What made you unhappy today? v2.0

[couch tater]

Oddly enough, not really seeing any humor in it at this time.

[Shantel]

Oddly enough, not really seeing any humor in it at this time.

Perhaps you have misunderstood me, I am referring to my own face, you wouldn't want it. Anyway, hope your day gets better hon!

[suzifrommd]

thinking about how sick and tired I am of looking in the mirror and seeing nothing but an ugly thing trying too hard to look like what they're not.

Well, if the picture you posted a few weeks back is any indication, you've got no ugly. I would love to look like you.

But I do know what it's like not to like what you see in the mirror.

Please accept a hug.

[FTMDiaries]

He gets the award for being an insensitive dork!

Y'know, I'd love to give him just such an award, but he's already earned so many of them that I doubt he has room for another. His mantelpiece probably looks like Steven Spielberg's.

[Padma]

Grmmbl. Everyone gets the same Decapeptyl shot regardless of body mass - so obviously, a tall solid person like me needs their shot more often than a short person of slight build, but we all get it at 12-weekly intervals. Which means I have to put up with 2-3 weeks of getting horribly horny before my shot is due.
I'm going to persuade my GP to test my T level before my shot, so I can see whether it's psychological or biochemical, e cause it seems to me they should take this into account, if it's really happening, so I need evidence first. Meanwhile, my next shot is due a week from now, and I'm horribly priapic, and I hate it.

[FTMDiaries]

I work in a prosperous town that has a high percentage of over-entitled people... you know the sort, the ones who think they can click their fingers and all the 'little people' will jump to do their bidding.

Well, at lunchtime I was standing in the queue in a local coffee shop, minding my own business. A well-heeled older couple came in & started perusing the sandwiches in the cooler to my right. The lady from that couple eventually chose a sandwich from the cooler... and suddenly pushed into the queue in front of me!

Homey don't play dat.

So I politely said to her: "Excuse me, but I'm in the queue". She just said "Yes", turned around and carried on as if I hadn't said anything! I figured she must've thought I'd asked whether she was in the queue, so I clarified by saying: "No, actually I am in the queue - you need to wait behind me".

She huffed and went to stand behind me, soon to be joined by her husband. But then she started inching steadily forwards so that by the time I was the next in line to be served, she was standing ever so slightly in front of me again!

So I turned to her and said: "Lady, could you please stand behind me in the queue, you're starting to freak me out!" She said: "Oh, I'm not trying to push in front of you, I'm just looking at the cakes on the cash desk". (Suuure you are, lady!) So I came back with: "That may be so, but you know what? I'm autistic... and having people behave in unpredictable ways makes me feel very uncomfortable, and we don't stand side-by-side in queues in this country, do we? You're freaking me out, so please move back to your proper place in the queue".

She did. But the whole confrontation left me feeling very out-of-sorts for the next few hours.

[Shantel]

I turned to her and said: "Lady, could you please stand behind me in the queue, you're starting to freak me out!" She said: "Oh, I'm not trying to push in front of you, I'm just looking at the cakes on the cash desk". (Suuure you are, lady!) So I came back with: "That may be so, but you know what? I'm autistic... and having people behave in unpredictable ways makes me feel very uncomfortable, and we don't stand side-by-side in queues in this country, do we? You're freaking me out, so please move back to your proper place in the queue".

She did. But the whole confrontation left me feeling very out-of-sorts for the next few hours.

I can so relate to this....I was at the grocery store in front of the cashier at the check-out aisle. This tall moron came up and stood right behind me, the toes of his shoes almost touching my heels. I have raging PTSD issues from walking sweep, that's the last person in a column on a patrol in a war zone, so the last thing you want is to find out someone is behind you. So I turned around and told him that was a hell of a good way to get his ass kicked. You'd think that people would realize there is a certain personal comfort zone that you don't encroach upon. Ergo the designation "Moron" for him. 

[FTMDiaries]

I was at the grocery store in front of the cashier at the check-out aisle. This tall moron came up and stood right behind me, the toes of his shoes almost touching my heels. I have raging PTSD issues from walking sweep.

