How will I finish my paper?
While sitting in the college library one morning, I struggled to come up with a topic for a major paper that was due soon. I wanted to get a good start on it before I met my best friend for breakfast, but I accomplished very little. I was dealing with a bad case of writer’s block.
After breakfast, I headed back to the library, where I began to panic when I realized that the retainer for my teeth was missing. I had a sinking feeling that it had accidentally been thrown out—I’d wrapped it in a napkin while we were eating—and that I was never going to see it again.
I called the restaurant, but the retainer was nowhere to be found. And the manager told me that the trash had already been tossed into the dumpster out back. Terrible visions of dumpster diving and the looks I would see on my parents’ faces when I told them what had happened popped into my head. Then I began to blame myself. How could I possibly have been so stupid and careless?
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