When it rains, it pours

[entropy]

So yeah. My stepdad's last name is Pagel, and he has horrible luck. It's so bad, he's gotten to calling his ... syndrome ... The Pagel Factor. Now. It's a well-documented fact that The Pagel Factor is contagious. "Everything you touch turns to sh*t!" pretty much sums it up.

I think I'm infected. Not even kidding, this sucks lol. Just a week ago or so, I was great. I'm all happy and giddy cuz I got my new speakers and soundcard. But yeah, the Audigy 2 ZS that I accidentally ordered could NOT be cancelled from Amazon, so now I have one that I need to try to return/sell.

Then yesterday I took my road test. Bloody effin' hell. So here I am, driving along, doing just fine, I thought. Except I didn't know where my E-brake was. @Q$^$@^. For real. Nobody told me and I didn't think to check. Then we took off (already 8 points gone). I did alright, going through Sheboygan. We got into a small little neighborhood (unmarked intersections every single one ... ugh). Suddenly she goes, "Ok stop we're gonna do a Y-turn," real fast, as if I missed the "crucial spot." So I stop, a lot faster than I would've liked, and tried to inch into the place to do it. SHE FREAKIN' PICKS THE HARDEST SPOT ... seriously, there's one place where I could do it on the whole street - too many driveways. Yep, so at about 3-4 miles per hour I ... get this ... hit the snowbank ;D :eek: Honestly that was only 6 points off, so wtf?! I guess I "don't look enough." What she meant to say was, "Hi, I'm too dumb and lazy to actually look at your eyes so you have to make a big production of looking around. Sorry, punk." :shakehead 35 points. 35! My friend took hers in a snowstorm the day before me, and she got minus 2! HAHAHA it royally sucks. So now I rescheduled for next Friday in West Bend - somewhere I've NEVER driven. And my dad's being an ass about it cuz he works there.

So today, still bummed, I wake up to a nice little letter on my desk. Yep, one of those letters. The ones that say OMGWTFD00D YER DOWNLAODING R STUFF!!1. Apparently, on December 9th (A MONTH LATER?!) I got caught with The Manchurian Candidate via eDonkey. Unbelievable. Years of getting stuff with Earthlink, not one complaint. Ferkin' Charter POS. So yeah, I've only opened eDonkey twice in the whole time I've lived in this house (1 1/2 months or so) and it was only to clear out what I had downloading - no more than 5 minutes at a time. ARGH. So yeah. No more movies for me, and eDonkey is banished from my computer.

I'm not really complaining too much. I've still got my speakers (which rock!), etc. I just needed to rant a tad ;D I think that makes it 3 rants in the Pub in the last week or so - and mine is the least horrible. But still, everyone's gotta vent sometimes :p

[EMT]

That sure does suck. Your driving test sounds quite hard (ours was on a course -- not exactly easy but then again it's a course). And the movie thing is pretty scary... esp. that they'd wait (or it would take) a month! Well, I guess it's even more surprising that you were so briefly involved. So are they going to do anything to you?

[Black Hawk]

n00b! :crazy: ;D

Well here in PR the RIAA doesn't seem to care. As for the driving exams, you take a class a few days before and the teacher pretty much tells you how to do the whole course (yep. it's a course here). Like when you backup, the light pole has to be in a certain spot in the rear view mirror, etc. You ace it even if you don't know how to drive (my sis passed the learner's permit exam without even knowing how to turn on a car).

[entropy]

Man. You guys are lucky. We had like 4 weeks of class, take the test, get your temps (learner's permit), wait 6 months, fail. >_<

[muddocktor]

Man, driving test sure have changed since I learned, ages ago. ;) All I had to do was drive around about 2 blocks and pull into the parking lot without hitting anything to pass my car test and for my motorcycle test I didn't even have to drive around, since I had driven there on my bike. ;D ;D ;D This was when I was 15.

We could also drink when we were 18 legally too! :p :p :p

[Thrax]

The MPAA/RIAA is crawling <b>all over</b> the eDonkey network. I abandoned that ship as soon as I caught wind of it.

