Stupid People Shouldn't Breed!!!
We have all learned in our lovely biology courses over the years that genes and traits from one person are passed on to the offspring. With my experiences, I believe stupidity is one of those traits that can carry over. For for this reason, I should consider taking up a life of celebacy.
I say this because I have done two incredibly, fucking stupid things this past month.
The first incident occurred on the day I was moving into my new apartment. I had a few more things from Apartment 1 to take to my new apartment before the owner of Apartment 1 was to move back in an hour later. The night before I had trouble opening the door. I had to turn the key really hard to finally get it to open. On this day I had the same problem, only it wouldn't open. The harder I tried the more frustrated I go. It is at this point that the normal person with "common sense" (funny, common sense never seems to be that common anymore) that the door just won't open. But no! The thought didn't occur to me. Instead, I found a way to get some good leverage on the key and turned really really hard until SNAP!!! I broke the key off in the lock. Now I was really frustrated. Cherdpan (owner of apartment 1) was due back in an hour and my stuff was still at his place and I hadn't had a chance to clean up. So I begin walking back to the apartment when I take a look at my keys and realize the key for my new apartment is quite intact, while the key to Cherdpan's apartment is, well . . ., missing a huge chunk. (most everyone in Finland uses the lock company Abloy which means that every key in this city looks exactly the same! both the apartment keys, the keys I had at the family's house, as well as the key to my office building are all identical. I call Cherdpan and explain the situation and luckily he had a spare key. But I had no way of getting into mine. So I call Stefan for help. He arrives with tools to try and pull the lodged piece of cloned key out of the lock with no luck. We begin calling locksmiths all over helsinki. It was about 2pm. Some companies were giving me some bullshit about having to get clearance to go into the building and will call back. some called back with more bullshit while others didn't. And in Finland after 4pm, everying costs double due to "afterwork" hours. One company flat out told me they wouldn't get anyone there until after 4. so I made an apointment for the next day and crashed at Stefan's. And the fact that this was my first day of quiting cigarettes (and Stefan being a chain smoker and rubbing it in my face) didnt put me in the best mood. but at 8am in the morning and 60euros /$80 later I was home.
The second bit of stupidity occured last week. My friend Daniel from Berlin said he would come to HELLsinki to visit. He was going to fly to Tallinn, Estonia and stay the night and the next day I take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn, we walk around the city, drink lots of really cheap beer, and then go back to Helsinki in the evening. On the Wednesday before I was told that I had not only Saturday free but Friday as well. In a split decision I decided to go to Tallinn on Friday, meet Daniel at the airport that night, stay in the same hostel, party all night with the lovely Estonian women, and go back to Helsinki the next day. So I bought the tickets and booked the hostel. After a long day on Thursday, I finally got home around 1 in the morning. I began packing my bags. The last thing I needed was my passport. I searched and couldn't find it. Only then did it dawn on me that I turned my passport over to immigration on Monday so they could issue me my extended work permit (which was supposed to take another two months). Once again I turned to Stefan for guidance to see whether I needed my passport to go to Estonia or just an ID since Estonia is now in the EU. He said "Yes, you need it!" So, of course, I cancel the trip on Friday. But I wasnt going to give up. I thought I would go down to the immigration and see if they could give me my passport back as well as a little letter saying that my extended residence permit is in the works (my last permit actually expired Aug. 31). I knew it was a long shot, but asking costs nothing. And the fact that the Ferry to Tallinn was sold out for Saturday and I had Daniel's ticket to come to Helsinki, but no way to get it to him. So I go and wait in line for the usual 2 hours. The woman said she could give me my passport back, but wasn't sure I'd be let back in Finland on my return trip. She tried calling Passport control at the harbor and other places with no luck. It looked as though I was out of luck. Suddenly, she decides to actually bring my info up on the computer. Then she looks at me and says, "Oh, you're permit has been extended and a new visa has already been placed in your passport!" She could have saved me 20 minutes of frustration and anguish by typing in my info from the start, but no she lets me suffer! But I got my passport, changed my ferry ticket for a one day ticket on saturday and the rest went on from there.
