Sauce splatters
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 06:21AM Last night Brad and I made spaghetti for dinner. We were cleaning up and when Brad picked up the bowl of sauce, the serving spoon fell to the ground and splattered red spaghetti sauce all over the rug in the kitchen. He froze and looked at me, shocked, knowing what a mess he just created.
I tried to remain stoic because I didn’t want to make the situation worse, but I couldn’t help it. I bent over in laughter. Besides, it’s just a cheap rug, and it’s dark so it will clean easily enough. But then we noticed the sauce had splattered all over his pants AND onto the beige carpet in the dining room. Not so easy to clean.
Still, I laughed. Brad just looked at me pathetically and said, "Why does it have to be such a huge disaster?"
I love that line. It has made me smile every time I’ve thought of it since. For real, doesn’t it seem like that sometimes? It could have just been a minor mishap, a simple mistake, a tiny little problem. But instead, things are so much worse than they need to be. The sauce could have stayed on the cheap grey rug, but instead it splattered all over our light-colored carpet. And we have no carpet cleaner. And The Office is starting in five minutes, a show we hate to miss.
You could have simply locked your keys in your car. But no, you locked your cell phone in there too. And it’s raining. Hard. And the nearest phone is a mile away.
You could have just had problems getting the power point to work at that big presentation. But no, you also forgot your notes and your mind is blank. Plus you ate spicy sausage and mustard for lunch, evidenced by the stain on your shirt and the audible churning in your stomach.
True, none of these are actual disasters. But sometimes don’t you feel like it’s all just so much worse than it has to be? A simple inconvenience exploded into an incredibly annoying nuisance?
Seriously, why does it have to be feel like such a huge disaster sometimes?
Brad, So Annoyed
Reader Comments (9)
So true. And I do love Brad's line. :)
Alanis would say it's ironic. But it's not. It's just a simple disaster.
i've been trying to change my perspective, not sweat the small stuff :-) it feels good ... i love that you laughed : )
spaghetti sauce always gets me ~ the first time i wear anything white, it ends up stained with the sauce ... always ... its become a thing.
U r making dinner Tues night & cut your finger & Fri it's surgery--I get it.: )
"Go big or go home," I always say, even when it comes to food on my shirt, EVERY DAY.
It does seem that way. :)
[...] deal is with dropping messy kitchen utensils lately! But at least this time it wasn’t such a huge disaster: nothing on the beige carpet and nothing on his pants. Just a couple stir-fry-sauce-covered water [...]
Hubs and I have a standing thursday night Office date. We actually put the wee ones to bed a bit earlier just to make sure we have unitterupted Dwight! Love it!
I do remember having Really Bad Days. It doesn't happen so much anymore but yes, it's amazing how one thing is 'weird', two things are 'oh no...' and 3 things are 'why, why ME WHY ME???' ... oh, the drama. I hope you got to watch The Office.
Ha! So true...
I was in a hurry to leave work once and realized that I had left something at the office. I quickly pulled up, left my car running and ran inside. But I had accidentally locked my car! It was a habit.
So here I was trying to leave and go out... and was stuck for a couple of hours. With my car running.