What has been your worst start to a day?

Q_Ball

Hey all,

What has been the worst start of a day for you? This happened to me this morning and has me in a right pisser of a mood.

Took the train this morning from clonsilla to connolly. Not a regular commuter by any means, I might take the train maybe three times a year. Anyway, I remembered the last time I was in connolly I saw a 'No Ticket? Pay here' booth, thinking that it was a great idea where people who were arriving late and hopped on a train could pay their fare at the destination instead. After all, a train is not like a bus where you can jump on and then pay the driver.

But no. (and this might be blindingly obvious to some but it wasn't to me)

This 'No Ticket? Pay here' booth dispenses €50 fines. I understand that irish rail would want to catch people who actively dodge fares but i feel its unfair on those who may have turned up late, genuinely made a mistake (thinking you could pay at the destination) and are honest enough to admit they have no ticket and are looking to pay. And I'm not the only one either, as there were 5 people behind me looking to do the same thing.

I'm not a fare dodger, I wouldn't have gotten on the train except that the last time I was in connolly I saw the booth and thought that you could pay your fare there, since it said 'Pay here' on the banner above it. I dont take the train regularly enough to be aware of the timetables since 99.9% of the time I drive into town.

Should have got the poxy bus.

Anyone top that?

unklerosco

Waking up n finding ur cars been nicked or broken into.. thats happened to me a few times. Then having to cycle to work in the rain. Then cause ur late for work u gotta work later.

Most of my days start bad as they generally start at 3.30am...

Q_Ball

There's a 3.30am?

Havent had the misfortune of having a car nicked or broken into (yet). Probably because I dont car! Must lock up the bike better tho come to think about it

AlmightyCushion

unklerosco wrote:

Most of my days start bad as they generally start at 3.30am...

That's when most of mine end. Worst start to a day is probably the one where you were out the night before and got really drunk. Wake up the next day in a room you don't recognise beside some troll.:( Not good.

Pighead

AlmightyCushion wrote:

That's when most of mine end. Worst start to a day is probably the one where you were out the night before and got really drunk. Wake up the next day in a room you don't recognise beside some troll.:( Not good.

Pigheads seen your Bebo pictures buddy. You should count yourself lucky that you wake up beside anybody at all. Alcohol is your friend.

ShowUsYourXbox

Pighead doesn't have a bebo page because he has no real life friends to add.

AlmightyCushion

Pighead wrote:

Pigheads seen your Bebo pictures buddy. You should count yourself lucky that you wake up beside anybody at all. Alcohol is your friend.

I get my fair share that's all I'm gonna say :cool:

P.S I have a massive cóck by the way

Pighead

ShowUsYourXbox wrote:

Pighead doesn't have a bebo page because he has no real life friends to add.

Pighead refuses to enter into debate regarding friendships with somebody whos username is ShowUsYourXbox.

LundiMardi

The morning the exhaust fell off my car was pretty ****ty:mad:

Nevyn

Waking up becasue your sick offspring has come into tell you they are ill and does so by vomiting on you.

ShowUsYourXbox

Pighead wrote:

Pighead refuses to enter into debate regarding friendships with somebody whos username is ShowUsYourXbox.

I think the fact that you post your comments in a semi retarded fashion in order to try make a name for yourself on an internet forum won this debate before it ever began.

admiralofthefleet

a few years ago i had to go to a meeting with the directors of roches stores in sandyford, i left my house without an umbrella as it wasnt raining but it started raining like it was the end of the world while i was waiting for the 114 and i was wearing only a suit, when i got there i was literally soaking to the skin, the embarrasment was horrible and made infinitely worse when i walked into the board room and had about 20 people stare at me like i was a vagrant

beans

Using hydrogen peroxide as contact lens solution, with a hangover

ouch...

blondie999

My worst start to a day only happened to me this morning. As I was leaving for work I was closing the front door and not looking where I was going managed to fall off the step, smacked down on the ground, tore all my hand and knee open, destroyed my work clothes from the wet ground with all the rain this morning & got muck all over my face, twas the luck of god I didn't break my specs!!. Then I couldn't find any plasters for my hand and had nothing suitable to change into from my wet clothes. All this and I was already running late for work. What a f***ing morning. Roll on 5.00pm!!!

LundiMardi

hahahah..... that's actually hilarious! Had you never left your house before? Did that step magically appear over night?

cold_filter

Twas the morning off my last leaving cert exam, many years ago, i jumped out of bed and jumped down a few stairs at a time, jumped on the last one, my brother had been doing some DIY work in the hall.... landed on a 6 inch nail..

The pain was unbearable but the image of a nail sticking through my foot mad me laugh.

blondie999

I saw the step alrite but accidents happen and it was one hell of a dumb accident. If it was on film I'd have surely won £150 on You've been framed or summit!!

kaalgat

Woke up this morning due to one heck of a downpour outside. Running for the car to go to work and realising I left the driver window of my car open all night!!!

