Karen and I attended a Stake meeting today with one of the General Authorities (Elder Scott) of the Church presiding. During his talk, Elder Scott told us that we all need to keep a sense of humor even if times are bad.
As he talked, I thought back to this past Friday night. Karen was out shopping, and while I waited for her I planned what needed to be done on Saturday. I needed to construct the new bookcase Mom bought, install the home theater components that have been in the basement since before Christmas and do some admin work at the Family History Center.
While waiting on Mom, I decided to enjoy a little snack from the kitchen pantry. Some of you may not know that I built the pantry just after we moved into the house. A few years ago, we installed a fancy door on the pantry, but other than that is was just as I finished it over 20 years ago.
As I reached for a container of nuts, I saw an ominous lurch of the second shelf from the bottom. I watched in slow motion as the corner of the shelf tilted downward and cans and jars began to slip off the shelf. Soon the entire contents of the shelf cascaded toward the floor.
Some of the jars and containers from the second shelf landed on the bottom shelf overloading it and soon the cascade turned into an avalanche as both shelves emptied themselves at my feet. By now, I was performing a juggling act trying to keep the few remain glass jars from crashing on the floor while trying to keep both shelves from slipping off the supports.
In the midst of this disaster, my buddy Arnie strolled over, looked at me, sniffed a few cans and left.
As I managed to get all of the containers to floor, I looked around me and saw my productive weekend evaporate. I knew Saturday would be spent repairing a pantry, not working on the things I'd planned. I was not happy.
However, as I begain to pick up the contents of the pantry, I thought this would have looked really funny if only it had happened to someone else. After I thought about Elder Scott's comments, I have to admit - if was pretty funny.
2 comments:
LOL! I pictured the whole thing and it was pretty funny! I like your "can" do it spirit!
Oh poor Dad. The best part was when Arnie saw your obvious predicament and offered no help. Typical. I hope you were able to fix the pantry and still get to some of your originally planned weekend activities.
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