Anyone else here a long-time sufferer of "things never work out smoothly the first time" syndrome?
I'm a long-time sufferer of this ailment. Whether it's putting together a bureau I ordered online or installing a piece of software or something totally out of my hands like having a technician come to your home to do some work and that not going right on the first try either, I'd say the rate at which any process goes 100% smoothly for me on the first try is less than 5%.
I'm curious if it is just me, because I often ask people anecdotally if the same thing happened to them on so and so occasion, and a lot of them are like "Nah, I didn't have any trouble with it" or "Nah, went totally fine for me."
The latest was me calling my phone provider to make a change to my account. After being transferred to like 2 different departments, I finally found someone who could help me and who spoke English. It actually went very smoothly, which made me very suspicious because things never work that easy for me. At the end of the call, I asked her for the direct number to that department so that I didn't have to get transferred again in case something went wrong. She said "Nothing should go wrong, you're good to go, but here's the number" and she gave it.
Today, what do you know, the changes didn't go through and when I finally got someone who spoke English again, they told me the previous person didn't know what they were doing and they had to do it properly, but their system wasn't letting them so they had to contact their supervisor to see if they knew what was going on. All in all, the problem still isn't resolved. And I was thinking that if I ever found a genie in a bottle, I'd probably waste a full wish on everything working 100% smoothly the first time, the amount of agita that would spare me would honestly be worth it. I'd settle for something going right the first time just fucking once.