BS: Today is a BAD day because....

Subject: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 11:46 PM

I got woken up at 3 by a cat, then again at 4 by a big truck with a cherry picker, coming down the street, painting lampposts.

I watched them for a while, noticing that they carefully laid a dustsheet out on the pavement (sidewalk), but ignored the car directly beneath the light!

They then proceeded to paint a pale grey, visible lamp post black, with natty gold trim - a combination that is almost impossible to see. I've walked into more lampposts since they started painting them black than ever before!

It's now nearly 5 and I'm not going to get back to sleep again until about 10 minutes before the alarm goes off to wake me up!

Grrr grumble, mumble humph.....

LTS who isn't at all short tempered or grouchy, no.....

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:14 AM

No, it isn't. It's a good day. Trust me on this.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 01:11 AM

I hear you, Liz. It starts out that you can't sleep, and the first person to post disagrees with you. He's right, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 01:30 AM

If the car beneath the lamppost isn't yours, it's a good day (for you).

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 01:48 AM

And for the autobody shop.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 01:57 AM

Liz- you just forgot to remember what was good today.
Today was so beautiful. The leaves were at their peak of color and vibrancy. I couldn't have found a most perfect day in color if I had dreamt it in a dream.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 02:44 AM

Good day - I said goodbye for the moment to work colleagues and friends and have just found out how many people like me! That set off the fact that the hydraulic pipe on my car has busted and my mechanic can't get the part until Monday - when I'll be up and away.

So now I've got to hire a car for the weekend and get my car to my son's 60 miles from the repair shop after I've left the country. The good bit there is that my daughter sorted out the car hire on the internet and my mechanic. a friend of my son, has said that he will take the car to my son's house. Ain't people wonderful?

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: GUEST,Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 03:23 AM

See???!!! It IS a bad day, the elves have stolen my cookie!!!

I want to be a curmudgeon today and no-one is going to stop me... not even a mention on Radio 2 and playing one of my favourite show tunes (Steve Martin singing 'You'll be a dentist' from 'Little Shop of Horrors') is going to make me feel better....

I've worked hard for this bad day, I'm entitled to it, and I'm going to have it!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 03:30 AM

You are laughing now, aren't you? lol

Your day reminds me of an old story that I'll try to recall for you. Goes like this:

We were poor, so poor that there was only water for the soup and no fuel to heat it with. We slept three to a bed for warmth, and the four of us boys shared three pair of pants, so every day one kid had to stay home from school. Dad worked three jobs and ma worked two. Still we couldn't make ends meet. The electric company cut off our electricity, the coal company stopped delivering, and even the dog was starting to look nervous. Then came the Depression!

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:37 AM

Perhaps I should leave off coming home for a while...

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Once Famous
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:50 AM

If you have your health, nothing can make it a bad day.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 08:17 AM

Glad you said that, Martin Gibson - sore throat, headache, what else do I need to make it a bad day? How about my younger twin pitching the you-don't-love-me fit and making me late to my temp job?

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: GUEST,Eddie Whatnoll
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 10:57 AM

Ye're fecking right it's a bad day! I've got no clean socks and no one to wash 'em. I've been on me last pair since a week ago adn frankly they are beginning to smell. Me Olive 'as run off to 'er sister's place and abandoned 'er 'ome and 'er 'usband wot's been faithful to 'er for these 25 years past. I've 'ad to cook me own chips! I bloody burnt them. It's all over the parrot, Tony Blair. Olive says the parrot 'as to go, but 'e's a valuable bird and 'e's very beutful to look at and I will not part wif 'im at least not until I get back the 250 quid I spent on 'im. Olive 'as lost 'er mind. She's gone crackers. I will not be blackmaled nor terrorised by 'er mad acewsations and I will 'old me ground.

I 'ad to get up off the sofa to COOK and the bloody food got ruint! So I 'ave exerted meself to no good purpose 'ere.

Ye're fecking roithtt it's a BAD DAY!

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 11:21 AM

"If you have your health, nothing can make it a bad day."

Well, that's my life buggered until the operation then.

Manitas, you have to come home, you're looking after the Limpit tonight, I'm going out on the razz. Well, out for a commiserating drink with a friend whose partner hasn't left them. Should be a barrel of laughs.

Brucie - we were so poor we could only afford one candle, we all had to huddle round it, and when it got really cold, so that the dewdrops were turning to ice on our noses, we lit it. Still, it was a great time for songs. I still remember the ones I learned at my daddys' knee. We were too poor to buy paper so he wrote them on his knee.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: grumpy al
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 03:16 PM

today isn't a bad day or a good day today just is.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:49 PM

In the words of a Newfoundland friend, "How bes you t'day, Liz?"

