Care to share any small victories?

First to reply to this thread!

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Edit: And now the first to make an edit too!

on a roll here

That’s your small victory? All Right! Find it where you will!

Hey, competition is thick around here. Gotta take those wins when you can.

After a long summer of applications, I have finally been called in for an interview! I’m nervous, but I think I have a good shot at getting the position.

I hate when the shower drain gets clogged! It happens fairly often since I share my bathroom with three other people.

^^^That’s no small victory. Hope it works out.

I told a couple of jehovas witnessessessess to fuck off today.
Felt bad for a nano second & actually laughed it out, it did feel good though.

Hadn’t played ball in months. Didn’t feel like the pick up game again as usual – they start late, they’re all better than me – I am in pain the rest of the week. But I overcame all that, played for an hour – well – and feel ok. Yay me.

Bonus: playing with my son on the same team.

^^keep up the good work. Feeling ok is definitely worth it. glad you’re back, by the way.

Thanks @Sunny2.

Decided to go and have a metal shaving removed from my eye today instead of putting it off even longer. The extra added bonus was making it home in time to catch the Brewers/Cubs game and no eye patch.

^^^You even debated about this? Scary. I’m glad everything worked out, eye in tact. Hope your team wins.

Good for you, @Sunny2! I love small victories too. One of my favorite kinds is discovering a billing error and manage, sometimes with no small effort, to get it corrected. That’s happened to me a number of times this year and I always feel great when I achieve success.

I found out that the issue with my washing machine was a recall item and the part and the service call will be free!

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room A quick eye for numbers is always useful and especially nice when you’re right!
@chyna Hooray! win/win.

I came back from Florida alive!

@janbb What did you think would prevent you? The heat, the mosquitoes or the alligators?

@Sunny2 Itwas actually the emotions.

Yesterday I was pulled aside by two of my managers for an impromptu interview to become a supervisor (next step towards my goal with the company). It went really well and, at the end, one of the managers asked the other “Do we need to take some time to make a decision or do you have one?” To which she replied “Oh I’ve had my decision since before the interview. What about you?” and he said “Same for me.” They offered me the position right there and then! :) It’s been a really rough week in my personal life, so that was a pretty sweet ending to my week.

^^^That isn’t just a small victory, but I can feel your joy! Congratulations!

@janbb I won’t pry, but I’m glad you survived..

@Sunny2 Thank you!! :)

My roommate and I were talking about creepy cartoons. Then she goes, I know what’s creepier than that…she goes to the kitchen and brings back a little glass rabbit I have. A little statue my grandmother gave me. Unfortunately, one of its ears broke off years ago. So with just the one ear and that huge happy face, this rabbit looks really creepy and demented.

My roommate goes, imagine like, if this damn rabbit was everywhere you went. Like you sit down to watch TV, and it’s there. You go to bed, and its lying on your pillow…you go to do the laundry, it’s in the basement. You keep putting it back in its place in the kitchen…but it keeps appearing everywhere. It’s a pretty good horror scenario.

So she went to bed about an hour ago. I got a nasty idea. I took the rabbit and I put it in the bathroom, making sure she sees it nice and good in front of her when she sits on the toilet tomorrow morning, haha.

Don’t know if this fits the topic, but I sure feel victorious, and smug. Then again, I’ll probably find that rabbit by the coffee machine tomorrow when I get up haha.

I prevented some idiotic woman from slapping her son.

@Symbeline I don’t know if practical joke fall into the category of small victories, bu if it feels like one, enjoy! Let us know her reaction.

@longgone Good for you. Did she smack you, instead?

Awww!

@Sunny2 She didn’t, luckily. He was tiny, and all it took to stop her was some staring and a deliberate approach.

@longgone Well, good ! If more of us did that maybe . . . but I suspect it’s even worse behind closed doors, unfortunately.

@Sunny2 I’m sure it is, which is why this victory only felt like a small one. But…well, at least I postponed the inevitable. And who knows, maybe her temper had cooled a bit by the time they were home.

^^Maybe you made her think for a moment. Let’s hope so.