Please tell me your Valentines sucked!

MizzKattt

I have had one of the worse Valentines in the history of Valentines. A bad movie could be written with the sorry state I found myself in. It was one bad event after another. I kept telling myself it couldn't be real. Please read.

1. In the midst of rush hour traffic, a guy rammed into the rear of my car. No one was injured, but my car sustained damage.

2. I tried to have my car worked on, but with my type of car insurance, no one can fix my car until a representative of my insurance deems the car wrecked. So I had to wait for a representative to contact me which normally took 3-5 days.

3. Because I already had the day off of work, I thought I would renew my driver’s license which expires in May. After an hour and a half wait, I am called to the window. I told the girl I’m there to renew. She pulls up my file and says that my license has been suspended since 2000 for a speeding ticket I didn’t know I had!

4. She gives me a number to call. I hold on the phone for 40 minutes. When the lady answers the phone, she said that she sees I was in a wreck and that the mandatory punishment for driving under the suspension is jail time!

5. I ask what the quickest way to fix this mess is. She says I have to pay the ticket ($250) and then the $100 reinstatement fee for my license! She proceeded to give me yet another phone number to call because she couldn't help me.

6. No one answered that phone…..EVER. I’ll have to take yet another day off work to go to the court house because it is an all day event.

7. I figure getting the license fixed that day is a bust, so I try to renew my passport. Because my passport expired and I was born abroad, not only do I have to prove my citizenship, but my parent’s also! Even though I was born on a military base to two parents in the military that were at that base because they were stationed there by the very government demanding I prove my citizenship! Thanks to new security measures since 9/11.

8. Sooooo…. Determined not to waste my day, I decided to something productive and work on the pile of clothes next to my sewing machine. Two pants into it, my needle breaks!

9. THEN a really sweet guy called and asked if he could take me out to eat. I gladly accepted. Anything to salvage the day. We went to Hooters. In case you’re not sure what that is, it is a restaurant owned by men, to service men, marketed towards men. The girls dress in shorts where you can see all their child-bearing parts and tank tops where you can see all their child-feeding parts! The girls are actually made to flirt with the customers as part of the job training. http://www.hootersmagazine.com/ At least I was fed even if I had to sit with a half naked girl flirting with my date in order to do it.

10. Finally, I went home and went to bed. What else could I do? Valentines had beaten me. I had given up. One has to know when to surrender.

So please, please, PLEASE tell me you had a bad one too or that it was worse than mine. Misery loves company.

koneko

I don't really know why anyone cares about Valentines day. It's just another stupid money-making scheme.

That sounds like a pretty suck-ass day though.

woosaysdan

what can i say lifes a bitch!!! wheres this hooters place?

I am MAN

We dont want to hear about the lame American system!

RuggieBear

my Valentine sucked....after I gave her a big box of Chocolates:D

Shrimp

MizzKattt wrote:

Please tell me your Valentines sucked!

This can be interpeted in two ways darling.

One.. That the day of St. Valentines was terrible.

Or..

Two.. Need I say?

You'll need to think about this for a minute or more, remember you are American.

Skellington

MizzKattt wrote:

Hooters. In case you’re not sure what that is, it is a restaurant owned by men, to service men, marketed towards men. The girls dress in shorts where you can see all their child-bearing parts and tank tops where you can see all their child-feeding parts! The girls are actually made to flirt with the customers as part of the job training. http://www.hootersmagazine.com/ At least I was fed even if I had to sit with a half naked girl flirting with my date in order to do it..

do you work for hooters :rolleyes:

BaZmO*

MizzKattt wrote:

7. I figure getting the license fixed that day is a bust, so I try to renew my passport.

Ya big mad lunatic. You're having a really bad day up to this point and then decide to try and do something that on a good day is a right royal pain in the ar.se! You shoulda given up while you had the chance.

