June 16, 2008

Think that you are having a bad day? Meet Stephanie Simmons

From the Tacoma, WA News Tribune:
Worst day ever for 27-year-old Tacoma bartender
Some days everything just goes wrong. For Stephanie Simmons, a 27-year-old bartender at El Gaucho restaurant in Tacoma, that day was just a few Sundays ago. What follows is her tale of woe in her own words, as told to News Tribune reporter Ian Demsky.

A few Sundays ago, I was moving. I pick up the rental truck and drive it to my sister�s apartment and I meet a friend there. My brother and his friend are supposed to be meeting me there, too, but they�re late.

I open up the back of the truck and the dolly and the blankets that I ordered are missing. I�m like, �OK, no problem. We can manhandle this stuff down the stairs � just me and my one friend.�

We get all the stuff loaded in the back of the truck and go back to the rental company to pick up the dolly and the blankets. �

I drive to the furniture gallery, where I�m picking up my new bed. As I�m backing out, I hit a car.
The whole tail of woe is fairly long so I am not going to quote it in its entirety but this popped out at me from the middle of the narrative:
And right then, a bird poops on my head.
And here is the close of Stephanie's day:
Right about this time the sun starts to go down. And I realize there�s no overhead lighting in my apartment except in my bathroom and in the closet. I don�t have a lamp. Not a lamp, not a flashlight, not a lighter, not a nothin�.

I decide the only way this day�s going to get any better is if I sit in the closet � which is the only room with light that doesn�t have a toilet in it � and get drunk.

So I drank the six-pack of Corona by myself in my closet, crying. With the squeezy lime juice, because I didn�t have the dishes or silverware yet to cut the lime with.
Halfway tempted to print this out so that when I think I am having a bad day, I can remember that it pales in comparison to this poor woman. Posted by DaveH at June 16, 2008 9:28 AM
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