# You know you're going to have a bad day when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335 "2014-10-14T20:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/1 "2014-10-14T20:09:44Z")
There’s a funny list, somewhere about this. I remember one was YKYGTHABDW: You put your bra on backward and it fits better. Now, [this guy](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/man-attacked-bear-then-shot-friend-n225601) knew he was going to have a bad day when the bear attacked, but I doubt he expected his hunting partner to shoot him. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/2 "2014-10-14T21:38:38Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Now, [this guy](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/man-attacked-bear-then-shot-friend-n225601) knew he was going to have a bad day when the bear attacked, but I doubt he expected his hunting partner to shoot him. “Calm down! First, let’s make sure he’s really dead…” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/3 "2014-10-14T21:44:11Z")
You’d think a taxidermist would know better than to mess with a _live_ bear. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/4 "2014-10-14T22:02:54Z")
“The Hunter Who Cried Wilf…” Once upon a time, in a magical land that’s\* really\* fun to visit, there lived two hunters… ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/5 "2014-10-15T14:49:41Z")
Well whaddya know, one buwwet weft! ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/6 "2014-10-15T17:00:56Z")
One day when I was a substitute teacher, I pulled into the school parking lot just in time to see a SWAT tactical truck leaving. I should have just turned around and gone home. No, it wasn’t anything physically dangerous. There had been an altercation in the cafeteria by two high school students with known gang affiliations, but the police presence had all the kids rattled, which meant that the good students couldn’t concentrate, and the bad students were all acting out. Substitute teachers don’t get to just put on a movie and sit back anymore. We were supposed to deliver the same lesson plan the regular teacher would have. Teaching on a campus I’d never been to before with students I’d never met on a day when learning was unlikely to happen was challenging to say the least. I had _such_ a headache when the day was over. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/7 "2014-10-22T14:58:56Z")
I wonder if the buddy was thinking of this anecdote: Two campers are surprised by a really pissed grizzly bear. They take off running. One gasps to the other “I don’t think we can outrun the bear!” The other gasps back “I don’t have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun YOU!”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/8 "2014-10-22T15:16:40Z")
For some reason I’m reminded of an off-color joke with the punchline, “Lady, this just ain’t your day.” ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/9 "2014-10-22T17:35:11Z")
I’m reminded of a VERY off-color joke with the punchline, “You didn’t come here to hunt, did you boy?” ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/10 "2014-10-22T18:20:16Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I’m reminded of a VERY off-color joke with the punchline, “You didn’t come here to hunt, did you boy?” The victim in the story was a taxidermist. I would have thought the attempted stuffing was going the _other_ way in this case. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when/701335/11 "2014-10-23T02:42:56Z")
I believe the saying ‘bad things happen in threes’. Now, before I get accused of being superstitious or worryingly credulous let me explain. My theory (and it’s all mine) is that some days you are just fired up to get pissed off by the slightest thing - the car that cuts in front of you, your ticket at the station barriers doesn’t swipe first time, so you have to actually slow down for a split second, you go to the tea room and there’s a queue for the coffee machine - on a good mood day, you’ll laugh these off. On a bad mood day, everything minor is going to rile you, so you may as well go back home to bed, because there’s going to be more. The alternative theory is that you aren’t concentrating or taking enough care, so you make stupid mistakes. You know those times you have a few more drinks than you should, and go to put your glass on the bench, or move a chair and THEN you realize ‘I’d better be a bit careful here - I’m a bit affected’. Well, sometimes you can have those moments where your concentration or attention isn’t right - could be lots of reasons, maybe the cause is not not obviously apparent, like alcohol - and you are going to make mistakes. So if you make two silly mistakes - like dropping your coffee, forgetting a meeting, or such - chances are, you’ll make another because you just aren’t functioning at 100%.