"It took the edge off of what has been a rotten day."
The way most of them slept after a rotten day at a fire base.
For such a rotten day, this one had its fringe benefits.
Looks like he's had a rotten day too, she thought muzzily.
But not all the United States men had a rotten day.
Feeling rotten all day and am sure I've got a temperature.
What else would you expect after the rotten day I'd had?
"The one good thing about having a rotten day is that after a certain point it doesn't get any worse, right?"
What had been a rotten day was turning into something extraordinarily good.
Some guy who'll never know what a rotten day I had.