People,

The weather is nasty, wet and cold and I'm in a testy mood. And so this morning when I got to work I said "self, you're in a testy mood. Why don't you buy yourself a diet coke and put on a caffeine buzz to see if that will help?" "Ok, self, I will!"

A minute later I walked up to the coke machine and this is when I got really testy because, as they say in Boston, "I looked like a friggin' retahd." I put a quarter into the machine and it didn't drop. Instead, it got stuck about an inch into the coin slot. And so, being the borderline genius that I am I figured that the best way to dislodge it was to put in another quarter. And when this didn't work either I put in another quarter. All told I spent $1.25 in order to get five quarters stuck in the coin slot.

Now, we've all seen someone do this and I think we agree that no one can ever look dumber than when they have lost money and think that losing more money will somehow bring the lost money back (i.e. casinos). But this morning I took it a step further. After losing my money I stuck my keys into the slot in a final attempt to dislodge my precious quarters. Of course, then I lost my grip on my key and it also slid into the coin slot. The only thing that finally saved me was my Shaw's Rewards Card, which got stuck outside of the coin slot and allowed me to retrieve my keys, but, alas, not my dignity. For shame.