If you are having a bad day I can top it.

[DonRedwood]

I just thought I would share my morning with you. I figure my morning started out pretty rotten and I wanted to compare.

If you had a worse morning than me (as judged by....i guess me) I will donate a star to you. (um....just in case I get bombarded.... if there are more than one people with horrible mornings, only the very worst morning wins)

So....

My back sorta hurts so I slept in. No, that is not the bad part. While I was snuggling up to the pillow the dog jumped up on the bed. 70 lbs of giant moose, basically. Stomp stomp stomp. She flopped next to me, licked my face and fell asleep. It was really sweet. That was the good part. Then the 14 pound cat jumped up and snuggle up between my legs. That was fine too (his nails are clipped...no threat of horribly-placed biscuits--the men reading this will know exactly what I mean).

My honey headed downstairs and found our other cat curled up by the front door waiting to go out BUT my honey thought it would be really cute if all the pets were sleeping with me. He came in with the cat and said, "I have an orange cat for you". I pulled up the blanket and snuggle snuggle snuggle he crawled down my chest under the blankets to curl up.. The orange cat is exceptionally cute. But not very cuddly. And sorta wet. And... well, the reason he was sitting by the door hoping to go out because he was about to have a bout of explosive cat diarrhea. (sp).

And that's how I started my morning. How about you?

[MADem]

1. How AWFUL! A good snooze ruined!

We're not supposed to donate stars anymore, though I don't know if the admins are checking it too closely. That's part of the new functionality of the place. Of course, that was before the "pay what you want" paradigm and the check/money order reinstatement, so who knows?

[DonRedwood]

12. UH OH>>>no sharing stars any more....OK....$5 to the Obama campaign instead

We were going to send in a contribution--I will add five bucks to it in honor of the person who wins worst morning.

Does that work for everybody?

[Voice for Peace]

28. it's a lovely idea and works for us, if it works for you, in honor of yourself

[ZombieHorde]

2. I had some really painful heartburn, but I took some medicine and it went away

after about 45 minutes.

[DonRedwood]

13. perhaps some brains you ate didn't sit well

[Mojorabbit]

31. Ok, I laughed out loud for real at that one! nt

[Lifelong Protester]

3. Ok, tops my "cleaned the oven, cleaned some paint brushes...

paid bills, washed the collection of Depression glass" morning.


In other words, YOU WIN.

[DonRedwood]

9. I will put some dahlias in my teal Swirl Pattern vase

in your honor.

:0) (what do you collect?)

[Lifelong Protester]

15. Love Dahlias! Never had the courage to plant any.

I have a lot of different patterns, block optic being one of my favorites.

[DonRedwood]

19. I've been having great luck with mine. I planted them with a bunch of compost

and they are gigantic.

I used to have quite a collection--mostly now I just have 40s stuff. A set of ruby red and forest green square, Moroccan Amethyst, some cool ring pattern pieces though. :0)

[aikoaiko]

4. You win!

[2pooped2pop]

5. how kind of you to share

Thank you for taking the time to make your very bad day brighten mine. lol good visual writing, bad visuals.

[DonRedwood]

10. a much better visual than that poor kid on the bus...i saw that headline and yelped out loud

poor kid

[2pooped2pop]

14. I wish you hadn't brought that one up.

[demwing]

6. I'm sorry for you! But I had a great start to my day...

which also involved sleeping in, and then lead to the reading of a really funny (but sad...so very sad...) story about cats and diarrhea.

Hope your day gets better.

[DonRedwood]

11. thank you thank you thank you for this picture

absolutely hilarious

[demwing]

16. NP - but I *was* lucky to find it!

you'd be surprised at the near total LACK of interesting, inappropriate, Internet images that come up when you Google the words "cat diarrhea"

[DonRedwood]

29. I am honored that you took time to search cat diarrhea for me!

Very kind of you in a sick, sick way.

[warrior1]

7. I almost ran over a dog

because the owner, who was on a bike was letting the dog run loose. I was coming off the freeway and was making a right turn a bam there they were. I did curse pretty loud to myself and would have been devastated if I had hit the pup. It would be something I would never be able to get over.

[kestrel91316]

8. I'm not sure how I could ever top that.

[Decoy of Fenris]

17. Well, here's my go.

I don't normally post, but I had a bad enough day that I sort of kind of want to brag about it.


I was woken up this morning, swung my legs out of bed, and stood up, not knowing that my feet were firmly planted on our cat. The cat took off out the door, and as I am chasing him to apologize to him, he darts back in at cat-speed, tripping me up and taking my legs out from under me. I promptly faceplant into the doorjam, opening a gash on my lower lip. Revenge, it seems, is a dish best served hot and fuzzy.

Today, though, I had to bring my roommate to work, so we hop in the car and get on the Thruway. Still nursing my lip-wound, I accidentally take the wrong entrance, and begin a 30-mile trek in the opposite direction, seeing as that was the only point that I could get off the thruway and turn around. By the time I turn around, I have only twenty minutes to make a half-hour drive to get my roommate to work on time, so I burn hot on the way to his work. I still managed to get there with ten minutes to spare, but at the toll-booth, the motorcyclist ahead of me insisted on paying his toll with a credit card, not understanding that that just doesn't work. Seeing as I'm already in the tollbooth lane, and I can't get around, I offer to pay his toll, whereupon he kindly thanks me and we both go on our way. Five minutes until my roommate is late to work.