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 01:53 AM

Today I are mostly being good. The drink turned into a really splendid dinner (lemon chicken followed by profiteroles, mmmmmmmm) and we had a damn good natter. Lots of things got sorted out and we're both much more settled and benign beings today.

I'm having a morning to myself, playing at cutting and sticking, and I may even go shopping later.

I found the perfect ribbon for a project, the perfect box for Limpits' Secret Santee and the perfect paper for another project. And I got more than 3 hours of sleep.

However, if the cat does that again at 5am, he is going arse backwards out the catflap.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 02:45 AM

That may be the answer folks are lookin' for on "BS: Bad Cat!!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:40 AM

Ah, but you need a pond just outside the back door to make it really worth it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 12:38 PM

I think the best device for putting a cat outside would be a small catapult and a skylight in the roof that opens automatically at the moment of ejection. Or maybe a greased metal tunnel that you can drop the cat into from the upper floor like putting garbage down a chute in an apartment building.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 11:02 PM

However, if ya had two cats, then you wouldn't need the automatic-skylight openers. The first cat would clear the way for the second. Sounds like a plan, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 03:19 PM

I reserve my right to have a bad day. If i want to have a bad day, then i sure as hell will! Optimism is soooo...well, it just doesn't suit me. Hurrumph. I need bad days to make me angry, if i didn't have that i just wouldn't be motivated to do anything, i wouldn't write songs, and the good days would mean nothing to me...Vitriol is my driving force. Don't tell me to have a good day:)!But thanks for the thought...and feel free to have one yourself =D

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 03:29 PM

Listen, pal. You are NOT gonna tell me to have a good day. I friggin' well will if I want. Got it?

Reminds me of Yogi Berra who said, "If people don't want to come to the game then there's nothin' you can do to stop 'em."

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:05 PM

Yeah, right. My cell phone got trashed in New York, my watchband broke on the plane home, I had to get up at 3 a.m. NY time today, coffee dribbled down my shirt because the #@!$! clerk at Starbucks didn't put the lid on right, I got into it with the TSA people at the Newark airport over taking off my shoes...oh, hell yes. Wonderful day.

At least the planes didn't crash.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 03:47 PM

Ever see the movie with Sandy Dennis and Jack Lemon?

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: black walnut
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 03:56 PM

Today is a bad day because it is Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving) and instead of eating turkey meat and cranberry sauce with his family, my boychild is far away in a Saskatchewan college residence, from whence he tells me that he misses me for my green salads. Now isn't that heart-wrenching?

~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 03:56 PM

It's a bad day because idiotic people are trying to limit seed-eating to birds only and are harassing innocent squirrels and cutting down trees and behaving like total morons.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:34 PM

Today wasn't really a bad day (despite the fact that I woke up way too early and was working on a sleep deficit) and the weather was glorious (not that I was out in it), but at the end of the afternoon my boss gave me the heads up that my temp job since mid-July had about 2 weeks left. Sigh. I'd been entertaining the fantasy that it would be made permanent. I've felt totally at home there since I first crossed the doorstep for the interview. I really like the company, the people, the work and the type of printing they do (high end graphics-intensive art & photography books for art galleries, museums and academia).

I'm trying not to be depressed.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: MZ Drifter
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:41 PM

Was sitting in a Barber shop a year or so ago (had a haircut since then) and a real, real old gentleman walked in and sat down. We are talking close to a hundred I was told later. A barber said "Roy, hows' it going?" The reply; "Good, I woke up this morning".

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: GUEST,Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:21 PM

I just realized how perfect and healthy and happy my family is in our beautiful new house. It seems that things could not be better so things could easily only get worse. If they do, we still had today.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: s6k
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:52 AM

a bad day, because im still here! and i aint leaving!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: GUEST,Paranoid Android
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:34 PM

It's 3.30am in Dublin. I've just gotten home from a gig in Temple Bar.
If I am sending this message I am alive. It's another great f###ing day.

Subject: RE: BS: Today is a BAD day because....
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 04:30 PM

My health insurance costs 6500 dollars a year and I can't get anyone on the phone at the managed care company to get the referral number for a biopsy. I've worked thirty one years for this. Other people haven't worked in thirty years and they get medical and drug benefits and draw a 2500 a month check from disability for less than twenty years work.