May You Live in Interesting Times....

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The title of this thread is actually an old Chinese curse. Although the first actual verified appearance wasn't until 1950, let us assume that this is an ancient Chinese curse.

And one that we Aspies seem to suffer from many times.

This thread, in the Haven, is basically about our frustrations of the day, not big ones that overwhelm us, but rather a combination of smaller annoying incidents that'd seem humourous to others. This is both a humourous thread as well as a ranting thread about 'what f***ed up your day'. Try and pick stories that are relatively amusing, but true 'bad day' threads.

I was inspired by today's 'bad day', which started to go wrong about 10:15am. I had a strange attack of something.... a something that sort of made an after-image in my right eye, which lasted for a few minutes. Then, at 11 am, I found that my car battery, despite being only about a year old, had conked out due to occasionally and accidentally leaving the lights on for a few minutes. I had to get the local repair service to check it out, and so they jump-started it. I would have to get it charged up at a local workshop, so I drove down to said workshop, which is one situated on a fairly bad road.

Leaving it there, I walked about town for about an hour before realising that I could either make the day a total write-off, or just a write-off for my chores, and thus walked to the uni (a journey of nearly an hour). I then went to deal with some errands, and had a bit of a panic when I found (or thought so) that I wasn't going to be able to do DNA work tomorrow (to practice my skills).

That mess was sorted out, but the clincher came when I got home, and my mum was trying a cord-powered hedge-trimmer that my dad lent us. Unfortunately, hedge trimmers aren't a good thing to have on an extension cord, and while nearly finished, she cut the cord, plunging the house into darkness (and cutting me off from WP, ha ha).

Still, after all that, I suppose that I have to laugh. After all, the guy who did the battery charging, whom I've done services with before (my family has), let me have it for free (but it was only $10, so what the hell). And my mum is still alive. (Thank god for safety switches, though the extension cord, being sliced nearly through, is totalled)

Cars are nasty necessities sometimes!

I've been sort of annoyed that I can't figure out how someone in particular feels about me.

To make it worse, I think he may have said he loved me, but I hung up the phone straight away. This is the second time this has happened to me (the I love you on the phone - but a different guy...years ago) and it's annoyed the hell out of me, because you can't exactly ring back and say...oh, excuse me, did you say you loved me???

Worse than that, if he's taken this step,
it makes it harder for him to make it again.

You may have to be the first to say it, if you
feel it. Otherwise, well, you probably did just
the right thing anyhow, and shouldn't worry
about it.

Me the first to say it...??

As Robot would say..."that does not compute!"....or maybe "DANGER, DANGER, DANGER!! !"

Yep, he will never say it again though...so I will have to chew this suggestion over for a while. It may be time for me to bite the bullet....(or having me wish I could take a bullet if it doesn't work out!!)

Yeah, I know. But if it works, it's worth it.
And if it doesn't, depending on how long
it's been, it's probably not destined anyhow.

For me, that time span seems to be a couple
of weeks, but I'm usually living with someone
(at least effectively) by then.