Saint_Mel

Worst start I had was heading for an interview a few years ago.
Got the 16 bus from Drumcondra to town but it broke down on Dorset St.
For some reason the driver wouldn't open the doors to let me off and after
5-10 minutes of explaining that I had to get to an interview, he eventually
let me off and told me to go fcuk myself.

Hopped on another 16 or 16A ... which duly broke down just before
O'Connell St. Driver let me out straight away so I decided to leg it from
there through town. Interview was near Stephens Green.

Got there, bucketing sweat and explained what had happened so they
decided to let me do the written test first and give me time to compose
myself for the rest of the interview.

They gave me the exam sheet and a pen and left me in the room to answer
the questions. I read through the paper two or three times and it seemed
Ok ... went to answer the questions and the flippen pen didnt work!

Went out to see about another pen but they had locked the door so there
I was, looking out the little window of the door trying to get anybodies
attention to get working pen.

Got the job in the end but it was a panic from start to finish!

seamus

Cycling into work one morning, spontaneously decided to use my face on the ground as a brake. Needed five stitches.

Can't say I remember a worse start to any day.

LundiMardi

seamus wrote:

Can't say I remember a worse start to any day.

9/11?









I'm going to hell

Archeron

Strangely, for me the answer is the same as the "weird places you;ve woken up" thread from a while ago.

One morning while on holidays I woke up with an absolute killer hangover in one of those big industrial wheelie bins in Killarney. The lid was closed, and it was really dark. The smell was absolutely horrible, a kind of fishy, rotten meat kind of smell. The bin was about half full of rubbish and the feel of that underneath was really gross. To top it all off, what woke me was the noise and sensation as the bin man was actually dragging the bin over the truck to be emptied and that is a horrible sensation to wake to as I had no idea where I was. I suppose in hindsight I was quite lucky to have woken up and avoided a smelly squashy end. Still had to throw out a good shirt and jeans though. :mad:

AlmightyCushion

Sorry if it's a bit off topic but here we go. The worst end to a day I had was when I first moved into drumchondra (only about a month a go). I was on the train from Sligo to Dublin and because it was a bank holiday Monday it didn't stop in Drumchondra (why?:mad:). So got to connelly station and bought a ticket for the dart to drumchondra (pissed that I had just passed by the bloody station. I went through the ticket validation thing and made my way to the platform.
I realised that there wasn't any trains heading to Maynooth so I asked one of the guys who stands at the ticket vaidation thing when the next train to Drumchondra was. He informed me that the trains didn't go to Drumchondra on a bank holiday Monday (why?:mad:).
Got a refund for my ticket and made my way to O' Connell St and to get the bus. Hopped on the 16 or 16A (can't remember) and popped in my earphones and sat contently lookin out the window just glad I would soon be able to collapse on my bed.
But in my haste to get the bus I didn't realise that I had gotten the bus on the wrong side of the road . It took me about 5 or 6 stops to realise this . I hopped off that bus with no idea where the fúck I was and waited for the next bus to O' Connell St. When I eventually got there I got a taxi straight to my front door (I wasn't taking any chances with the bus again ). It cost me about €8 but it was the best €8 I ever spent. Got in the door, went up to my room, dumped my stuff on the ground and just passed out on the bed.

Duggy747

Going to work in Lidl one morning at 6:00 a.m. It was raining away so I buckled up and headed out. I lit the last fag I had and made my way to work but before I could take more than 2 puffs a freak rain drop the size of my head landed between the butt and the fag just as I was taking a puff causing it to break in 2. Bollox!

So I go to the only ATM (big town and only one ATM, grrr!) on my way thats on the opposite side of town looking to pull out money for food and fags when I'm greeted with "Out of Order". Bollox!

Starts pissing even harder. Bollox!

Get to work where it's just me and the manager cuz everybody's "sick" so I have to do the work of 3 people all morning while the manager struggles to find someone. Bollox!

I'm supposed to finish at 3 but still the manager can't find many people to come in and work so I'm forced to work till 6. Bollox!

The same day it was my friend's birthday so I was looking forward to relax with some drink in the pub but because of work as soon as I came home I passed out and didn't wake up until 11.15 p.m. Bollox!

Needless to say I downed tons of shots and vodka to catch up and I was merrily pissed within the hour of arriving. Bolloxed!

Sangre

When I woke up in a hospital bed with 2 broken legs and was told by the doctors that the car we were in had crashed and killed my dad.

