Today, I had one of the worst days of my life. I woke up at 5:40am to catch a 6:15am bus to get to work. On the way to the bus stop, I tripped on some ice and landed in my knee then fell on my forearm. Surprisingly my knee isn't injured too badly, however my forearm is swollen and hurts. A lot. My job requires some lifting of heavy objects so it was a trial.
On top of that, we were very, very, very, very busy. How busy do you ask? Well today is our busiest day of the year. We make 12x more today than the average day. So work was also stressful.
I had plans to surprise my roommate by taking his dog to get groomed and bathed as part of his Christmas present. So I leave work and go to the bus stop to head home. It is 3:30pm. The bus doesn't show on time, so I call the depot. They send a sketchy van to pick me up and drop me off at a different stop. The regular bus can't come to my area due to holiday traffic. This causes me to miss the connecting bus and I am running late. I make the next connection, she stops at a random stop and tells everyone to get off. She then says nevermind and we get back on. She then is stopped by a supervisor several stops down and we get off again and are told to get onto a new bus. To make a long story short, 3 buses later I am home at 6:15pm when I should have been home at 4:15pm.
I arrive home to find no dog. My roommate left a day early for home and took his dog with him. OF COURSE HE DOES. I then see a wrapped box on the coffee table with my name on it. Inside I'm thinking "aww, finally something nice happens to me today!" I open it. It is a piggy bank. A "decorate yourself piggy bank." I get very very angry. WHY DOES MY ROOMMATE THINK I WANT THIS? HOW IS THIS EVEN AN ATTEMPT? THIS ISN'T EVEN A FUNNY GAG GIFT! I open it. He already decorated it.
I broke down in tears. This was one of the nicest gifts ever given to me! The amount of time it took to do this must have been DAYS.
It's a Musical-themed piggy bank. Here are the musicals written on it:
PORKER PAN PORKY & BESS THE WEINER SINGER THE BOAR FROM OZ 42nd SWINE BYE BYE BACON POT BELLY ELLIOT CHITTY CHITTY BACON BITS DAMN OINKERS! BRISTLESPRAY MY POTBELLY LADY HAMMA MIA! (my personal favorite!) A YEAR WITH PIG & HOG DREAMSOWS BEST LITTLE PORKHOUSE IN TEXAS HOGWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH LEGALLY BACON BARBE Q HAMLET SWINEY TODD TICK...TICK...BOAR BACON AND THE BEAST OUR STY RIBTIME PASSING SWINE THE LAST FIVE SQUEALS THE PIGLET OF THE OPERA THE BACON'S WIFE JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMTROUGH HELLO, PIGGY JEKYLL & HOG A TALE OF TWO STYS CHICHOGO WEST SIDE SAUSAGE HOG QUIXOTE FOREVER PORK THE SWINE GARDEN THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BOAR PIG JOEY ONCE UPON A HAMHOCK THE COUNT OF MONTY CRISPO HOGS & SOWS HAMALOT HOOFLOOSE WIZARD OF OINK A CHORUS SWINE FIDDLER ON THE TROUGH ALTER HOGZ PIG RIVER PIGMALIAN YOU'RE A GOOD PIG, CHARLIE BOAR PIGLET GET YOUR GUN SPIDER-PIG SINGING IN THE BARN HOW TO SUCEED IN PIGNESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING BACON GREASE A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FRYER LIGHT IN THE PORKAZZA FARMINGTOWN IN THE STYEIGHTS
I don't like pigs. I don't collect pigs. But this I will treasure forever.
Merry Christmas, everyone!!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Got to admit, I had no idea where this post was going, but it made me smile and then laugh out loud at some of the clever titles! (Swiney Todd made me giggle!)
What a great ending to a crazy, confusing and confounding day.
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
I think my favorite is WEST SIDE SAUSAGE. Awesome!
Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters. ~ Wicked
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent
You have a pretty cool roommate, I think your gift to your roommate was pretty cool too (if you'd had time to pull it off). Thanks for sharing your story.