That one annoying person during an exam

You know that one super annoying person who's always tapping their foot, or pencil/finger on the table during an exam? Well, today I suffered something much worse; I had to sit through an hour and a half exam in which the person behind me literally sighed heavily for an hour and a half straight. I am not kidding. I almost killed someone in there today (just kidding).

Up till noon today, everything was terrible, but the worst part was the sighing person in the exam.

First, I had to wake up at 7:30 (for those who know me I usually wake up at 12, so 7:30 is like my midnight for me, and I'm still asleep). I had to leave the house at 8:30 to commute to the university I was going to this fall to write an academic placement test. Long story short, I got an email in July saying that if I didn't have AP english credits I would have to take this additional test. I was never informed that I needed to take AP english, so I got screwed over a little.

So I left the house at 8:20 because my bus came at eight-thirty something. So I'd be at the bus stop at least 10 minutes. Great, right? No. I just turned the corner of my street (like my house/home street) and I helplessly watched the bus zoom by and leave. Without me! If only I were five steps faster. Ugh! I didn't have enough time to wait half an hour for the next bus (yes the bus/transit system here sucks real bad), so I thought I'd walked one full block (like 1 kilometer, I think) to the other bus stop and take the other bus (because both buses went to the skytrain station). 1 km is no walk-in-the-park. It was really far, and I was tromping along in my heeled ankle boots, speed-walking like there's no tomorrow. But if I missed the test, there would be no tomorrow. I walked all the way to the next stop and I missed that bus too!

It's stupid, really. I have to commute an hour and fifteen minutes to a place that's only 30 minutes away if I drove. But because of the stupid transit system, it takes almost 3 times as long to get there.

First I had to wake up early, then I missed 2 buses. You thought the day couldn't get any worse. It did though.

I walked into the test, and I swear, the second the supervisor was like "Go, start your test" the person sitting behind me starting sighing. The kind of sigh that sounds tired and like you don't want to be there. I managed to block out her noise while reading the passages, but after I finished reading and started thinking about what to write for my essay, all I could hear was her sighing again! Yes, I get it, you didn't want to be there, neither did I, but you didn't hear me sighing so heavily that people outside of the school and across the street could hear. It's like she disregarded everyone around her.

It's one thing to have a tapper in the exam room, it's another to have a sigher. I swear to the Stars, I was going to turn around and be like "are you fucking kidding me right now?" but I didn't because I didn't have the supervisors to think I was cheating or something. But seriously, I wanted to punch her in the face so bad, you don't even know. I couldn't think properly with her sighing as background noise. Her sigh was so miserable and loud, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't the only one miserable in there; everyone else was miserable too, but for a different reason, if you know what I mean. Every two seconds she would sigh, then take two seconds to draw in another breath to sigh out. Ugh! I internally sighed "shut the fuck up". I did it internally because I didn't want to be like her, sighing to the point where people couldn't think straight. She didn't sound like she had a cold or stuffy nose. Like literally, it sounded like she was forcefully and purposely sighing out loud to project her misery.

Next time you're writing a test, be mindful of the people around you. You might unconsciously sigh continuously like the girl sitting behind me today; don't be her. Even though you don't want to be writing the test, keep in mind that you have to do it, so you might as well do it without making everyone any more miserable than they already are. If you're not that annoyingly noisy person during a test but somehow always end up sitting near a tapper or maybe even a sigher, may luck be on your side.