You Know You Are Having a Bad Day When...

[RainyDay]

Your boss announces that he has resigned and his last day is about two weeks before another senior employee will be back from paternity leave. In a daze about the news, you leave a little late for your meeting only to find that the SF Muni Metro is not moving and the train operator doesn’t know why. You come up out of the subway and decide to walk down ffice:smarttags" />Market Street to BART. The streetcar on Market doesn’t wait for you so you catch up to a bus only to have the bus halted because a man jumped on the bus so he could beat his female companion. No buses are moving on the surface streets now because they are waiting for the police. You get to BART and find there is a fire down the line at Embarcadero Station and Muni Metro and BART are shut down. The meeting that you are leading, and includes staff people from multiple agencies from SF and the lace w:st="on">East Baylace>, is supposed to start in five minutes. It will take you 45 minutes to get there by bus. A very kind BART station agent allows you have to contact people at another BART Station to let them know you are stranded and can’t meet them. A meeting that has taken months to hold is postponed. You wonder if there is a full moon. Oy.

[Scott Dolan]

.....Rainyday shows up.

[RainyDay]

Originally Posted by RainyDay

Your boss announces that he has resigned and his last day is about two weeks before another senior employee will be back from paternity leave. In a daze about the news, you leave a little late for your meeting only to find that the SF Muni Metro is not moving and the train operator doesn’t know why. You come up out of the subway and decide to walk down ffice Market Street to BART. The streetcar on Market doesn’t wait for you so you catch up to a bus only to have the bus halted because a man jumped on the bus so he could beat his female companion. No buses are moving on the surface streets now because they are waiting for the police. You get to BART and find there is a fire down the line at Embarcadero Station and Muni Metro and BART are shut down. The meeting that you are leading, and includes staff people from multiple agencies from SF and the East Bay, is supposed to start in five minutes. It will take you 45 minutes to get there by bus. A very kind BART station agent allows you have to contact people at another BART Station to let them know you are stranded and can’t meet them. A meeting that has taken months to hold is postponed. You wonder if there is a full moon. Oy.

Might I add that you are also having a bad day when you start a post that is infected with mysterious gibberish and you can't open the edit function to fix it. So the corrected version is above.

[Chris D]

Chin up, rainy.

[jazzy mary]

I thought rainey's post was fine. I appreciate someone sharing the aspects of day to day life. I guess I can't get too upset that the 6 train wasn't running today (even though I found out after I spent the 2 bucks to get into the subway--and then they had no way to put that $2.00 back on my card --fwiw, I HATE the NYC subway system) and then had to take a cab to my doctor's appt. and the cabby didn't have change so I had to opt for giving him no tip or else a much too big tip to work it with his change situation--guess what I did--yes, I'm such a soft-ee.

Today sucks for me, too.

[steve(thelil)]

Just another day in Paradise for me.

[Surfer]

Originally Posted by RainyDay

Your boss announces that he has resigned and his last day is about two weeks before another senior employee will be back from paternity leave. In a daze about the news, you leave a little late for your meeting only to find that the SF Muni Metro is not moving and the train operator doesn’t know why. You come up out of the subway and decide to walk down ffice:smarttags" />Market Street to BART. The streetcar on Market doesn’t wait for you so you catch up to a bus only to have the bus halted because a man jumped on the bus so he could beat his female companion. No buses are moving on the surface streets now because they are waiting for the police. You get to BART and find there is a fire down the line at Embarcadero Station and Muni Metro and BART are shut down. The meeting that you are leading, and includes staff people from multiple agencies from SF and the lace w:st="on">East Baylace>, is supposed to start in five minutes. It will take you 45 minutes to get there by bus. A very kind BART station agent allows you have to contact people at another BART Station to let them know you are stranded and can’t meet them. A meeting that has taken months to hold is postponed. You wonder if there is a full moon. Oy.

You oughta go see the pictures at SFMOMA from the 1906 earthquake.

THAT was a bad day.










I swore that at the exhibit some of the pictures I was looking at had to be of Hiroshima or Dresden.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by RainyDay

You come up out of the subway and decide to walk down ffice:smarttags" />Market Street to BART. . . .

The meeting that you are leading, and includes staff people from multiple agencies from SF and the lace w:st="on">East Baylace>, is supposed to start in five minutes.

Very impressive mysterious gibberish (and very impressive morning)!

Waxing moon; five more days until the full moon.

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by Surfdude

You oughta go see the pictures at SFMOMA from the 1906 earthquake.

THAT was a bad day.

Goddamn!!

Outstanding photos!

[john williams]

Dem 'Office Smart Tags' can really fuck you up!

[Hot Ptah]

You are at an elementary school roller skating party at an indoor rink which plays contemporary hits at ear splitting volume; all table and chair surfaces are sticky and have an undefinable odd smell; the carpet is a mixture of bright purples, oranges and chartreuse; great billows of smokey fog envelop the entire facility at odd moments (meant to be "cool"); you buy a burned, nearly undrinkable cup of lousy coffee at the snack bar and can tell that the coffee maker was last cleaned in the Carter Administration; as you sip on this coffee, thinking that at least your headache may be cleared away somewhat by a caffeine buzz, an unkempt man emerges from the back room--he has obviously not bathed in some time and can barely speak coherently. He bellows at you that you must throw away the entire cup of coffee because beverages are not allowed in the facility while the children are skating, about fifty feet from where you are standing. He hovers over you with his peculiar stench until you throw away the coffee.

[kedoane]

Those 1906 photos remind me of the bad day that me and my family were having on October 17, 1989 (that is the date of the Loma Prieta earthquake). We were thankful that our house didn't fall down, but my mom had lost her good china and other antiques that were in the china cabinet.

[John P. Cooper]

....when a friend takes you out to dinner, buys you a steak dinner and 2 drinks and dessert and you still dont feel any better than you did before, even though you saw a nice waitress that you used to go out with who was working at the restuarant.

I hate full moons.

I think I will go to bed.......

[Mike Schwartz]

fixed

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

Just another day in Paradise for me and my gerbil.

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[Noj]

I've been going to night school to gain some digital art skills, and had been working on a computer image for many hours. It was a very labor intensive assigment, the previous 6 weeks' worth of classes had built up to it. I had the assignment complete when suddenly the computer which had performed like a champ for years just up and died. No resurrecting it, files only backed up on cdr about half way. Class in less than 48 hours. Rush home the next day after work, determined to fix the computer and re-build the assignment. As luck would have it, in my haste driving home I failed to see a motorcycle cop hiding between parked cars and picked up a nice speeding ticket. I'm almost never in a hurry and tend to drive within the speed limit most of the time. When it rains it pours.