# Everyday gripes in haiku **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823 "2003-03-03T20:21:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/41 "2003-03-05T00:36:13Z")
Where is my work now? Stupid program erased it Just WORK, goddamn it! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/42 "2003-03-05T01:54:03Z")
The cat vomited. Of course, I’m the house slave-boy Here, let me get that. ☹ * * * The days pass me by Before I know it I shall Lose my heart’s true light. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Quasar)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/43 "2003-03-05T01:59:03Z")
This thread is awesome! I find it _very_ cathartic! Cute girl at bookstore Beckons me with locks of gold I cannot approach ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/44 "2003-03-05T02:24:17Z")
Long meeting today Must send more flaming email Six Sigma project Mentor Graphics sucks Engineers can’t kill process I’ll do it, butthead Login: root will do What’s that damn password you set? You should get a life Yet another call These jerks won’t leave me alone Deleted your file? How can I go on? How can I pass the time here? Coffee sweet and hot ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/45 "2003-03-05T05:35:24Z")
Not “coffee sweet and hot!” The horror of sugared joe Makes me vomit ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/46 "2003-03-05T05:49:57Z")
**Cerowyn’s** heaving Quick, call a moderator Any coffee good ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/47 "2003-03-05T06:30:21Z")
Boring talk from boss Oops, he spits on the table Look the other way ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/48 "2003-03-05T07:50:51Z")
I cannot find sleep, please help, tear me away from the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/49 "2003-03-05T08:20:45Z")
Rest now, **LunaSea** Posters post, and hamsters run Silent while you sleep ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/50 "2003-03-05T15:50:12Z")
No coffee at all Coffee maker bit the dust Jasmine tea. Despair ---
**Author:** ![TeleTronOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TeleTronOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeleTronOne)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/51 "2003-03-05T16:52:12Z")
So very hungry All the food here is awful Time to eat my shoes ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/52 "2003-03-05T17:11:49Z")
Idiot driver Backs into Mitsubishi Must go to garage. (His insurance pays Flodnak smiles avengingly: Twelve thousand kroner!) The boss has spoken: Fella sent to San Jose Me alone with kids. Jobs have disappeared Though I seek relentlessly: Unemployment sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/53 "2003-03-05T17:35:25Z")
Sunny day outside What am I doing in here?! Must ditch Spanish class… ---
**Author:** ![panache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@panache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/54 "2003-03-05T19:27:27Z")
RING- cell phone turned on In the middle of the day, Boss, down the hall, glares. 1:30 pm Returning calls on lunch break, Static ruins them. Cursed with Sprint service static is ever-present When’s my contract up? ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/55 "2003-03-05T19:46:44Z")
Here at coffee shop Want a smoke with my latte They don’t have my brand Forecasters all lie For two weeks they have been wrong Sleeves? Short. Ass? Frozen. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/56 "2003-03-05T19:50:43Z")
They all stare at me Cheating in anatomy Went to class naked ---
**Author:** ![panache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@panache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/57 "2003-03-05T20:14:55Z")
**Lucki Chaarms** haiku? I audibly hoot, then snort Nude equals funny. ---
**Author:** ![TeleTronOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TeleTronOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeleTronOne)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/58 "2003-03-05T20:17:05Z")
People in my room On phone with California I am homesick now ☹ (how many syllables does an emoticon count for? 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/59 "2003-03-05T20:20:10Z")
Microsoft License has frozen my computer. Help Desk - my new friends. Hot boy down the aisle somehow makes work bearable… too bad I’m married. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823/60 "2003-03-05T20:24:33Z")
Dented Camaro Lunch at the body shop blows Now I must call Hertz Lift weights, run daily martial arts class twice a week Holy shit! My back! Back spasms, no car at least my girlfriend will help! Oh, wait. Don’t have one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyday-gripes-in-haiku/158823.md?page=4)