Well, we asked for to hear your "bad day" stories, and the Greenstocker's are responding. There are going to be prizes for the top 3 stories, check out the contest page for details. Here are a few of the entries we've received so far, if you think you have a good or better story, send it to us at stephenmurray@live.ca to enter....it's that easy!
My bad day was more like a 24 hour or a lil more bad day
My 1st Traveling Experience (I went alone)
The Plane Ride and my first day.... It started out pretty bad, but not so bad that i wanted to go home. First of all, I had a 13 hour flight and visited 5 airports to get to my destination, and at every airport I was at, I had at least a 3 hour wait.. When I left Moncton, New Brunswick Dec 18,2002 I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia about 20minutes later. Then after waiting for about 3 hours I got on a medium size plane to Toronto. Again, I waited about 3 hours in Toronto to get a HUGE plane to Incheon, Seoul. My flight was HORRIBLE! There was so much turbulance it was impossible to sleep. When i did fall asleep the captain would wake everyone up and warn us about the turbulance. When i arrived in Incheon, my largest piece of luggage was missing, and of course there was no english speakers around to help me and i had to hurry or i would miss my plane. I finally talked to someone, or should i say, we used pictures to get our point across about what my baggage looked like. So, after this horrible episode i had to figure out what Shuttle bus i was suppose to get on to get to Kimpo airport. What a task this was. I asked 3 or 4 times and every person told me a different bus. Finally, a boy that was on my plane (Did i mention i was the only foreigner on the plane) came up to me and asked if i needed some help, he said i looked a bit upset. Anyway, he pointed me to the right bus and i ended up making it just in time cause it was about to leave. Then i got to the airport and got on a small plane to Daegu. Guess what happend when i arrived in Daegu; My director wasn't there to pick me up. Some how i had good intuition, that i was going to lose my luggage so i had packed a lot of stuff in my carry-ons and i had a feeling that my director wasn't going to be there. I called her and she said that she didn't know that i was arriving today. WOW! Figures, nothing seems to go as planned in Korea (from my experience thus far anyway) So it took her about an hour to get to the airport to pick me up. Then we went to lunch. Lunch looked amazing. It was a traditional Korean setting and all the food ended up being horrible and spicy. This is my first day in Korea, I was definitly not ready to jump right into eating spice. After eating i was taken to my institute/Hogwon where i would be working, to meet the kids... Let's remember now.... I havnt showered in over 20 hours and have barely slept and it is about 1pm in Korea, and i was taken to a place where i had to deal with over 100 kids from 1pm until 8pm. She let me leave an hour early, because she figured i must have been tired, HOW KIND! What made things even more frusterating is that my apartment wasn't ready so i had to stay at my director's house the first night. That wasn't that bad because she seemed really nice. (Looks and attitudes are sometimes deceiving in Korea, i dont think the people realize how BLUNT they are). She turned into a nightmare and so did my month. Just the first 30 hours were definitly by far the worst. I did however, finish my year in of teaching, just not in the job position i was originally hired for.
My worst day ever was when I was fifteen. I went to "the beach" near Petty, a place where me and friends hang out. I got drunk and high. Little did I know that when I got back in petty my parents were there to pick me up and take me home.Well long story short, they found out, and that's my worst day ever!
The Ultimate Bad Day Could All Start When First Thing In The Morning There's No Water, No Coffee, No Shower....No Nothing. The Fact There Was A Wedding To Be Early That Afternoon, Something Had To Be Done. So We Started With The Trip To The Hair Dresser. I Specificly Stated I Wanted Ringlets, When I Walked Outta There I Looked Like A Life Sized Poodle. At That Time There Was No Time To Start Over So I Had To Go As Is. As Mad As I Was At That Point, My Clothes Were All Way To Small, So Sucking In My Gut I Had To Try To Fit Into Something That Looks Like It Belongs To My 2 Year Old Sister. As We Were Walking Through The Deli Aisle At Our Local Food Outlet, I'm Teasing My Mother By Picking Up A Giant Pepperoni Stick and Putting It Between My Legs. I Turned To My Mom And Asked Her "Hey Mom, Wouldn't You Like One Of These?" ( Hope You Know What I Was Doing, lol ) I Turned, My Mom Was Gone And There Was A Man Standing There Looking At Me. I Was Never So Embarrassed As I Looked Over And Saw My Mom Just Laughing Herself To Death At Me....I Was So Mad. Then It Started To Rain, And Well, Hair Curls And Rain....You Get The Point, My Hair Was Flat As'Ol Hell, My Make-Up All Down My Soaking Wet Face....And The Wedding Was In Fifteen Minutes. Well, I Went To That Wedding. I Held My Head Down Because I Smelled Something On The Bottom Of My Shoe....Yeah, Dogs Mark Their Territory Just About Everywhere. I Went Right Home After The Ceremony And Slept The Night Away. The Worst Day Ever....If You're Female!
