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TheComet
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Yeah, so I just had one of my worst days in my life... (I haven't had a lot of bad days yet, since I am still pretty young).

It all started yesterday, when I was at the pool. I was playing badminton with my friends when all of a sudden I stepped on a bee. Of course, like most bees, it sunk its stinger deep into my foot. I then went to my friends house, because we arranged an overnight together, and we had a lot of fun playing games on the computer until like 3 in the morning.

Then came my worst day...

We were forced out of our beds around 9 am by really loud noises coming from street workers. I was really tired... Probably because the last few nights I stayed up really late programming. I rang up my mom, and asked if she could pick me up (my friends house is about 6km away from mine). She called me a lazy thing and said I should take the train to the bottom of our village and walk up for some exercise (we live on a hill, about 2km to walk up, and the train stop is right at the bottom). I complained about my bee sting, but she didn't believe me.

So I had to limp over to the train station with my sore, itchy, fat foot (I was bare footed, BTW). On the train the conductors came and requested a ticket, but I forgot it at my friends house. Ouch, 100$ fine... Finally I got to the station at the bottom of the hill. I started limping up the hill, my foot was swelling up and throbbing with pain (Still bare foot), and my luck proves that it can get worse. It started to rain. Heavily. And every car that drove past sprayed water on me, and none thought to pick up a poor teenager like me. Plus I was carrying a laptop, a sleeping bag and a cushion.

When I got home (took me about 80 minutes), I was soaked from head to toe, my laptop didn't start anymore, and my bee sting got even worse.

Here is a picture of my swollen foot and my normal foot:



I attached the huge 10 MP image if you want to look at it in greater detail.

And that is pretty much it. I'm sure you guys have worse stories. If so, post them! I'll be happy to hear.

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Tom J
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 23:43
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Ouch, that absolutely sucks

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Mr Z
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Bad day indeed .

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Look on the bright side. You still have your laptop, a nice bed to sleep in and a roof over your head. And I suggest you get that foot checked ASAP! You never know what kind of damage that venom is doing.

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Thanks for grossing me out and enlightening me at the same time. Smash your other foot with a hammer a bunch of times so it swells up to match the other one.
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Yesterday I had one of the worst days of my life.

It all started out when, as is usual for a Thursday, I metamorphosed myself into a bee and took a nice trip down to the local pool.

Then some klutz went and stood on me, ripped my arse out, photographed it and stuck it on the net.

And that is pretty much it. I'm sure you guys have worse stories. If so, post them! I'll be happy to hear.


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Quote: "You still have your laptop"


Quote: "my laptop didn't start anymore"


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@Richard Davey LOL Funny

-It sucks you had a bad day, but you cannot have Good day's without bad days, now if you just have a normal day tomorrow, it will defintely be a good day tomorrow compared to today. Something positive will happen soon ^_^


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TheComet
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Quote: "photographed it and stuck it on the net."


Damn, that sucks... Where can I find it on the net?

Quote: "Smash your other foot with a hammer a bunch of times so it swells up to match the other one. "


I smashed it too much and now it's bigger than the one with the bee sting...

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Ow.

Sounds like a bad day, sure. But cheer up, there's always someone in the world having a much less of a good day. It helps to think of them to make you feel better. Like the guy that was murdered by someone jamming a banjo down his throat, or the girl that wanted to become a ballet dancer more than anything and permanently lost control of her body by a rare disease. Or the guy that moved half around the globe to meet and propose with his love only to arrive the very day she took suicide because she was severly depressed.

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Well, I'm constipated...does that count?

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TheComet
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@ Happy Cheesecake

I don't know if that counts... Did you eat too much cheese again?

Quote: "Like the guy that was murdered by someone jamming a banjo down his throat, or the girl that wanted to become a ballet dancer more than anything and permanently lost control of her body by a rare disease. Or the guy that moved half around the globe to meet and propose with his love only to arrive the very day she took suicide because she was severly depressed."


Uhmm, yeah, it does kinda make me feel a bit, erm, better...


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@Richard Davey,
Thanks for making me fall out of my chair. One of the best comebacks I've heard in a while.

