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noticeofeviction
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Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP.
#14322696 - 04/20/11 12:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Last night I slept over at this girl's house who I'm seeing right now and per usual we stay up til like 5 in the morning. She has work at 10, so we decide to set the alarm for 8 so we can eat breakfast before she has to go. I tell her I'll set the alarm on my phone, but she is completely against this idea. She stresses that being late to work more than EXACTLY 5 minutes means getting fired, no exception or room for excuses. So she is more comfortable setting the alarm on her own phone...
I insist that she puts her trust in me, and explain to her how this is an exercise of trusting people, and explain how I have never steered her wrong, so in conclusion she needs to turn the alarm off her phone and let me set it on mine. Don't ask me why I did any of this... She very very reluctantly gives in, and so I set my alarm and we go to sleep...
My alarm does wake us up at 8, as it should have... But we decide to keep sleeping another hour and wake up at 9, so I reset the alarm to 9 o'clock. That second alarm, didn't go off... So we wake up at 9:55, 5 minutes before she was scheduled to be at work. She's allowed the 5 minutes of tardiness so in total, if she's not at work in 10 minutes she gets fired.
In a moment's notice she's out the door running to work. She (luckily) ends up not getting fired only because the manager on duty had a crush on her... but words can't even begin to describe how much of a dumbass I feel like. I don't think I can look her in the face any more after this. She's really nice about it and is playing it off like it's no big deal but it's almost 11 right now and thinking about this still makes me ill 
Should I make it up to her? Do something for her? How big of a gesture? Or should I just let it go?
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realfuzzhead



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ouch.
I hate those situations. I mostly just keep repeating "im a dumbass im a dumbass im a dumbass"
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SteezeMonkey
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Just fuckin' pet her kneecaps, Feral. You know, diddle her twat.
(Props if you get the reference.)
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ComputerTekGuy
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: SteezeMonkey]
#14322726 - 04/20/11 12:06 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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dumbass
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mescalinician
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You better clean her place up really, really well and cook dinner for her.
You owe her for that.
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Anthony917
why dont we do it in the road



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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: mescalinician] 1
#14322763 - 04/20/11 12:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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hindsight says you shouldn't have stayed up until 5am if you had to get up at 8am. hindsight also says that you should have gotten up at 8am instead of trying to sleep for another hour. HINDSIGHT ALSO SAYS that you shouldn't have been a dumbass and possibly set...2 alarms...?
as for what you should do...? Is she pissed at you? If so, then you need to do something. Can I ask why you need to stay up until 5 in the AM? That just makes waking up the next morning sooo much more difficult.
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Patlal
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: Anthony917]
#14322792 - 04/20/11 12:20 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Its in situations like these that you think to yourself
Why the fuck did I insist so fuckin much on such a small unimportant thing like this...
Followed by:
What point could I have possibly prove by being right on that issue.
P.S. What kind of job (or boss) insists so much on being on time without error that would justify being fired for 5 minutes?
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Takura001
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: mescalinician]
#14322796 - 04/20/11 12:21 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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mescalinician said: You better clean her place up really, really well and cook dinner for her.
You owe her for that.
I agree. If she is saying it's alright, well she's probably lying. I mean, I would expect at least the gesture of a nice diner or cleaning the house or just doing something abnormally nice compared to normal. You know, that one thing she always asks you to do but it never gets done, or that one thing that she HATES to do.
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: Anthony917]
#14322819 - 04/20/11 12:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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cool story bro but you cleerly havnt fucked up too much as you said she's ok, and didnt get fired!, that would have been more fucked up for you so count your blessings and +1 to the meal and general kissing ass for the next week or more
invest in a good alarm too
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Gumby
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Ack that sucks. I'd maybe buy her some flowers and write her a letter telling her exactly what you told us if you care a lot about it. Let her know how bad you feel about it and how you know you fucked up and you're sorry. She'll get over it, especially if she knows that you care about her.
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noticeofeviction
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: Patlal]
#14322876 - 04/20/11 12:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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mescalinician said: You better clean her place up really, really well and cook dinner for her.
You owe her for that.
I'm thinking this, too...
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Gumby said: Ack that sucks. I'd maybe buy her some flowers and write her a letter telling her exactly what you told us if you care a lot about it. Let her know how bad you feel about it and how you know you fucked up and you're sorry. She'll get over it, especially if she knows that you care about her.
She's actually already "over" it. She never made it a big deal she just said it's both of our faults, even though it's clearly not.
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Patlal said: P.S. What kind of job (or boss) insists so much on being on time without error that would justify being fired for 5 minutes?
She's a projectionist at a movie theater and they have absolutely no leeway as movies have to get started on time, I suppose...
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Anthony917
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actually it is both of your faults.
you were stupid for not setting the alarm properly, and insisting on being the ONLY one to set an alarm, and she is stupid for trusting you to perform such a simple task. She should have set her own alarm.
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noticeofeviction
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: Anthony917]
#14323070 - 04/20/11 01:31 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm thinking of sending flowers to her work right now.
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ifoundwaldo