LundiMardi

Sangre wrote:

When I woke up in a hospital bed with 2 broken legs and was told by the doctors that the car we were in had crashed and killed my dad.

touché

Ruu_Old

Stuck in London Heathrow as the traffic control computers went down across Europe a few years ago and not knowing if my flight was going ahead or not. One of the busiest flight days ever!

lemansky

beans wrote:

Using hydrogen peroxide as contact lens solution, with a hangover

ouch...

Yikes....

Mine was waking up,hearing noise outside,turning the light on and then opening the curtains.There were people breaking into the car but they ran when they saw the curtains parting.They had already smashed the windows though.If I had just been a little quicker or if I had gotten a good look at them.
That annoyed me.

Dr. Seuss

Pighead wrote:

Pighead refuses to enter into debate regarding friendships with somebody whos username is ShowUsYourXbox.

Are you typing everything in the 3rd person? It's pretty lame if you're trying to be a gimmick poster! Aren't gimmick posters usually on nerdy gaming/roleplay forums, where people pretend to be a 'cool' character/gimmick?

pclancy

Its his thing, you get used to it after a while...

2001, was driving to an expensive compaq server course my boss had sent me on and stopped to get petrol. As I got back into my car somehow i sat down awkwardly and ripped the entire arse out of my suit trousers. Worst thing was it 8:55 and the course started at 9, no time to get new pants! Had to go through the day with my jacket tied around my waist proclaiming how warm it was even though it was freezing, wet april and we went out for lunch in dun laoghire! I had missed the previous course and no way it could skip this one! eep.

Don1

Woke up the other day and thought for a few seconds I had gone blind!! Scary as hell.
I had gone back up to the flat in Dubland to go drinking. I had not been in the flat for days so when I woke up I had forgotten where I was and assumed I was in my normal bed at home. During the night I had ended up with my face really close to the wall so when I woke up and opened my left eye a crack all I could see was this uniform dull greyish colour. My brain started trying to work it out but wasn't running to fast. I opened my right eye and it was the same. Then I freaked out.
Normally if I wake up on my right side there are posters and stuff opposite me.
It was only when I rolled over in a panicked state and saw the rest of the room that I realised what had happened.

AlmightyCushion

pclancy wrote:

Its his thing, you get used to it after a while...

2001, was driving an expensive compaq server /quote]
I had to read your comment twice as this is what I seen the first time

Dr. Seuss

pclancy wrote:

Its his thing, you get used to it after a while...

"It's his thing" isn't a reason. I asked WHY is it his thing! Is he 12? Is he just a lame kid with a gimmick?

Vokes

Chill.

Pighead is virtually part of the furniture now on boards.

Sangre wrote:

When I woke up in a hospital bed with 2 broken legs and was told by the doctors that the car we were in had crashed and killed my dad.

Damn, that is a pretty bad start to the day.

Dr. Seuss

SofaKing wrote:

Chill.

Pighead is virtually part of the furniture now on boards.

Ah, I see. So it's okay to be a lame gimmick poster if you've been doing it for ages? Nice logic there.

I beat up prostitutes - but it's okay; I've been doing it for years now. I'm virtually part of the furniture on Harcourt Street.

bonkey

Dr. Seuss wrote:

"It's his thing" isn't a reason.

Yes. It is. Just cause you don't like it doesn't make it not be a reason.

Is he just a lame kid with a gimmick?

Why do you care? Why do you think the why of it is important?

Is getting annoyed at other people's idiosyncracies your thing?

I thought Dr. Seuss was an author of kids books, not a psychoanalyst.

Pighead's third-personhood is a bit like a red wine-stain on expsneisve, light-coloured carpet. It bugs the crap out of you at first, but over time it fades into the background and becomes part of the scenery until you no longer notice it.

As for my worst start to a day...probably the the day after a party where I woke up and thought "excellent, no hangover". Then I moved my head, and the worst hangover I've ever had exploded throughout the entirety of my skull.

Y'know those hangovers? Hurt too much to move...too much to go back to sleep....to much to wince with the pain.

God do I not miss those hangoverrs.

SligoBrewer

i broke a pair of 300 euro sunglasses.. that wern't mine..lol..

sturgo

LundiMardi wrote:

9/11?









I'm going to hell

how about 9/11 X 100?

that's definately a lot worse.

intheknow

Finding my brother dead in the porch 3 years ago..Not nice.

MooseJam

easy, the day I woke up beside Yore Ma !

pclancy

^^^ Probably in the worst taste considering the post above it and probably the single least funny post ive ever read on boards. Anyone else really sick of the "yore ma" thing?

Bah, bed beckons.

AlmightyCushion

pclancy wrote:

^^^ Probably in the worst taste considering the post above it and probably the single least funny post ive ever read on boards. Anyone else really sick of the "yore ma" thing?

Bah, bed beckons.

I know yore ma is Yeah it gets kind of irritating after a while and theres rarely a situation when it's funny.