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autoexecyesterday at 11:44 PM0 repliesview on HN

> not exactly life ruining and really shouldn't even be day-ruining.

These were people who lined up for hours outside of a bookstore still waiting to get in after midnight. Many of those people were young and the lack of perspective and experience at young ages often results in assigning a disproportionate weight to the emotional events they experience. An event like that might not have been day-ruining for you, but I have no doubt that there were people who were genuinely hurt by it.