Saturday, October 4, 2008

Sat5 - existential edition

Quoth Sartre, "L'enfer, c'est les autres." And who am I to argue with that? Hell is indeed other people. Cherished reader, your five personal hell-on-earth situations:
  1. A three day reggae festival.
  2. Being lectured by a 20-something Trotskyite on how to be politically effective.
  3. Watching your co-worker's not-very-good Heart cover band at a biker bar.
  4. 5th Period - Chemistry - Mr. Bilbrey.
  5. Being stuck in line for anything behind a high school tour group.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

#4

Anonymous said...

#1

lex dexter said...

5) hangover - the one where you wake up at 1:30 pm with your shoes on. the one where you're basically still drunk.

4) stomach flu that requires multiple bathroom trips and horrible smells. this is particularly bad when you're not in you're house, and have to impress upon friends/hosts/small business owners for their porcelain hospitality.

3) the day after election day, 2004.

2) hangover - the one where you find out about highlights from the previous evening and are "surprised" by accounts of your own antics.

1) hangover - the sweaty, guilty, basic hangover is in fact hell on earth.

did i mention i feel great right now?

lex dexter said...

wow, i notice that all of my hells are introverted ones.

dr said...

1. Dealing with authorities who (a) have the power to seriously fuck me over; and (b) are willing to merely moderately fuck me over if only I would agree with their absurd justification for fucking with me at all.

2. Tooth pain.

3. [redacted]

4. [redacted]

5. [redacted]

dave3544 said...

5. Having a paper due the next day.

4. Daughter has a sleep over with more than one girl.

3. Attending a middle school musical production of Beauty and the Beast because my daughter is a stage hand.

2. Dinner party with people I don't know.

1. Christmas with the in-laws.

Anonymous said...

19. Sending an email message to one person, let's say a friend, with personal information that accidentally goes to a list serve instead.
20. loosing anything unintentionally
21. 3-day (new) country music festival
22. low blood sugar in the middle of a desert, or wherever