Not now!

[Rydia]

I really could not think of better thread title.

So ever been in a situation where something is about to happen at the worst possible time?

The other day at my clinical, I was walking with a patient. I needed to have my hands on her while walking because she is unsteady. We were both doing fine when I started to feel sick to my stomach and like I could vomit at any minute. Anyone I could call was either with another patient or not with in ear shot. I'm starting to freak out because there was no way I could leave this patient and I was literally praying to be alright. There was also no chair around to sit this person. Luckily nothing happened and I did not get sick at all that day. The feeling lingered in my stomach though.

Another thing, it often seems that disastors happen at my house all at once. Like we were supposed to have people over last sunday and within an hour of anyone arriving, our dog tracks mud inside, a pop can exploded in the kitchen getting coke all over the place, the electricity went out for about ten minutes, a jar of jelly falls out of the refridgerator and breaks...

 

[Moogles]

I almost crapped my pants on the school bus one time. It was my senior year of high school, and I made the mistake of drinking a diet Mountain Dew in the morning.

Carbonated beverages at morning hours = massive diarrhea

So yeah, I rode peacefully in the bus for about five minutes before painful diarrhea cramps struck my stomach. I was certain I'd dump myself. There aren't many things worse than crapping your pants in a confined place with bunches of people. Fortunately, I held it for another fifteen minutes and relieved myself at school. Owned.

 

[Omega_Beast]

Oh god, thats terrible! :/ But I remember being in a similar situation way back in my younger school years.

Reading your post reminded me of the scene in Parappa the Rapper, when he is down the beach with Sunny, and he is busting for the toilet, so he has to rap battle the previous 'bosses' from the previous levels to jump the queue haha! Thats definitely a "Not now!" moment!

 

[Valvalis]

There's nothing like randomly getting your period while you're sitting in class in middle school That's all I'm gonna say.

Oh also, I remember whenever I was in grade school and had teachers walk up and down the aisles, I would always worry that they would fart in my face, because the height of your head in those desks is the same level as a human butt, and it actually happened to one of my friends once Talk about bad timing.

Or when I'm gathering food for people's orders at work and suddenly have to sneeze >.> I sneeze in the opposite direction of the food, of course, but the customer can hear me do it since the lobby's not far from the back room, so they probably think I'm sneezing all over their food

 

[AddleBoy]

I remember there was this one time about a year ago when I still technically lived on campus; I walked to the Subway that was about fifteen minutes away. I liked going there and bringing a sammich back to eat in my apartment while I watched anime. I get to Subway and back with my dinner, and just when I'm about to eat it, we have a fire drill. I had to wait outside for about half an hour before I could eat it. I had the sammich right up to my mouth.

It wasn't that big of a deal, though. I just went back and ate.

 

[Linnaete]

You know when technology suddenly starts hating you? Yeah, that is pretty much a part of my daily life. I could be busy at work on an important document, feverishly hurrying up in completing it before a session ends when the programme decides to crash on me literally moments before I save. Unbelievable. How often that has happened to me (be it in Word, Excel, Powerpoint or even the college's Photoshop) is pretty much overwhelming to me. I could just say that I'm usually unlucky, which is more or less an accurate description of me.

Oh yes, laryngitis. The wonderful timing of receiving it. I've caught laryngitis about five times in my life as far as I know of (ominously more often now) and it just so happened that in one of the times I had it, I had to do a brief solo in the choir. It was my first time embarking on a solo (trust me, it's something I would never volunteer to do again) and laryngitis kicked in just a couple of days beforehand. You could perhaps argue that the laryngitis probably did save me from say, making a rubbish performance or something, though I had to skip the chapel session on that day. I dunno, I did occasionally think to myself that I let the rest of the choir down. But that was years ago, so I don't tend to bother casting my mind on it now that much.

 

[Ahlchamest]

Whenever your working on a document in MS Word or something like that, then you computer starts to go crazy, then you have to exit out of Word!! That happened to me countless times. Also getting tired for no reason when there's an important thing you have to do that day

 

[Aerius Sygale]

It isn't really a huge problem, but very, very annoying when, when you just go to the washroom and have to go #2, the phone starts ringing. :/

And while I am on the Internet, there are oh so many times I get called away from the keyboard/computer to do some chore or something at a bad time, like when I am in the middle of something that requires my immediate attention, or someone just having sent me an IM on MSN, that sucks too. Meh...

 

[Valvalis]

Meh, I've got a good one. Finding out really good news, and then really bad news at the same time. It's just happened to me recently, and it's a total mindfuck Because, I want to be completely happy about the good thing, but can't get the bad thing off my mind. And so, I feel like I can't really appreciate the good thing quite as much and go crazy over it because this stupid bad thing is nagging me in the back of my head

Also, any time a coworker comes into the back room and sees me checking messages on my phone, or eating -________________________- Because even though I hardly ever do those things at work, I always have to worry that they're going to see me doing that and think I do that sort of thing all the time, and I could lose my job over it if they really thought that The amount of work that I get done proves I don't do it, but still

 

[Espurr]

I've got one for you. Having your car randomly break down on you when you're at least 15 miles away from home. Now that sucked. That happened to me months ago. It also didn't help that my phone died and I didn't have my car charger with me at the time. On the plus side at least it broke down in a parking lot in a shopping plaza and not on the road in the middle of no where.

 

[Soltharn]

I'd say the worst 'not now' moment was finding out my nan had died as I was getting ready to go out for my birthday a few years back. She'd been in and out of hospital for years, yet every time I prepared myself to say goodbye, she'd pull through and return to relatively good health.

It was just so unexpected for her to actually pass away, and I dealt with it badly due to it being my first direct encounter with someone I know dying, and even to this day I regret not being old enough to grasp the concept of death enough to say a proper goodbye to her.

Other than that, my appendix burst as I was getting ready to go the cinema with some friends and I was rushed to hospital for an emergency operation, to make matters worse it was discovered over the operating table that I was allergic to one of the chemicals used to dull the pain, so my survival chance was pretty low. Thankfully I managed to pull through, although this all happened a week before I was set to sit an important set of exams.

So I always keep an open mind and sympathise with people who have a lot of things going on, because they certainly seem to have a habit of all happening at once!

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

It was on our August holidays last year and Steve was driving home from a mates the night before we were due to go on our holiday and his car broke down at the lights in a right turning lane.

I was out with my friend as it was my birthday that day and when I got home I found out.

We went to pick it up with a tow truck only to find that it had gone.

Found out later that the council took it away after we called the police and they said that the council wouldn't do that and that it was probably stolen. Police are so dumb sometimes. You'd think they'd get enough calls like that to know about this sort of thing.

Anyway Steve was actually willing to leave it there until the morning, so if it wasn't for me we would've been searching for it on the morning of the first day of our holidays!

We drove around all night the night before trying to find it when we first thought it was stolen. We were so tired the next day and had to make a three hour trip up North as well. <_<

It really was the worst timing. <_<

 

[Tyler Breeze]

These type of things happen to me so often, it's normal. Random sickness, random injury, random Broski crushing my foot, I'm effing used to it already. Though it has kinda died down recently. The last big thing that happened was me getting a sprained ankle bringing in groceries about 2 months ago. Other than that, most of these natural disasters have been avoided. These happened way too often about 6 years ago. Those were dark days. I was constantly throwing up something. It was terrible. Luckily I'm better now. I think I gained a stomach of steel because of that. Nothing I eat or drink bothers me anymore.