My apologies to those who find this thread worthless, and doubly so if it's happened already. I did a search but couldn't find one.
My bad day started yesterday, where after 4 hours of work I had a further 6+ hours of classes ending at 10:30 p.m. There was a paper due, and I finished writing it with plenty of time.
Then bad things began. My printer busted itself. There's plenty of black ink left but it will only print in faded tones. That and the full color cartridge does not print. So, two new cartridges on the "need" list, and even then the printer may not work, as it is aging.
So, I leave for my last class 20 minutes early so I can get to a computer center and print. Lo, when I arrive, my teacher is already there, sitting next to the only open computer. I say "Hey, look what my printer did. I'm going to print it out here instead." He then watches as my floppy disk is unable to be read by the computer. "Just e-mail it to me," he says. Fine. I realize I should have mailed it to myself on yahoo or gmail as an attachment and printed it that way, since I've never had good fortunes with floppys.
We watch an awful biographical movie about Voltaire, (an awesome guy) that had unceasing, loud, twangy harpsichord music that repeated every 45 seconds. Headache.
The 3 hour class takes a 10 minute break. I go back down to the computer center to try a different computer. Success! It reads my floppy disk perfectly. I give it the once over and hit print.
As I was doing this, a man I didn't pay attention to came out of the other section of the computer lab. "Just be sure to turn off the computers when you're done guys," he says to the three of us still there. I forget about this completely.
2 minutes later, I hit print and go to collect my paper. Only...where did it print from? There is a pay copier in the room, but it's not on the print network.
"Excuse me, but can you print from these computers?" I ask one of the remaining patrons." "Yeah sure. It comes out in that room over there."
"The one that guy just locked a few minutes ago?"
"Yeah." "Well, shit." Not a big deal, just unbelievably frustrating. A tech class upstairs is letting out, so I ask the teacher if I can quickly print something from one of those computers. She says "Go ahead." Finally...except...Word is not fully installed on any of these computers. The product code has not been typed in, and thus Word is Inaccessible. 1 and a half hours of class to go.
I leave my jacket in class and have to go back. Been outbid on the games I wanted. Dad's passed out on the couch so I'm stuck in my room. I go to sleep.
My speeding ticket court date is on Monday. I have to call the lawyer.
Next morning, I'm late for work already. (The dream I was late for is the best part of my last 24 hours.) When I turn on the car, there's a loud buzzing noise that continues for about a minute and a half, then a click, and the ABS light goes on in the window. Great. Restart twice. Buzzing stops, light stays on. Fantastic.
Forget my lunch.
I get to work and notice I brought my cordless phone with me. So it will be dead for most of the night. I turned it on just for laughs.
Work sucks, and a lot of people are out doing a CPR class in another room, and I'm doing shit work that isn't supposed to be mine.
I went to lunch, and lost five minutes staring emptily into my driver's side window. I don't know why. I don't remember thinking anything. It's raining.
Not a very exciting bad day. There were probably some other bad things I've forgotten.
Okay, vented. If you guys want to vent, put it in here. Or recall some of your worse bad days from before.
