Have I ever told you about the time I asked one of my professors why it would be that I kept dropping things? I was having a terrible week, running late everywhere. In one day I spilled coffee on my pants just before I was about to leave for school, and then dropped my car keys in such a way that for a few minutes I couldn’t see them, and then got out the door and dropped a pile of papers I was carrying and they scattered all over the porch. I thought I might weep. I got to school and saw my professor and I said to him, ‘Why? Why is this happening to me?’ And you know what his answer was? He looked at me as if he couldn’t imagine how I had missed it. ‘Gravity,’ he said. Gravity.
— Haven Kimmel, The Solace of Leaving Early (via scout)
Posted May 21, 2009 at 8:49am
