The Un-Crisis
Today I experienced what I call an Un-Crisis. This is a term I thought of today at one o'clock in the afternoon, when my blood pressure is just now returning to normal. You know, the point at which you can circle back to something maddening that happened and look at it with some degree of objectivity. That wasn't the case at 9 am this morning, though. I was super ready for work: I had lunch and dinner packed and breakfast ready to be eaten on the car ride, coffee in my mug. About to walk out the door. Then I realized the garbage was a little smelly. "It'll take me two seconds to run it outside to the dumpster!" I thought. So I grabbed my keys and the trash. What a responsible adult I was, taking out the garbage in the morning instead of letting it sit all day! Moments after the door to the alley clicked shut behind me, I looked down to see that the lanyard that holds my keys was missing something. Oh yeah. My keys. It took a couple of minutes for the reality...