Or more accurately, a bad 4 hours.
As you may know I am a glass half full type of a guy. My outlook on life and on any given day is usually really positive.
But, even I have to admit that I had a bad 4 hours today.
It started by driving to the dentist. Who wants to go to the dentist? Particularly if you know that you are going to be in the chair for a good two hours.
When I arrived and sat down in my chair, I knew I was in for some agonizing time when I was asked if I wanted one or two ibuprofen. For the record, I only took one.
Two hours later, as I wobble out of my dentist chair, I get instructions on what I can eat over the next 24 hours.
I rush to my car to dial in by phone to a Microsoft Teams meeting that I am attending. I call the number on the meeting invitation, but I hear the phone say to me “you entered an invalid meeting number.” Egad!
How is that possible when the phone number to call and the meeting number are already preprogrammed in the invitation to the meeting. All I have to do, supposedly, is wait for all the automatically dialed numbers to process. Well, not this time. So, in frustration, I write down with pen and paper the 9 digit meeting number, so that I can manually enter it the next time I try to get into the meeting.
Wallah! It works. I finally get into the meeting, or…. Hold it. I am not in the meeting yet. I am in the waiting room. A notice pops up on my screen that I will be admitted shortly. Guess what? I wait and wait and wait.
Then I email the meeting notice sender that I am waiting. Then I email some other individuals whom I know are in the meeting, telling them all that I am waiting to be admitted. I wait and wait and wait.
No dice. No one responds. I never get admitted into the meeting. Holy cow!
In a few minutes I am parking my car, having arrived back at my place. It has not been a good day so far, I say to myself.
My mind must have been elsewhere because the next thing I realize is that I have just locked my car with the keys to the car and my abode inside the car! Can you believe it? I must have been distracted. Oh my gosh. What could happen next, I say to myself.
As I am pondering what my next move should be, standing on the curb, I get stung on my forehead by a bee. Yes, siree. I am not making this up. This all happened to me during a four hour period today.
Let’s review the bidding.
- Two hours in a dental chair
- Inability to get into and join in a Microsoft Teams meeting
- Locking the keys to my car and my abode in the car
- Getting stung by a bee in the forehead
Not a good four hours. But, hey, I have the remainder of the day to look forward to. It has to get better.
Sounds like Alexander in the book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!
But it’s “yer own durn fault”! Eh!
All those Almond Joys, Blizzards and gelatos you’ve final filtered!
You must pay a penance. Same for using Wallah instead of Voila as previously pointed out.
Mend your ways and have a better day Neil!
Just this past Sunday, we had a sermon on “peace”, one of the fruits of the spirit. We are going through all of them in the Sunday sermons. So far we’ve had love, joy, and last week peace. So, as we think of you in your bad 4 hours, just remember to have peace about it, in spite of bad things happening. There is still room for joy, love, peace, and thankfulness that you did not experience anything worse.
Take care, Neil, and “chin up”. Today will be a better day! Have a good one.
The bee actually had a worse day. It probably died a few minutes after stinging you.
paul,
good perspective. i never thought about that. i was struck by how the bee stung me. i assumed that a bee would alight on my forehead, survey the surroundings and then decide where to insert its stinger. but, no, the bee arrived on my forehead and instantly, almost simultaneously, stung me. the bee took an infinitesimal amount of time to alight and sting. it was like he know exactly who he wanted to sting, where he wanted to sting, and how he was going to do it. the bee was like a kamikaze pilot.
as you can see, i have not let this bee sting get to me psychologically!
neil
Well, we are all.good…you caught all the bad stuff so the rest of ar e safe. Nice catch!😂
I talked to you right before all this happened!! Am sorry you had such a lousy day but that means today is going to be great!! Hope the bee sting has healed! Assume it was AAA to the rescue?
at least you weren’t at Black Rock.