bad things come in 3's?

so i've heard that bad things come in threes my whole life. always three. like sneezes. sometimes they try to trick you and go one, two, long pause, then three, but it's still three. friday was no exception.

drive along the beach, all's nice and quiet, get to work, park my car in the parking garage, turn off the car, open the door...only to be welcomed by a hissing noise eminating from one of my rear tires. a screw. there's a screw sticking out of my tire. it just wedged it's little phillip's head ass in there. damn. so i bust out my jack and the spare and change the tire in the parking garage while everyone who walks by me laughs and makes comments like "hey, did ya get a flat?" no. in fact i didnt. i just like to practice cuz i'm on the effin pit crew for jeff effin gordon on the weekends.

get in the office, working on my amazing reinvention of the Easy Bake Oven, start getting a bunch of emails. pantloads even. it started out slow, and then came the avalanche or onslaught or barrage or other thesauretical/synonymical word that means a lot at once. looks like someone needs a certain cost approved. fine. i'll take care of it. still the emails come. i get the point. more emails. yes, i understand. and then a couple more just to be sure. hey, let's throw in a phone call from a senior vice president who happens to be in hong kong and proceeds to use several adult words in an overharsh attempt to get her point across (just in case the twenty emails weren't enough).

it went kinda like this: civil niceties...blah blah blah blah blah...bad word person's name...blah blah blah...can you do this for me? yes i got the emails. i'll take care of it. blah blah blah...bad words bad words...will you do this? i already told you i would. blah blah blah...we really need this...bad words bad words...will you do this? i already told you i would.

this went on for fifteen minutes and is the most attitude i think i'm allowed to give a senior vp. me, a lowly engineer, verbally abused and harangued by a supreme untouchable exec. honestly. and do you think, after all that, the costs were approved? of course not. that would've been too easy.

so far bad things happened in twos. i get to deal with all this and clean up the mess on monday. so there's the third. it's ok. it's just one day.

and by the way, my engineer-designed masterpiece that is an awesome knockoff of the Easy Bake Oven looks frightingly similar to Marvin the Martian's head. um, yeah.


- posted by yeah...about that... @ 8:19 PM