Perfect Ending to a Horrible Day

I had one of "those" days. You know, the kind where you keep waiting for the TV camera to show up and tell you "you're on candid camera!" I will spare you the details, but at noon I thought the low point of the day was Jonas dropping an expensive $20 watermelon and watching it split in half at my feet. After paying for the split watermelon, I was out of cash for the vegetables I needed to buy.

By 5:00pm I thought the low point of the day was while I was on the exercise bike, the computer repairman shows up and I have to cut my workout short. While he is at work, I hop into the shower and lock my bedroom door for privacy. After a few minutes, I hear a knock at my door. Knowing how private the Japanese are, I assumed it would definitely be one of my kids bugging me. Remember what happens when you "assume"?... you make an .... yeah....hmmm. While dripping wet I open the door to see the friendly Japanese repairman. Clearly this HAD to be the low point of the day... right?

Minor disasters happened in between, but by 7:00 I was very clear on the event that won for the winning low point. As we sat down to eat I smelled something burning. "Huh, that is weird" I thought. I had already got the salmon out of the oven... what could be burning? I look back at the stove and see flames coming from a jumbo plastic jar of Costco pepper. By the time I reached the stove, the jar EXPLODED and pepper showered my kitchen like atomic dust.

After 2 hours of sneezing and vacuuming up pepper from one end to the other, I knew without a doubt this was definitely the low point of the day.