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I had a gack moment tonight.

A gack moment is what you experience the moment you become aware that big trouble is about to land in your lap and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. You know the feeling: The skin of your face feels suddenly hot and a size too small, you forget how to exhale and your heart goes FLAM against your ribs in a mad dash to distance itself from your sorry ass.

My gack moment was a classic: The unexpected appearance flashing police lights in the rear view mirror. I hadn’t done anything wrong that I could think of, but my body instantly went into full gack mode anyway. My inner caveman was instantly ready to take on the sabertooth tiger. This time the gack moment was followed by a phew moment when I pulled over and the cruiser passed by. Phew!

The rest of the way home I tried to think of other gack moments I have known. Here are a few. Do you have any to add?

• The millisecond between committing to shutting the locked door of your car and the realization that the keys are in the ignition.
• Remembering the eggs boiling on the stove - when you’re at the mall.
• Driving off the ferry and watching it pull away from the dock and then noticing you don’t have your purse.
• Checking your calendar and discovering a date to meet a friend… three hours ago. (And she drove in from out of town and waited and waited!)
• Arriving at the Canadian border in Idaho after driving nine hours to discover someone’s passport (not naming names here, but you know who you are) was left at home.
• Asking the teenage cat sitter to overnight said passport and then realizing it’s in the nightstand drawer with all the sex toys.

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