It's true, I suck.
I never get the drop, never get the claim, and even my first expedition camping that legendary 'Now we's endgame!' NM, Despot, has only proven what a total and complete nerd I am, and how little I actually belong in the fast lane. ;)
Lemme share this story with you guys, I know it's not really new-thread-worthy, but I invite you to share similar stories, if you dare.
So there I am, standing in that airport-lookin thing in Ru'Ann Gardens, along with five other members of my linkshell. We're waiting for a few more members to arrive so we can go look for Zipacna, but in the meantime we decide to kill time by popping Despot.
We kill a few placeholders; about an hour and a half goes by. I'm up there as BST: there's a charmed Flamingo next to me, and we're doing fine, although the only healing these guys had was the 200 MP in my pool. In that respect I was doing all right; little did I know that possibly the noobiest event of my entire FFXI career was mere minutes away.
Well, while all this was going on, I was trying to cook dinner. The chicken legs had thawed, and with visions of staphococcus dancing in my head, I excused myself for a couple minutes to go put it in the oven. This took about three minutes, tops.
When I return to the computer, this is what I see:
One dead LS member;
One uncharmed flamingo beating the tar out of me, while I stare at it with mild interest;
I'm in the red;
And my entire LS is running around like headless chickens, kiting Despot in big circles around the airport-lookin entrance. Our Taru NIN was running for his life, while one melee chased the NM around with his GK hanging out, and the rest just ran like hell in a circle.
I stared in amazement, burst out laughing at the computer, and typed a gigantic 'LMAO' as I recharmed the bird and set it on the NM.
I am such a frigging noob; it JUST FREAKING FIGURES. The three minutes I afk and all hell breaks loose.
If by a miracle you've ever done anything this noobish, feel free to share the story and make me feel a little better. I'm lucky I didn't get my sky license revoked for that.