Ugh! What a jerk. Some people have absolutely no consideration for other people, do they? *Hugs*

If that moron freaked you out, don't ever go shopping in South Africa. Certain cultures in SA have absolutely no concept of personal space, and if I had a penny for each time I've been barged into from behind whilst standing in a supermarket queue I'd be able to retire to my own private island. The worst one for me? Obese women pressing their breasts into my back, deliberately pushing me forwards to hurry me along. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

[N.Chaos]

I don't even know anymore.

[Constance]

I don't even know anymore.

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}

[Shantel]

The worst one for me? Obese women pressing their breasts into my back, deliberately pushing me forwards to hurry me along. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

Yeah, that one would really creep me out for sure!

[ZoeM]

Dentist.

[justmeinoz]

Having my fiancée have to go back up north this morning, and the aftereffects of my flu shot.  Yes, Cindy I did as I was told and got one. No whips will be needed.

[FTMDiaries]

Having to work with some very badly designed software. I swear, there must be some psychopaths in the software design field.

What's the first thing we learn when we study software design? User experience. C'mon people, it isn't that hard.

[Constance]

What's the first thing we learn when we study software design? User experience. C'mon people, it isn't that hard.

This is one of my biggest challenges as a support tech. Marketing tells engineering what features should be added. Only after much gnashing and weeping of teeth from the customer and customer support team does the user experience get taken into consideration.

[FTMDiaries]

This is one of my biggest challenges as a support tech. Marketing tells engineering what features should be added. Only after much gnashing and weeping of teeth from the customer and customer support team does the user experience get taken into consideration.

Steve Jobs put it very nicely when he said that Apple's philosophy is about coming up with new user experiences for their customers and then designing their products with those needs in mind so that the purchase will be a no-brainer. Whereas a lot of other tech companies tend to devise whizzy new gadgets and then try to find a way to convince customers to buy them.

If only more tech companies could think like Apple.

[ZoeM]

And, as usual, it's all because of budget priorities.

In large software projects usability is a feature. And it's not one many upper-level management types are willing to pay for. Thus we low-caste grunts spend our time making Features That Sell, and the UI ends up as a slapped-on excuse at the end.

On the other hand, when you spend all your time making UI (with marketing in the lead design role), you get Windows 8.

[FTMDiaries]

In large software projects usability is a feature. And it's not one many upper-level management types are willing to pay for.

The real irony is that UI may be a feature they don't want to pay for, but it's the one that keeps the pundits coming back for more. If you fail to consider the user's experience, they may still buy your software for its features. But they'll buy it once.

[Edge]

This is what made me unhappy on my birthday: I found that my friend, who had met me before my ex and knows that he is abusive, had added him on facebook. "Oh, it's just facebook. It doesn't mean anything." Yes, but why would she even add him? I don't know what they're relationship is and he has threatened to turn everyone against me before. "She can be friends with who she wants." Yep and I wouldn't have stopped her, but I would have cut her off. "It's unfair to make her choose between you." No, what's unfair is expecting me to put that before my safety. She took him off and apologized after I told her how unsafe and hurt I felt and pointed out that I would never add her abusive ex on facebook. (Yep, she was in the exact same boat as me and she still thought that was ok). So she apologized right? I should forget about it. Actually, I can't. I don't know if I can trust her. If I trusted everyone who apologized, I'd probably be dead by now.
(This also isn't the first hurtful thing she's done.)

[DriftingCrow]

My own stupidity made me unhappy today (lol technically yesterday since it's so late now). I was wicked tired and since I had an event all day I had to take the last commuter rail train home; I set the alarm on my phone to go off one stop before mine that way I could doze off while on the ride. But, for some reason when I heard a stop that is two stops before mine I thought it would be a great idea to turn the alarm off (why?  ) and then fell back asleep.  So, I slept through the next stop and didn't wake up til the announcement said "now departing X" my stop! Ah! So, I had to get off two stops later, and take a cab back to my stop just so I could get my car and drive home. 

Luckily, I had an awesome cabbie and he cut the timer/mileage thing off a bit early so I had a slightly cheaper ride there, and he told me he once was supposed to get off a train in Manhattan but fell asleep and didn't wake up until he was in Albany (so I am glad I wasn't on the Amtrak today! I'd probably have slept through to New Haven).