Do you ask yourself, "What is the worst that can happen?"
 

I ask myself this question a lot. And yet, still, not nearly often enough.

So. Let me tell you about my lunch today.

It's cold outside today. The kind of day where you wear a coat to go outside, no matter what.

A bunch of us left for Wednesday lunch at our favourite restaurant.

At the restaurant, there were two tables full of Calgary's finest (I think one of them might have been retiring, or something, it was a big to-do, there were 16 people at two tables).

Anyhow, because this particular restaurant had been involved in an incident, there's a table underneath the coat rack where there are lots of flowers. LOTS. Of. Flowers. Anyhow, whatever. So, not wanting to knock over the flowers, all the coats were on one side of this shelving rack.

I hung up my coat. I reach over to grab my friends coat so to offer to hang it up for him, and with my other hand, I reach over to the coats already hung up and move them over just 1" so that our coats will fit and not knock over the flowers. Because that would be embarrassing, especially with so many police officers next to the table with the flowers.

Well.

Their coats were heavy.

Sliding them over 1" was too much for the shelving unit to bear, and pop! Out of the wall it came crashing down. Quickly thinking I reach up and catch the shelf and the coats. Now my hands are completely full, there's a shelf falling out of the wall, and I'm basically grappling about 6 police officer's coats. One of their policeman's hats was on the shelf and fell to the floor.

So, now they get up to come get their coats, they say it's OK, etc. etc. I notice that one of their coats is covered in plaster dust. I offer to brush it off, he declines, says it's OK, no don't worry about it. One of the girls at the table says "And it's OK, he's only the deputy chief."

Anyhow, after the long socially awkward moment finally ends, we all sit down, go back to lunch, etc.

Now comes the time the police are done their lunch. The deputy chief stands up, and is looking around. Finally comes up and asks "Have you seen my hat?... a fur hat."

We look under our table.

Guess what. There sits a fur hat with a police sheild under our feet..

Reach down, grab it, .... brush off the footprint, and hand it back. To the deputy chief of police.

Somehow, "um, sorry?" just doesn't seem adequate at this moment in time ...

So ... I'll just move these coats over 1". Because knocking over the flowers would be EMBARASSING. "What's the worst that can happen???"


<sigh>

hahaha I mean..no, yeah, hahahaha

thanks for the laugh

Thats way toooooooooo funny.......

and thats why you never touch the rock

OH NO.....funny, but how embarrassing!!!!

When I ask myself this question it is always worse then would I could have imagined...

Awesome story...

awesome Tony... Im sure that brought a few laughs at the restaurant.

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Thanks for the story.....that is hilarious.....and thanks for the laugh....lol

Next time don't ask yourself that question and it'll all work out. :)

........Tony, Tony, Tony..... (shaking head) What are we going to do with you? We can dress you up but can't let you out on your own. :noidea:

ha.
in a room full of police, Id say that was a best case scenario.
Lucky you didn't get tasered for stepping on his hat.

I'm with Mr Crab on this one!

Sorry to laugh but .......BWHAHAHAHAHA.....How long before Tony gets busted for something???

sure hope you let them all leave before you went to your car

They probably copied all the plates in the parking lot.
lol, that sure is funny, but only in retrospect

For some reason, I've always liked this poster over at despair.com :

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Ouch, that sucks :lol:

I feel for ya, stuff like that happens to me once in a while. And I rarely (if ever :wink: ask myself "What is the worst that can happen?" because I tend to expect the worst but hope for the best :biggrin:

Tony, that could only happen to you! lol

Like something you would see on TV! :mrgreen:

Good on you for having a sense of humour about it!

So...my uncle is a cop. And he called me today to ask me a question about his fish tank that he's setting up and I'm helping him with. And he goes on to tell me this story about a guy at the restaraunt he was eating at today who made a complete scene....

serious. Small world

For the record, we went to Rona afterward and fixed their shelf for them. :lol: Dan was horrified and didn't want to let us fix it but I figure they're busy enough serving food to worry about whether someone else might hang up a coat on the boobytrapped coat rack.

The reason it fell out in the first place (besides the 60lb parkas these guys had hanging up) was that it was missing one screw, and the remaining screw on that side was in a fairly distressed hole. I'd say it's not the first time that coat rack has fallen off.

I still cannot fathom how the dude's hat got under our table. It was a really surreal moment when we looked under the table and there was this raccoon-like thing by one of our feet (it wasn't really stepped on, I might have embellished that detail for comic effect). But still, it would have had to roll 6 feet one day, turn around a booth, then roll 6 feet the other way. Maybe he was sitting at this booth when he first got there and then when all the others showed up they moved to the bigger tables and he forgot it there.

That's my story anyhow and I'm sticking with it.

PS. He said I made a "scene"? I'm not sure I like the sound of that. A scene is someone going out of their way to be noticed, I was doing anything I could NOT to be noticed. And then a damn coat rack fell on me with their 60 lb parkas. Jeepers, what do they keep in their pockets anyhow? Lead ballast???

I wonder how much the fine is for going 102 on Deerfoot? 31.2 in a school zone?

You'll be sure to let us know right Tony?

:)

He had a good laugh over it. The way he said it was "so this guy is going to hang up some coats, I'm looking around at the crowd and CRASH!! I look over, there's all our coats toppled over on this guy who looks like he'd rather be anywhere at this point in time"

I laughed and finished the rest of the story for him as told by "the guy". He says it made everyone laugh, not a problem..


and kudos to you for fixing the shelf. Standup guy

Haha, indeed, luckily I didn't drive :)

Cash: Ok, phew! Sorry, I tend to worry a lot about stuff like that.. thanks!

Ever stand on a ladder with a screwdriver with 1 screw in your hand and just when you go to screw it in the it falls ... looking beneath the ladder would be too obvious because when a screw ( or policemans hat ) falls it grows legs and scoots off to a spot you would never imagine :wink:

Funny! Do you stay home on friday the 13th. If I were you I would, lol When I was a kid
we used to go swimming at the Holyburn country club with my cousins. This one day we
were sitting at the counter, and do any of you remember how they used to stack coffee
cups on tray's. Well they had them stacked super high. And I said to my cousin it would
be really freaky if those fell. And no word of a lie not ten minute's later guess what, it
happened. They made everyone who did not have a meal leave. I was only about 12 year's old at the time, scared the crap out of me. The noise it made and glass everywhere left a huge dent in the milk dispenser thingy remember them they had the
little titty that you cut open and voila milk. Arn't you glad I shared this becareful of what you think or wish for story. Oh and be nice to me or else. He He!

:redface: Your braving than I. I am pretty sure I would have placed and order and came back for it later.....say a week or two. That was really nice of you to fix the shelf!