I guess, now all I need to do is either take up Yoga to relieve the future, sexual desires that I won't satisfy or make a little trip to the doctor for a little Snip, Snip! and I should be well on my way!!!
Until then. . .
I say this because I have done two incredibly, fucking stupid things this past month.
The first incident occurred on the day I was moving into my new apartment. I had a few more things from Apartment 1 to take to my new apartment before the owner of Apartment 1 was to move back in an hour later. The night before I had trouble opening the door. I had to turn the key really hard to finally get it to open. On this day I had the same problem, only it wouldn't open. The harder I tried the more frustrated I go. It is at this point that the normal person with "common sense" (funny, common sense never seems to be that common anymore) that the door just won't open. But no! The thought didn't occur to me. Instead, I found a way to get some good leverage on the key and turned really really hard until SNAP!!! I broke the key off in the lock. Now I was really frustrated. Cherdpan (owner of apartment 1) was due back in an hour and my stuff was still at his place and I hadn't had a chance to clean up. So I begin walking back to the apartment when I take a look at my keys and realize the key for my new apartment is quite intact, while the key to Cherdpan's apartment is, well . . ., missing a huge chunk. (most everyone in Finland uses the lock company Abloy which means that every key in this city looks exactly the same! both the apartment keys, the keys I had at the family's house, as well as the key to my office building are all identical. I call Cherdpan and explain the situation and luckily he had a spare key. But I had no way of getting into mine. So I call Stefan for help. He arrives with tools to try and pull the lodged piece of cloned key out of the lock with no luck. We begin calling locksmiths all over helsinki. It was about 2pm. Some companies were giving me some bullshit about having to get clearance to go into the building and will call back. some called back with more bullshit while others didn't. And in Finland after 4pm, everying costs double due to "afterwork" hours. One company flat out told me they wouldn't get anyone there until after 4. so I made an apointment for the next day and crashed at Stefan's. And the fact that this was my first day of quiting cigarettes (and Stefan being a chain smoker and rubbing it in my face) didnt put me in the best mood. but at 8am in the morning and 60euros /$80 later I was home.
The second bit of stupidity occured last week. My friend Daniel from Berlin said he would come to HELLsinki to visit. He was going to fly to Tallinn, Estonia and stay the night and the next day I take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn, we walk around the city, drink lots of really cheap beer, and then go back to Helsinki in the evening. On the Wednesday before I was told that I had not only Saturday free but Friday as well. In a split decision I decided to go to Tallinn on Friday, meet Daniel at the airport that night, stay in the same hostel, party all night with the lovely Estonian women, and go back to Helsinki the next day. So I bought the tickets and booked the hostel. After a long day on Thursday, I finally got home around 1 in the morning. I began packing my bags. The last thing I needed was my passport. I searched and couldn't find it. Only then did it dawn on me that I turned my passport over to immigration on Monday so they could issue me my extended work permit (which was supposed to take another two months). Once again I turned to Stefan for guidance to see whether I needed my passport to go to Estonia or just an ID since Estonia is now in the EU. He said "Yes, you need it!" So, of course, I cancel the trip on Friday. But I wasnt going to give up. I thought I would go down to the immigration and see if they could give me my passport back as well as a little letter saying that my extended residence permit is in the works (my last permit actually expired Aug. 31). I knew it was a long shot, but asking costs nothing. And the fact that the Ferry to Tallinn was sold out for Saturday and I had Daniel's ticket to come to Helsinki, but no way to get it to him. So I go and wait in line for the usual 2 hours. The woman said she could give me my passport back, but wasn't sure I'd be let back in Finland on my return trip. She tried calling Passport control at the harbor and other places with no luck. It looked as though I was out of luck. Suddenly, she decides to actually bring my info up on the computer. Then she looks at me and says, "Oh, you're permit has been extended and a new visa has already been placed in your passport!" She could have saved me 20 minutes of frustration and anguish by typing in my info from the start, but no she lets me suffer! But I got my passport, changed my ferry ticket for a one day ticket on saturday and the rest went on from there.
I guess, now all I need to do is either take up Yoga to relieve the future, sexual desires that I won't satisfy or make a little trip to the doctor for a little Snip, Snip! and I should be well on my way!!!
Until then. . .
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