Scenario: You drop your good glass bread pan on the floor and it breaks, in the same manner, for instance, in which I just dropped my good glass bread pan on the floor and it shattered into roughly sixteen million pieces that I had to pick up with my bare hands, vacuum and still probably left shards of glass all in the floor that will at some point end up in my feet, where I will have to remove them with tweezers and the wounds will gush blood like mini-Vesuviuses.
When something like this happens, expecting myself to be such a klutz, I generally just drop down and start to work cleaning up after my dumb ass. But inside my head I’m thinking “Fuck! Shit! Dammit! Son of a Bitch! Argh!” and pulling bits of my hair out with my hands to throw onto the floor with my glass pile.
I know that is a terribly pessimistic attitude to have, so, as someone not particularly prone to optimism, I am curious as to what you optimistic sorts do? Do you just think, “Well, at least it wasn’t a mirror” and whistle while you work?
June 12th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I did drop a bowl not too long ago. And it did get pulverized. I went, “Well at least it wasn’t full of milk and cereal.” But not before going “Fuck! Shit! Dammit! Son of a Bitch! Argh!” Or the French equivalent
June 13th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Wait… you mean you can do both? Why didn’t anyone tell me this?
June 13th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Oh you can definitely do both. For instance, you drop a glass bread pan on the floor, and after it shatters into 15 million pieces, you can say “at least it didn’t fall on my foot and break my toe”, before cursing like a sailor.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:41 am
I don’t know. People are sometimes selfish that way.
But look at it from the optimist’s point of view. Now you know and there are probably more dish-dropping opportunities in the future.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I usually do both, too, but I always hit the curses first, and THEN try to find something good about the situation. But not until I’m through cussing.
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