Getting out of the wrong side of the bed
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goo Ranking recently took a look at what bit of bad luck puts a downer on the whole day, for some reason for just men only. If they do the similar survey for women, I’ll of course be sure to post it.
Demographics
Between the 21st and 25th of May 2009 1,082 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.4% of the sample were male, 7.3% were in their teens, 16.0% in their twenties, 28.1% in their thirties, 27.9% in their forties, 10.8% in their fifties, and 9.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. Note that this survey was for the 556 men only.
For me the worst is probably falling asleep again after the alarm rings, followed by in the train seeing everyone bar the person I’m standing in front of getting off the train, so I have to stand all the way. However, as I usually get up early enough that there is always a seat, thankfully it’s a reasonably rare occurance.
Photo from Kim Pierro on flickr.
Ranking result
Q: What bit of bad luck gets your day off to a bad start? (Sample size=556, male)
Rank Score 1 Treading on discarded chewing gum 100 2 Realising I’ve forgotton my season ticket when I arrive at the station 81.0 3 Starting to rain on the way to work, school 70.3 4 Forgetting to set my alarm clock 69.6 5 Slipping and falling on the street, stairs 65.2 6 Getting woken up early by a trivial phone call, email 56.3 7= Cutting myself shaving 51.9 7= Being late for the usual train 51.9 9= Making a mistake with the rice cooker timer and finding the rice uncooked 43.0 9= Just missing the rubbish collection truck 43.0 11 Mobile phone battery running out just after I leave the house 42.4 12 My star sign being the worse one in the daily horoscope 38.6 13= Meeting someone I don’t like on the way to work, school 37.3 13= Realising the weather being hotter, colder than I thought when I leave the house 37.3 15 Having someone else’s fart misconstrued as my own on the train 33.5 16 Having the overload buzzer sound as I climb onto the lift 32.3 17 Being one yen short and having to split a note 30.4 18 Finding what I planned to eat for breakfast has gone off 27.2 19 Burning my tongue at breakfast 25.9 20 Someone standing on my foot in the train 25.3
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I’m surprised that don’t have my least favorite item, the train being late or cancelled – therefore the next one is packed beyond belief. Or maybe trains in Japan are a bit better in that regard. I have to say most of them I know all too well except for 12 – and 15 which made me laugh out loud.
I have never had 16 happen or even heard of it happening.