@TheComet,
Just because you had a bad day is no reason to ruin one for the rest of us by posting you feet on the page right in front of God and everybody. You could have at least attached that, with some kind of warning, so we could choose whether or not we wanted to look at it.

Brian.

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Quote: "Uhmm, yeah, it does kinda make me feel a bit, erm, better..."

Happy to help. Now, man up.

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Quote: "I don't know if that counts... Did you eat too much cheese again?"


Well, if a semi-truck filled with mozzarella cheese-sticks is too much, then yes.

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xplosys has a fear of feet O_<, can you tell?

@grandma lol My friend told me to "man up", when i injured my back last week couldn't move out of my bed and i told him that i couldn't go to work today to do manual labour!

The urge to be a man gave me the strength and adrenaline to fix my back and work 12 hour shifts for 10 days in a row!.....O.j....i took 7 days off work :S


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your "normal" foot looks disgusting.


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There's nothing normal about that foot. Either one!
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I guess it is your pespective as to whether it is good or bad.
I have been watching a litle boy grow up a few blocks from here.
He has only a few clothes, no hot running water, no computer, and only one arm.
He thinks every day is a good one.
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Bee's FTW! - never been stung, but then they have no reason to dislike me, I got stung by a wasp once, but he felt really bad about it.

I had the worst PC week of my life last month, PC stopped booting up - assumed the GFX card had died so I replaced it. PC wouldn't boot up, so I assumed it was the motherboard and replaced it. PC still wouldn't boot up, so I replaced the processor - finally I have a PC that's probably only 2/3rds as fast as my old one!. I borrowed the processor, so I have to go buy one as well. With my own PC, a friends laptop, and all the work installs, I probably installed XP 10 times that week.

I'll take a bee sting over and XP install any day!


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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 15:04 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 15:05
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a Thunder storm ran through here Wednesday, we lost our Internet, just got it back last night. It was 53 hours of sheer hell. I mean omg, I had to lower myself to watching DVD movies for those two days. and between movies I tried to make a few 3d models, and without the ability to search for reference images, had to work from memory, or use my imagination.. and using my imagination is very 'DANGEROUS' I have been known to suffer delusions of grandure.

But the good news is the net is back, I'm still alive, I did a decent job with the models (still a wip)

So Cheer up, and tell your mom she owes you a laptop for not believing you and making you walk 2k on a swollen foot.

Cheers!

P.S. if you take a pic of the carpet without the feet, you got yourself a decent floor texture.

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Quote: "your "normal" foot looks disgusting.

There's nothing normal about that foot. Either one!"


My foot is specifically designed to kick you up the rear.

Quote: "I'll take a bee sting over and XP install any day!"


I wouldn't be too sure about that...

With all of the stuff you are replacing in your computer you could have bought a new one... I saw one from Dell for 599$, 2GB ram, 2.6GHz processor and a 160GB harddisk.

Quote: "So Cheer up, and tell your mom she owes you a laptop for not believing you and making you walk 2k on a swollen foot."


She said I should open it up and let it dry, and if it doesn't work then she said she would owe me SOMETHING... Not sure what that is... But it is not a laptop, because she said I still own 2 other computers...

Quote: "P.S. if you take a pic of the carpet without the feet, you got yourself a decent floor texture. "


Hey yeah! Good tip!

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Quote: "My foot is specifically designed to kick you up the rear.
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Good luck kid, I'm pretty tall.
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Quote: "Good luck kid, I'm pretty tall. "


How tall are you? I'm 1.87 metres... And I'm a teenager, not a kid.


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That must have been some bee-sting to make you swell up that much ...

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Quote: "That must have been some bee-sting to make you swell up that much ..."


My immune systems response is incredibly good, said the doctor.

Quote: "You might be depressed - but you've made my day. "


Uhmmm, glad I could help!

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It took me a while to discover which foot was the swollen one.

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It could be worse!

My dad was showing off on a dirt bike on which he rode maybe 4 times before. Then he did a wheelie and was about to hit my cousins fourwheeler with him on it, he slammed on the breaks, the front ones were a little more sensitive so he flew up in the air on a stoppie and stopped fell over on his side with the bike following behind him.

