Showing posts with label Flooded purse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flooded purse. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

My purse flooded

Has your purse ever flooded? Mine did today. See, I've been hauling around my old red purse I got from Target. It's okay. But for Christmas I received a really, really cool purse that is made of one zipper that's continuously zipped up till it makes a bag.

Neat! But although I love it, the straps are a very bad design and they don't stay attached to the purse.

Anyway, I had been using my zipper purse, but since the straps keep flying off the thing, I decided to swap back to my old standby. Well, today as I was signing into work, I noticed a little puddle on the ground. Hmm, I thought. I wonder what that's from. Well, my purse was leaking blue-colored water out of itself onto the floor. I reached into my purse and pulled out my (completely empty) water bottle, and then peeked in the purse. There was 3 inches of blue-dyed water in it! Blaahhaa!! I had minimal stuff in the purse since I had recently swapped back, but I still somehow managed to write lots of stuff in blue nonwaterproof pen on a piece of paper and stuff the paper into my purse, where the ink proceeded to get washed away by the leaky water bottle.

Anyway, there I was in the courtroom at 7:15 in the morning with a purse full of blue water, and what, pray tell, are you supposed to do with a leaky purse?? I didn't have anywhere to dump the water; I'm in a courtroom! I think I quickly took everything I could out (including my waterlogged cellphone which now doesn't work) and then I ran to the bathroom, where I dumped the purse water out into the sink.

Now, on my drive in, I was feeling very contemplative and philosophical, thinking about the meaning of life and what really is happiness and all that deep stuff; and then to have a flooded purse? I really wish I had my camera, because even though I was in a melancholy mood, I couldn't help but realize how funny that was. I was dumping blue water out of my purse into the sink at work. I don't know; maybe I just didn't get enough sleep last night.

I proceeded to have a very strange day, full of incompetent attorneys and higher-ups not doing their job and an old Italian woman dumping out the contents of HER purse onto counsel table; the contents included pill bottles and medical bills. It wasn't blue water. If it was, I would have spewed V8 out my nose.