The worst day!

[grafix]

OK, After the day I had yesterday I thought it a good idea to post the worst days that you have had.

[joey_picus]

:sad: What happened yesterday Mike?

My worst day...probably the time I spent a lot of it in hospital because I thought my mother was going to die, that was quite bad. In my experience though seemingly bad things always seem to work out fine in the end...they always seem to for me. Could be just optimistic though.

[grafix]

And I will start.

OK, I was working in Madrid this week and I awoke to the sound of my rooms phone going off. I had over slept and one of my Italian collegues was phoning my room to invite me for a days hard work. I stumbled into the elevator, threw down a coffee as one does and went to our car.

We drove to the first site an found that some bright sparks had disconnected the generator from the screen ( I work for a company that makes HUGE video screens using LEDs ) and were in the process of laying out power cables to connect into the local mains grid. So we packed up and went to the next screen. Well, seeing as it was my Italian collegues turn to do the modification I left him to set up his harness etc while I set up the access ladder. As he neared the top of the 20M tower he called down to me (Mike, I am sorry but I have forgotten the keys. I have left them in my hotel room!) Down he came, I packed up and off we went towards our hotel.

Not far down the road we were pulled over by the police. My collegue ( who turn was to drive ) had his hands free ear thingies and throat mic. Pity really, these arnt allowed in Spain! So, we were escorted to a local cash point and told to hand over 105 euro or have the car impounded! 105 euro lighter we made it back to the hotel.

When we got back to our hotel I recieved a frantic phone call from my other Italian collegue who was having problems at another of our screens. I duly setup my laptop and access the customers private network only to find out that it wasnt working. The internet fault eventually turned out to be due to the Spanish 3G network going down in Madrid. We, keys now safely in our pockets we got back in our car and went to the screen that I had recieved the phone call about. I harnessed up and climbed up the mast and got into the screen only to find that some bright sparks during the previous night had had a little fun and pulled some cables out. How they got up there I will never know. Its very very dangerous withouut the right safety kit.

Well, screen fixed, a happy customer and our stomachs growling we decided to have a spot of lunch. Burger King here we go. We found the nearest one and promptly filled our empty bellies and fully sated ourselves.

Well, walking back to our car we discovered that there was a small pile of glass next to the passenger door. Some idiot had stoved in the passenger quater light. Oh well, never mind. Idiots will be idiots.

We opened the boot and told Mauro to take his laptop where he promptly said ( what laptop? its gone!) So had mine, and my Tom Tom. Oh no! We had been done! Like most travelling engineers I carry my life in my laptop case. However, I was lucky. Seeing as in Spain you have to carry ID I had my passport in my pocket so I was able to leave the country.

Well, after a visit to the local police station ( Spanish cops are pretty good. They do have a sence of humor )we filled out HUGE amounts of paper work. I have a copy and its all in Spanish!

OK you lote. beat that!

Mike.

[john]

the day i started 6 form - parties finished but nightclubs started lol

but 6 form sucks

[grafix]

Oh, a piece of advice here. if you do have your car broken into in Spain make sure that you tell them EVERYTHING that was stolen. Once the statement is finished you CANNOT add to it. Basically, if its not on the statement you can not claim for it. Last night as I was sulking I went to bed early (well, I had no laptop to keep me amused did I) and looked for my beautiful SONY ebook only to remember that it was in my laptop case. Thats one thing I cant claim back on now.

So, take this as a warning.

[anukhet]

I wish you hadnt have done that Mike, I started to remember the worst day I ever had but the similarities to a day that we both remember are too close for comfort.

[liambryant]

The Day I heard that one of my friends (who I happened to have lost touch with) had died after battling childhood leukemia for 3 years, a shame, because he was one of the nicest people I had the pleasure of knowing :sad:

[grafix]

Hi Joey, Karoline and Liam. I started this post as a bit of a tongue in cheek post. Yes, I had a bad day yesterday but I didnt think that this type of post would happen.

This post is supposed to be a light hearted bad day thingie. Whilst I am very sorry for your loss and grief I can only offer my appologues for raising this topic.

Mike.

[joey_picus]

Meh, I took it as fairly lighthearted too, like I said things usually turn out okay (mine did, mums fine and still telling me that I should shut up about robots) so no need to apologise to me.

My sympathies with Karoline and Liam though :sad:

[liambryant]

Sorry About That

Anyway, cheers for ur kind words Mike, the day I heard he went, I didnt post a thread about it in the general chatter section because I was too sad to.