Bottle Caps and Butter Fingers
I cannot hold a bottle cap between my fingers long enough to save my life.
In fact, I don't think I can hold any cap in between my fingers without it rolling on the ground the very next second.
Yesterday I opened a bottle of Peel Fresh orange juice.
(The kind that comes in a Tetra pack with a little green capped opening on the top.)
From the refrigerator to the sink where the cups were kept
(a distance of slightly under 2 metres, mind you),
I had dropped the cap a total of five times
(with it rolling into the crack between the refrigerator and the wall).
If that wasn't enough, I dropped it again, twice in the sink.
Come to think about it, in maintenance class on Tuesday,
my driving instructor gave me the air-conditioner filter cap to hold while he knocked the air filter silly and clean.
Lo and behold, it slipped from my fingers into the crack between the spark plugs, before rolling under the engine!
It was a funny sight - two people poking under the bonnet with a stick, under the sweltering heat, trying to find a cap.
Margaret Alexandria Yoong
April 26, 2003