general Share a day that just went badly...

[Midnight Blaze 98 1,138]

Ok, even the most organised of us just have days that just go terribly sometimes! I guess I should start off...

Hmmm...

Ok, almost a year ago now, my mum had to take my sisters to school about half an hour before I needed to leave. (I think one of them had choir practice or something like that). My mum told me to remember to lock the house behind me when I left and that my lunchbox was in the fridge and all that stuff!

Half an hour later I left for school. In second period we got the results back from a biology test we had had a few weeks ago, and I got a pretty bad result. (70%- sorry, I know lots of people would be really happy with that; it's just that I usually get 80s and 90s on my tests and exams.) 

Then I realised I had forgotten to lock the house behind me, which wouldn't usually matter as I had left through the back garden, but it could have mattered today as the house inspectors were coming.

Then at break I realised I had left my purse on my desk at home so I couldn't buy a snack, which again wouldn't have mattered, only I had only had an apple for breakfast and by this time I was beginning to feel a bit faint, which wasn't great as I had a Latin vocab test next period.

Luckily I was able to borrow some money from my friend and buy a snack. Then I had my vocab test, which I had spent an hour the previous day revising for, and I felt confident that I had got full marks (I later found out that I had!) 

I thought my day was getting better after this, and things went ok for me until the end of school. I went to History Club (I'm a nerd! ) and then I waited in the foyer for quarter of an hour before I needed to cycle a mile to my harp lesson. 

My harp lesson went fine, but then when I started cycling the two miles back home, it started pelting with rain. By this time it was dark, and since the day had started off quite sunny, I hadn't brought a rain coat or an umbrella. By then I was just trying to get home as fast as possible, but I got a series of red lights on the road. The rain got worse, and just as I thought I couldn't get any wetter, a bus drove past spraying me with dirty water.

By the time I got home I was soaked, and so was all my harp music. Luckily my school bag was waterproof. I changed in to dry clothes, ate supper and then fought a losing battle with my mum to try and persuade her to let me turn on the heater in my room to get my uniform dry for the next day.

I went up to my room to start doing my homework. By this time it was 8:00pm and I had at least three hours of homework, most of which was due the next day. 

I opened my school bag and realised I'd left my pencil case in my locker.

Well, that's pretty much it! I did my homework with a biro and showed up to school the next day in a damp blazer, which wasn't great.

 I'm normally as organised as Twilight Sparkle, but I guess we all have our lesson zero moments!

 

[Kronos the Revenant 1,971]

Just two days ago, here's how my day went:

I went to work from 10PM till 2AM

I got back home and slept until 2 in the FREAKING AFTERNOON

My class was supposed to start at 10 in the MORNING

I tried heading to school as fast as possible so that I don't get dropped from class.

I got pulled over by the cops.

Got my very first traffic ticket.

Now my parents won't even talk to me anymore.

[Messy Mane 9,032]

2 weeks ago and a few days back

my Girlfriend broke up with me

-that  was enough to ruin my whole day.

 

[Jedishy 3,548]

Well, I think one of my worst days was a day at the range on my ship.

 

First I was stuck in the third last group to shoot meaning I had a full day of work, unlike the rest that got to go home after their shoot was over. ( well not technically but as the shoot lasts all day and no one knows when you got done.....) 

 

Then when I was picked to go stand watch on a part of the beach that needed to be blocked the other guy had disappeared and I made the mistake of thinking I needed to be on the other side of the beach... which lead to me trying to cross it and finding out in a bad way why we blocked it off. In short, the idjit went to the bathroom and I almost got shot by rounds skipping the berms of the range and across the beach when I went to look for him. After that, I was the last one to get the bagged chow that they had for us and got a dry pb&j sammich instead of a freaking meat and cheese that I wanted. 

But mostly it was almost getting shot that sucked. 

