Facepalms are Universal…

So…I was relaxing and reading a book and this scary sound of something large is falling down the stairwell and I can hear a woman yell.
So I am up like lightning (a feat in and of itself) and get to the stairwell and I see this sizable layzboy chair had tumbled all the way down, and a look of shock on an old lady’s face at the top of the stairs.

I ask the lady if she’d like be to bring it back up for her. She says “Yes.” I go downstairs and in quickly get the chair on my shoulders, no…it wasn’t light.

After getting it all the way up, I set it down and ask if she’ d like help getting it into her living room. She said “Yes.” So she gets the light end and I pick up the chair and I nod to her to guide it. She starts pushing the chair back toward me instead of towards her apartment. Confused, I stop and start again, this time it’s clear she is trying to get this toward me quite deliberately.

I ask her again if she wants the LayZBoy in her living room, she says, “Yes.”

I pick up the chair and start towards her door, and she’s all of a sudden saying “No No No…”

I look at her again, cock my head with a very thoroughly confused look on my face. All of a sudden it dawns on me…

“Wait, umm…silla basura?”

“Si”

“Basura” And I make a gesture of throwing the chair down the stairs.

“Oh Si!”

**FACEPALM**

She’s throwing away the chair, and thought I was trying to snag it before it was put in the dumpster.

…English might not be Universal…but the Facepalm sure as hell is 😉

The silliest mistakes easily come to fruition with the best of intentions.
Smile people, and always help your neighbor.

-Tony