Thusfar, my only day off this week has been awful. First thing I had to do this morning was go to the bank, seems simple enough, its a Thursday so they won't be too busy. Well I get there and they're closed! They closed up for 2 hrs! A note on the door said they would be back at 12:00. My other stops for the day were dependant upon this one so it pushed my entire day back. So I go waste some time playing xbox at the gf's house until 12:00. When I get to the bank I'm waiting behind this little old lady for over 10 minutes. ( I know 10 minutes isnt a real lengthy amount of time but when I'm already running behind on my own schedule and I'm standing there, it seems like an eternity). Finally get that taken care of so I can now stop by the sherriff's office to pay my ccdw fee's and get a mug shot. You'll never guess... They're closed! There's a note on the door saying they are closed daily from 12:00-12:30. I understand ppl need a lunch, but does everyone in the office need to take lunch at the same damn time? So I sit in the courthouse lobby for another 10 minutes. Time wasting.
Finally I hear them unlock the door so I go in and get that taken care of. Well now I'm off to my mother's house to change a fog light bulb in the mach and check up on the place. I get there (10 miles out of town) and guess what I forgot to pick up at the auto store in my rush to catch up with the day. MY FREAKIN FOG LIGHT BULB! So I hurry up and check my lights out to make sure I get the right one and that I only need one, and I'm on my way. Little did I know that I grabbed the 1 good bulb as a reference when I ment to get the bad one. I get to the store purchase my bulb and wouldn't you know it, I tell the salesman to just throw away the old bulb, not realizing until I get back to my mother's house that was the other one I needed... So now I'm back to needing a bulb
It is now almost 3:00 I am not driving back to town just for another bulb. Im done trying to get anything else done. I'm just gonna wash the car and jeep and hope next week my day will be better and more productive

 

there will always be days like this to deal with...tomorrow is a new day...dont sweat the small stuff.

 

Walk outside and kick some random guy in the *****. That should make you feel better... at least it works for me!

And in addition to what Zig said: George Carlin once said "Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things!"

 

man that sucks lol.

 

It's like a Monday reincarnated in a Thursday....trippy. Sorry about the touch luck, man. Seems like it follows you (didn't you severe your thumb a while back?).

 

No, not me

 

Well you might try adding severing a limb to your list of things to do today. That way you can almost guarantee yourself that tomorrow is going to be better because you will have hit rock-bottom today.
...just a thought.

 

lol, I'll pass on that one

 

Sorry you are having a bad day, we all have them. On the other hand LOL at this being considered a bad day. Try having your wife lose her job when she shows up to work after maternity leave while having $5,000 worth of monthly bills that used to be a piece of cake to deal with, but now you can't cover them because of the lost job, which begins the process of losing your home. Now that is a shitty day!

Sorry, I didn't mean to take away from your post with my boohoooo story, just putting things in perspective of what a bad day really is.

I think my new name on this site should be "buzzkill". ha ha ha

 

Love George Carlin! Sorry, man! I hate days like that. I have had way too many and I am sure there are many more to come! You don't even want to know about my honeymoon. It should have been straight out of a National Lampoon movie.

 

Seriously? You wasted my time with this? Thats hardley a bad day. Try getting only 2 hours of sleep in 24 hours, while having to go outside the base to escort some people around the hot *** desert (granted it was only kuwait, could have been A LOT worse lol). Now THATS a semi decently, not a great day. Yours was like an average day.

 

Im with GDP

Dude, those are just minor inconveniences.

I remember living with crippling gut pains for about 9 months after my 30th birthday.

and then there was the whole "my boy was born with a bad heart valve and needs open heart surgery at 3 months of age" chestnut. That was a hellish 3 months.

Maybe GDP can relate to this, once back in the AF when i was stationed in Japan i was flagged with SP Augmentee duty during Wartime Exercises. Long story short i had to guard "XRay-4" which was a chunk of concrete in 100+ degree weather at the end of the flightline.

My radio died about 5-6 hours into the shift right around the time they started a Mop level 4 / Alarm Black so i was in full chem warefare garb for the last 18 hours. With the heat, sweat, and constant standing the bottom of my feet detached in a giant blister from standing for that long in the heat (if you get caught sitting you have to go to attrition and suck gasmask for 8 hours and get written up)and i lost 10lbs and had major dehydration.

Turns out the only reason they found me was they were missing an M-16 with 120 rounds of ammunition, they finally found the M-16 checkout slip behind the armorys desk and saw my name on it and frantically tried to remember where they stationed me because they never wrote it down. lol.

it was nice of them to give me the rest of the exwercise off for the week, but i couldnt walk anywhere.

there is a shitty day
lol....

A day like yours is just par for the course.

 

Your day was a wonderful day compared to the shittiest day of my life that happened to me and my family almost 2 years ago. Every other 'bad day' I've had since then pales in comparison to it. I won't post it, though, because I think it's stupid to try to top someone else's bad day story, even though I could put probably damn near everyone on here to shame. I always try to remember that no matter how bad I think I have it, there is always someone who has it worse.

We can all rant, though. Nothing wrong with that.

As long as no one I love or care about dies or is hurt in any way, as long as I have a roof over my head, food to eat, and my job, I am good to go.

 

Shuddup Darsh!

lol....

 

Being a nurse helps keep your perspective. When I have one of those crappy days, I usually get a patient that can't even wipe their own *** and can still laugh and make jokes. Keeps me from wallowing too long in the pity pool.

 

A guy I know who is in his 70's had lymphoma and was in horrible shape. Every time he'd call my work and I'd answer the phone, he always asked me how I was doing and I always said I was doing wonderful, even if I wasn't. How could I complain about feeling like **** because of a cold when this poor man was going through chemo and possibly the fight of his life? That would be like complaining that your feet hurt when you're sitting next to a man with no legs. Even though he was sick, he always told me jokes all the time. He made it and now has a clean bill of health, aside from the normal things that come with aging.

He called today, asked me how I was doing, and I told him I was fine. He said some more things and we got on a different subject. One of the things that really made me laugh was when he said, 'Val, I'll tell you what... you tell Matt (this guy I work with) that if he loses any more weight, his *** will look like two aspirins hanging on a string!' That **** is funny.

 

I appologize to make such an inconvenience. Yes, I understand that when looking at the big picture my day was a breeze. It was a cake walk compared to many days EVERYONE goes through. I was simply venting from a day where nothing was going as planned. I never compared these events to anyone elses, and wont disrupt anyone with my rubish again. I think my "perspective" is just fine.

 

Don't go gettin all butt hurt!! I think if you reread the replies we all agree that bad days happen and venting is good. No one called your post rubish or an inconvience or any thing of the sort. Just some posts about our bad days and how we manage to deal with them.

So pull your panties out of your *** and take some midol!

 

 

Haha that was not even my worst day, not even a really "bad" day.

I think THE worst day thus far was when I almost died from sepsis. That was pretty bad.

 

I don't even want to share my bad day, bad weeks, bad honeymoon stories.......

 

yer cool dude i was just bustin yer *****!

I know what you mean on yer day though, its like life just cant get the **** out of your way and it is frustrating as all hell