Just Not My Day!

You know those days when the only thing missing is to have a big red sign bouncing in front of you telling you in capital letters that “This is a shitty day!”?
Well today is one of those days…

I had to wake up early to go for this “thing” in downtown Tunis, and it turned out a complete waste of time. Blah blah blah… Ah shutup already!

Then I had to go pay my car insurance. I’m with Star Assurances, and my contract was done at this small branch in La Marsa, next to my parents’ place. I used to give my dad the money to pay it for me as it’s just across the street from their place, but this year, they closed that branch and merged it with a bigger one in the beginning of La Marsa.

Anyway, I was driving to La Marsa, minding my own business, not really speeding, or at least it didn’t feel like I was, especially at this place between Ain Zaghouan and Carrefour where the road is really wide and is made up of 4 or 5 lanes. Obviously the cops didn’t share my opinion, and they picked me up on their radar, waved me to the side, took away my driving license and gave me a speeding ticket!!!
They say the speed limit is 70Km/h there. What is it with these illogical speed limits we have sometimes? This specific place should at least have a 90 Km/h speed limit.

However, as if that wasn’t enough, I drove on to La Marsa and didn’t find the damn insurance company branch!
I know where it is, and I go exactly there, but nope, the sign is gone and nothing says where they went.
I ask their ex-neighbours and each one points me to a different direction. I drive all around La Marsa looking for them, and nothing!
I call the main branch on the phone, an answering machine tells me to hang on until someone replies, but no one does!!!

This is so damn unprofessional!!
You shut a branch, merge it with another branch, then shut that branch and move to somewhere else, and I, the paying client, am not notified about any of all this. All I get is a reminder that I have to pay!
I mean, it’s not enough that insurance is the biggest scam mankind ever created and that I personally believe it’s 100% legal theft, I also have to deal with all this unprofessionalism! Please!

So, after cursing the hell out of the world, I just go home in the shittiest mood.
I mean, basically, today on a weekend, I woke up early to go out, get a speeding ticket and then come back with a bad mood. Very nice!!

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Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Mohamed Marwen Meddah is a Tunisian-Canadian, web aficionado, software engineering leader, blogger, and amateur photographer.

11 thoughts on “Just Not My Day!”

  2. :))) It’s ok Marwen, some days are just like you describe; nothing works! I guess we just have to live with it and, as the British nicely put it: it could always be worse!

    Anyway, nchallah haka hadd el bes. Turn the page and move on, Monday morning will be lucky and cheerful I’m sure! 🙂

  3. At least it’s a weekend over there, it is the first day in the week over here (UAE). My Saturday was shitty too, generally speaking I hate Sats.

    Cheer up, shit happens 🙂

  4. If it didn’t happen to you it definitely should happen to somebody else, so cheer up and be sure that we merely know that it was not our day only because the other days were much more better 🙂

  5. Thanks guys 🙂

    Today was a better day, basically because I locked myself at home, had some good sleep, had Mloukhia for lunch, watched a nice movie and had some fun playing some PS2 games.

  6. MMM : out of curiosity:) I don’t know if it was a typing-error or may be I am wrong, do you call Mloukhia mnoukhia with “n”? 😛

  7. I think he meant mloukhia, after all it is his favourite dish! 😀

    BTW shame about your bad day!!!!!! I hope you have a million better days 😀

  10. May I join in on the “Just Not My Day” club?

    On the very day you wrote this entry, I was on a snowboard/ski trip with 9 of my friends.

    First of all, there was a massive storm while skiing, so the snow was like needles to my face while going downhill.

    – We lost a friend who was snowboarding for the very first time.

    – We left back for our rented condo at 3PM thinking that our friend might have headed back there. Unfortunately, there was a HUGE accident on the road and all of the streets were closed. We ended up waiting an hour outside in the snow to get onto the shuttle bus.

    – Once inside, we waited another 2 hours in the parking lot with nothing to do.

    – Made it to our connection stop, but found out that our second bus to our condo stopped making its rounds at 5:30PM! So I had to be one of those disgruntle customers and demanded they find another bus to take us home because it was out of our control that it took us 3 hours to get there.

    – 45 minutes later, a bus came for us and drove us to our condo.

    – While walking into our complex, we were all exhausted from our day and said, “Finally! Home Sweet Home!” We find our friend waiting in the hallway (YaY!) and then we stick the key into our lock and… the mechanism didn’t work! The key went in fine and turned like it should, but it just wasn’t unlocking!

    – We called the owner of the rented condo and he said that a locksmith should be showing up in 30 min. We waited inside the COOOOLD hallway for about 45 min. and then gave the owner a call one more time saying the locksmith was still not there and perhaps he can give us the guy’s number in case he’s lost in the storm. Owner says, “If you don’t like waiting in the hallway, you all can just wait outside!” ARGH… another 45 minutes would pass until the locksmith came.

    Luckily, the locksmith was a cool guy. We all went inside the condo, changed our clothes, turned on the fireplace, and we all stuck our toes in front of it trying to thaw out.

    And that, sir, was just not my day. 😀

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