MizzKattt wrote:

9. THEN a really sweet guy called and asked if he could take me out to eat. I gladly accepted.

Did you actually know this guy? Or was he just some random guy?

MizzKattt wrote:

We went to Hooters

Who takes a girl to Hooters on a date? Especially on Valentine's Day? Very strange choice!

B.

irlirishkev

"Hooters"
Ha, just reminds me of Al Bundy...

"No Peg!!"

skywalker

irlirishkev wrote:

"Hooters"
Ha, just reminds me of Al Bundy...

"No Peg!!"

oh dear god. i was just about to post that exact thing.

"Hooters, Peg, Hooters"

MizzKattt

BaZmO* wrote:

Did you actually know this guy? Or was he just some random guy?Who takes a girl to Hooters on a date? Especially on Valentine's Day? Very strange choice!

I knew him. We work together. While computer geeks are super smart, when it comes to women they tend to not know squat!

PunK05 wrote:

do you work for hooters

No. Besides having to bare one's goodies for men to oogle over, one has to have a fairly low IQ. Otherwise, you'd realize you're working in the stripping industry without the pay.

Lump

Sounds like you've no-one to blame but yourself. Very unorganised.


John

solas

I had to do a few errands around town yesterday and while there everybody was doing the valentine rush, I don't know why people buy their partners teddy bears but I thought if my daughter was here she would want one, so I picked a really nice cute fluffy one up and to better it, it was marked half price. (was late valentines day) so I grabbed that and got her a card too..
Picked up a pizza, headed home out of the blistering cold, lit the fire and sat with happy teddy bear hugging kid, while munching munching pizza and watching shrek 2.
she's all loved out now.


male friend calls later with some choccies, after he's made the tea I send him on his way.

The Sweeper

Folks, general question - why are you being a pack of whinging bitches to the original poster just because she's american?

D!ve^Bomb!

yep.. stupid ****in americans, they killed me pappy!!

Doper Than U

Folks, general question - why are you being a pack of whinging bitches to the original poster just because she's american?

Wondering the same thing. Especially seeing as this is the same girl from South Carolina who had most of boards' male population fawning over her when she asked for advice on visiting Ireland. She also had a great sense of humour when every second poster criticised Bush and America... and now she has a bad day, and people are farkin' as**oles coz she's from the states... :rolleyes: Sounds about right for the Irish, now you know what we're really like MizzKatt, you still sure you want to come over?

MizzKattt

Doper Than U wrote:

Sounds about right for the Irish, now you know what we're really like MizzKatt, you still sure you want to come over?

I'm a firm believer of grabbing a bull by the horns and kicking him square in the balls! BRING IT!

StupidLikeAFox

hahaha

Dingatron

MizzKattt wrote:

I'm a firm believer of grabbing a bull by the horns and kicking him square in the balls! BRING IT!

Jesus you'd want to here! :rolleyes:

Bad day alright. For what it's worth my day wasn't that great either but reading your post makes it a mild day in comparison.

solas

I might have picked the story up wrong, but passing by the tabloids in the shop today caught the glimpse of a headline claiming some Americans were "attacked", think it was in newcastle west..not sure..if anyone can confirm.
"shouting racial abuse".."Americans think they run the world"..is all I remember.

/on topic...why do people buy their partners fluffy teddybears?

weemcd

Shrimp wrote:

This can be interpeted in two ways darling.

One.. That the day of St. Valentines was terrible.

Or..

Two.. Need I say?

You'll need to think about this for a minute or more, remember you are American.

no, and your retarded

FatherTed

I dunno, Mis Kat, what were you thinking when you agreed to go to Hooters? On Valentine's day? A few years ago I tricked my wife into going to Hooters, "for the wings" I told her. I never heard the end of it and needless to say we havent been back since.
I didnt know it was that difficult to reinstate the passport, but then again I guess you wont let it expire again, right?
Hope you have a better day tomorrow!

Doper Than U

This can be interpeted in two ways darling.

