Worst Day Ever!

[Euryalus]

So today being a wednesday, during the school year, and having to write two short papers, there's not a lot I can do today on my birthday. It's been a common theme with my March birthday. XD

The weekend is soon though so the party will come. The point of this though is to ask what the worst birthday, or hell let's expand the topic, worst ostensibly happy day of you life.

I hope for a rather light hearted "man that sucks!" thread so don't post super shitty unless you want to, but go crazy. What was the worst fortune you've had on what should have been a good day?

Mine was during my 21st birthday. I spent it busting my ass writing a long paper discussing whether or not Islam was compatible with certain modern Feminist ideologies.

The focus was critiquing Fatima Mernissi's work. It was painful because I wanted to be drinking... I eventually did have a party like month later though

ERMAGHERD I COURND'T DRINK ON MAH BIRFDAY! WOE IS ME! WORST DAY EVAR! *Beats breasts in lamentation*

Edited because I'm terrible at subtle exaggeration and hyperbole

TL;DR What was the worst luck you've had during a supposed to be happy day? Preferably not super depressing, but go for it if you want. Complain like we all love to!

 

[shrekfan246]

Preferably not super depressing,

Well, I mean, there was that one time I got mono about a week or so before my birthday, and then the day after my birthday my girlfriend at the time broke up with me.

And a different year a girl broke up with me the day before my birthday.

I don't seem to have good luck with my birthday and relationships.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Happy birthday T0ad!

I burnt my dad's kitchen on his birthday. Never try and extinguish oil-based fire with water, kids!

My dad should be the one bringing that up to this thread but to be honest I think I felt worse myself. I had spent the afternoon baking a cake and making sure he had a good time, and then I went on and fucked up like that at the last minute.

Well, I mean, there was that one time I got mono about a week or so before my birthday, and then the day after my birthday my girlfriend at the time broke up with me.

This one time a girl I'd been dating for a while broke up with me 4 days after my birthday. Why do they always do it around birthdays?!

 

[shrekfan246]

Well, I mean, there was that one time I got mono about a week or so before my birthday, and then the day after my birthday my girlfriend at the time broke up with me.

This one time a girl I'd been dating for a while broke up with me 4 days after my birthday. Why do they always do it around birthdays?!

I dunno.

Maybe it's one of those "sixth sense" things.

"My feminine wiles are tingling, he must have a birthday coming up. I know, that'll be the best time to do it! Mwahahaha!"

Now that I've proven once again that I'm incapable of doing comedy in any form, let alone half an hour after I've woken up, I'll show myself out.

 

[MetalDooley]

and then the day after my birthday my girlfriend at the time broke up with me.

And a different year a girl broke up with me the day before my birthday.

This one time a girl I'd been dating for a while broke up with me 4 days after my birthday

At least they didn't do it on your actual birthday.When I was 25 the girl I had been seeing for over a year and was madly in love with decided to dump me on my birthday.Even better than that she decided that the best possible time to inform me of this decision was not during the day when she had plenty of opportunities but that night when we were out with my friends.Put a bit of a damper on the celebrations I can tell you.

To add injury to insult I then managed to bust my hand up in a drunken mishap on the way home which required surgery and left me without the use of my left hand for weeks

And just to top it off I found out a week or so after my birthday that she had been cheating on me for weeks.

Best birthday ever

 

[Euryalus]

Preferably not super depressing,

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God damnit shrek! xD

The only response that can be said.

Spoiler: *pats back*

 

[Euryalus]

Happy birthday T0ad!

Thanks. I shall endeavor to make it an ok one at least. xD

No papers due! Hooray!

Never try and extinguish oil-based fire with water, kids!

Those explode D:

Also that's alot worse but infinitely more awesome than my bad birthday story... The only thing I maybe have to one up it that I accidently set a refrigerator on fire... Yeah... Parents were just a wee bit miffed about it xD

Wasn't a birthday though. Just a normal Sunday.

 

[Euryalus]

Best birthday ever

Yeesh :/

You want I should post the top secret youtube quote again? xD

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Never try and extinguish oil-based fire with water, kids!

Those explode D:

I should know, I tried extinguishing it with soda water of all things and the minute I syphoned it a giant fireball erupted from the pot and spread itself thin across the ceiling for about a second before going out. Literally licked the whole ceiling and left a coat of black soot which I then spent the rest of the Summer scrubbing off. Come think of it I had come over for a nice beachside Summer holiday and had just bid farewell to a friend of mine who had been staying over and because of that I hadn't been playing any games at all. So the day I'm finally free to do whatever all day, I sentence myself to house work for the rest of my holidays

How do you even set a fridge on fire though?

