion which stings me not once, but twice!
    Besides the horrible pain, my whole left leg went numb and my throat started to swell… Now I was getting scared so I got my friend to drive me to the pier where there is always a stationed ambulance for first aid.
    As I told the paramedic about the scorpion he tells me that they are out of antidote for the venom so I should just lie there for some time and if I started to have difficulty breathing then they’d drive me to the hospital about 150 km away. I lied there for about two hours until I was cleared to go back to the house where I was staying. And I just went to bed.

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    @Dan –less than a second. fell in backwards with the case and didn’t fully submerge. your day sucked also. hugs

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    @Nick — WOW. murder. jail. yikes. that’s one bad month.

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    I wrote about the worst day of my life here http://heretogeneva.com/2007/09/30/friday-the-28th/ . I don’t particularly want to readdress what happened and what I did (it’s far too painful), so it’s there if you want to read it.

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    Sorry to hear/ read all that.
    That day must have SUCKED big time.

    Maybe that’s your treat for the next couple of years?!

    Have a great recovery and an even better weekend!!!

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    my worst day will be when i’m on my trip to do some survey for my next photo shots project. my client wants me to set a photo session on sky scraper buildings as background. as turn out, i’ve got rejected by all of buildings managements i’ve been meeting with.

    in all desperation i decided to go to one shopping mall and relaxed myself. i bought some froyo and when i ate it, i accidentally dropped to my clothes and leave a big splotz.

    i tried to wash it and it did not succeeded entirely. and then i tried to cheered myself up by going window shopping.

    when i was in ZARA boutique, i spotted this gorgeous black silk top. i want to buy it, but torn inside my head because i don’t have much money left. and then i tried to forget it by walking around somewhere else. but my mind kept coming back to the ZARA top.

    after half an hour of deciding whether to buy or not to buy, i decided to buy it. after i bought it, i went to mall lobby and sat down to put out my Nikon lens bag and wanted to move it to my shopping bag. but then i’ve got distracted. my dad called me to say that he’s been waiting for me in the lobby and the security kept shushing him.

    so, i rushed and i think -i don’t remember exactly-, but i might left my lens bag behind.

    the next day i have to do the photoshot and i’ve only got 50mm f/1.8 left (attached to camera). i dont have a lot of money left on my account for lens expense. so that after several cried out and careful consideration, i’ve decided to make a purchase of 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR that cost about USD$ 950… with credit.

    it’s so awful while my client only paid me for like USD$ 300.

    really really bad day for me

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    My worst day ever: Husband comes home and says “I don’t love you anymore, and I want a divorce.” Aside from that, it would be August 29, 2005, i.e. Katrina. Sorry. but I can’t get behind my petty misfortunes after all that. Changed my perspective, it did!

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    worst day for me was recently when my girlfriend of 14 months and I got back from a ski vacation, she dumps me through facebook then finishes me off with a text message with no reason leaving me hanging with $800 she owed me from the trip, might not seem to bad but this happened just hours after I found out my mother got cancer again for the second time.

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    I don’t have a bad day story, but maybe I can make your worst day a little better. Regarding to ifoAppleStore you can swap water damaged iPhones! http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2009/05/04/report-water-damaged-iphone s-now-swappable/

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    Oh wow. That is a remarkable (but in a horrible sort of way) list. It took courage to blog about it, and to take a rather cute picture with a bag of frozen peas.
    The good news: tomorrow most certainly CAN’T be worse :-)

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    one word: HUGS…

    my worst day?humm…
    nothing compared to some other unfortunate people here, but, had a series of unhappy events a while back. took a padi diving licence course in honduras, while diving, I wasnt able to align the pressure, the right eardrum almost ruptured , failed medical test after that with a massive inflammation in my right ear, then hitchhiked with a sailboat headed for guatemala, which capsized in a heavy storm after a day of sailing, it landed on a remote beach, got picked up by the coastguard after two days waiting, then spent christmas eve on a bus between honduras and guatemala city. kindof crappy few days…
    such happens when you backpack around…

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    Sorry Lisa, but I never ever have bad days!
    Yepp… hard to accept for you I guess.
    Especially after all you went through.

    Well, anyway… I don’t need this case.
    And I wonder if would send it overseas.
    Tim from germany

    PS: No, I’m not sarcastic… never…
    okay… sometimes a little. But in a
    cute way, you know? Yepp YOU know!

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    So like, I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow in Barbados and I have to come into work today… that sorta sucks doesn’t it??

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    Worst day ever? I’m a music lover and I just found out that my favorite music site, Blip.FM may have to lock down to U.S. only users. I live in the U.S., but I have listeners that aren’t in the U.S.

