I was at carols. There was an orchestra. Before they started playing, the conductor introduced the evening and said, 'The timpanist got engaged today.'
That was it. My mind froze.
All I could think about for the next two hours was how many times that sentence could have been uttered over the past centuries -nay, millenia if you consider other languages and the history of the timpani- and I reckon it's a safe bet to say not many. In fact, I would argue that it is statistically possible that it is the first time that that sentence has ever been uttered.
And I was there.
A historic end to a personally historic year.
My resolution for 2011 is to shoehorn the sentence in to as many conversations as possible.
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