Comments on: Pressure Cooker http://badmetaphor.net/2009/05/pressure-cooker/ the meandering, plotless story of my life. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:24:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: seadragon http://badmetaphor.net/2009/05/pressure-cooker/comment-page-1/#comment-38010 seadragon Fri, 15 May 2009 14:22:57 +0000 http://badmetaphor.net/?p=1811#comment-38010 How stressful! That sounds like your typical nightmare scenario. (I used to have those dreams where you find out at the end of the semester that you've been signed up for a class but didn't realize it and now need to ace the final.) As for dealing with crying people, I don't know! I think what you did (since this isn't a friend of yours) sounds pretty good - sympathetic, but not getting too involved. It probably would have been weird/embarrassing/annoying for him if you'd tried to comfort him! How stressful! That sounds like your typical nightmare scenario. (I used to have those dreams where you find out at the end of the semester that you’ve been signed up for a class but didn’t realize it and now need to ace the final.)

As for dealing with crying people, I don’t know! I think what you did (since this isn’t a friend of yours) sounds pretty good – sympathetic, but not getting too involved. It probably would have been weird/embarrassing/annoying for him if you’d tried to comfort him!

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