Things That Indicate Things
Aren't Going Too Good

  • You get more chain letters than real mail.
  • Your prison roster for the next 3 years is "Mummy".
  • Your girlfriend can only complement you on your nice shoes.
  • You can't feel your legs.
  • When delivering a speech, you have this overwhelming sensation of accidental nudity.
  • The day before the most important exam in your life, you break both hands.
  • Your mouse moves in the opposite direction to the way your hand is going.
  • You quadruple click the icons, but they just won't do anything.
  • Tech support says: "Yeah, right."
  • The judge whispers: "Let's nail this sucker."
  • You go to shoot the bad guy with the rocket launcher and your gun only replies with a *click*.
  • In the middle of sex, your partner says: "The paint's dry."
  • You wake up one morning and find out that you're in the wrong hemisphere (or that you should be connected with the Mir space station in 10 minutes).
  • Someone commits suicide by leaping off a 20 storey building... onto your new car.
  • That "little secret fling" you had comes to screeching halt when her boyfriend shows up at your place and he has a bigger handspan than your chest.
  • Your invaluable CD collection became drinks coasters at last night's party.
  • Thieves steal the shell of your car, leaving you with wheels, engine and assorted parts, just nothing to hold them together.
  • Your new BMW is turned into a metal pancake on the way to get insurance.
  • A drunken friend forces you to be William Tell's son and he can't even see where the apple is.
  • Your watch goes backwards.
  • When you boot up your computer it displays the message, "Operating System Not Found."
  • Your dog is asked out to more parties than you.
  • You end up going to a buck's night, in a miniskirt. And you're a guy.
  • Your boss insists on being called Obi Wan.
  • Your final test paper has simply: "Explain, in detail, the course's subject matter."
  • Or it is more precise: "Discuss the consequences of quantum electrochromodynamics and the relativistic effects associated with an experiment involving 2,3-diphenyl,4-methyldecane in a rotating body."
  • When your own dog won't stop barking and snarling at you.
  • Your doctor prescribes cyanide.
  • You're kidnapped by a guy wielding a rusty chainsaw and no-one cares.
  • Your lawyer manages to turn your parking violation into a stroll down death row.
  • People tend to only reply to you: "Sure..."
  • Someone steals your front door.
  • The Mafia knock on your door and don't seem to be selling chocolates.
  • You find out that you are unwittingly in a porno movie that has miraculously jumped into the top ten box-office takings of all-time.
  • You get caught naked, smeared with peanut butter and watching Ricki Lake.
  • You spend the day running away from a guy brandishing a crucifix, garlic, holy water and he tries to drive a stake into your chest.
  • Someone changed the locks to your house... And you live alone in your own house.
  • Your family constitutes most of the FBI Top Ten Most Wanted List.
  • You buy a new computer but instead of a power box, there's just a wheel with a hamster sleeping inside.
  • "This TV show was sponsored by the four horseman of the Apocalypse. Death to all quicker than the opposition."
  • Your favourite sporting team was annihilated by a rabid caterpillar.
  • Your friends replace you with a monkey.
  • You seriously consider using Things To Do When You're Insanely Bored.
  • You learnt a whole tonne from The Reliable Relationship Resource.
  • You're allergic to sex and your partner's a nymphomaniac.
  • You recognise more than one of the above situations

Written By: Brett "Hi Mr Capone, what's the gun for?" Witty
Researched By: My friends down on death row (it was only parked for ten minutes!)

Copyright © Brett Witty, 2002.