[Envy 6,169]

Hm... I guess this counts, although obviously it could have gone worse:

At my previous university I did not live near campus, I lived more than an hour away. This particular day, everything had worked together where all of my classes were canceled that day... Except for one, we had a late evening band rehearsal scheduled for that day. (Band also made me come to campus the ONLY other day I would not have had classes. Seriously.)

So, you can imagine my mood. Especially considering the other day that I would have had off had already occurred, so I was even more like "Really?". Anyway, during the band rehearsal I had been warned that there were some pretty bad storms forming. Not being very smart at the time... Or actually, no, I didn't have a phone with an easily viewable radar at the time. I decided to traverse all of the way across campus to the bus station in wait for the bus to take me back to my home town. I also had a friend with me. About halfway there, there was a sudden downpour of rain. I feel more bad for my friend than I do for myself, she wasn't with me because she had to go to the bus, she was just there because she wanted to see me. Thankfully for me, it being so late, I left my bassoon in the studio and thus it was not with me when this happened. However, the rain was so bad that it did soak through my backpack and none of my books could be sold back. (after making this post, I'm now wondering why the heck I had all of those books with me if I didn't have those classes... Strange.)

Soaking wet, the fun wasn't to end there. The bus ride went all fine, but when I got back to the city to get picked up by my dad, the line of storms had turned really bad, with tornado warnings. However, the radar showed the tornado warning wayyyy to the South of our house and the trajectory was East, if not South East. So we decided to head home. My mom, at home, told us no. She's overtly cautious. We decided to come home, knowing that the storm would practically have to teleport to be in our way.

It kind of did. Or something. Thankfully, the end result was kind of anticlimatic, but it most certainly did not feel like it at the time. A few miles north of home, the atmosphere turned very eerie. I can't really describe it - it was pitch black outside, yet visually there was still something very off in the tint. The wind really started to pick up, and I remember watching the rain drops moving in all kinds of directions as we were driving through it.

Thankfully, if there was a tornado out of that, it was either incredibly weak or we passed by it, but not through it. Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened. By the time we were closer to home, the atmosphere changed back to "normal". We weren't even home, but it was like a massive sigh of relief. lol

So that was quite a day. >.< and all for band. Yay.

[FluffyGoat13 375]

A lot of my bad days are bad because of things that were already happening either:

• getting worse.
• stop happening.
• overlap.
• or I just end up overloading on a particular day.

The story I'm going to tell you is of that last category, but rather than being a day, it's a week (incidentally, it's not my worst week either, that one would send me off into a rant).

So, I was in year 11 (15 years old), it was the beginning of a rather cold February, and most my teachers were rather unhelpfully mounting more and more pressure on me over my GCSE's (exams in the UK, that consequently are easier than teachers think, and less significant than they'd have you believe), but I was okay, I could handle it.

Enter The Week.

So the week started off bad. All three of my science teachers (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) informed me that I'll be needing to stay after school for the next few weeks to finish some coursework on time, but that's okay, it's ~15 days to allocate between each subject, not too hard. Then I got told I'd have to do the same for computer science, 15/4 is messy but doable, so it's fine. Then I got told the same for history; I would be doing 3 days per coursework. Every one of those 5 abominations accounted for ~20% of my final grade; that could kick a an A down to a C. This wasn't fine any more. Could this get worse? Yes. Remember when I said "rather cold February"? I was doing a classic bit of British understatement. See after every after school session (that my teachers all claimed were voluntary (LIES)) I would have to wait outside in the cold to get picked up by my mum at 5:00 PM, in the dark, in a freezing February. Well, obviously a solution to that would be wear a coat, and you'd be correct, except that school would disagree with you. It didn't allow coats as it considered them as not a part of the school uniform. Yeah, great.

Skip to the Thursday of The Week. 

So the mounting stress of having to fit 5 pieces of coursework into 15, 2 hour, "voluntary" after school sessions, and then standing in the cold fro 5-20 minutes (depending on traffic) was getting to me. See, on top of having to do those abominations after school, I'd also have to go home, eat my dinner, and then do homework. Now, bear in mind that I was 15 years old, you could probably guess at why that was stressing me out.