One.. That the day of St. Valentines was terrible.

Or..

Two.. Need I say?

You'll need to think about this for a minute or more, remember you are American.

OR.. you could interpret that post in two ways :

One.. that the poster has no sense of logic or reason...

or...

Two.. That the poster is a 17 y/o who thinks he knows it all, and therefore has to astound the world with his patronising and misplaced ideas, all the while trying to ruin just about every thread he posts in.

"darling" .. from a 17 y/o ... :rolleyes:

MizzKattt

FatherTed wrote:

I dunno, Mis Kat, what were you thinking when you agreed to go to Hooters? On Valentine's day? A few years ago I tricked my wife into going to Hooters, "for the wings" I told her. I never heard the end of it and needless to say we havent been back since.

I heard 'food.'
I heard 'fries.'
I heard 'wings.'
I heard 'no wait.'
I heard 'paid for.'
I'm not sure about 'the Hooters.' The word was probably lost in the sound of my lips smacking in anticipation.

FatherTed wrote:

I didnt know it was that difficult to reinstate the passport, but then again I guess you wont let it expire again, right?
Hope you have a better day tomorrow!

No expirations of any kind...EVER, ever again. Thanks.

Dr. Paco

Dr. Paco wears his flame-proof suit when posting on here and has an available e-thug personality at his disposal. I'm sure MizzKattt has invested in flame-proof thongs when posting here as well. Dr. Paco finds this thread to be absolutely hysterical though, especially with the lack of intellect in some responses to the original poster.

CuLT

The Rock says talking in third person is for losers.

Shrimp

weemcd wrote:

no, and your retarded

It's actually spelt you're; and you say I'm the retard.

Lemming

And I say in the third person .. no... oh wait .. that was meant to be "the lemming" right?

Oh bugger .....

solas

it's ok people, don't panic, they're only Americans, little fluffy Americans...just don't make any sudden movements..and..step..away...slow..ly..

Dr. Paco

CuLT wrote:

The Rock says talking in third person is for losers.

Dr. Paco says only the talented can talk in third person such as him. Either that or perhaps you do not understand the definition of the word "humor" when discussing messageboard e-personalities.

sceptre

MizzKattt wrote:

So please, please, PLEASE tell me you had a bad one too or that it was worse than mine. Misery loves company.

I went to work, came home, went to bed. Oh hang on that's wrong. I got up late, forgot to eat lunch, went to work in the afternoon and was still there two hours into the next day.

You on the other hand had a really crappy day. Sorry to hear about that.

billy the squid

got up, had to go to the bank because i hadnt to ha'pennies to rub together, Went to work where nothing happened. spent the entire shift reading the same bloody newspaper (even the sports page ffs) with no access to the internet until i got home.

CuLT

The Rock says this Jabroni doesn't know the meaning of the word "humour"!
The Rock says that this particular branch of hilarity went out of style with Crocodile Dundee.

So The Rock has just one question for this Jabroni-beatin, pie-eatin, trail-blazin, eyebrow-raisin, faster than a cheatah, stronger than a buck, hottest thing to hit Canada because the Maple Leafs suck losah!
Whatcu gonna do, when The Rock comes to lay his clichés upon you?!

<on topic>
My day was normal.
Though maybe my normal days suck, who knows!

seamus

CuLT, you're forgiven for the offtopicness cos you make me laugh. Stop it.

My enquiry is the same as MAJD's. Why the sudden assumption that if she's American, she's dumb, volatile or a raving fundamentalist?

My Valentines day was like any other Monday, except my phone call to the girlfriend involved the words "Happy Valentine's Day", and 200% more "I love you"'s.

Sounds like a **** day MizzKatt. I find it funny that your license can be suspended without any attempt to contact, summon or detain you. In this country, your license can't be suspended without court order (and certainly not for a poxy unpaid speeding fine). I've had a family member fall under the mercy of the crazy world of traffic law enforcement in the US (granted, he did make a severe violation), and for all our complaining, I'd take the Irish system over the US one any day.

