This is the story of a tall glass that didn't quite make it out of the dishwasher yesterday afternoon. When you break a glass, at least in my case, I get a little upset. It jolts me to an awareness that borders on skittish and irrational. Don't know why, something must have happened in my childhood. I'm not going to delve into anything about my childhood because, well, how do you know I'm telling the truth. So back to this 12 oz. glass. I purchased 24 glasses from Macy's several years ago. I liked the simplicity of the style. Simplicity is my style. I have no style and I don't know why I would put the word "simplicity" in the equation. I felt sorry for this particular glass because of where I found said glass. In a teenager's room, hidden under papers on a desk. It wasn't easy to spot at first but when I looked past the papers and the cockeyed angle they were resting I knew something was holding them up. And it was this glass. This glass had remnants of a particular sugary beverage. It was Swiss Farms Iced Tea, sweetened with sugar (NO, THE HORROR). I can't quite call it a liquid as it had turned to an amberish sticky mess in the bottom and about a fifth of the way up. How do you not take the last sip? This particular child craves iced tea and if I let him, would chug it by the gallon. In fact, I would never have to worry about glasses being dirty because he would just keep the gallon up in his room.

But this glass, was so close to going back up in the cabinet after a wonderful hot, steamy, sudsy bath. Already to perform its duty yet again. Alas, as I ws pulling it out of the dishwasher, I cracked it on the side and it broke into four pieces with smaller ones tumbling into the dishwasher. Oh, one sliver made it onto the floor and into my foot. I'm okay, no E.R. for me. I performed surgery on myself and cleaned it up and went on my way. But I gingerly placed the broken pieces of the glass into the trashcan. I felt bad it could not be recycled, but I will move on and question myself as to whether I should purchase plastic glasses for the future.