On Friday, after Thanksgiving, Stepan and I went to Mikasa to take advantage of their one-day, 25% off sale. The special pricing did include the serving pieces to my china pattern. I was very excited about getting the covered casserole dish...it's really the only piece I really needed. I was especially thrilled because not only was it on sale, but we also had a wedding gift certificate and another item to exchange so our out-of-pocket for the $120 dish was only $30. Our purchase complete, we headed back to the car (which we had parked at Gateway theater since we were going to see a movie as well). I was pleased as punch thinking about our next formal dining occassion - probably in January when we restart our gourmet club by hosting an Egyptian brunch. I was horribly proud - my china set was complete and we were smart/thrifty when completing it....maybe if I hadn't been so smug I would have noticed that my hiking boot had come untied...maybe if my head hadn't been in the clouds, I would have thought to grab on tighter to Stepan with my right hand instead of trying to catch myself the left...the one carrying the bag with my beautiful, Palatial Platinum, covered casserole dish...maybe...maybe...maybe...From incredible elation to complete despondance in space a single misstep. I was appalled...mortified...embarrassed beyond belief. I picked myself up from the parking lot and limped to the curb (my knee was scraped and I still have an impressive bruise)...I just wanted the earth to open up, swallow me whole, protect me from my own clumsiness. That didn't happen so instead I wrapped my arms around Stepan and buried my head in his chest...SNAP...my glasses broke from the force of my embrace....(heavy sigh)...I was not having a very good day.
Posted by jfer at December 2, 2002 2:29 PMI just read your account after reading Stepan's account and it is still funny. There seems to be clumsiness in the air these days...for more info...
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Your poor thing. I read Stepan's first too, which was funnier than yours, I must admit. I understand about wanting to disappear into the earth, and then to break your glasses on top of all that . . . Must be a sign that you need new glasses, since those broke so recently--didn't you get them fixed just a couple of months ago?
Posted by: Eliz on December 2, 2002 8:44 PMI am one of the guilty parties that drew a comparison between Jennifer and Monica's need to use their wedding gifted china. This is so funny. I am glad that Jen is ok...she kinda needed a new pair of glasses. I remember the safety pin that held them together. Did you replace the broken dish?
Above is the comment I made to Step's entry...it seems we all read his account first.
Think of all the things that have to come together, just so, to produce such a misfortunate, albeit hilarious, chain of events.
Posted by: carlos on December 3, 2002 8:25 PMYou poor thing! Will you be getting another dish?
Posted by: Kambri on December 5, 2002 5:49 PMAgree with all of the above. Think of this as one of those events that you and Stepan will look back at and giggle about 30 years from now. By then you'll have many casseroles! (Have you seen the Friends episode?)
Posted by: Cynthia on December 6, 2002 8:51 AM