6/05/07

OK, this shook me up.

I just left a meeting at the university.  There were 10 of us who work together on a major leadership project.  It was a very small cramped room.  It was the kind of space that already concerns me, knowing that there is some odor that comes from the urine bag that I am wearing.

An hour into the meeting I had to leave the room to empty my bag.  I returned to the meeting thinking that I was good to go for another hour or two.  Just as I started to sit down, I felt it.  Liquid (urine) was running down my leg.  I quickly left the room and returned to the restroom.  I had failed to close the screw type valve.  The damage was done.  My pants and socks had both absorbed some of the urine.  

They say that attitude is everything.  I could return to the meeting and just watch the reactions as the smell permeated the room.  I suppose I could try to find some sort of humor in that.  I could picture it as a scene in a movie comedy.

No, I wasn’t there.  I didn’t even try to be.  A sense of embarrassment and defeat is what hit me.  I kind of blurted out that I had to leave and I got out of there as fast as I could.  As I exited the room I tried to give Mary Anne a look of assurance so she wouldn’t think anything was wrong.  I couldn’t get back to talk to her without stepping over and around a couple of people.

A lot of different emotions went through me as I crossed the parking lot for the car – none of them very positive.   I had just failed at this little stab at carrying on my professional life.  

It is sometimes hard to see the light at the end of this tunnel.

 

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