Blub2k4

seamus wrote:

My enquiry is the same as MAJD's. Why the sudden assumption that if she's American, she's dumb, volatile or a raving fundamentalist?

Answering your own question, it's cos she's American FFS.

weemcd

Shrimp wrote:

It's actually spelt you're; and you say I'm the retard.

http://www.bustedtees.com/product.php?name=yourretarded

it must suck to be you

echomadman

Horay for pointless american bashing, you bandwagon asshats sure are witty, can i join in?
"durrrr america sux bush lol"
did i do that right?

morons

Lump

I assumed she was dumb, because, She'd Ignored a Driving Ticket, Managed to not have a valid Passport or apparently any legal documents showing where she's from.


John

WhiteWashMan

Lump wrote:

I assumed she was dumb, because, She'd Ignored a Driving Ticket, Managed to not have a valid Passport or apparently any legal documents showing where she's from.


John

you really are an awful cúnt, arent you.

MizzKattt

Lump wrote:

I assumed she was dumb, because, She'd Ignored a Driving Ticket, Managed to not have a valid Passport or apparently any legal documents showing where she's from.


John

John, I think I'm falling madly in love with you. You charmer, you! Is this how you get all the ladies?

JackKelly

Shrimp wrote:

It's actually spelt you're; and you say I'm the retard.

http://logo.cafepress.com/9/100982.220699.jpg

TacT

WhiteWashMan wrote:

you really are an awful cúnt, arent you.

he really is!

The Sweeper

MizzKatt wrote:

She pulls up my file and says that my license has been suspended since 2000 for a speeding ticket I didn’t know I had!

Lump wrote:

I assumed she was dumb, because, She'd Ignored a Driving Ticket,

So what, I should assume you're dumb because you apparently don't know how to read?

pickarooney

Hehe, "driving ticket".
Seriously though, how can they suspend your license without telling you?

Lump

I am dumb though, at least I'm not going to prison.

John

Kernel32

pickarooney wrote:

Hehe, "driving ticket".
Seriously though, how can they suspend your license without telling you?

I have heard of this sort of thing happening in the US before. A drivers license can be suspended here not just for driving offences but for other offences. One I heard of recently was for an unpaid dog license. A woman didn't pay her dog license, she then also moved house. The state law where I am is that a drivers license can be suspended . A letter was sent to her but it never reached her so she didn't know her license was suspended. She got in a car accident months later and thats when she found out. A license can also be suspended if a person does not pay child support that has been awarded by the courts. Sometimes it can be hard to track down the person so they don't always know.

I got my first US speeding ticket 6 weeks after I got my license, I was doing 85 in a 55 zone. They slapped me with a big fine and took my license for 3 months, it taught me a lesson I haven't forgotten.

MizzKattt

pickarooney wrote:

Hehe, "driving ticket".
Seriously though, how can they suspend your license without telling you?

The ticket itself is the notice of possible suspension if failue to pay occurs. Since I was unaware I had the ticket, I am assuming it is a clerical error, a data entry typo. Additionally, I never received a notification letter.

koneko

That's a really bad system. Suspending someone's licence is pretty serious, it's a shame they don't treat it that way.

Hope you get it sorted, sounds like it's going to be a massive headache though.

pickarooney

Have the 15th and 16th been any kinder to you so far?

MizzKattt

pickarooney wrote:

Have the 15th and 16th been any kinder to you so far?

Much, thank you. The 15th when I returned to work, my desk had flowers, candies, a card, and a stuffed pink snake. The guys I worked with decided to be my Valentines (my IT dept is mostly men). Today, the 16th, I'm spending in an Active Directory seminar, blissfully uneventful. And your post Valentines?

pickarooney

It's been alarmingly quiet. I'm suspicious.