i am an idiot

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yes, me, the one with 'idiot' stamped on her forehead.
dont ask, pleeeeeeeeeeese, just give empathy and condolences.
stories of how you made a total dick of yourself will also assist in my current state.

god i feel stupid!

― donna (donna), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

at least you're employed, I assume.

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Were you drunk? Can you claim to have been?

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

neither *hangs head in absolute shame*

― donna (donna), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you open a loadded film magazine after pulling an all nighter?

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ah okay so you feel like me, basically.

― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel your pain.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you hide the body in what you later discovered was the future site of a Wal-Mart, and excavation begins tomorrow?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend N was fired from her job this week for supposedly "looking at porn" at work. No warnings or talks first mind you. She was looking at clothes sites like HotTopic. But apparrently this company think that is porn, because they are SMRT. They also, so I'm told, fired some other guy for being "a raver" because that must have meant he was a drug user.

So she's feeling pretty bad right now too :(

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you orbit. :-)

― donna (donna), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Donna, no one is a bigger idiot than I am... I'm with you, sister.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i called aol tonite cos my online bank statement just added itemized charges, and they were billing me; i haven't been using aol for more than a year. dude told me i'd been a paying customer for years, when i wanted to quit they'd offered me two free months as a 'closing gift' and i'd said whatever fine...meaning after the two months they just kept billing me until this evening.

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Last week I logged off AIM, which I rarely do. I wasn't sure of my password when I logged back on, though I thought I knew it. It didn't work. I proceeded to try every password I could think of, none of which worked. So I went to the web site to have them email me the password. It seemed to be taking forever, so I checked the web site again. You couldn't ask again within 24 hours or they'd take LONGER to send you your password. Very customer-friendly, AOL is. So, I wait a day and try again. The email never comes. I think of my spam filters and delete several of those and try again. I wait a day. The email never comes. I figure I'm going to have to abandon my account altogether and get a new one. As a last-ditch effort, I figure I'll try some passwords again. I try the password that I had INITIALLY tried. It worked.

Also, a couple of weeks ago, I forgot my phone number. I have had this phone number for several years now. I dial it all the time to check my voice mail, but I completely forgot it and had to look it up.

The other day I was giving directions to a friend and kept getting right and left confused, even using the hand trick.

I'm tired a lot and have a tendency to get really dumm at times as a result. I had another example of the impressive levels of moronishness that I can achieve, but I have, naturally enough, forgotten it.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hi donna whats haps

― duane, Friday, 5 December 2003 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, g--ff, you have to be absolutely tenacious with AOL. I had to stay on the phone for like 40 minutes with the AOL customer service rep when I wanted to cancel, before he'd relent. (He offered the "two free months," too -- I said, "I don't want to have anything to do with your company anymore. I want to completely sever our ties, and I'm within my rights as a customer to do so." Although by the end of the call, I wasn't so patient.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

This morning I used my last pound coin which I had been saving for the bus. I put it in the ticket machine AND THE MACHINE ATE IT!!! No ticket, no coin back, no nothing! I was standing on Southampton Row swearing like a freaking madman at the thought of having to walk all the way to the bank to get some more cash, then buying something to get change, and having to find another ticket machine, which would take hours. Then I remembered that the 18 has been changed to one of those bendy-busses WHICH DOESN'T CHECK YOUR TICKETS!!! So I got on the bus anyway and sat at the back like a fare evader. And then I felt like an idiot because I *HAD* paid anyway. Sigh.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i bumped my head getting off the bus, it hurt a little - then i went flipmode

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yesterday I paid 25 euros of library fee because I'd forgot to return a big bunch of books, even though I had no reason to keep them overtime, and I could've easily renewed the loan in the InterWeb. I just forgot. This wouldn't be a big problem if I had a job, but I'm a full-time, piss-poor student right now, and 25 euros is like a week's worth of food for me. So I guess I'll be eating macaroni and beans until Christmas...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, because I'm so poor, I can't afford to buy warm winter shoes or gloves, and my old shoes are worn out and my old gloves I have lost. So I hope I get new shoes and gloves as a Christmas presents from my parents, and be cold in my toes and fingers until then.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i found about 50 quid's worth of cheques that i never cashed and now they're expired and crumbling and staring and pointing at me and laughing. They don't know about the lighter i just bought.

― ken c, Friday, 5 December 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

But in the end those are just material things. I hope you're feeling better, Donna, and wish that you will get over whatever has happened to you.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

'Just material things' -- like food and shelter.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What I meant is, I still got food and shelter, their quality has just dropped, and things will get better in January when I get my student loan. But the most important thing is I have people who care about me and who'll come to my help if I ever need help.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

donna, i am an idiot too. i know thats little comfort but you inspired me to admit it (again)

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

HA!

Today my boss asked me to send an email to everyone in the company, including all 5 offices, in hopes of finding someone to replace me. In the email, I accidentally typed "Multi-tast." THEN a bunch of people made fun of him saying, you really do need an assistant! Then they found out I did and were just like, "Oh, uh..."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

NO! YOU ARE NOT AN IDIOT!! I'M MORE OF AN ASS THAN YOU ARE!!!

― anonymous annoyance, Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I lost my cool new worker gloves that made me look all
Prole-badass and stuff that I'd only had for like a week. I can never hang on to stuff like that!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Years ago I had a bad breakup with a girl. Two days later I received a crank answering machine message from this girl and I called her back, she wasn't in, so I left a message bitching about her leaving that message and basically flipped out on her. I never spoke to her again but of course I found out within weeks that the message was in fact from someone else entirely. I sure hope she didn't save that crazed message for comedic purposes.... =(

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

I just checked an inbox from an old email account that I haven't used since I quit CTCL... and there's this email from a band I REALLY FREAKING LOVE, asking if I would write their press release.

D'OH! I so would have done it, as well. I feel really foolish. I'm a total freaking idiot.

Actually, no, they're the idiots for not checking and finding a more recent address for me, but still. The guy doesn't even know my real name. I wonder if I should write back and say "BTW, do you still need one?" except it was sent two months ago now and I would feel like a real moron. Argh. I AM AN IDIOT.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Send them an email linking to your post here. All will be forgiven. Maybe.

― Skottie, Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

No. It would be bad if they found ILX. I've talked about them here. Quite a bit.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

just write them what you wrote here! and then hey presto they'll have yr new email address

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(I feel foolish because I was supposed to go round their studio to help with a soundart project, but I got food poisoning and wimped out at the last minute and now I'm convinced that they HAAAAAAAAAATE me but that probably makes me even more of an idiot.)

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost everyone has had an old email account they rarely use anymore, I'm sure they would understand if you explained it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

again.
can't believe it.
I should just live under a rock, and stay there.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry. we all do dumb shit.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's ok donna. it won't matter in a week. really.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm pretty sure you're not

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost) Donna, part of our human nature states that we are all imperfect beings. So any time you think you're "being an idiot" is actually just probably you making some mistake that you either perceive to be major or note is larger than the smaller ones you'd be more likely to dismiss. In other words, don't worry about it, hon. We all make mistakes. You are not an idiot.

(Apologies if this comes across as a "duh, other people have been saying this, you big stupid" post.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

it took me more than 7 years of living around the corner from a subway station and major thoroughfare (and 30 years of living in NY) to realize that i don't need to wait for the light to cross the street, i can just cross underground through the subway entrance

― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

aw.

― very quotatious (tehresa), Saturday, 6 December 2008 02:53 (sixteen years ago)

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