Why do some days seem disastrous, near disasters, and others seem totally uneventful, mild even? Last week I heard and watched a dead tree fall into the water where I had been in my kayak not five minutes before! That sure as heck felt like a close shave.
Then, once home, I couldn't find my wallet after my solo kayak excursion, and searched for almost 2 hours, both in and around the house, as well as driving back to my kayak launching spot and combing the area, to no avail. There was absolutely no sign of it having dropped out at the beach, and I had walked the beach path twice after exiting the lake anyway, so it couldn't have been there. So, was it time to cancel credit cards before someone else found it, and begin reapplying for a driver's license?
I recalled pulling my wallet from my pocketbook before I set off that morning, but I had no memory of it after that. I got so tired of searching through the same locations over and over again without any luck, as I retraced my steps through the house, scouring the same spots as if I might suddenly find it, that I was really beginning to lose my cool. I'd NEVER misplaced a wallet before, so didn't know what to do! So I finally decided to start on one side of the house and work my way around it systematically, from right to left, whether I recalled having been there or not that morning. I came across it sitting innocently on my sideboard, next to the fruit bowl where I'd placed it when I removed a banana from the bunch to take with me. I took the banana but not my wallet. Argh! It was 2 hours of perplexing worry.
Then at dinnertime, I managed to spill a crock of sauerkraut all over the table in a disastrous carambolage of spills - what a smelly mess it made! The towels I used to wipe it up stank out the laundry room with a smell of methane until I got round to washing them.
Oh, and that wasn't the end of the day - I was soaking my fingernails in a bowl of warm water while I watched TV to try and relieve the discomfort from a sliver up my nail, when I nodded off and spilt water all over myself. It was a shocking way to wake up, that's for sure!
Honestly! How can so many near-disasters happen in one day?
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