 

[Casual Shinji]

One particular birthday I got a skin infection on my scalp, turning the whole upper part of my head into an itching, putrid mess of oozing scabs. This lasted for a week. The time during which I could not even put my head down on a pillow to sleep.

But atleast I got a super awesome Evangelion artbook, so there's that.

 

[Padwolf]

Happy Birthday Toad!

Mine is a birthday story aswell. I asked my friends a few weeks in advance, "Hey, it's my birthday soon, can we all go out and see Batman and then after let's have a meal" They agreed. Then, a few days before my friend goes on a date to see batman. Then says she can't come on the day we planned, and since she's such a good friend I then tried to rearrange for the day after. My other friend couldn't make the day after. So I went with the friend who had already seen batman. We didn't see batman, and there wasn't really anything left on at the cinema that I hadn't already seen, so instead we wandered around town for the day. I felt like a fool and it wasn't a very great birthday.

 

[Barbas]

Happy Birthday mah bro!

Worst supposedly happy day for me was my cousins confirmation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation] day, his parents booked the meal at a restaurant that seemed pretty cool, but it took 2 sodding hours to get the food out and it was cold when it arrived, hell, we saw 2 other people dine in and leave before we even got our starters. At least talking with family was fun, but it got to the point where we were just annoyed by how hungry we were.

Where was this place, so I can avoid it? I went to a restaurant once because of a power cut (we couldn't cook any food), only to find that their backup generator kept cutting out and, eventually, the chefs had to say that they couldn't prepare any meals with such unreliable power. Fair enough - I thanked them and went for a sandwich from the coffee shop instead. At least it was entertaining listening to the staff shake their heads and exchange other horror stories that this particular incident reminded them of.

OT: One of my birthdays involved a lot of rain. I was in a small room away from home in an alien land, soaked to the skin and hungry. There was no possibility of food at the time, let alone something like cake, because I didn't want to make the people around me aware of my birthday - I would rather have spent my time with myself than them. As I was sitting at my desk, scanning through the pages of a book I'd nearly finished, the desk lamp suddenly went out with a *pop*.

There was a moment of silent blackness before I broke down into an uncontrollable giggling fit. It was all so perfectly fucking miserable that I couldn't help but laugh.

 

[Lilikins]

First and foremost, happy birthday, hope you have a good one

worst day ever...ehh... I guess thatd be the day I got my wisdom teeth pulled out, and shortly after I managed to break my leg.
So I came out of the dentists office on painkillers, and then went home by bus...cause Im responsible, or something. Then I sat around on my couch with painkillers that mustve been made to get rampaging elephants to calm down when I suddenly had the great idea that I should start cleaning out my shed outside, the weather was lovely, I had the day off, why not use it. Soooo, as fate will have it...for some reason unclear to me I decided to clean out the upper area first, and of course, ladders and being...Ill put it nicely, mentally numb? dont mix together well, missed a step, got my leg stuck in one of the steps, slipped back and managed to break my leg. Then after dragging myself inside I was able to call my mother on her mobile first and foremost telling her Im an imbecile...and second of all telling her I cant feel my leg. Went to the doctor and got my leg patched up. Funny part in this whole ordeal though I must admit was my doctor looking at me and going something along the lines of
'Wow....I thought stuff like this could only happen in movies...well, atleast you have painkillers? So I wont have to give you a bill to get those.'

Only part that wouldve been missing that day is that I get home and my PC manages to explode...tcha, that was my day haha.

Happy B-day again

 

[Euryalus]

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Thanks

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On my confirmation day we all got a short little spiel from the bishop about how this was an important day for everyone and that we should all try to be respectful and turn off our cell phones and not talk idly during.

Then in the middle of confirming us HIS cell phone went off xD

It was great.

The rest of it was boring because... well... confirmation.

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I,as the responsible little kid I was, was playing with the stove and caught a plastic... cheese... grater... handle thing (no idea what it was actually) on fire.

Since it was plastic or something it was melting and the flame was really small/blue.

I heard my mom coming and so I threw it in the freezer to hide it and put out the flame. Because cold puts out fire right? That's what video games taught me! xD

Any way the opposite happened and the dry air let the fire grow rather large.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I already said this to you but, Happy Name Day!

As for a story, my birthday typically falls on a day where I will probably have a gig, and it normally starts the season for having gigs. I don't really mind since the money is good and normally the food is as well due to the contract. One time it was pouring like crazy and everything was just super wet, but none of the equipment got really wet, just me. During set up of putting some equipment on this makeshift stage, there was this part that didn't feel right. It dipped a little. Sure enough when I was standing on that spot it gave out and not did I fall into the broken area, I went down like three feet by the way, but a piece of metal hit my ankle in just the right way to not break it but make it hurt like a *****.

