Millie Moments....

My sister was visiting a few weeks ago and during one of our conversations she told me that she thought that I ought to write down some of my experiences. For those of you who have spent very much time with me at all know that I am prone to somewhat awkward moments. These experiences include the normal mishaps like walking into glass doors, locking the keys in the car with only thongs covering my feet and no coat, or entering the wrong bathroom. However, they also include perhaps the more unusual... driving away with the gas hose still attached, slicing some poor guy up at the cannery and sending him to the ER, driving down the freeway in the opposite direction, or pulling the gas nozzle out of the car while it is still pumping gas (there was actually a good reason for that one)...looking at those I am thinking that maybe if I just did not drive I would not have to deal with such moments as these.... Anyway...back to the point. I affectionately (or perhaps not so affectionately) refer to these experiences as "Millie Moments." I kind of laughed at my sister's idea and did not give the idea much thought, but then Saturday night happened. We were given movie tickets as a gift a few months ago and decided to go out with a couple of friends to the movies. We got popcorn and candy to share. Out came the dreaded milk duds. You confusedly ask what could possibly happen with milk duds, do you? In my skillful hands anything is possible! We passed those babies back and forth throughout the movie. When the movie came to an end we all stood to leave. I looked down and right in my crouch area were the melted messy remains of those blasted milk duds!!! And lets me clear...they no longer resembled anything close to milk duds at this point. I hurried to the bathroom to try to clean off the disturbing looking mess. Sadly my attempt was fruitless!!! The only alternative I was left with was to laugh...and I did that...and let people make their own assumptions as to the mess on my pants. Such is my life friends!!!