Do You Ever Get Stuck?

literally?

Botheration! My head got stuck this morning...

The new (three months old) washing machine is higher than the recently deceased machine. And it shakes a lot on the wonderfully uneven floors of my equally wonderful vintage home. I think that is because it is a front loading machine and therefore capable of amazing and powerful spinning action. And since it is a front loading machine, that means the top of it is available for me to stack odd and ends on it. So even though I knew it was not smart, I put all of the empty boxes from the Christmas china up there.

Then I did laundry.

The boxes were all shaken to the floor during the first phase of the spin cycle. No problem. But then I realized one box was missing...

It was behind the machine.

So, I hopped up, with my head turned sideways to peer behind the washer, reached my arm around to pull the box up from where it was wedged between the wall and the machine, then I turned my head.

There was no room for me to turn my head. And in that micro-second, my brain registered that I was trapped. Thank goodness it also remembered that all I had to do was turn my head sideways again so I could slide down off the top of the washer.

If only it was that easy to get mentally unstuck... Or is it? Is it that easy? To get unstuck from a situation? Next time I feel trapped, I'm going to try turning my head a little bit sideways.