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    So there’s the day when I woke up to my apartment building on fire which proceeded to destroy all of my personal possessions except for a pair of boxer shorts and a car (but it did destroy the keys to my car). No insurance so I pretty much lost everything.

    Then there’s the day when my daughter was born 3 months early at a whopping 1lb 12ozs and my wife almost died on the operating table. That was a little rough.

    Should I send you my address so you can send me the prize now :)

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    A while back I was on my way home from Toronto, taking TTC to the airport. While transferring from the southbound to the westbound subway line, I left my bag with my wallet on the train.

    My cell phone was also almost virtually dead (“I’m just going to the airport, getting on the plane and going home. Why bother charging it.”) and I was supposed to meet some friends at the airport because their dog was travelling back to Winnipeg with me.

    Long story short: turns out that rule about needing photo ID to get on a domestic flight in Canada is more of what you’d call a guideline :P

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    Also, really sorry you had such a crappy day!

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    What a day you had !!!!
    I think my worst day ever was when I started my day drinking my milk at breakfast and I found this weird insect in it,then I was going to school when I fell from the stairs :s it was so painful.
    My worst day continued when I found that I prepared the wrong exam :( . I was going to have a hard attack but thankfully I didn’t.
    I congratulate you for your photos and blog.
    Keep it up and take care :)

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    I’m a great believer in logical deduction to find lost items. Most likely, your keys were still on your person, perhaps stuffed deep in a pocket that you didn’t check well enough. I had that happen once, hunted for ages and finally found them in my jeans front pocket exactly where I thought I had put them, and where I had checked a half-dozen times.

    Either that or you put them on the roof of your car while you were inspecting the damage.

    Glad you’re making some lemonade from your crappy day.

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    As sad as your day was I am glad I got to read a Mostly Lisa post more than once this week. I guess I am just blessed, I haven’t had a day even close to that bad. I’ll keep my fingers crossed on the phones continued health!!

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    You’re right, we all agreed with you. That was the worst day ever.
    I hope tomorrow rocks. Seriously, you should buy a lottery ticket just in case. It can’t be any worse!

    Cheers,
    Dave

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    That’s one crappy day for sure. I hope you managed to find your key and would get the phone fixed. On the bright side, at least you didn’t drop your camera gear into the toilet. That’d REALLY suck!

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    Wow.

    That’s quite the day you’ve had.

    Nothing has ever happened to me like that. Ever. Hearing about your horrible day makes me think that I’ve never EVER had a terrible day in my life. I hope you never run into the same miserable set of unlucky circumstances.

    Hopefully someone with crappier luck than you – gets lucky and wins the case. Griffin stuff is cool.

    Happy Friday!

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    Wow. I thought I had bad days.

    Fortunately, you live in a city that has an Apple Store. I have never experienced such rapid exchanges as those they provide! Just make sure you have an appointment (http://concierge.apple.com/procare/store/R280).

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    Wow, that’s a pretty epic fail of a day. =(

    The $60 parking ticket at the end was the real facepalm moment I think. But maybe tomorrow you’ll be writing a post called “Bestdayever!”

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    Ok, this comment is going to get kind of long, so, beware…

    Well, there was the one day, several years ago, that I was plugging away working on a design assignment for class when all of a sudden the hard drive on my Powerbook started to make loud grinding sounds. So, I saved my work, and, not thinking, decided to try to restart my computer, thinking that that’s gotta fix the problem, right? Well, I restart, the grinding gets louder and my Powerbook refuses to boot into OS X. And not too long after that, the hard drive dies. With all my work on it.

    All of my projects from the past year.

    All of my writing from the past several years.

    All of my photos.

    All of the music I’d bought on iTunes.

    Everything. Kaput.

    So, I took it to the Apple Store since it was still under applecare to get a replacement hard drive. In the meantime, I asked if they could do data recovery so I could recover all the files and they said that they could try but no guarantee and it would cost like $50 or $100 or something. Then they mentioned going to data recover specialist nearby because they’d have a greater chance at recovering my data. So, I asked what the cost of that would be and they said several hundred dollars.

    So, I had to suck it up and get a new drive and not recover any data.

    I do regular backups nowadays.

    There’s also the bad day recently when I found out my co-op advisor at school completely forgot to fill out a form from several years ago for me that is now ensuring that I won’t graduate on time like I’d originally intended. That makes me want to punch small children in the stomach.