Long story short, the thing was fixed and I was limping around for four hours. At the end I was putting stuff away and I got super soaked because of the rain, and the trailer was far enough away from the door to make life suck. What made the whole thing super special awesome was that I had to drive home and the ankle that hurt was my right one, so driving was an adventure.

I wanted to laugh, but I was too wet and too much in pain to care. Hooray!

 

[Weaver]

I remember one birthday when I was 18 or 19 I invited like 20 of my friends over and every single one of them individually bailed so I just got drunk on my own and passed out.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Bappity Hirthday ToT!

Mine wasn't a birthday (though my birthdays tend to be so awful I now keep the date secret from friends & co-workers) but on a December 23rd-- you know right before Christmas, I got hit by an SUV (while I was walking, to be clear) which knocked me down and I skidded 17 feet on my back (mostly shielded by my backpack), and then when I was hobbling home from that I was stopped by the police, had guns pointed at me, was handcuffed, read my rights and put in the back of a squad car...and the whole thing was cleared up relatively quickly but it turned out that the guy they were looking for looked NOTHING like me.

 

[Vigormortis]

Well, the most recent occurred just this past weekend. (so technically, it'll be the "worst" 2 days.)

Was shaping up to be a great weekend. I had my new computer hardware showing up, a friends birthday party to attend, a date Saturday night, and a St. Paddy's Day party on Sunday. It all started Saturday morning when the postman showed up with my new hardware...

To make a long story short, here's a blow-by-blow of the events that followed:
* Only one of my GPUs showed up. Seems the other was shipped from a different distribution center.
* After the hardware switch, Windows had a hissy fit and corrupted; forcing me to whip out the install disc.[footnote]Yet, ironically, the free OS I had dual-booted on my machine (Ubuntu, to be specific) ran just fine after the hardware switch. Never skipped a beat.[/footnote]
* Before I could even begin trying to do a sys-repair, my DVD drive just up and died.
* I attempted a sys-repair from my disc using a network boot and another computer. Didn't work.
* Considered doing a USB boot, but could not find any of my 4gb+ thumb-drives.
* Did a quick look online for stores in the area selling USB sticks or DVD drives, but only Radioshack wasn't charging three times the price than either are worth.
* Got to the mall only to discover Radioshack was no longer there.
* Used my GPS to find another, but in the process of driving there I was pulled over. Cop said I'd made an illegal left turn. (at an intersection with nary a "No Left Turns" signs in sight(confirmed after I returned to the same intersection and looked for one)) The fine was $170.
* Got to the store just as they were closing (early, for some reason)
* Did manage to nab a USB stick, but upon leaving I noticed I was supremely low on gas.
* Seemed like every gas station in the immediate area was closed or had their pumps shut down. (did manage to find one some miles on, though)
* Discovered, after getting home, that Microsoft has no "official" tools for making ISOs of your Windows disk, so had to use 3rd party software.
* After using the Microsoft USB Boot tool, I found that the USB stick didn't work. (seems the official USB boot tool from MS is riddled with bugs, including one that renders USB boot sticks inoperable)
* Eventually figured out a workaround and got the stick to be bootable.
* Ran sys-repair. Several times. Didn't fix anything.
* Had to do a full, fresh install. (still trying to recover all my files and configs)
* Found out later that day, upon calling a friend to confirm what I was to bring to the birthday party, that the party had been moved up four hours earlier; meaning I'd missed it entirely.
* That night, my date called to cancel; while I was waiting at the restaurant. Her brother had just been in an car accident and she was driving out of state to see him.
* On Sunday, I was called in to work out of the blue. Wound up spending most of the morning and afternoon there.
* Brother called me up, not an hour before I was to head to the party, asking for a lift to the airport. His original ride bailed last minute (for whatever reason) and he needed someone else immediately.
* Trip to the airport took too long and I didn't have time to stop by the party.
* Late that night, I started vomiting quite violently. (seemed I'd contracted a bad stuck virus from someone)

So...all in all, it was a pretty shitty weekend.

 

[CoL0sS]

Huh, don't remember particulary bad ones to be honest, but today was kinda disappointing.
I came home after working all day to find out that two of my favorite comics, Hellblazer and Preacher were being adapted for TV by guys who brought us such classics as The Green Hornet and Man of Steel. Also, that Elder Scrolls Online beta invite e-mail I received did not include beta key and that I'm probably gonna miss a big meetup with a couple of friends I haven't seen in ages because I have to work weekends.
I know, I know. First world problems