How I almost gave myself a heart attack

[Dr. DTVT]

Funny in retrospect, but it really had me rattled.

I thought my general chemistry class met at 11 am MWF, so I was reviewing my lecture notes this morning.  When I came back from a bathroom break I saw the schedule I printed and put on my door showed my class start at 10 am.  It was 10:20 am.  I quickly grabbed my laptop, laser pointer, and sprinted out of the room, only to realize that in my haste to disconnect my laptop I knocked the battery out.  I get down stairs and see another chemistry professor teaching in my room.  "Oh fuck.  He's covering for me.  I'm so screwed."  He looks at me and gives me a weird face.  The only thing going through my mind is, "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK!"  At that point I poke my head into the room at which point the professor says, "I admire your dedication, but my class still has 20 minutes to go before your section."

At that point I went back to my office to get the other things I forgot for my lecture, and appearently visibly shaken.  I managed to compose myself before class, which went really well.  But for 10 minutes, I thought I flushed my career down the toilet in my first week.

[King Postwhore]

That has the, "Not setting the alarm clock and waking up late" feel.  The adrenaline realy gets you pumping to the point of a stroke.

[jsem]

That has the, "Not setting the alarm clock and waking up late" feel.  The adrenaline realy gets you pumping to the point of a stroke.

This.

[Aefenwelg]

Wait, I don't get it.

So, the schedule you printed was wrong?

[Dr. DTVT]

Wait, I don't get it.

So, the schedule you printed was wrong?

Somewhat worse, it was one I made myself.  I wrote in that I had class at 10, so it wasn't like the college flubbed it.

[Gadough]

That has the, "Not setting the alarm clock and waking up late" feel.  The adrenaline realy gets you pumping to the point of a stroke.

And then you jump out of bed like a ninja.

[carl320]

That has the, "Not setting the alarm clock and waking up late" feel.  The adrenaline realy gets you pumping to the point of a stroke.

And then you jump out of bed like a ninja.

Know that feeling.  I had an experience like that where I woke up Sunday morning at 9 thinking it was Monday and I was late.  The worst part is when you don't realize it for a while and by that time you're wide awake early on your day off 

[black_biff_stadler]

And that, my friend, is when you smoke a bowl or have a couple shots and fall back asleep.

[wolfking]

That has the, "Not setting the alarm clock and waking up late" feel.  The adrenaline realy gets you pumping to the point of a stroke.

And then you jump out of bed like a ninja.

Yeah all of this.  If I'm on an open shift at one of my venues, this is torture.  Opening time is 6am, and people are always waiting out the front, so we all always get there at 5:30am.  There is nothing worse than the feeling of waking at at 5:55am.  I fucking freak out and speed down to work, and all the customers are usually laughing at me as I screech into the car park.  This has only happen 3 or 4 times though.

[Dark Castle]

That has the, "Not setting the alarm clock and waking up late" feel.  The adrenaline realy gets you pumping to the point of a stroke.

And then you jump out of bed like a ninja.

Read this as " jump out of bed like a nipple."

[senecadawg2]

Wow, must have been terrifying. I'm glad that it went well 

[Nekov]

I was expecting some kind of lab explosion or something like that