Something surely unnerved you today, right? Something was unceremoniously plopped on your desk with an admonition to get it done "ASAP" and then you spilled coffee all over it and all of the vital stuff was smeared into oblivion. You stepped on a banana peel with one foot and a rollerskate with the other and fell pell-mell down a flight of stairs, your poor keppie bouncing on each step along the way. Acch. One thing led to another, a la the game "Mousetrap", and here you are, wondering why why why. Why today, of all days, does everything have to go so abysmally wrong!?
What is this? you've been asking yourself all day. Why does everything just suck???
Well, cheer up. You can just blame it all on Friday the 13th. Yes! Even I — someone who prides herself on being a rather sharp whippersnapper — just realized it!. You'd think I would have done so sooner, though — somewhere in between the big black safe falling on my head and the washing machine suds overflowing. (When brave safety monitor Bobby Brady magically appeared in his white undies, though, that was certainly a treat!) But no.
So tell me. What bad bad bad thing(s) happened to you today that you would sooner blame on the calendar and suspicion than on the whimsy of real life?
I promise I won't laugh. Remember? I'm the one who asked the ol' umbrella question back in May. OK? (For the so-called record, I inadvertently deleted the comments to that post a while ago. In case you care. Which you probably don't.)
fresh-baked at 03:45 PMYou know, I did see a big black safe in the middle of the sidewalk once. It was in Greenwich Village, and people were just walking around it like it was nothing special. Looked like it had just fallen out of a 5th story window. Do things like that happen often in New York City?
Offered by: Addlepated on September 14, 2002 7:29 PMFriday the 13th turned out to be the best day of my recovery. I received a refund check from my state taxes which was slightly more than expected. The Infectious Diseases doc discontinued my IVs which I was admininstering MYSELF every 6 hours round the clock. I also got my pick line (permanent IV insertion point) removed, by my favorite traveling nurse (the only one I trusted since I was scared and the line ran almost to my heart from my arm through a vein). Oh, and I go my first full night's sleep in about a month! It was the best Friday the 13th ever in my life.
...still grateful to be breathing in and out over here....
Offered by: Desert Mermaid on September 14, 2002 4:41 PMI had to go to a two-hour division-wide staff meeting. Damn I hate that.
Offered by: Eyre ni Rhuth on September 14, 2002 10:53 AMI got kicked in the head by a crowdsurfer. But that always happens.
Offered by: Dan the Goose on September 14, 2002 5:50 AMOh, Christ. First my best friend betrays me and sends me off to an island prison facility for thirteen years. Then I escape, but end up joining a group of Italian smugglers by engaging in knife combat with one of their men. Then I find out that my ex-fiancee is married to the very same man who had me incarcerated.
Or, rather, I watched The Count of Monte Cristo and fell asleep. But that's boring.
Offered by: Jess on September 14, 2002 2:04 AMOther than not feeling well and my son not feeling well.......it's been a fairly pleasant day. Of course, I've always had problems with Saturday the 14th.....
Offered by: Joan on September 13, 2002 10:54 PMHow right you are, Jodi! I was going about my usual Friday routine, finding small furry woodland creatures to sit on my shoulder and make me clothing while I talk to birds about my wicked stepladder, and wouldn't you know it...a rabid chipmunk appeared and ate my pants.
Damn you, Friday the 13th...Damn you.
Offered by: aaron on September 13, 2002 4:20 PM*grins* ...I don't know what could have come over me! Must be the 4:15 pm-Friday haze settling in my brain.
Offered by: revolution9 on September 13, 2002 4:13 PMRev9, I don't know what you're talking about! (Actually, I fixed it before reading your comment.)
Offered by: Jodi on September 13, 2002 3:52 PMLike, for example, forgetting to close your italics tag?
Mmm.. the only bad thing that's happened to me today is that I forgot to bring my lunch with me. Other than that, life's going mighty fine.
Offered by: revolution9 on September 13, 2002 3:48 PM