He broke both of his elbows, talk about suck!

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I would be pissed at my mom. Sorry about the bad day!

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It looks like your normal foot is broken. Their is a big lump in it. ???


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I'm 195 cm...
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Is this really something you want to continue MIDN90?

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Know what you mean. My internet was down for 1 day on Monday and I had to play GTA 4 on my xbox for hours to take my mind of web stuff I'm working on.
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Not gonna work. It's too late. The vacuum cleaner trick if done soon enough can suck water out of devices (it's saved two mobile phones here and a Wiimote) but you've left it too late so the moisture is corroding the components and is sinking deeper inside.

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Why didn't you wrap the laptop inside the sleeping bag to keep it dry? Then you wouldn't have that problem.
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You could have gotten hit by the train

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I had a bad day too just a week ago from friday. I was on my way home from work riding a mountan bike and our streets are getting to look like garbage since the city workers are still out on strike here. Anyway i had a car just behind me and there was some garbage laying about in my path, i've decided to swerve around it in towards the curb to avoid riding out in front of traffic and when I did, my front tire slid when it hit some sand and loose gravel and before I knew what happened I found myself doing a nose dive into the street. the injury results were... I had a dime size gash in my forehead that required four stitches, my left ring finger and pinky were sprainded and badly scraped up, road rash along my right cheeck down to the chin with a softball size bruse on the inner right thigh with a sprained knee cap which is still acking. lol I can't say it is the worse day i've ever had but it was bad enough and the following week of work was just a miserable one.
(edit) And to show how people really are in my city... Out of about twenty vehicles that past by me and seen that I was bleeding like a pig, only one vehicle stopped to ask if I was ok. Even the lady who was directly behind me continued on past me. It was a good thing there were not any big rocks around me cause she would of had a broken windshield. As far as I am concerned, when a person wittnesses an accident whether it is in a car, on a motorcycle and even on a bicycle. those people should stop regardless the vehicle the person is traveling in or on. Had that lady stopped I may of been able to make some type of report and go against the city for not keeping its streets cleaned. Never know, A lawsuit may be what get this city to the tables to get this strike issue resolved and get our workers back out there cleaning our streets.
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@ Raybrite2

I actually thought of that. but the sleeping bag was one of those really compact ones that you can squish into like a cubic decimeter of space. It keeps you pretty warm, however it is not at all water resistant. So I had to stick the laptop under my shirt with the pillow, but that didn't really help...

@ Clbembry

Now THAT would have been a bummer of a day...

@ tatts

Ouch . Hope you are feeling better right now...

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I would never carry a laptop around any distance outdoors without some kind of protective covering. In a dry climate it'll get dust, in a wet climate it'll get wet (I think you know that ).

The covering doesn't need to be watertight or waterproof - just enough of a barrier to slow down the ingress of water. In fact putting it inside your pillow and then that inside your sleeping bag would probably be ok for a while.

Were you wearing a jacket or shirt? Why not take one off and wrap the laptop in it? The worst that can happen to you is that you'll get wet for a few minutes with no lasting damage - but your laptop???

Sounds like a dose of common sense is needed.

But I know how common sense can go out the window when bee-stings are involved.
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I've been run over by a truck, had a bee fly up my shorts and I've even had swine flu, but none were as painful as dropping a plate on my toe and having it slowly swell up and tear the nail from it's roots. I can understand why the Germans used this a form of torture in WWII! On that day my router also went up in smoke and I was left with no internet too, so I had to limp around PC World looking for a new one. LOL



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Perhaps you should have bought a skin for your laptop - I'm not sure how water resistant they are, but they're spongey enough to soak up water, so I imagine you'd have a good chance with one in the rain. At least I'm gone out in the rain up to Uni with my laptop in my bag with it covered by a skin.

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Let your laptop dry out in the sun it might start after a few days drying out.

If really dead someone will buy it on ebay for spares and repairs. Especialy if the screen is in good nick.

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I set that photo as my desktop
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Look at it this way, at least it was for one day. Mine started one day two months ago and is continuing. So I program to get my mind off of things.

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@GatorHex - That picture will haunt my dreams forever

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