So, that escalated quickly
I almost went with "when mosquito bites turn into nuclear bombs" but thought that might be in poor taste
Today, write about a relatively minor inconvenience you experienced that snowballed into a big deal.
I’m thinking of a time more than twenty years ago when I was writing/first trying to enter the film world bartending in New York City, at work one night, I unlocked a low cabinet to get something from behind the bar and dropped the keys on the floor. Turning and bending to pick them up, a sharp edge on the open cabinet deeply sliced the edge of my buttcheek/hip open, and blood started running down the outside of my leg. Mind you, I am both wincing and laughing over the mishap, and also trying to not be freaked out about the volume of blood suddenly coming out of my hip, but a coworker thought I’d been stabbed by a customer and started shouting, the (male) boss thought I had some (obviously weird and hip-based?) menstrual emergency and started gathering (female) coworkers to help me, I’m trying to grab paper towels and run to the back office, a med student who worked with me yelled “that could be biohazard! stay out of the kitchen!” and every customer in and around the bar heard that and recoiled and an off-duty cop was at the bar and jumped up like he was ready for action and meanwhile one of the line cooks started shouting, “Who the fuck stabbed her? I will fuck them up!” and I’m going, “no, I wasn’t stabbed!” and, “what the hell?! You don’t get a period from your hip!” and “dudes, I hit the cabinet!” and literally not one coworker heard any of that. A true comedy of errors, I tell you.
Anyway, recall such a scene from your own experience and write that story. Let’s go.
