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Tonight I picked up XPath and XPointer and Programming Web Services with SOAP (both by O’Reilly). I went to sit down in the music section but I ran into Megan on my way over there. She said the DVD section was being reorganized and that they were being loud about it so we went to find somewhere else to sit. We found a chair and adjacent table in the audiobooks section.
Megan sat in the chair and I sat on the table behind her. Megan tried to poke me to get my attention and in doing so almost knocked my coffee over. I moved the coffee closer to the back of the chair so she couldn’t reach it again. I got back to my book and read a couple of pages about XPath. I put the book down so I could look at the other one when I noticed on the shelf to my right a David Sedaris CD that was on sale. I leaned over to pick it up when I felt a strange warm then immediately burning sensation on my upper thigh. I jumped up to see the table (and O’Reilly books) covered in a thin layer of coffee. Thats when I noticed my shorts were soaked.
Megan ran to get napkins from the cafe area, I located an employee. He didn’t look to happy that he was the one I happened to find first. He was nice enough about it though and grabbed a towel to help clean up the mess. He kindly took the two books behind the main counter and filled out an inventory loss report for them. Megan and I slinked out of the store as quickly as possible.
It’s amazing how defeated one feels with a warm, wet backside in public.
From what Megan and I can figure, I must have put the coffee cup too close to the back of the chair. When she leaned over to ask me a question the cup got bumped. Because I was looking at the shelf I did not catch what was happening until it was too late.
The one good result of all this is that my car now has the subtle but distinct aroma of Columbian Roast inside.
Yeah… you really can’t take me anywhere, can you? I am such trouble.
that sucks dude…