When Was the Last Time You Had One of Those I-Wish-I-Could-Do-It-Over Days?

It seems a fairly safe bet that we've all had some of those days...you know the kind...where simply nothing goes right. Found such an account online that started with a guy who had to drag his sleepy butt out of the sack and get to work after staying up too late the night before watching TV.

His foot no more than had hit the floor in the wee hours when something "unholy," as he described it, squished up through his toes. He hobbled on into the bathroom to clean his foot and take care of business, then headed to the kitchen for some much-needed caffeine. He was tearing things apart at the seams there before remembering he had used the last of the coffee the morning before.

"No worries," he thought. "I can stop by Starbucks on the way to work."

He pulled out of the driveway with plenty of time to spare but, half-a-mile from home, was stopped by the local PD. His truck had been reported as having been seen leaving a gas station without paying for about 80 bucks in fuel.

"How does that happen when everything is 'prepay' these days?" he asked the officer, who subsequently checked his gauge and saw that there was only a quarter tank left. The officer then laughed, apologized and told the fella to have a nice day.

"I still have a few minutes to make a coffee run and take off," the guy said to himself.

As luck would have it, the workday turned out to be a bear. The fella didn't even have a chance to grab lunch. Finally, 3 p.m. rolled around, and he headed home...in all of that typical Friday-afternoon traffic. This day, however, was even worse, because he ended up behind a student driver who was riding the brakes and driving 5-to-10 mph under the posted speed limit the entire way home.

"At this point, I was seriously thinking I had offended the karma gods recently. How much worse can it possibly get?" he wondered.

Having finally arrived home, with not even an ounce of patience left, this fella received a call from his wife, saying she had to work late. Being a crafty guy, he immediately decided  to load the truck, drop the hammer, and set course to the closest water hole he could find.

"Aside from an all-out apocalypse," he thought, "nothing is going to keep me off the water today."

What he couldn't possibly have known, or he might have thought differently, was that he was going to score a big fat goose egg for the trip. As he watched the sun set, he remembered something his father had told him as a kid. "Any day on the water beats a day in the office."

He took in a deep breath, closed his eyes, and listened to the silence of freedom. As he sat there, he thought about the fact that he had an amazing family, the best job in the world, good friends, and a few nice toys.

"I really have nothing to be complaining about," he thought. "I realize this was a pretty good day after all. Funny how fishing can make you remember what's important in this world. As English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC Evan Davis once wrote, 'It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted...plain everyday things.'"