We all have days when it seems that no matter what we do, nothing goes according to plan. There are strategies you can implement to help you transform negative experiences into more positive ones. And we’re bringing you the following 15 experiences so that you can start practicing.
1. “That last turn before I arrived with the chili”
2. “When your son is teething”
3. “A bear decided to investigate my sister’s car last night.”
4. “I spent the last 3 days looking for my AirPods, and then my 2 year old tells me to look at the orange juice.”
5. “My 3-year-old broke the child lock on the fridge and got into the eggs.”
6. “This is why I have trust issues.”
7. “My kid took a single bite out of all the apples.”
8. “I gave a kid a pencil, and this is how I got it back.”
9. “My donut came upside down. By the time I got home, all the icing was stuck to the bottom of the bag.”
10. “Bought a lemon from the store, and look what happened.”
11. “This is how the restaurant displayed the top of our baby shower cake during dessert.”
12. “We booked a window seat on an airplane for my boy’s first flight.”
13. “The last time I ordered bananas, I entered a quantity of 1 and got 1 banana. This time, I entered 4.”
14. “Ordered a cheeseburger with no pickles for my 3-year-old. This is what we got.”
15. “My baby ordered $94 worth of pizza from an app called Slice that doesn’t ask for payment info verification.”
How do you tend to react when something you weren’t expecting happens? What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you that you can laugh about now?