This happend Tuesday...

This was probably one of the worst days of my life. Went to catch the 10am ferry, were just about to load and had to turn around because I was to sick. I called and spent 20 minutes on hold to get the tickets transfered over so Greg can pick them up. Greg & Tony make the 11. I sleep for an hour, get up decide I am well enough to make the 1... bad idea #1. Get on the 1... bad idea #2. Taking the ferry in general is never a good idea for me as I get motion sickness. And I probably should have taken the hint when even my chewable gravol wasn't making me feel better. Anyways... made it to Vancouver in a somewhat stable state. Get in a car accident. Get lost. Stopped at 7/11 to ask directions, no one spoke English/didn't know where Rogers arena was even though it was only 2 blocks away. Spill my puke bucket all over the the car. Have a break down. Greg comes to find me, we make it to the hotel and I have to go get the tickets because they didn't put Greg down as an alternate pickup (Even after spending 20 minutes with customer service). At that point very dehydrated, hadn't kept anything down in almost 24 hours. Walk 15 blocks or so to get tickets...Another bad idea. Walk back. Almost about to pass out when I made the desicion I wasn't physically going to be able to go to the concert. Had to convince Greg to let me take his car and go home (after crashing his car). So hotel/ticket and two ferry trips for nothing. Missing out on seeing one of my all time favorite bands and am now roughly $500 in the hole. Yes this day is certainly in the top 4 of worst days of my life. Also spent the entire time puking or feeling like puke.

Lessons I learned from today: Always pay the extra for emergency cancellation fees. Give myself time to feel better (i.e. not jumping out of bed after 3 hours of puking and deciding in 15 minutes that I feel fine). And most importantly stay at home when you have the flu.

FML.

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