[entropy]

Yeah, I just caught wind of it. Gale-force winds, in fact... :-/

Was funny, though. I thought my parents would've flipped, but oddly enough they don't care a whole lot. "Well, I guess you just better not use eDonkey anymore, huh? Prolly shouldn't download movies at all... just in case. As long as we don't lose the internet, just be careful." ;D

[muddocktor]

entropy, it's called rent-n-rip, that's the safe way to do it! ;D ;D

[Camman]

Sounds like a pretty ****ty day. My driving exam was extremely easy, drove down a road, turned onto another road, then went back to the DMV and I had to back into a spot, wow.

As for the eDonkey thing, does that mean theyre going to do anything or is it sorta like a 'hey, we're onto you so knock it off' type thing.

[entropy]

Door #2.

I'm more worried about other things, though. I haven't downloaded a movie here, but what about albums? I've gottan ~3,000+ songs since I've been here. What if the RIAA is a month late, too? One more "copyright infringement" and our account is toast.

Legally I don't think they can give away our information. The MPAA isn't being bitches like the RIAA, but I don't think Charter has to turn us over, so to speak.

[Thrax]

Charter won't turn you over, and a ruling was just upheld stating that the MPAA/RIAA needs to go through a valid legal injunction to drag you in.

The music is unlikely. You got busted on eDonkey because eDonkey is crawling with corporates.

[bothered]

But yeah, the Audigy 2 ZS that I accidentally ordered could NOT be cancelled from Amazon,

Erm, how do you order 'accidentally'? Is it an unlucky twitch in your mouse finger?

[entropy]

Yeah :( I hate it when my hand decides to order crap without consulting with my brain first :(

I ordered it, but realized I didn't want it anymore. It didn't show up until after it shipped, so I couldn't cancel - hence "accidentally ordering" ... in a way.

[TheGr81]

You could send it to me! My SB Live 5.1 needs an upgrade. :D

Sorry about all that other stuff, that sucks.

[mmonnin]

We get our permit after taking our test, not a driving test, a written one. After at least 6 months we can take our driving test. We have to have 50 hours in signed by guardian with 10 hours at night and an additional 8 hours with instructor. My instructor had us all drive the course we would take for our test so I know where we were going before she had to tell me.

[Black Hawk]

Here you can take the driving exam 30 days after getting your learner's permit. No signed in hours or anything. I guess we're just lazy like that ;D

[entropy]

...And now I"ve thrown up twice.



In as many hours.



:(

[Black Hawk]

All you need now is for your girlfriend (or girl you have a crush on) tell you that she was formally a man. That would round up your luck pretty nicely. ;D

But in all seriousness, go watch some pr0n or something to take your mind off things. Boobies always make me happy. :vimp: :crazy: But don't watch too many boobies or you'll get motion sickness and end up throwing up even more :aol:

[Gargoyle]

Is it just me, or does your avatar slowly zoom in? Or is it just my head becoming closer to the screen?

It freaks me out - I've had avatars off the last few months to be work safe, and I'm not accustomed to being hypnotized by jigglage...

[Gravite2090]

Well Mr. Entropy, your life could be 100 tiems worse, and that is not an exageration. I have had much worse luck then losing money on a sound card, failing a driving test, getting sick etc. Seriously, imagine for example alot of people you know die, you lose your life savings, you have nothing, and barley have a place to stay. :D This type of situation happens to people all the time.

I'm glad driving tests are strict, because people can not drive worth two ****s in a bucket. I'm quite sick of bad drivers. Why are you driving a car that you do not know where the e-brake is?

Good luck with everything, your entire life is on your own responsibility and actions, not some syndrome that is based on luck (good or bad) :thumbsup:

:confused:

[entropy]

I know it could be a lot worse. It just helps to vent stuff sometimes :p

And I was driving that car because I never had to use the E-brake. Personally I don't find it all that critical - even my mom's never used it in that car (and she's had it for 5+ years).

[EMT]

I don't know a lot of cars, but there isn't a separate parking break is there? If you park on a hill you can't just leave it in Park...

[Access_Denied]

i use the E brake quite often. makes for easy paralell parking to just swerve in and give it a good yank. also helps if you suddenly decide to go the oppisite way all of a sudden for whatever reason ;D
not that iv done any of these things mind you :D

[Rot Katze]

I don't know a lot of cars, but there isn't a separate parking break is there? If you park on a hill you can't just leave it in Park...

yes all cars have them.. but it's only really usefull these days in a manual transmission vehicle