That Thursday would set it all off.

See, my Chemistry teacher seemed to hate me. I don't know why, but he only ever had something negative or condescending to say to me. This after school session would be the first chemistry one I would turn up to. What does he greet me with when I arrive? "Oh so you finally decided to turn up?". He then proceeded to ignore me trying to explain that i was doing this for four other subjects. Yeah, what a #%@$. I then proceeded to work my ass off for the rest of those 2 hours. At the end my teacher walked up to me, looked at my work and just said "You're going to have to do more than that if you want to get an acceptable grade.". I was very tempted to smash his face in with the lab stool I was sat on in that moment, but I didn't. So I go outside to wait for my mum to pick me up. It's -2 Celsius. That's too cold to be standing in without a coat. Then the wind picks up. Now it's cold and extremely windy. That breaks me. It takes 18 minutes for my mum to arrive. By that time all the muscles in my body have seized up and it really hurts, but I manage to waddle into the car, and my mum smiles a bit and says "I'll make you some hot chocolate when we get home". I don't say anything, because I can't say anything. I defrost just as we get home and all I can say to my mum is "I won't go to school tomorrow." and then waddle out the car, into the house, into my room and huddle near the radiator. She brings me a mug of hot chocolate and gets me to tell her this story.

I didn't go to school the next day. My dad also terrified the Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher, and my Chemistry teacher that next day too.

My Chemistry teacher didn't complain about me ever again, and coats were unbanned. A bit too late.

 

 

(I did finish my coursework in the end too). 

Edited August 26, 2017 by FluffyGoat13
Grammar.

[Midnight Blaze 98 1,138]

I just wanted to share this, which isn't really a day that went badly, more an embarrassing moment. 

I'm an alter server at church, and during the offertory hymn it's my job to bring the Holy Water and wine to the priest. I took the wine up and went back for the water, but there was a huge spider floating in the jug! I wasn't really sure what I should do here, and the priest was giving me Hurry Up looks, so I brought the water up to him and tried to signal that there was a large spider in the jug. He did notice, thankfully, but I think he assumed I hadn't. He told me to go and tip the jug out in to the sink in the sacristy and re-fill it. (From the sink) I did that, and by the time I did the hymn had finished and the congregation was waiting for the mass to carry on, which it couldn't without the water. 

I'm guessing/hoping the priest blessed the water before using it, since it definitely didn't come from the barrel at the back of the church labelled Holy Water!

I guess I should be glad that the two younger servers I'm meant to be training weren't there- I think that would have counted as setting a bad example!

But in my defence, it wasn't my fault that there was a spider in the Holy Water! 

[StormBlaze 992]

too many to recall, but yesterday counts...geez 

Was promised to go to Exeter (city nearby) for Sushi, have been waiting all week for it and then Denz has issues with his jaw again, which means he cant open his mouth very wide to eat solids. =( so sushi is off the cards. 

Then whilst play fighting, he accidentally kicks my leg too hard, it really hurt. 

Whilst washing up lunch, i cut my thumb on our new metal spatula. For one tiny cut there was a huge amount of blood and I just could not stop it bleeding, so i had to cover my thumb.... my right hand thumb.

My cut thumb then leads to problems with drawing. Its awkward and unnatural to draw on paper, and took ages to get used to not using my thumb to hold my tablet pen. Whilst trying to adapt to drawing this way on my tablet, my PC has a major lag and connection issue resulting me in being unable to draw for a few hours - I needed this only spare time I had to do commission work. Also made me forget to stream (I stream every 2 weeks on sundays). 

Whilst waiting for the oven to warm up, we left the bacon grease soaked foil in the oven from lunch, so had to deal with that crap -_- 

Decided to put a film on that I loved from years ago, but it turned out very disappointing. I don't remember being bored by it before =( 

Then I forget to order a top for a gig this week, so had to sit through my PC updating, then had issues with paying for the top. ARGH. 

So a day of lots of little awful things =/ SIGH!