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What Are the Odds?

For the most part, daily life is pretty mundane. I mean, it's not like you win a million dollars every other day, and most people don't get married twice a month. Sure, those exciting things happen to people, but they are the exception, not the rule. On the daily, I get up early, make and consume breakfast, go to work, have lunch, hang out with the Mild Wife, have dinner, and go to bed. Sure, I have fun during those events, but it's basically a lot of the same, over and over again.

The interesting thing about that all is that it is not at all boring. For all that much of it is repetitive, the company makes a huge difference, and we managed to find our chuckles throughout it all. Heck, this blog is a testament to the fact that we can still find a little bit of amusement at least once a week.

Today's post is a prime example of that. The Mild Wife and I were having dinner, just going through the motions of eating and chatting. She handed me a bowl of food, much like she has done hundreds, if not thousands of times. There was nothing particularly special about this interaction, she just held a bowl out and I grabbed it.

This time, however, something happened in that exchange, and I fumbled the hand-off. Instead of putting down the bowl in front of me as I had intended, it clattered to the table and spilled its contents. However, instead of breaking (thankfully), the bowl landed in one piece, completely upside down. Yup, I mean exactly upside down:

A dramatization

Remember, there was food in that bowl, so I knew that there was a mess underneath. Still, that was a round bowl that did not roll, did not tip or bounce, and did not end up on the ground. Somehow, it managed to land in the one improbable way that would contain the ensuing mess.

In fact, it was so unexpected that I remember looking at the Mild Wife incredulously before moving to grab some paper towels. For a beat, we just sort of stared at each other in disbelief. What were the odds of this happening? In all the years that the Mild Wife and I have been together and lived together, this had never happened. We've managed to spill things before and even chip/crack dishes before, but this was a unique experience. So, I sort of stared at it.

That said, eventually the adult in me took over, and I moved to grab cleaning supplies. I had, after all, spilled food onto the table. But for a brief, hilarious moment, I managed to inject a little bit of awe into our lives by dropping a bowl.

As far as I'm concerned, though, that's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, because I'm not planning on fumbling bowls in order to recreate the circumstances that led to this. Life sure does have a way of popping up with random things when you least expect them.

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