Cosmic Puppet wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:07 pm
I can't even deal with that now. Just feel like the biggest loser in the world.
My girlfriend says the same. Thing is, these sorts of "quirks" are a lot more common than you think. Take it from someone who has spent a great deal of their life pointless talking to people
One girl I met up with on a date once would not go out anywhere. Fair enough. I don't particularly like going anywhere either. Turns out she even does her shopping in the middle of the night to avoid crowds and people in general, she actually worked at at a hospital. Still trying to figure that one out.
My father was a bit of a old chap as well. Like me, works in the public sector meeting people all the time. But because I wanted to try out one of my power amplifiers back in the day, and we had a friend who needed a "DJ" , I set that stuff up. My father sat behind the curtains on stage the entire time avoiding everyone. Pretty much like I did
Of course that was funny in itself because there was some teenagers there who wanted to play Bon Jovi for hours. It was actually a birthday party with a lot of people there , so basic I was playing 60s music all the time. I finally caved in and put Bon Jovi on, the teenagers walked out halfway through the song which was pointless, but the funny thing was, most of the old people also walked out as well
So we were sat on stage basically playing music to like 8 people after that. After about a hour, I thought, screw this, it I'm going home now
Sounds like you got caught out with a whole train thing anyway. Same happens to me. Just look at all the rants I have had over roadworks and diversions over the years. I think pretty much everyone else always seems to be able to follow the diversions but more recently I think half the people on the road don't get anything either. I get frustrated as hell as I end up going around in circles for over a hour. I think mostly when the diversions they turn right, they actually mean turn left. And when they say straight on, they actually mean turn left. Probably taken me 25 years to translate what the signs really mean. Problem is is when the signs disappear altogether and you are sad that a T-junction trying to work out if you are supposed to turn left or right.
I think it always seems like life is trying to batter you down. Myself my mother constantly say we think we are cursed with all the crap we end up going through each day.
Take today for example. I have to go to the dentist and a couple of hours because I needed a filling. But to add another tooth this morning and there is a chunk missing out of it. So double trouble, but I suppose the good thing is I'm going to the dentist later anyway.
To add to the confusion my van has its MOT at the same time today. I hate that someone I don't know as the power to say I cannot drive my van because of some stupid rule.. Don't get me started on MOT tests
but my van is spluttering like mad I think because of bad diesel. So will it actually pass or not because if the injectors happen to stick open it will puff out smoke and fail the emissions tests. The only solution that will be to totally drink diesel out of my tank where I put £120 in there. And go to a different petrol station to fill up. Always some pending chaos and stress going on.
In any case, I really would not beat yourself about things. At the end of the day you dealt with multiple problems and got home safely. While the day was certainly a crap one. You can also look at it that you came out victorious by conquering everything which was thrown at you. So was it really that bad of a day...