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dwpineal
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noticeofeviction said: I'm thinking of sending flowers to her work right now.
For sure! Nothing wromg with being wrong if you can be an adult and take responsibility. Being wrong happens to everyone, being mature about being wrong...well, that shows character.
Flowers now would be super good, or flowers on the table when she gets home.
Maybe cook something for her or take her out to dinner tonight.
And let her know in the future, you will let her set her alarm too
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Takura001
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: dwpineal]
#14323141 - 04/20/11 01:52 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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dwpineal said:
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noticeofeviction said: I'm thinking of sending flowers to her work right now.
For sure! Nothing wromg with being wrong if you can be an adult and take responsibility. Being wrong happens to everyone, being mature about being wrong...well, that shows character.
Flowers now would be super good, or flowers on the table when she gets home.
Maybe cook something for her or take her out to dinner tonight.
And let her know in the future, you will let her set her alarm too 
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gerryjarcia
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noticeofeviction said: I'm thinking of sending flowers to her work right now.
dooooooo ittttttttt!!!!!!!
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pouihi
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noticeofeviction said: Last night I slept over at this girl's house who I'm seeing right now and per usual we stay up til like 5 in the morning. She has work at 10, so we decide to set the alarm for 8 so we can eat breakfast before she has to go. I tell her I'll set the alarm on my phone, but she is completely against this idea. She stresses that being late to work more than EXACTLY 5 minutes means getting fired, no exception or room for excuses. So she is more comfortable setting the alarm on her own phone...
I insist that she puts her trust in me, and explain to her how this is an exercise of trusting people, and explain how I have never steered her wrong, so in conclusion she needs to turn the alarm off her phone and let me set it on mine. Don't ask me why I did any of this... She very very reluctantly gives in, and so I set my alarm and we go to sleep...
My alarm does wake us up at 8, as it should have... But we decide to keep sleeping another hour and wake up at 9, so I reset the alarm to 9 o'clock. That second alarm, didn't go off... So we wake up at 9:55, 5 minutes before she was scheduled to be at work. She's allowed the 5 minutes of tardiness so in total, if she's not at work in 10 minutes she gets fired.
In a moment's notice she's out the door running to work. She (luckily) ends up not getting fired only because the manager on duty had a crush on her... but words can't even begin to describe how much of a dumbass I feel like. I don't think I can look her in the face any more after this. She's really nice about it and is playing it off like it's no big deal but it's almost 11 right now and thinking about this still makes me ill 
Should I make it up to her? Do something for her? How big of a gesture? Or should I just let it go?

To be so worried about this situation should mean that you're really into her. I think the situation itself is no biggie. Take her out to dinner, some wine to relax, and all should be good.
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noticeofeviction
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: pouihi]
#14323157 - 04/20/11 01:55 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, it should be all good. She's a really good gal and while she was completely insistent that I don't do anything to try to make up for this, I sent her a nice bouquet to her workplace
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PreparationH
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Re: Ladies and gents, I have FUCKED UP. [Re: dwpineal]
#14323167 - 04/20/11 01:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"It's like a trust building exercise... trust me"
el oh el to infinity that is fucking hilarious but sucks hahahaha
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