What's The Terible Horrible, Not So Good Bad Year You Ever Had?

[Katie]

Nah, it's a different size. No worse than scrolling through a post by some multi paragraph posts that Leo makes

[BubblyShell22]

His large font doesn't bother me, and if he needs it to help him post, then let him do it the way he sees fit. Not everyone has perfect vision.

I've had a lot of days like Alexander's in my life, though I don't keep track of them. I call them Murphy's Law Days: What Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong. I do remember the years 2001 and 2002 were bad because of 9/11, my classmate passing away of leukemia, and then another classmate passing away due to drowning after we graduated.

[XERO]

Besides 2008 when I first got diagnosed with my muscle condition, 2010 sucked pretty bad for me. One of my best friends committed suicide the same DAY my mom got arrested. Not only that, my sister's kids got taken by CPS that year.

Every year is a struggle, but it's those 2 that really still effect me to this day.

[John Pannozzi]

Okay, I'll come clean.

There hasn't been an entire year I've felt miserable throughout, thank God, but I've been through several rough patches.

2009 was a bit rough, since we had a flood in our basement, and my paternal grandmother and last licing grandparent passed away, though it didn't hit me that hard at the time, since I was started to get obsessed with Kevin Smith at the time, and also enjoyed TMNT's 25th anniversary.

In the summer of 2010, I found myself having a surprisingly intense emotional experience reading the Scott Pilgrim books in preparation for the movie, but I came out stronger at the end. There was also some sadness when a good childhood friend died.

In the summer of 2011, I had an intense debate on another message board that escalated into an argument over religion (I'm catholic, and the guy I was arguing with was an atheist), and I ended up feeling really bad and unsure.

During the end of 2011 through January of 2012, I fel into a really deep depression, mostly ruminating over the alleged Mayan end of the world stuff. I had nightmares, and tried a new medicine to help me, but it only made them more intense.

This year, I spent most of my time away from home at the College Internship Program in Lee, MA. I enjoyed the spring semester for the most part, but the summer semester was rough since there wasn't as much to do, and I caught a cold everyone got and felt really anxious and homesick. And once I got better, I scared myself by looking at some Creepypastas.

This August, I was back home, but started to feel some anxiety towards the end of the month, not having much to do.

And these past two months have been rather hard. I don't have a job yet, and I'm dealing with the fallout from several nasty breakups with former online acquaintances.

[snake]

Uh, I had the flu last year.

[Cure]

You're young, give it time.

[Leo656]

Around 2007 we had bedbugs for over a year, my father almost died and had to go into hospice, we lost the apartment due to a combination of those things and I was homeless for a brief spell, that kind of sucked.

Before that, I was homeless for most of 1997 while my parents were in and out of jail, going to school as much as I could in between crashing on people's couches for as long as they'd let me. Freshman year kind of sucked for me. Then my Mom OD'ed and died over the summer just as things were starting to stabilize.

I don't so much have entire years in which bad things happen, more like, every year has its own little stretch of horror-show. But those were two particularly rough patches.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I know what you mean, Leo. We've had several such rough stretches. One was in 2006, when a friend convinced us to move from our apartment into a house with him and his girlfriend (he later married her) and on the last day of moving, our cat somehow "jumped out" the window screen of the second-story apartment they had been in while we moved our furniture out of ours. We never found him, though I suspect the girlfriend had something to do with his disappearance, as the screen was torn and the frame was severely bent IN. A 10 lb cat couldn't do that.

Then after we'd been in the new house with them for several months with little complaint, she suddenly convinced him to kick us out, and only gave us three days to find a new place, after which she dragged all of our stuff out onto the porch and locked us out. Oddly enough, a few of my movies simply didn't make it out. This same girlfriend was one of our co-workers, and she tried to fire me one night after we got into an argument, even though she had neither the authority, nor the seniority to do so- we were both shift leaders, and even though SHE was the shift manager that night, I'd been there longer, and I told her that if she wanted to play it that way, I would just quit instead. I walked out right there. I got my job back two days later from the store owner. I even got paid for the time I'd been out as an apology. Our friend (who was also the general manager) also apologized, and told me she couldn't fire me anyway, since it had to go through him.

Unfortunately, the place we ended up moving into after that fiasco had bad plumbing, and the upstairs bathroom flooded one night, and we also had some electrical problems in the place. Overall, that entire time was a mess. Our other cat that we got while living with our friend ended up dying of feline infectious anemia when he was only about nine months old. It was horrible, because he had gotten very thin and stopped eating, so we took him to the vet, who did some expensive tests to find out what was wrong. He seemed to get better for a while with medication, but I came downstairs one morning to give him his medicine, and found him hiding under the sofa having a seizure. We had to put him down that day.

[CyberCubed]

Come to think of it, back when I was 19 or 20 I did crash my car onto the side of the road where the front mirrors broke. I wasn't hurt at all and nobody else was in the car but me, but the car was damaged from the front.

Its kind of funny actually. They always tell you when you get your license you're going to get into an accident when you're young. I only made it to 20 before I crashed up my first car (which was my father's car he lent to me) at the time.

It didn't really matter too much because it was an old car anyway (it was my parents from 1985!), but I just remembered that now,

[BubblyShell22]

Okay, but this thread isn't talking about just one accident. It's talking about things constantly going wrong on one day sort of like Alexander in the movie and the book.

[Jephael]

2008 was a pretty bad year for me. I won't get into too many details, but suffice it to say a lotta sh*t hit the fan... the worst being when my computer crashed in August and I lost all of my files. I almost went through that ordeal again a few years later when my replacement computer started going crazy, but fortunately I had the chance to back everything up via e-mail. Since then I've been keeping all my stuff copied and saved to a flash drive.