Well, there I was, feeling all calm and chuffed about getting up and doing my #9 project in the Competent Communicator manual... I was going to demo a Green Smoothie in the Vita-Mix (as I talked about here previously) and had everything in place. Or so I thought. Turned out I left the lid for the Vita-Mix at home in the dishwasher. An inauspicious time was had by all. I just carried on, in the true spirit of Toastmasters (surely a bastion of stoicism if ever there was one). One very sweet young man, who did my evaluation, suggested that I might want to re-do the same speech another time so as to do it with the lid... that it was possible to do that. mmm. I don't think so.
