I just had the day everyone with social anxiety has nightmares about.

[DemureRose]

I hope this will bring entertainment and/or cringe worthy material for you. Enjoy!

So today was my first on campus college class. I’ve been taking concurrent classes for a year now but they’ve all been online. I thought it was a bright idea and a growing experience to take an on campus class the opposite semester as the rest of my friends. Sounds like a good plan for someone with social anxiety right? Approach new territory ALONE. Anyways back to my story. So being unprepared as always I decided to just buy my books at the book store instead of getting them online days earlier.( I know! Don’t worry it gets better.) The line was very long and when I finally got up to the counter I was a nervous wreck. My first social encounter of the day! Eep! And of course...my card wasn’t working. I didn’t have enough cash and my freaking card wasn’t working. Meanwhile there’s a line of like 50 people behind me waiting to buy their books too. So the cashier has to swipe my card THREE times! I was so freaking embarrassed. Then I rush back to my college class which luckily that went ok. Thank God! But after it was over I had to go back to the book store (did I mention that at my first visit I got yelled at for having my bag which apparently wasn’t allowed in the store? Oh yeah. Yelled at in front of a line of people!) Anyways I get up to the cashier (same one) and my card decides it’s not going to work at all. Decline. Decline. Decline. Luckily I had another card so I used that but I still made an accidental scene. Now here comes the best part of my day! Are you ready?? I get to my car( took forever to find 🙄) and as I’m backing out...I hit the car next to me. It was totally my fault, I can’t blame anyone else. I was too worried about backing into someone driving behind me that I didn’t even pay attention to the front of my car. So I immediately pull back into my spot and call my mom (like a 4 year old calling for mommy lol). She asks me to send a picture of the damage and I do, then of course tells me to leave my info. Now since I didn’t have room in my lap to write the note I used my front seat which means my back was to the car I hit. Well apparently while my back was turned they got in their car and left. Yep. Left. So now I get to live with the fact that someone is driving around with damage I caused! My mom wasn’t mad she just said it’s a part of life and that it’s ok. I honestly wasn’t freaking out as much as I thought I was, I think because I knew it was totally my fault I was able to just settle it in my mind. I’m more upset that I wasn’t able to right my mistake. That’s what feels worse.

So there’s my first day of college class experience! Hope y’all enjoyed this little story and I hope it made someone laugh! To make the situation even more comical, I started my senior year with a serious infection then got an allergic reaction to the medication for the infection. You could say my school year is doomed. Lololol

[Agora1]

DemureRose, actually I did enjoy reading about your first day. Written with wit and humor when everything seems to go wrong is the way to go. When your mind will tend

to relive today, it will do it with bursts of laughter in between. As your mom stated,

"This is Life" Okay, this was Day 1, it can only get better from here... xx

Thank you for sharing...

[AgentDale]

As Agora1 said, I really liked the tone of your post. You are a nice writer. What a horrible day you had! I think you coped really well with all the obstacles you came up against. The fact you went back into the same book shop the same day is a really positive sign I think. If the car damage is going to play on your mind, you could contact your local police and let them know so that if the other driver reports it they'll know you tried to rectify it and can sort it out.

[Agora1 in reply to AgentDale]

I agree AgentDale..

[DemureRose in reply to AgentDale]

Well I’m happy at least someone could enjoy this day. It wasn’t a funny situation but looking at it with humor makes it easier to bear. 😂