I pull into the normal driveway to drop him off, bypassing the normal system of busses that employees have to take to get into the establishment, only to find that that roadway has been closed off for reasons that I still don't understand. So I turn around, drive the quarter mile around the building through heavy traffic to drop him off, 2 minutes before he would have been late.

I return home without incident, pull into my driveway, and just as I put the car in park, the car sputters and dies: The ad-hoc roadtrip in the opposite direction had left me without gas, and the car had run out at the last moment. But at least I'm in my driveway.

I get up to the apartment, flop down, and check my phone. My roommate had frantically called me three or four times while I was gone, and my work (The same place of employment as my roommate) had called me, but didn't leave a message. I call work, and the scheduling office answers with a rather disruntled "You not coming in to work today?". I had forgotten, in my haste to get my roommate to work, that I also had work that day.


I get into work a full hour late, driving my fiancee's car (mine was still out of gas...) and am pulled into the Shift Manager's office. Without fanfare, he explains that if I am late, or miss a day, I should be fired. I none-too-calmly explained how my day had gone, and how, if I had known I had to work, I could have simply hopped out of my car when I was dropping my roommate off, and been to work on time.

The only, ONLY saving grace to my day was that I wasn't fired. I live to work another day.



I'm not in this for a star or a competition, I just thought it was such an astoundingly BAD day that I might post it here.

[DonRedwood]

20. Oh man Fenris.... that was a baaad start to the day!!

It reminds me years ago getting hauled in the boss's office for being late. "If you're late one more time you're fired". The next day I left extra early...and as I neared the bridge across the river, "ding ding ding" ...it was the end of Rose Festival and the WHOLE Nayv Fleet is starting to leave and the draw bridge is starting to go up. I cursed and flipped a U-turn...I veered and swerved through traffic to the next bridge. Ding ding ding....so on to the next bridge. I was almost across when "ding ding ding" and up it went.

I sat there fuming as the clock hit 8. The bridge didn't go down for half an hour.

I didn't get fired though. Everyone who lived on my side of the river was also half an hour late and all my boss did was raise his eyebrow at me.

[undeterred]

18. My dog killed a squirrel and ate half of it

this afternoon at the dog park. Usually he just kills it and I take it away and throw it away.

Today he decided to munch on it. So besides the death, there's the sound of bones crunching and the sight of a bloody body.

You don't need to hear more.

I'm a vegetarian. I don't understand this behavior but I accept it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. He's a dog

What more do you need to understand?

[DonRedwood]

22. We have a winner....but it isn't you. It's the squirrel!

Poor squirrel!

[Voice for Peace]

30. if you donate to Obama in the squirrel's memory, because clearly nobody has had a worse day than the

squirrel, the Republicans will infer that Obama plans to save squirrels instead of people, and give them free reign over private property, and outlaw shooting them, and give them nuts.

[undeterred]

33. Yeah it was a really bad day for the squirrel

but at least the end was quick.

[onecent]

23. I didn't particularly have a bad day...but when I DO

I will definitely be thinking of YOU.

I haven't laughed this hard in 3 weeks. Thanks for the laugh..and sorry I had a bad morning...
It makes me realize that my life often, isn't as bad as I think.

Have a great day tomorrow..your post was awesome for a good laugh.

[cynatnite]

24. This morning I sat on the floor and cried when I saw my grandson's Christmas presents under the bed.

We haven't seen him for over 9 months because of his bastard father. Every once in a while it gets to me when I see the still wrapped presents. We were promised we'd see him last Christmas and it never happened.

That was my morning. I'm not trying to make you feel bad or anything, but when you talked about your "shitty" morning, I felt like venting. I needed to vent. Thanks.

So, how's the cat?

[DonRedwood]

25. I'm really sorry to hear that

:0( Don't give up though. My brother had similar probs with his ex and the only good advice I could ever give him was "Just always make it easy for them". No matter what was going on he made himself available and cheerful and eventually it worked out.

I hope the best for you!

[cynatnite]

27. We do our best to always keep the lines of communication open.

Thanks.

[DonRedwood]

26. Oh...and the cat... he's....still a little squishy

how a cute little animal can smell soooooooooo bad I'll never know!

[kestrel91316]

32. Cats LOVE to clean themselves up, but they are not completely

without aesthetic standards.

You can help kitty clean himself sooner if you take a damp microfiber cleaning cloth to the stinky parts. And he'll love you for it.

Happy fact: the poop bacteria that wind up in the cat's mouth die off very quickly (minutes, IIRC) because the existing mouth bacteria don't let them get a foothold.

[cali]

34. Let's just say it wasn't much different

from most of my mornings. It involved waking up around 3 in pain, ice packs, pain killers. then painful pt stuff with rubber bands. then 30 min of aerobic exercise on a rowing machine; I love endorphins. Now it's all about how bad it will be today.

I hate complex regional pain syndrome.