    And then many years ago, I got into a car accident in a parking lot. Police didn’t show because it was private property. Anyway, I had pulled out of my spot and was moving forward when some ancient, old woman in her Abrams tank of a Cadillac drives over the line separating the lanes and barrels into my car. Her car ends up with nary a scratch on it and I’m missing a headlight, my steering is all f-d up, and I’m shaken like crazy because I’d never been in a wreck before.

    Right after the wreck, the old woman is as sweet as can be, making sure I’m alright, exchanging car insurance details quickly and efficiently. Later, I get to the police station to report the wreck and that very same old woman is there. She had gotten there before me and is acting like a traumatized victim, calling me names, claiming it was all my fault, etc. After she leaves, I try to make my case but the police refuse to listen.

    In the end, the accident is seen as my fault and I have to pay for the old crone’s car AND my car. I’m still bitter about that to this day.

    So, there’s three bad days. I could go on. But I’ve already filled up so much space with my rants. I love a good bad day story and hope your days go much better after that one! I don’t know what I’d do if I’d dropped my iPhone like that. I think I’d lose it entirely!

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    On the airplane for 11 hours. on the 2nd hour a kid vomits and his dad was bringing him to the lavatory and a gush of vomit hit me. I was able to change my clothes but the carpet was smelling for the rest of the 9 hour trip. The plane was full, so no where to move to.

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    [...] Lisa needs a hug. While she is usually quite chipper and cheerful, she just experienced the worst day ever. She dropped her iPhone in the toilet, missed two important appointments, and lost her keys. Head [...]

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    I have heard that putting your iPhone in a bag of rice for a day will do wonders. Apparently AT&T gets this call all the time.

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    I fell asleep in the flame trench last shuttle launch day. I awoke to the sound of the fuse being lit. To protect myself, I put the fuse out by licking my index and thumb to pinched it out. I have third degree burns on said finger/thumb and NASA security didn’t care when they hand-cuffed me to lead me off-site. My paycheck is garnished until the launch delay cost is refunded (estimated May, 2032). My cell phone was left in the flame trenched and the blast made it ricochet around the flame trench to cause 50 sq ft area to be damaged: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=41240

    …my bad!

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    All this in one day??? You gotta be kidding!!!! That’s one of those days that you should never have left your bed :-) But let’s think this through, it can’t get any worse, so the following days must be better :-)

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    Hi,

    I grew up in Northern Ireland, and just after I learned to drive, I accidentally drove through a police check-point. (Camouflaged police man on a dark night…) This was during the Troubles in the middle of Belfast, and the security forces took a dim view of people who did that. Luckily the car behind me decided to follow. I spent the next week waiting for a knock on the door….. Worse week ever!

    William

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    justin Prather May 15th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    worst day ever = having your canon 30D, 70-200 2.8 vr, 17-85mm, flash, bag, laptop, accessories, my brand spankin new 15 inch mac book pro with all the upgrades, and a day worth of pictures were stolen within 1 hour of leaving the car locked. not to mention my hopes and dreams of shooting the rest of my 2 week trip which i was about 3 days into =(

    my homework was stolen though so i guess that was a plus

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    One day i was sitting on the couch driniking a beer. Then all of a sudden i had to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately the bathroom was smashed because a telephone pole fell on the house because of a ice storm and my mom said we all have to wait and just hold it till we go to the store next time.

    After a long wait my mom finally announced that we were all going to the pizza hut to use the bathroom and she said we might get pizza if we behaved.

    I peed in the car on the way to the pizza and then my cell phone blew up and caused radiation to everyone and my moms hair fell out which caused her to panic and smash head long into a water treatment plant (sewage) Then we all were splashing about in brown water that didnt smell like water and then. All of a sudden the power came back on and we were all sucked into that pipe that went to the big pool of sludge and then we all got swine flu and pig virus and west nile virus and SARS. But i lived. My my mom and my sister and my cousin died, may they rest in peace.

    Now i only have one arm and three legs. And a second ear has grown out of my ankle.

    Please send me anything

    thank you lisa

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    OMG, what are the odds of all that happening in one day!? Only bright side I can come up with is that the rest of this month should be great in comparison.. Heck, maybe the entire year. Just hope it’s not bad karma! Maybe you should start making a list of things you did wrong, and set them straight. That could wind up being some sort of comedy TV show, I guess. Anyhoo, all the best to you Lisa.

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    Sorry you had a bad day, but you should sell it as a movie/TV spot.

    Make millions.

