…Stepping in dog poop.

I had a 1.5-hour drive ahead of me in the rain yesterday, and was very stressed because I was sleepy. While cleaning plum petals off the car, I stepped straight into it. Scrubbing and washing out the winter boots with unpleasantly deep treads woke me up completely and I had a safe drive. This made me want to generalize that certain negative events can have a more positive impact as wakeup calls than the damage they cause.

Meanwhile the plums smell great, look great, just don’t park right below: