ever open your mouth to whine about your lot, then discover that someone you know has just had some terrible news that puts your own pathetic complaints way back into the cupboard where they belong?

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just happened to me. made me feel like a lowly worm for even thinking I have it tough.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 5 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

all the time.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably not quite as dramatic, but I've been whinging about my bruised foot/shin/ankle for a week, and today I found out that, in the same match as I was injured, James suffered a double fracture of his arm. It happened inside the first five minutes and he left, thinking he'd strained it. Mind you, he's a lecturer, and it's got him out of marking this year's exam papers!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 5 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The day after I fucked my ankle up, I found out that a close friend's sister had been killed in a car crash. I felt like such an ungrateful shitbag for even thinking about complaining about my lot.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

no. i complain about my lot all of the time. for good reason! whenever i hear of someone else's lot that might be shittier, i think, that's his problem... back to case in point: my lot is still shitty.

― sdf, Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"all the time" seconded.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the last year or so has been a bit disappointing and directionless for me but i know two families who've lost sons in their twenties so that has put it into perspective.

― fcussen (Burger), Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

all of the time. all of the time.

youR able to correct me Cuz you know my intended messEge, shitface.

capitalize.

― turtur, Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I was sitting in my office, writing in my journal about my shitty lot. A coworker rounded the corner and said that her neice's house was burning down to the ground. She asked to leave work to go try and help out wherever and however possible.

I felt like a shitbag when I looked back down at the page.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 5 June 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It's only human, Donna.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 5 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i have known things which are the equal of all the awful tings that have befallen posters kin here, yet i still feel deeply aggrieved without guilt by seeing soluable tea granules in the supermarket, though i have never met anyone who owns up to trying it. i am not proud of this trait, nor ashamed of it. only remains to say you wouldn't know how awful the death of a friends is unless you have stubbed your toe.

― matthew james (matthew james), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

and envy the man who knows not.

― matthew james (matthew james), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Story of my life.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 7 June 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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