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    Mine was so recent! My wife and kids left for California for 4 or 5 weeks to see a dying relative on Monday. My daughter is 2 months old so I’ll be missing her 3rd month of life. My son is almost 2, in fact I’ll miss his 2nd birthday. My birthday is in two weeks, I’ll be spending it home alone. We have no local family having moved 700 miles from the nearest relative so there’s little hope of doing anything with any loved ones. The glimmer of happiness came when I realized Father’s Day isn’t until June 21, so I won’t be alone that day too! Needless to say I’m depressed and I can’t hug my babies which is killing me slowly.

    I hope that is at least a contender because I am at an all time low!

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    @Ryan Katsanes: crap. that’s lame. can you at least video skype with them?? send them iHugs? you are definitely a contender.

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    @Marc: also if Apple products were so super light they’d float on water… or air… hmm..

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    @aaron — points for creativity :P

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    Yeah, actually we actually do use video chat via Skype, it’s a great way to keep in touch with family down in San Jose. Thanks! :)

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    @justin — F*ck me! that is the worst bunch of things to have stolen. how was it stolen?

    i am so petrified of having any of my gear stolen, that i keep it on me at all times. all times, like even times when i have to lug all 16 lbs of it around for ever.

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    I was drinking with some of my new friends, we were playing cards… That was the last thing remember cause after that im lying on my bed with black eye, some bruises.. And i dont remember where I got them…

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    My heart goes out to you. When life is unfair and I’m hit with the “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” I’m reminded of a quote from Winston Churchill who said, “If you’re going through hell…keep going.”

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    uhh… I was so nasty yesterday… sorry!

    Hug me…
    Gimme the case!
    PLEASE!

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    hey, bit slow on the uptake, saw your update on twitter but it has been a mad wek. :BIG HUG: I can completely understand how it feels when these things happen. We’ve all had our share. I once lost my HDD – just liked that, the entire thing, with all about two years of music collection, rare music, some of my own early music.

    Recently my desktop’s PSU blew up, that’s the second time in a row! Oh and during the finals of a competition, my dj setup failed because Traktor started cycling between all the screen sets. And the same thing happened during a guest performance! And i still haven’t figured how the config file(which does this) gets corrupt!

    The prize should go to someone else though, I can’t remember those staccato bad days i have had!

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    You have a Firefly from 1995 and the only thing that fell off was the side view mirror? That’s amazing!

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    Whoa, what a sympathy post. It’s crazy that fanboys will drop comments to win a ‘prize’/junk… ha

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    I’m so sorry you had such an awful day!! :( That seriously sucks. Muchos hugs. OOOOOOO

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    And I was complaining about my day….

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    @Mostly Lisa we were at a horse show in highesb meth rate area of the states and we parked and all of that stuff sept for the iPods and gps were in the trunk and I had to go ride and we cane back about an hour later and all my stuff along with the contents of like 4 other cars was gone! I spent the next like 10 horse sulking around muttering to myself “my pictures” over and over. It was deft one of the worst days of my life. To compete with it though was being trapped in vietnams worst typhoon/flodding and having to trek around no where (aka. Yen baí) Vietnam poking for a dry place to stay with my whole yEar of picures and the backup and all my gear. I didn’t care what happened to me but it was like GOD SAVE THE PHOTOS!!! And of course my mom who was there with me ;) LOL

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    Dude, that does sound like the worst day ever. Seriously. I can’t remember ever having a day THAT bad.

    Now didn’t that make you feel all better? :)

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    Really bad day, but next day will be better ;)

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    I had my own bad day yesterday.
    I had bought a Canon SX 110 IS in BestBuy almost a month ago. About a week ago, I was browsing the camera’s section in various sites, and I liked the Canon SX 10 IS. Then I freaked out because I learned the 14-days policy for exchanges, but I went to on BestBuy and they said can do it, so I went, a different person was in CS, and they didn’t want, and they sent me to the store I bought it originally. So I called them, and they said there was no problem, so I went, just to learn the camera had sold out. They told me there were some in stock in another store, I called them, and they said that because of the exchange policy they couldn’t do anything. I mean, I was mad at the end of the day because it seemed I could have exchanged it, and then nothing happened. This is in Canada. Nothing wrong with the 110, but I liked the size of the 10 and some other stuff, that the extra $100 worth it.

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    Sometimes I miss your old way of blogging funny stuff and videos. :o

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    In 2000 my then very young sister overwrote my Final Fantasy VIII save. All characters at Level 99, All Triple Triad cards, All Summons, Omega WEAPON defeated, over 100 hours of gameplay wiped out. I know its been nearly 10 years but it still hurts man.

    It still hurts…

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    @Bernardo: wow. scorpion. that sucks.

