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Posted by Slowplum
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8/13/2003 05:37:00 PM
Ok. What is worse:
- forgetting breakfast.
- forgetting lunch.
- working through lunch trying your best not to eat off your own hand from hunger.
- spending hours on the phone trying to explain to a customer that the reason why you haven't complied with their wishes is because they have failed to give you an integral part of the process.
- spending hours on hold when you had better things to do.
- leaving work early to go ship things only to arrive at shipping place and remember you forgot the things at work.
- returning to work, picking up things then catching hell for leaving early.
- finally shipping things, going outside to your car to discover you'd locked your keys in it.
- going back into shipping place to discover they cannot allow you to make an outside call, no matter what the urgency..
- walking in the (newly falling) rain to the 'convenience' store, using your last quarter on their payphone only getting an answering machine at home.
- going into the store and asking for change but nooo, you have to buy something first so you buy a damn carton of chocolate milk and go outside again.
- at least the rain stopped.
- but then you trip on a piece of loose sidewalk and fall ass over teakettle... onto the chocolate milk.
- blessedly, the chocolate milk doesn't burst but now you can feel that under your pants, you're scraped from ankle to hip.
- some people you work with observed the whole debacle and never helped.
- finally someone who works in the same building is there and offers you a ride home. you get the ride home but 1) the car stinks to high heaven and 2) they can't shut up about how great your father is.
- you get home to two kids fighting over some nonsense and then call a cab only to have the cab take 45 minutes to get to your house. It even passed your house THREE TIMES before remembering your address, regardless of the fact that you ran out and tried to flag them down.
- finally getting back to the shipping place with your other half's copy of the car keys, the cab splashes you with a puddle as it pulls out and as you go to your car, another car hits your person for no significant reason and then veers off.
- on the way home, a policeman stops you for "not coming to a complete stop" three stopsigns before, even though you did not repeat the transgression with each successive stop sign and they could clearly see you were upset.
- coming home finally, starving because oh yeah, you didn't eat all day, and finding there was no food made. fine. you have leftovers but now your stomach doesn't feel so hot.
- taking a bath, falling asleep in said bath and nearly drowning.
- getting into pajamas and then getting a call from your sister in law at the movie shop telling you oh yeah, the pokemon movies you rented for the kids are three days overdue.
- getting home, typing this, hitting submit and getting an error screen. three. fucking. times. and then when you hit back, realizing you lost everything you just typed.
- getting a phone call from your mother in the interim because she hasn't nagged you to the point where you feel three inches tall in some time.
Now. Picture all this happening on the same day. Like it did to me. Today.
- forgetting breakfast.
- forgetting lunch.
- working through lunch trying your best not to eat off your own hand from hunger.
- spending hours on the phone trying to explain to a customer that the reason why you haven't complied with their wishes is because they have failed to give you an integral part of the process.
- spending hours on hold when you had better things to do.
- leaving work early to go ship things only to arrive at shipping place and remember you forgot the things at work.
- returning to work, picking up things then catching hell for leaving early.
- finally shipping things, going outside to your car to discover you'd locked your keys in it.
- going back into shipping place to discover they cannot allow you to make an outside call, no matter what the urgency..
- walking in the (newly falling) rain to the 'convenience' store, using your last quarter on their payphone only getting an answering machine at home.
- going into the store and asking for change but nooo, you have to buy something first so you buy a damn carton of chocolate milk and go outside again.
- at least the rain stopped.
- but then you trip on a piece of loose sidewalk and fall ass over teakettle... onto the chocolate milk.
- blessedly, the chocolate milk doesn't burst but now you can feel that under your pants, you're scraped from ankle to hip.
- some people you work with observed the whole debacle and never helped.
- finally someone who works in the same building is there and offers you a ride home. you get the ride home but 1) the car stinks to high heaven and 2) they can't shut up about how great your father is.
- you get home to two kids fighting over some nonsense and then call a cab only to have the cab take 45 minutes to get to your house. It even passed your house THREE TIMES before remembering your address, regardless of the fact that you ran out and tried to flag them down.
- finally getting back to the shipping place with your other half's copy of the car keys, the cab splashes you with a puddle as it pulls out and as you go to your car, another car hits your person for no significant reason and then veers off.
- on the way home, a policeman stops you for "not coming to a complete stop" three stopsigns before, even though you did not repeat the transgression with each successive stop sign and they could clearly see you were upset.
- coming home finally, starving because oh yeah, you didn't eat all day, and finding there was no food made. fine. you have leftovers but now your stomach doesn't feel so hot.
- taking a bath, falling asleep in said bath and nearly drowning.
- getting into pajamas and then getting a call from your sister in law at the movie shop telling you oh yeah, the pokemon movies you rented for the kids are three days overdue.
- getting home, typing this, hitting submit and getting an error screen. three. fucking. times. and then when you hit back, realizing you lost everything you just typed.
- getting a phone call from your mother in the interim because she hasn't nagged you to the point where you feel three inches tall in some time.
Now. Picture all this happening on the same day. Like it did to me. Today.