Having a rough day?

*Kameko* · 06-30-2003, 05:31 PM

Having a rough day? Maybe this will make you feel a little better. This is a summary of how my day went today. Be glad I didn't include the last two days as well...

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Some days it just doesn't pay to gnaw through the leather straps and get outta bed.

I woke up this morning fully planning to get at least three of my final four assignments for my summer course done and out of the way. Well, they were harder than I had anticipated, and I just barely managed to get two of them done -- one a week late, the other just in time. I have another that's now late that has yet to be completed, and a fourth that for some bizarre reason isn't due until AFTER the final. Go figure.

Then I had a couple of ladies come into the antique shop this afternoon (which I run for my Mom, as well as live in the back of). They were nice enough, but they had a little boy with them, and they let him wander around unattended. In an ANTIQUE store. With BREAKABLES.

It was bad enough that he had to touch everything that he got anywhere near, and thus upset several displays in the process (without so much as a 'don't touch' or 'be careful' from his guardians). But a while later, after running to the library to turn in the aforementioned assignments (and btw, the librarians forgot about me for a good ten minutes before they remembered that I needed them to scan my disk so I could use it...), I was walking through the store and discovered that the kid had ripped the two big tassels off a really nice little (recently re-upholstered) chair.

And he didn't rip them off in such a way where they could just be sewed back on, oh NO. Of COURSE not. He ripped the loop (the part of the tassel that connects to the chair) clean off one of them. I'm currently debating whether or not a hot glue gun will do me much good this time.

Wait, there's more.

I have to take my final exam for my summer course on either Wednesday or Thursday. Which means a 1&1/2 to 2 hour drive, largely in CITY traffic. But that's not the bad part. I've only just begun learning to drive in city traffic (read: largely congested, with unbelievably bad roads). In fact, this will only be my third real experience in city driving. But that's still not the bad part. No, I can handle the traffic.

The real problem didn't come to light until I got back in my car this evening, to make the fifteen minute drive to the other local library (which stays open till 8pm on Mondays). Such a wonderful thing to happen to someone who won't have much spare money for about three more weeks...

...the car's air-conditioner gave out.

06-30-2003, 05:31 PM	#1
Kameko Sister to the TMNT Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Posts: 2,756	Having a rough day? Having a rough day? Maybe this will make you feel a little better. This is a summary of how my day went today. Be glad I didn't include the last two days as well... ------------------------------------------------- Some days it just doesn't pay to gnaw through the leather straps and get outta bed. I woke up this morning fully planning to get at least three of my final four assignments for my summer course done and out of the way. Well, they were harder than I had anticipated, and I just barely managed to get two of them done -- one a week late, the other just in time. I have another that's now late that has yet to be completed, and a fourth that for some bizarre reason isn't due until AFTER the final. Go figure. Then I had a couple of ladies come into the antique shop this afternoon (which I run for my Mom, as well as live in the back of). They were nice enough, but they had a little boy with them, and they let him wander around unattended. In an ANTIQUE store. With BREAKABLES. It was bad enough that he had to touch everything that he got anywhere near, and thus upset several displays in the process (without so much as a 'don't touch' or 'be careful' from his guardians). But a while later, after running to the library to turn in the aforementioned assignments (and btw, the librarians forgot about me for a good ten minutes before they remembered that I needed them to scan my disk so I could use it...), I was walking through the store and discovered that the kid had ripped the two big tassels off a really nice little (recently re-upholstered) chair. And he didn't rip them off in such a way where they could just be sewed back on, oh NO. Of COURSE not. He ripped the loop (the part of the tassel that connects to the chair) clean off one of them. I'm currently debating whether or not a hot glue gun will do me much good this time. Wait, there's more. I have to take my final exam for my summer course on either Wednesday or Thursday. Which means a 1&1/2 to 2 hour drive, largely in CITY traffic. But that's not the bad part. I've only just begun learning to drive in city traffic (read: largely congested, with unbelievably bad roads). In fact, this will only be my third real experience in city driving. But that's still not the bad part. No, I can handle the traffic. The real problem didn't come to light until I got back in my car this evening, to make the fifteen minute drive to the other local library (which stays open till 8pm on Mondays). Such a wonderful thing to happen to someone who won't have much spare money for about three more weeks... ...the car's air-conditioner gave out.