~~That one day...~~

You ever have that one day? That one day when you wake up feeling the most cheerful you felt all week and then you say to God “Thanks” when your day just starts rapidly falling apart? No? Well, you can get an example to compare with for future cases anyway. So, it was Tuesday. Not my most favourite day as the weekend was still pretty far away, but it was pretty sunny… and I woke up on time so it was alright. My alarm went off and I woke up to feel the sun’s beautiful rays in my face. I looked at my clock. It was just 8 o clock! I was going to be on time to office today and I didn’t even need to rush. So, I got up and went to brush.

Sadly, enough I was all out of toothpaste and had none left at home. But the search for one still ate up 15 of my minutes. But I was fine with that as if I just used some mouthwash and hurried up everything would be completely alright. So, after that, I went to take a bath only to realise that, I forgot to turn on the water heater. The water was ice cold and I didn’t have the time to wait for it to heat up so I took the bath anyway. But I still tried to remain as cheerful as I could. I then went to make some coffee and some toast. Here too something simply had to go wrong. The coffee machine was not working and my toast burned up. I had no bread left and didn’t have time to make anything else so I quickly checked the clock at the side of my bed. I was surprised to notice that it was only 8:30 a.m. I could swear that I had spent at least 1 and a half hour in getting ready. So, I quickly rushed to check my phone and realised that it is 11:30 a.m! It was then I realised that my clock’s batteries were weak and that I woke up much later than I had originally thought to have. So, now I was in a complete rush and just grabbed my bag and left my house. On the way, I saw an open manhole, and avoided it. I rushed into the office like a mad man and quickly booted my laptop to start sending a really important email to a client. This client was the most important one in the entire history of the company. My boss simply put it that if someone were to lose this client for the company, he would bring his shotgun to office and blow that someone’s brains out. So I started my email inquiring about the amount of products the client would like to be manufactured for him when suddenly my secretary burst into my room to inform me we lost the deal because the email was too late and so the client was infuriated.

Things suddenly went bright red for me. The secretary was yelling that I am turning pale but I didn’t care. Soon, I would be pale forever. I expected my boss would get to know about this in an hour so I started preparing myself when suddenly he burst into my room. He didn’t have a shotgun but the look on his face was deadly enough that I would have happily accepted that gun shot. Two words came from his mouth – “Your tired.” Tired? Wait, what?! I thought for sure he is going to say fired. And then I fainted onto my laptop keyboard. Turns out, I was so horrified by the discovery of the lost client, my brain stopped working and then I fainted. When I came to I was sitting in the same place, a friend of mine nearby looking worried. I smiled at him. The way my day was going, seeing him was like a gift from the gods. But he shook his head and said that I really messed up this time. Then I got angry. He didn’t know how my day went till that point and so him commenting was seriously offensive. I grabbed my bag and laptop and rushed out of the office; my brain clouded with thoughts of finding a new job. On the way back, I finally had another encounter with my bad luck! I fell into that manhole I previously referred to. My name is now “Jinx” and I am not changing it back.