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    Oh God, now I feel really, really bad for laughing about you dropping your iPhone in the toilet. Please, when you are sufficiently recovered enough to laugh about this, let me know and I will recommence my chuckling.

    (If it’s any consolation, 80% of mobile phone warranty claims are for this reason.)

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    I remembered having a crap day on my trip around the world, so I went and looked for the post.. here you are. Extra points for being in a foreign country!

    This is the second time I write this, thanks to the crappy internet that is just proving this is a day from hell’s reckoning.

    The word “FUCK” was the first to escape my lips as i blinked into existance at 6:30am this morning. I was meant to be up at 5:00am to catch a 7:00am flight to singapore. I clearly slept through my alarm.

    Dishevelled, I hailed a taxi for the airport, and upon arrival was told I had to purchase a new ticket at the courteous price of 2600 BAHT. The flight would leave at noon, so i had 4 hours to kill in crappy bangkok airport, dying of hunger but unable to eat due to the meds that Franklin The Ulcer had me on. Hurrah.

    I got ready to go through security to find that Thailand charges you 500BAHT CASH for the pleasure of leaving their country. And NO, they dont take visa, and NO, the attendants dont speak a word of english, despite working in an international airport. And no, they arent helpful. I swear if i see another thai in uniform before I die it’ll be too soon.

    Onwards.
    I board the plane, and depression and starvation gets masked by exhaustion as I sleep through the whole flight, landing in Singapore at 4pm.
    I go through customs, nothing to declare… or so I thought. I have to exit into Singapore just to go back in to catch my Brisbane flight because they couldnt check me all the way through in Bangkok.

    But I digress: I have a friend in Vancouver who enjoys all sorts of knives and such weaponry as much as I do, and we often use birthdays and christmas as excuses to exchange that style of gift. Well, I purchased in bangkok something of the similar vain to give him for xmas (and no, I wont say what it is because I know he reads this blog, but hopefully you’ll like it or this will all have been in vain, Nat.)
    Anyways, before i know what’s going on, i’m bein asked to open my bag and then detained by a customs official who wants me to surrender the items in question.

    NOT A CHANCE. I paid for them, and i’m not actually STAYING in singapore (where they’re illegal it seems).
    So I try and explain to the nice man that i’m really only coming out to go back in. He finally gets it, but insists on ESCORTING me to the next terminal so I can check in, just in case i make a mad dash into singapore with my ohsofataltotheworld’s weapons. Good God.

    I swear this little man following me about would have had no chance in stoppin me if i had decided to run into singapore, unless he knew some sort of lethal martial art, because physically speaking, he’s quite.. ancient.
    Oh, and he’s also standing over my shoulder attempting to read this.. yes, close escort, that’s what we call it now.

    I get to my checkin, and they tell me “miss, do you have a visa for Oz?”

    Yes. Yes i do. I bought one back when i bought my round the world tickets in JUNE.
    I emailed STA TRAVEL several times to verify this, and have my new passport put in with it. And yet, NO VISA showed on her screen.

    “well miss, for 50dollars you can buy another one, or you can fly tomorrow”.

    FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK and more FUCK.

    I’m not buying another visa. So i am told there’s an internet point in MCDONALDS, and head there to email the idiot at STA TRAVEL who didnt process my visa on time.
    No internet at mcdonalds. I’m going to scream.
    their server is down.
    GREAT.

    Finally find a point, and i have a charming email from the idiot at STA TRAVEL asking me redundant questions that make it clear he hasnt processed my visa yet, and that he thinks i havent paid for it yet.
    I WANT TO KILL HIM.

    Now I’m waiting for his reply while writing this, knowing full well i need to actually go and call him and hold his hand through the whole process, for my sake as well as his because i’m on the brink of commiting murder.

    or suicide. whichever is easier.

    GET ME TO AUSTRALIA, i’m losing it

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    Wow. It looks like a movie.

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    you know what they say, once you are aware you’re having a bad day, you’ll begin to only focus on the really bad things that happen all through out the day, and kind of just expect things to keep going bad…

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    …so i guess i may have had bad days, and good ones.. these days i just expect nothing and blame myself for everything. bad things happen everyday, but its up to you to amplify, notice or ignore them..

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    My days are OK by and large. I always remember what Richard Pryor said about worst days-

    “The worst day of my life was the day my Daddy told me I wouldn’t even be here sep’n the rubber broke.”

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    How do you get whiplash running down the stairs?
    (hmm..I suppose if you have an escalator or stair lift thingy and it stopped suddenly…or a spiral staircase with tight turns.)

    How did you lose your car? Apartment keys I can see…but a whole car?

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